ABC Shills for Poor Eric Holder: 'Demonized' and 'Victimized' By the GOP
According to ABC News' Matt Negrin, Republicans are "victimizing" and "demonizing" Attorney General Eric Holder. The ABC network has almost completely ignored the growing Fast and Furious scandal, but an online article written by Mr. Negrin put the blame on the GOP. (Negrin mocks the concept of media bias on his Facebook page. See screen cap below.)
In fact, it seems Negrin's ABCNews.com article was so biased, the network altered the headline. The original title spewed, "Demonizing Attorney General Eric Holder, GOP Is Fast and Furious." The altered headline reads: "Against Attorney General Eric Holder, GOP Is Fast and Furious." (The first version can still be found in the hyper link.) In his piece, Negrin whined, "There's little question that Republicans want to use the demonization of Holder as a political issue."
The Fast and Furious program allowed weapons to go into Mexico. The guns fell into the hands of criminals and ultimately lead to the death of border agent Brian Terry.
Yet, Negrin's article ignored Terry and instead lamented Holder's fate: "[Holder's testimony has] shown that the White House may stand to be embarrassed simply by the GOP's victimization of President Obama's top law enforcer."
Negrin offered a sneering tone, dismissing the seriousness of the scandal:
Calling for Holder's resignation is something of a rallying cry in the GOP. The candidates seeking the party's nomination in the primary said Holder had to go; the RNC has tried to raise money off of Fast & Furious and later told visitors to its website, "Fire Eric Holder today!"
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[Republican Congressman Darrell] Issa, however, hasn't always favored the release of documents. In 2007, when Gonzales was under scrutiny over the firing of U.S. attorneys, Issa told a local news outlet that the administration shouldn't have released documents related to the case. Issa argued that the attorneys were "at will" employees whose firing didn't need explaining to the public.Story Continues Below Ad ↓
In total, the ABC News network has only allowed one anchor brief on the Fast and Furious scandal.
Negrin seems to enjoy discounting the concept of media bias. On his Facebook page, the section that's public includes a picture of him holding a Media Research Center "Don't Believe the Liberal Media!" sign.
Clearly, Americans should take this journalist's advice.
Matt Negrin can be found on Twitter here.
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Democrats demonized the entire Bush administration.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:20am.
ABC might have a short memory, but conservatives certainly do not. We endured eight years of Bush being called every vile name out there.
Now the infantile whining about the most inept, corrupt Attorney General in post-Nixon Washington is theirs and they refuse to admit it.
We'll remind them of it in a few months during the campaign.
The simple fact that they are
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:23am.
The simple fact that they are now defending this program means the whole entire thing is going to come to a head in the next 4.5 months. The mental gymnastics should be QUITE a show!
Democrats abiding by the law
Submitted by kg on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:47pm.
Democrats abiding by the law is so overrated.
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"DumbAssity of Dope"
Obama Public Relations Firm of ABC
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:25am.
ABC is one of the leading Obama Public Relations firm being employed by the administration to provide cover, deception and diversion for all corrupt and criminal activities.
They are merely doing their job in covering the incompetence of the Obama administration, you will not hear or see a negative story from (talking Kool-Aid heads of) the propaganda media therefore you will never receive the truth from this network. Once you understand that you will not be disappointed by their limited coverage or you can do what many people have already done and turn them off.
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But no one is asking an important question....
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:32am.
What was the logical point even if the Fast & Furious operation had succeeded and the guns been tracked back to the drug cartels? What would this have accomplished?
IMO the "screwed it up" excuse is a way to hide the fact that there could have been no logical benefit to doing what they said they were trying to do. So there must have been another reason, but they got caught before it was able to be recognized.
Negrin is more concerned with an embattled political appointee than the reason he is embattled in the first place. He seems to be equating the firing of some employees by the Attourney General with the Attourney General running or at least approving an undercover illegal operation to arm international drug cartels.
