John Grennan is a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has worked as a writer and editor dealing with politics and international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Talking Points Memo, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“The White House and [Agriculture Secretary Tom] Vilsack offered their profuse apologies to Shirley Sherrod for the way she had been humiliated and forced to resign after a conservative blogger…