Eric Holder
November 20, 2009
Andrew Breitbart Trying To Blackmail The Obama Administration With ACORN And Other Videos
Andrew Breitbart and his team of ACORN videographers were back on Hannity last night (11/19/09) with a new undercover video that Breitbart claimed he was “forced to offer” now because California Attorney General Jerry Brown has launched an investigation into whether the filmmakers broke the law by secretly recording “confidential communication.” That was astounding enough. You’d think that if Breitbart really had something big on ACORN, he would have released it a few months ago, when he had maximum media attention, rather than withhold it until he could use it as ammunition against a personal foe. Or you’d think he’d at least have the good sense not to broadcast his self-serving machinations. Judging from the very edited video Breitbart presented last night, one suspects that the real reason it was withheld was because it did little to effectively incriminate ACORN. Breitbart, on the other hand, incriminated himself even worse. Near the end of the segment, he told Hannity that he had more videos and “not just ACORN” that he threatened to release during the 2010 election cycle unless the Department of Justice opened a federal investigation into ACORN. With video.
Continue reading >>November 14, 2009
Karl Rove Blames Obama Administration Lawyers “Who Do Not Love America” For Bush Administration’s Failure To Prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
I don’t know about you but when it comes to matters of terrorism and national security, Karl Rove is not exactly at the top of my list of credible experts. Political experts, maybe, certainly experts on dirty tricks, but it’s hard to forget that this is the same guy who played a role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and who served as the right-hand man of the Bush administration which, despite their posturing about national security, ignored the President’s Daily Brief of August 6, 2001, titled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” and started a war in Iraq based on faulty evidence. It’s also the same administration that lost New Orleans to Katrina. So why on earth would Fox News put on Karl Rove as the first guest on the O’Reilly Factor last night (11/13/09) to discuss the Obama administration’s decision to try five Guantanamo Bay detainees in federal court in New York City, if not to make political hay? Furthermore, as Rove himself as good as admitted, the Bush administration’s “harsh interrogations” torture of their prisoners is bound to be an issue at trial. Not that Bill O’Reilly brought that up. But he did have a stellar moment when he confronted Rove about the Bush administration’s failure to try supposed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed when they had the chance. Rove, classy guy that he is, blamed it all on liberal lawyers who are now in the Obama administration “who do not love America, who want to undermine our cause in the global war on terror and who will oppose the military tribunals.” Never mind that Attorney General Eric Holder also announced yesterday that five other detainees will be tried by military commission. O’Reilly missed that, too. With video.
August 5, 2009
Hannity Wants Jails, Not Health Care
At the beginning of his Hannity's America segment last night, Sean Hannity distorted the remarks of Attorney General Eric Holder to suggest that Holder was going to let violent criminals out of jail in an effort to pinch Federal pennies. Multi-millionaire Hannity, who thinks the health care crisis is no big deal went on to complain that federal money proposed for health care should be spent on jails, instead.
Continue reading >>July 13, 2009
Fox Nation Plays Race Card Against Obama Administration
One of the blaring articles currently on Fox Nation, the website that brags about its commitment to the “core principles of tolerance, open debate (and) civil discourse,” gratuitously threw in a racial component to its current story about controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The blaring headlines (screen grab after the jump) ask, “Holder Goes After Sheriff Joe But Not Black Panthers?” But the article linked to by Fox Nation says nothing about the Black Panthers; it’s a basic who, what, when, where and how Arpaio is refusing to co-operate with the Justice Department’s investigation into his alleged racial profiling. By adding the “question” about the Black Panthers, Fox Nation, was baselessly suggesting that Attorney General Eric Holder is racially biased in favor of African American extremists and against white Arpaio. Predictably, the headline elicited racist, extremist comments.
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