People engage in a cover up because they think that the original truth, if revealed, is worse than being caught in a cover up. So what does Eric Holder and the administration think is worse than being caught lying to Congress and covering up an operation like Fast & Furious?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
It's even more suspicious than that, c5then
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:29pm.
1. DoJ had no way of tracking the weapons once they crossed the border in order to gather intelligence on the trafficking chain and routes.
2. The Mexican government says they had no knowledge of this international law enforcement operation; Mexican officials are outraged. The Secretary of State, who would have to be informed of all international law enforcement operations, says she was not informed.
3. The Secretary of Homeland Security, who would have to alert the Border Patrol so as to let the F&F guns over the border, says she was not aware of the operation.
4. The Attorney General has yet to provide the Congressional committees with the names of the DoJ officials who authorized this pre-destined disaster. He has yet to explain why DHS and DoS were not brought in on the planning and authorization.
In a major law enforcement operation involving the delivery of deadly weapons to some of the most ruthless animals in the Western Hemisphere and involving an international border, Holder would have us believe that the authorization to plan and excute it was in the hands of a US District Attorney in Arizona. Really? If that US atttorney was not acting under the orders of a superior, he should be in jail awaiting trial for aiding and abetting felons.
That the MSM isn't even remotely curious about all this suggests that the politics of all this extends to the MSM itself.
First, to answer your question c5
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 2:25pm.
The (to them) logical end-game here was to prop up their contention that 90%, or 100%, or 173% (or whatever percentage they decide to use day to day) of the weapons used by the cartels originate in the US. Secondly, and even more important (to them) was to use the (INTENTIONAL) deaths and mayhem caused by these weapons (which conveniently originated in the US) to justify massively increased gun control laws in the US. That has always publicly and definitively been their goal, and some of the documents Holder had deigned to release, as well as some that Issa "acquired" back this up.
And to tag onto your #1 Galvanic, not only did the feds, and this included DoJ and BATF, refuse to track the weapons, agents were explicitly FORBIDDEN to do so. Gun dealers in the US were threatened in order to make them violate federal law by selling these weapons to known straw purchasers. There was never any intent to track the weapons to the cartel kingpins, or any other excuse they have propagated for this debacle of an operation. They WANTED the guns put to use by the cartels, for the reasons I detailed above. This is a blatant criminal act perpetrated by the Attorney General of the US, senior federal law enforcement officials, and POSSIBLY the Secretaries of Homeland Security and State. I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if Obambi himself was hip-deep in it.
And all of the above clearly demonstrates the reason for the stonewalling. We're talking best case: Obambi loses in November because of this and they're all out of their jobs (and, GOD FORBID, the power that goes with them), or worst case - impeachment of 1-3 cabinet secretaries and/or the POTUS resulting in criminal prosecution and jail time.
That's my point
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 4:09pm.
A SNAFU of this magnitude requires either
a. Coincidental professional incompetence across multiple DoJ organizations (FBI, ATF, and USDAs) by many veteran Federal officers.
or
b. A major conspiracy at the senior most levels to abet international felons to provide this Administration the foundation for levying more gun regulations.
Holder says it's a. -- "We screwed up" -- and wants everyone to drop the issue and move on.
All those MSMers who longed for their own Watergate situation to make their name on, are willing to give Holder the benefit of the doubt. It has to be a political decision.
I would get Woodward (of Watergate notoriety) on TV and ask him, Given what we've seen and learned of Fast & Furious so far, wouldn't an investigative reporter naturally want to dive into this?
Holder is likely the most corrupt Attorney General since . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:34am.
. . . John Mitchell in the Nixon Administration.
ABC might recall that this is the same Eric Holder who, as Deputy AG in the Clinton Adminstration, circumvented the normal WH vetting process for pardon requests, to push Marc Rich's pardon in front of President Clinton, who signed it just prior to Bush-43's Inauguration.
