CFIF Senior Fellow Quin Hillyer on Sunday appeared on Fox News\u00a0 to discuss the extremely ideological and partisan hiring practices for career positions within the Obama Justice Department and the mainstream media\u2019s virtual silence (read: hypocrisy) on the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In interviews with Fox News\u2019 Shannon Bream (first on the America\u2019s News Headquarters<\/a><\/em> program, then during an extended discussion on Fox News\u2019 Power Play<\/em><\/a>), Hillyer recounted how the media, especially The New York Times<\/em> and Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0 relentlessly pursued allegations of conservative hiring practices in President George W. Bush\u2019s Justice Department as an earth-shattering scandal, despite the fact that the Civil Rights Division of Bush\u2019s DOJ\u00a0 hired as many as two dozen known liberals for career positions.\u00a0 But now, as Hillyer wrote in a piece<\/a> on the issue several weeks ago, \u201cNeither they nor any other establishment news organ seems the slightest bit perturbed now that, thanks to Pajamas Media<\/em>, it is abundantly clear that the Obama Justice Department\u2019s liberal<\/em> hiring is far more politicized than anything the Bushies even dreamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n Just how flagrant are the hiring practices in Obama\u2019s DOJ?\u00a0 As Hillyer wrote<\/a> last month:<\/p>\n Now Pajamas Media<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has analyzed\u00a0the hiring\u00a0in five \u2013 count them, five<\/em> \u2013 different<\/a> sections<\/a>\u00a0of<\/a> DoJ<\/a>. So far, those five sections in the Civil Rights Division have hired 70 lawyers. According to Pajamas<\/em>, every single one \u2013 every<\/em> single one, every <\/strong><\/em>single<\/strong> <\/strong><\/em>one, every single one <\/strong><\/em>\u2013 has boasted a resume full of ideologically leftist connections.<\/p>\n These people were members of groups like \u2018Queer Resistance Front,\u2019 \u2018Intersex Society of North America,\u2019 and of course People for the American Way.\u00a0 Their published essays focused on issues such as \u2018Genital Normalizing Surgery on Intersexed Infants\u2019 and on arguing that providing material support for terrorism isn\u2019t a war crime.\u00a0 They, or those promoted, have histories of extracurricular activities that include getting arrested at a World Bank protest, going on a hunger strike while chaining oneself to an oak tree and doing advocacy work for \u2018the rights of incarcerated native Hawaiians to dance the hula and perform Hawaiian chants and rituals in privately owned prisons in Arizona.\u2019 A large number of them have donated significant campaign funds to Barack Obama, and some to other liberal candidates.<\/p>\n Not a single one has a single affiliation with any group seen as right of center. Actually, according to Pajamas<\/em>, none is even apolitical. Instead, all are definitively liberal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hillyer goes on to point out that the issue isn\u2019t merely a political matter, but one that has real-world policy consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n Watch the FoxNews.com Power Play<\/em> interview here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n