Political appointees approximating Sherrod merit outstanding procedure

 Opposing to myths, central employees can be fired up, as established by the sorry situation involving Shirley Sherrod.

Sherrod, of course, was the Agriculture Department's Georgia state director of rural development who was offensively bounced because her bosses acted without bothering to investigate the full story behind a video.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack contemplation the worst about reduced and confusing footage that left the impression Sherrod was promoting a racist perspective when in fact the opposite was true. Vilsack apologized and offered Sherrod a new job. President Obama called to offer his regrets. Few workers are so quickly vindicated, let alone celebrated.