- Rich was No. 1 on the FBI's Most Wanted List, having been convicted in absentia of tax fraud/evasion -- the biggest tax cheat in US history.
- Rich's ex-wife donated $ millions to the Clinton Library fund.
This clown doesn't have enough professional integrity to be a village barrister.
John Mitchell's crimes were minor compared to Holder's
Submitted by gopcongress on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 1:44pm.
Eric Holder's multiple actions far and away eclipses Mitchell's actions as Nixon's AG during the Watergate era. I would probably go back to FDR's days to find anyone even comparable in scope to Holder's treasonous actions.
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I agree
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 2:21pm.
It's either professional incompetence on a magnitude surpassing previous DoJ screw-ups, or it is a devious Washington-directed scheme wrapped in a cover-up that hasn't been seen since Watergate. It's impact is far more severe than Watergate, which resulted in jail time for several top Nixon officials. Holder is well-aware of this, and if I were President Obama and learned of F&F only AFTER the fact, I'd have fired Holder as a rogue AG long ago. IMHO, the suspicious and arrogant efforts of Holder to prevent disclosure of the details implicates the President as one of the co-conspirators.
I believe Holder's only recourse is to stall long enough for the 2012 election to pass in the hope that the Democrats will regain the House and cut Issa out of the pattern setting the Committee's agenda. And newly elected Democratic Representatives will be coerced into circling the wagons around Holder and Obama.
A Leftist Media Hack who looks foolish
Submitted by ChrisNH on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:37am.
It is such a joy to see the hand-wringing and anguish coming from Leftist Media Hacks as they see their narratives failing as soon as they are launched. None of their Napalm aimed at Romney is 'sticking,' they lament. Mostly because everyone understands that nonsense coming from 'Their Side' is DOA.
Holder is getting properly bludgeoned, for all his sins. He's a horrible AG who has been completely and utterly 'political' in a role that's not supposed to be.
Remember Gonzales?
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:05pm.
"Calling for Holder's resignation is something of a rallying cry in the GOP."
And the Democrats call for the resignation of Gonzales was, what, divisive to their party?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I consider Holder to be
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:15pm.
I consider Holder to be America's Beria.
ABC Shills for Poor Eric Holder: The guy who defended right wing
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:27pm.
ABC Shills for Poor Eric Holder: the attorney who defended Chiquita Brands for funding the slaughter of leftist peasants by right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia during the last decade.
Goodness - even HuffPo put up a piece, back in 2008, and still the entire national MSM ignored it:
Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General
An excerpt:
Do not expect these recommendations to be carried forward if Eric Holder decides to forgo his lucrative corporate law practice at Covington & Burling and accept the U.S. Attorney General position for which many believe he is the top contendor. Eric Holder would have a troubling conflict of interest in carrying out this work in light of his current work as defense lawyer for Chiquita Brands international in a case in which Colombian plaintiffs seek damages for the murders carried out by the AUC paramilitaries - a designated terrorist organization. Chiquita has already admitted in a criminal case that it paid the AUC around $1.7 million in a 7-year period and that it further provided the AUC with a cache of machine guns as well.
Indeed, Holder himself, using his influence as former deputy attorney general under the Clinton Administration, helped to negotiate Chiquita's sweeheart deal with the Justice Department in the criminal case against Chiquita. Under this deal, no Chiquita official received any jail time. Indeed, the identity of the key officials involved in the assistance to the paramilitary's were kept under seal and confidential. In the end, Chiquita was fined a mere $25 million which it has been allowed to pay over a 5-year period. This is incredible given the havoc wreaked by Chiquita's aid to these Colombian death squads.
Now. Tell me again - why does the left like this guy? If he were a Republican - they'd all be calling him a "whore."
(;~/ gary
Really? REALLY?
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 2:28pm.
Republicans are "victimizing" and "demonizing" Attorney General Eric Holder.
I'll agree with the "demonizing" part. If it looks, talks and smells like one...
