Brit Hume on Holder Contempt Vote: People Will Say 'They Wouldn’t Do This to Him if He Were White'
Fox News's Brit Hume on Monday said leaders of Congress "might want to think twice" about voting in favor of contempt charges against Eric Holder, "the first African-American Attorney General."
Appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, Hume added, "Everybody will be saying, ‘He wouldn’t do this, they wouldn’t do this to him if he were white.’ You know that’s coming."
As the discussion moved to the pending vote regarding Holder being in contempt, host Bill O’Reilly said, “In order to be held in contempt though, he has to be held by both the House and the Senate.’
“No, no. No, no,” interjected Hume. “Just one house can hold you in contempt, and it’s considered contempt of Congress. That’s not enforceable in any meaningful way. I mean, you’re not going to have the, you know, the Sergeant at Arms isn’t going to go down to the Justice Department and bang on the door, try to take him away in manacles. I mean, it’s not really enforceable, but it’s an ugly thing to have happen to you if you’re the Attorney General of the United States.”
“On the other hand,” Hume continued, “if you’re a leader of Congress, and you’re about to, you know, take this kind of action against the first African-American Attorney General, you might want to think twice about that, too, because you know what’s going to come out. Everybody will be saying, ‘He wouldn’t do this, they wouldn’t do this to him if he were white.’ You know that’s coming.”
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I completely disagree--they should vote to hold him in contempt.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 8:53pm.
We are a nation of laws and Eric Holder is supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. It is a duty he carries constitutionally (throught the provision for executive departments) and US law establishing the Department of Justice.
If he has shirked his duties and failed to provide either house of Congress with documents they properly need for oversight according to THEIR constitutional duties, then he has broken his oath and must be held accountable.
I don't give a damn if the vote appears to be racist. If they don't vote, it will be condoning potentially criminal behavior. If they do vote, they might alienate a few voters. The only voters who would consider the vote racist are ones who Romney will not win anyways.
Brit is way off base on this one.
Brit is way off base?
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 9:10pm.
I dont understand? I think these creeps in DC/media will absolutely accuse others/us of bigotry.
Calling certain people out as racists? Never happen. ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 8:54pm.
April Fool.
MD
Eric (With)Holder is black???
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 9:09pm.
Eric (With)Holder is black??? Coulda fooled me!!! Jeremiah Wright?? Louis Farakhan?? Colon (the Fencesitter) Powell?? Boy Baraka................all black?? Coulda fooled me again!!! But Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Condaleeza Rice, Thomas Sowell..............well, they might be 'black', but they're not 'real' blacks!!!!
I don't care if (With)Holder is RED.........oh wait, he allready is!!! Or GREEN...............hell, he's probably that too!!! And, like his boss, we allready know that he is YELLOW!!! But color that seditious and treacherous bastard GUILTY - that's all I care about!!!
My hope for the
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 9:04pm.
My hope for the not-too-distant future.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Llike I said a thousand
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 9:11pm.
Llike I said a thousand times, Dave - put'em in Gitmo, along with Dracula Soros and others................let'em find out about the truth of moooooooooooooooooooooooooslem 'piece and love'!!! Boy Baraka will rue the day that he DIDN'T close Gitmo, which was just another one of his lies anyway.
This entire corrupt America-hating administration should be held
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 9:17pm.
...in contempt.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Then there was Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell
Submitted by lrgon on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 10:14pm.
who was forced to resign. His "whiteness" didn't help him.Neither did it aid Mitchell's boss Richard Nixon. Nixon was frightened into resigning with just the threat of an impeachment in connection to his conspiratorial cover up of the Watergate incident.
And Nixon got run out of town
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 11:40pm.
And Nixon got run out of town on a rail for things that would be considered Junior Varsity political gamesmanship these days.
killa...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 1:21am.
I recommend you block out most of the day sometime for a review of the Nixon tapes. It will blow your freakin' mind. The guy operated a crime factory way beyond anything in this nation's presidential history--before or since.
Jer
➚ Yeah, killa!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 1:26am.
Like the time Nixon facilitated the death of a Border Agent and over 150 Mexican citizens.
OOPS! Never mind.
You think, Jer??? As compared
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 1:27am.
You think, Jer??? As compared to Clinton?? As compared to Boy Baraka??? Highschool stuff, Jer............................and I'm not defending him, I'm just being comparative.
As was Jer, killa, from a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 3:05am.
left side perspective, though.
That tends to skew the lefty's ability to be open-minded relative the GOP and/or conservatives..
MD
➚Ain't skeered
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 10:18pm.
Gosh! This could cost us the black vote!
What to do? What to do?
I don't think Brit's meaning was that Holder...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 10:25pm.
shouldn't be held in contempt...I saw this segment tonight and I don't think what he said was a prediction of what will likely happen if the House votes to hold him in contempt. It's apparent to me based on other comments of Brit's about Holder, that he has little use for him and the way he has run the DOJ. And, the racism card has already been used against critics of Holder's. He's come under fire several times since he's been AG, and just about every time, at least one talking head on the left has mentioned racism as a reason for the criticism against him, so if the House does vote to charge him with contempt and the race card is thrown, which it surely will be, it won't be the first time.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Hi, Prairie~
Submitted by GG_NB on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 12:42pm.
I haven't seen you on the boards much lately -- good to see ya! :)
I agree with your take on Brit. I've heard him speak on Holder, and he is no fan. I think he was just pointing out what the MSM may do with this. No real surprise. ^_^
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
It's time...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 12:10am.
...for Stedman to go to the "Slamma"
and take his boy, Baracko "Bamma"
So
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 1:08am.
they will be called racists. Big deal. Whites who "differ" with obama have been called racists since he entered the campaign,years ago. Didn't the libs pick on Gonzalus when he worked in the Bush office? You stray, you pay.
Because we all know...
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 11:33am.
That in order to PROVE that you are not racist, you have to give black people way more leeway than anyone else would get.
We can't hold the first black Attorney General to the same high standards that past Attorneys General have been held. He must be held to a lower standard and allowed to make mistakes that would not be tolerated otherwise. That is how you show that you are not racist.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
We're racists.....? It seems that THEY are the racist.
Submitted by TheLoudDreamer on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 12:38pm.
This was written about a (fictional) ugly red-headed poet, but I thought of this when I read this article:
"He put the old cant of the lawlessness of art and the art of lawlessnes with a certain impudent freshness which gave at least a momentary pleasure. He was helped in some degree by the arresting oddity of his appeance, which he worked, as the phrase goes, for all it was worth."
-GK Chesterton, 'The Man Who Was Thursday'
This is why I don't watch Fox
Submitted by Conserv1 on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 2:16pm.
This is why I don't watch Fox anymore.