I seem to be at odds not only with the boss but also with Peggy Noonan. From the weekend broadcast of Radio Derb:

Victim of the week, certainly in her own mind and the minds of the leftist commentariat, was Department of Agriculture functionary Shirley Sherrod. This all started when speakers at an NAACP convention accused the Tea Party movement of hostility towards black people. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart thought he’d counter that by showing hostility to white people on the part of NAACP speakers — not a sensationally difficult thing to do, given the NAACP’s name and stated purpose. Breitbart posted a video clip showing Ms. Sherrod admitting to an NAACP audience that many years previously she had failed to give a white farmer all the help she could give him. The audience was murmuring and chuckling their appreciation. Then we learned that this admission was part of a longer narrative, not made clear in the Breitbart clip, in which Ms. Sherrod described herself awakening to the fact that poor blacks and poor whites are alike victims of capitalist oppression. In other words, Ms. Sherrod is a revolutionary radical; and like all revolutionary radicals, she believes that the fight against the oppressor trumps all other considerations. Racial, national, and sectarian animosities are just distractions from the true struggle. Revolutionaries always talk like this. Karl Marx’s view of national rivalries was that: “The proletariat has no homeland.” Lenin liked to quote Bebel’s remark that “Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.” The Irish Republican movement has a revolutionary wing who deny that the Ulster conflict is between Protestant and Catholic, or Irish and British; it’s a class struggle, they insist — just an episode in humanity’s long march up into the sunlit high pastures of socialism and true brotherhood. Ayatollah Khomeini famously said he didn’t care if Iran burned, so long as the cause of a worldwide Islamic revolution was advanced. These remarks are all of a piece, and Ms. Sherrod’s little address to the NAACP belongs with them. It was a call to revolutionary brotherhood. See, white people only act racist because the rich folk who secretly run the world have planted racism in their minds, to keep them down. Forget about black and white, she’s saying: Let’s eat the rich! A look at Ms. Sherrod’s background fills out the picture. She and her husband Charles are far-left radicals from way back. Charles Sherrod was an associate of Stokely Carmichael and Bill Ayers back in the 1960s. In recent years the Sherrods have turned their efforts to Obama-style “community organizing” — in their case, shaking down the Department of Agriculture for money on behalf of black farmers, including themselves, who they say suffered racial discrimination at the hands of department bureaucrats. The Sherrods themselves have received $300,000 of public money from one of these shakedown campaigns. So: while you’re forming opinions on whether Andrew Breitbart did due diligence, whether the NAACP shot themselves in the foot, whether the White House ordered Ms. Sherrod’s firing, whether Bill O’Reilly committed journalistic malfeasance, and the other issues in the case, please don’t lose sight of this key fact: Positions at all levels in the federal bureaucracy — positions dispensing power, patronage, and huge sums of public money — are being filled by radical revolutionary leftists like Shirley Sherrod. That is a terrible and dismaying thing. Regardless of the nuances of this case, I hope Ms. Sherrod stays fired. I hope she never again controls the disbursement of public money or patronage power over public-sector jobs. People with her views, background, and connections should not be employed by the federal government.