Holder Holds Forth on Terror With ABC, and Somehow Avoids Virtually All Properly Descriptive Terms
Eric Holder recently had what he wants to be perceived as a really important interview about the domestic terror threat with Pierre Thomas of ABC News.
In the video at the ABC link, George Stephanopoulos's intro at Good Morning America describes Holder as "a pretty circumspect man," but that on the subject of domestic terror threats, "he doesn't seem to be pulling any punches."
Really? If that's the case, Holder must have said a lot of things which got left on ABC's cutting-room floor. That's because in the entire three-page story at ABC (it's easiest to prove the following by looking at the print version, which can only be obtained at the link), the following words never appear:
- any form of "Islam"
- "Muslim"
- "Jihad"
- "Hood," as in Ft. Hood, the site of a jihad-inspired terrorist attack "allegedly" by a U.S. soldier who "just happened" to be Muslim, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.
- even "fundamentalist," a term the establishment press frequently and often recklessly hurls at Christians who have believes in scary things like the right of a pre-born baby to live.
It seems virtually impossible that anyone who is serious about domestic terror threats could "successfully" avoid all of these words and still accurately and completely communicate the true nature of the threat we face. Thus, either Eric Holder wasn't as forthcoming as Stephanopoulos claims, or ABC put a great deal of effort into scrubbing his words.
The best clue that it's that latter is that the Attorney General still appears to be bitterly clinging to the notion that terrorists should have all the legal-defense rights of U.S. citizens. That's what I get from the last sentence in the following passage of ABC's report:
Turning to how terror suspects are tried, Holder said he still believes the "decision as to how people get prosecuted, where they get prosecuted, is an executive branch function. Even if those suspects are being held now at Guantanamo Bay. Holder said Congress should not be interfering with that.
"It's -- from my perspective -- a constitutional issue," he said.
That brings to mind another word that didn't come up in ABC's report: "Ghailani," as in Ahmed Ghailani, "the al Qaeda operative accused of playing a key role in the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania." Holder's attempt to try Ghailani in the American court system ended in mid-November, when a jury "acquitted Ghailani on 285 counts -- including ... (224) murder counts -- while convicting him on a single count of conspiracy to destroy government buildings and property."
In the third paragraph of ABC's report, Holder says, "What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant." With all due respect, Mr. Holder, it would be helpful if you "made people aware of the threat" by actually naming it.
As to ABC's video coverage, the network played its politically correct part. Watch in amazement as ABC refers to ridiculously vague "homegrown radicals." "Radical cleric" Anwar Al Awlaki is never described as a believer in Islam or jihad. The ABC video does describe Awlaki as a possible influence on the Fort Hood murderer -- something that "somehow" didn't get into the print description of the interview. Why not?
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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This guy
Submitted by MacWell on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:30pm.
Isn't just a joke, he's a disaster. If this politically correct BS doesn't get a lot of Americans killed, I'll be surprised. I'm so sick up and fed with these namby pamby semantic do gooders that I'm ready to pull my hair out. All I can say is, "hurry up 2012". We the people need to clean house of every girly man in congress. How the hell are we supposed to fight someone, if we can't even pronounce the names of who we are fighting?
I would think.....
Submitted by Patriot II on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:38pm.
This clown would be devastated to be thought of as a ridiculous clown and that everything out of the morons mouth is "SILLY"................without honor, a liar, a deceiver, a communist in other words.......in my humble opinion and COMPLETE A.H.!!!!
Setting it up?
Submitted by iveseenitall on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:41pm.
I'm torn between knowing that Holder is a typically ineffectual, incompetent "liberal" who'll get us all killed, and a hater of white America and its values ( just as is his boss)---or is he setting it up for the government to destroy all our freedoms in the name of protecting us? Either way, the guy's a disgusting,dangerous dude who ( like his boss ) shouldn't be in the office he holds.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Threat from "within?"
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:38pm.
How about gang-bangers and thugs? Gang-related killings far, far exceed what domestic terrorists have done. Seems to me they're more into "domestic terror" than one-issue loonies.A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
X
Submitted by serfer62 on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:41pm.
Its because "...Americans are too cowardly about race.". Its the racists of America who want to call Terrorist terrorists. Its the white Christans who condemn Muslim Terorists as terrorists. Its Christans who want the Nativety Scene blantently exposed to the public while condemning muslim murders as Terrorists.
