Why does the president hate me?

Sweet Jesus, over at Hamsher's place, the consensus seems to be that the Shirley Sherrod firing is yet another sign that Rahmbama hates liberals, the middle class and is, in the words of one commenter, "a putz." Evidence that Obama had any hand in what appears to have been an instinctive reaction by Vilsack is simply assumed rather than submitted.

Ya know, we all recognize that the tactics of Breitbart, Beck, Limbaugh, and Fox News generally are to fire up the wingnut base in hatred of Democrats. What we often fail to recognize is that the same tactics are intended to fire up the liberal base as well...also, to hate Democrats.

They're masters of the media. We're putzes.