{"id":12433,"date":"2011-12-19T22:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2011-12-20T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:01:28","slug":"eric-holder-self-destructs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12433\/eric-holder-self-destructs\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Self-Destructs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at CFIF, we&#8217;ve spent months chronicling the confluence of incompetence, deceit, and political opportunism that is Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department, whether it takes the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1244-holders-fast-and-furious-sideshow-helps-obama-keep-liberals-from-bolting-\" target=\"_blank\">the Fast and Furious scandal<\/a> or the administration&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1117-holder-justice-no-conservatives-need-apply\" target=\"_blank\">transparently partisan staffing<\/a> of the department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. Now, without a coherent counterargument, the Attorney General is essentially pulling the fire alarm. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/12\/19\/justice-dept-silent-as-holder-charges-critics-with-racism\/#ixzz1h2eYuwf\" target=\"_blank\">From the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder accused his growing chorus of critics of racist motivations in a Sunday interview published in the New York Times. When reached by The Daily Caller Monday morning, the Department of Justice provided no evidence to support the attorney general\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Holder said some unspecified faction \u2014 what he refers to as the \u201cmore extreme segment\u201d \u2014 is driven to criticize both him and President Barack Obama due to the color of their skin. Holder did not appear to elaborate on who he considered to make up the \u201cmore extreme segment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,\u201d Holder said, according to the Times. \u201cBoth due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we\u2019re both African-American.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">Funny, it seems to me that making the political calculation that Mexican lives are expendable for an ill-defined policy goal is a pretty good working definition of racism. So too is deciding that voter intimidation that would land white belligerents in jail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/joshgerstein\/0311\/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html\" target=\"_blank\">shouldn&#8217;t be held against the New Black Panthers<\/a>. What Dr. Johnson once said of patriotism is now true of allegations of racism &#8212; they&#8217;re the last refuge of a scoundrel.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at CFIF, we&#8217;ve spent months chronicling the confluence of incompetence, deceit, and political opportunism that is Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department, whether it takes the form of the Fast and Furious scandal or the administration&#8217;s transparently partisan staffing of the department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. Now, without a coherent counterargument, the Attorney General is essentially pulling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1557,2752,498,2847,3092],"class_list":["post-12433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-black-panthers","tag-civil-rights-division","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12437,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions\/12437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}