There. Don't you feel better know that you know?
Check the numbers
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:55pm.
Only 16,538 deadly attacks by peaceful Muslims since 9-11. Only. Guess that is why Holder ignores them and focuses on white Americans.
Exactly what I would expect
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 2:59pm.
Exactly what I would expect from the racist, incompetent, black Attorney General of the United States of America during the presidency of the first, "former"( yeah right ) muslim, equally racist, narcissistic, radical, black president.
The lame street media press willingly participating in this travesty of justice, humanity, simple common sense is just the icing on the cake.
Talk about a Science experiment gone terribly wrong.....you couldn't make this sh.. up if you wanted to.
Barack_Must_Go.....
I'm surprised......
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:00pm.
I'm surprised Holder doesn't claim his rights under the 5th Amendment when he's talking about ....well, any criminal activity really.
Fifty Million Americans
Submitted by morristhewise on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:07pm.
Fifty million Gay/Lesbian and Bisexual Americans cannot be ignored or silenced, they are yelling loud and clear that they are here. No group can be more influential and powerful as one made up of fifty million free thinking loners. Homophobes must learn to accept the new cultural norm or they will be marginalized into obscurity.
Get your facts straight
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:24pm.
Actually, there are about 6 million sexually confused heterophobic people in America, NOT 50 million.
That number
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:36pm.
Gee, isn't that the same number as those who supposedly don't have insurance....I mean health care?
-Jon
morristhewhacked,
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:35pm.
Just what, exactly, does that steaming load of demonstrable, green fly encircled BS you just dumped in here have to do with the topic of this thread?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
morristhewise---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 3:16am.
that username is just too funny.
MD
Disagreeing with
Submitted by NC Cop on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:41pm.
Disagreeing with homosexuality isn't a "phobia", it's an opinion.
A 'group' of 50 million free thinking 'loners'?
Submitted by jdlybrand on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 4:10pm.
Let me know how that works out for ya'!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Coming to a city near you....
Submitted by MrShy on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:09pm.
Speaking of....
Islam
Muslim
Jihad
Fort Hood
fundamentalist
Terror
Murder
Sick f-ing cult and not a religion
Can you guess where this is? No, it ain't Mecca... or anywhere in the Middle East.
We all need to be very afraid.
- Shyberia
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Holder is a coward
Submitted by sunergeos on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:17pm.
I'm sure you've ran into those people who you've tried to have a conversation with and they are avoiding saying the obvious truth. Insteadm, they want to "handle" you and steer you into an end result where they feel more comfortable. Their face is squinted up - they look like they are smelling their own unflushed toilet, they have their heads turned away slightly and keep shaking their heads "no". Their lips curl up on the ends and their shoulders are permanently shrugged up.
That's how Holder comes across in this conversation - a complete coward.
HOLDER THE BOLDER
Submitted by Herbster on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:24pm.
Eric the Bold goes where no man has ever gone before - the land of PURE PC. People can scoff at this man, but, he is very dangerous as is his boss and the boss' angry wife. I assure you, since we now have the first steps toward internet control - can total media control and confiscation of firearms be far behind? Let's see how the left has succeeded so far....they control the following: Schools, Unions, the "Mainstream" media and its pimps and pimpettes, medical, food, etc. Once they silence talk radio - by executive order.....confiscate guns in the name of "Homegrown terrorism," decide who lives and who dies through medical "Rationing," etc., they have total control. And, I ask, who amongst us was so naive as to think the republicans would be different? The republicans will put obambi's disastrous START agreement over the top. "Useful idiots" like murkowski, mccain and his butt boy, graham, alexander, the two strange ladies from Maine, and the rest of the "Go along to get along" squishies will spell the end of our once great country.
Holder..A chicken shit liberal..
Submitted by redright88 on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 3:34pm.
that only has balls when it comes to offending Americans
yeah...
Submitted by michiganruth on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 6:35pm.
this article started a big fight at my office today (note to self: NO TALKING POLITICS AT WORK.)
I was actually told by one of my colleagues that Christians have bombed as many abortion clinics as Muslims have blown up planes! yep, she used the "Tavis Smiley" defense.
how do these people dress themselves without help? what a maroon: she really believes this!