A Bush jackass over at the Justice Department wrote a snotty e-mail about Mary Frances Berry, who is black and a longtime pillar of the civil rights movement. The snotty e-mail came to light because of a government inquiry into the jackass’s suspiciously political hiring practices. So, as a side-effect of all the other trouble he’s in, the jackass had to write Ms. Berry a letter explaining what he meant when he said that he liked his coffee “Mary Frances Berry style — black and bitter.”
And, courtesy of Talking Points Memo, here the letter is.
UPDATE: Berry gets a laugh out of the business, this item also via TPM.
2nd UPDATE: No, the suspicious hiring was done by the boss of the jackass, not the jackass proper.
He… he says the “bitter” part referred only to the coffee, and not to her…?
Isn’t that worse?!
Come to think of it, yeah. “Mary Frances Berry means black.”
Hard to believe he worked with the SCLC.