As for the "victimizing" label, Holder is the "victim" only of his own stupidy, arrogance, and political philosophy. He and his cronies decided to run this op for the sole purpose of advancing THEIR philsophy of gun-banning with no concern for the ramifications to innocents and law enforcement, let alone the legality of it.
Finally, the question of "politicizing" F&F is moot. The operation was politically motivated from conception. BY HOLDER.
Republicans have enough probable cause to demand documents Holder is required to keep to proceed with their warranted investigation. Holder isn't fessing them up because they will eliminate any doubt that he was involved in F&F up to his scrawny weasel neck, and would likely face criminal charges in adition to losing his job (and the power that goes along with it). Not to mention the damage that would be done to his savior Obambi (and THAT'S assuming Obambi himself wasn't directly involved).
Screw this pompous a$$. I want to see him get serious jail-time. Through neglect, incompetence, or, most likely, through intent, Holder facilitated the murders of countless Mexicans and at least one US federal agent.
This little punk has
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 1:09pm.
This little punk has 'demonized', 'victimized', 'bastardized', and 'illegalized' the whole Department of Justice, and he has shown total disregard for any 'due process of law', which is what he purports to represent. He should be sent to Club Gitmo, along with Boy Baraka and a whole sh*tload of other REGIME criminals........................to spend the rest of their pathetic lives intermingling with, and exchanging bodily fluids with, the 'piece and love' moooooooooooooooooooooooslems.
Typical lib up is down, down is up view of the world
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 2:11pm.
Tell us Mr. Negrin with a straight face who are the demons again? Those who instigate the murders of over 300 people OR those who seek to make the people responsible for those murders?
Who are the victims here? 300+ dead Mexicans or Eric Holder and his cadre of incompetent underlings who caused guns to be sold to the drug cartels known for literally murdering thousands of people a year in Mexico?
Once again we see where the affinity of liberalism lies, not with the victims of mass murder but with the perps who kill supporting the agenda, the liberal agenda. Holder and company were literally willing to smash whole crates of eggs to make his omelette. Those who knowingly supply weapons to people who use them for evil intent are equally guilty of the crime perpetrated. You can't claim you didn't foresee people being murdered with the weapons you sold them when in fact the cartels have an undeniable track record of murder. The minimum culpability for Eric Holder and his cadre under the Common Law is Depraved Heart Murder.
"Depraved heart murder" - Killing someone in a way that demonstrates a callous disregard for the value of human life. http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/murder
Depraved Indifference: "To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's conduct must be 'so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime." http://definitions.uslegal.com/d/depraved-indifference/
Save the Taxpayers money, hand Holder over to the Mexican authorities, the bulk of his crimes were committed over there.
still working
Submitted by craig1304 on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 2:33pm.
AP = Administration Puppet
NBC = National Barack Channel
ABC = American Barack Channel
CBS = Crappy Barack System
can anyone add to the list?
MSNBC
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 3:11pm.
MSNBC = Massively Stupid Narcissistic Bolivateing Channel
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Here are some more:
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 8:14am.
MSNBC = My Savior National Barack Channel
AP = Administration Press
CNN = Crony News Network
F&F, the video
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 3:26pm.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/fast-and-furious-the-video...
I agree, the media is complicit in the cover up of 300+ murders. It's a pretty tall order of Cognitive Dissonance to white wash the results of mass murder. The level of wagon circling by liberal media types to defend Holder is getting to the order of excusing Pol Pot because he was a Communist. Not that Holder has that many scalps to his dubious credit but dead rotting corpses none the less.
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Poor Holder
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 4:16pm.
Dude never has quite got the hang of the idea of Rule of Law. After all these years he still thinks he can do as he pleases and the rest of us just have to grin and bear it.
"There's little question that
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 4:49pm.
"There's little question that Republicans want to use the demonization of Holder as a political issue."
No.
"There's no question the media is doing everything it can to absolve any and all Obama administration officials not guilty to any crimes whatsoever." -Me.