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Thread #130660   Message #2944148
Posted By: Bill D
12-Jul-10 - 10:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's DOJ plays race card (opinion thread)
Subject: RE: BS: Obama's DOJ plays race card (opinion thread)
Okay...tonight the story finally made the LIBERAL news media...
(oh...do remember that *I* said 4 days ago:)

"...I think we may not be getting all of the story. Faux News is not exactly renowned for mentioning all of the details."

here is one explanation, which jibes with the basic facts noted on Keith Olbermann's program, where he noted that Bill O'Reilly was, "as we speak" still pushing the Fox version.

Long & short is in this quote from the above source: (more there)

"The decision not to file a criminal case occurred before Obama was even in office.

This means that the case was downgraded to a civil case 11 days before Obama was inaugurated, 26 days before Eric Holder became attorney general, and about nine months before Thomas Perez was confirmed as head of the Civil Rights Division.

From Media Matters:

# Adams has admitted that he does not have first-hand knowledge of the events, conversations, and decisions that he is citing to advance his accusations;
# The Bush administration's Justice Department — not the Obama administration — made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008;
# The Obama administration successfully obtained default judgment against Samir Shabazz, a member of the New Black Panther Party carrying a nightstick outside the Philadelphia polling center on Election Day 2008;
# The Bush administration DOJ chose not to pursue similar charges against members of the Minutemen, one of whom allegedly carried a weapon while harassing Hispanic voters in Arizona in 2006;
# No voters have come forward to claim that they were intimidated from voting on account of the New Black Panthers standing outside the polling center in 2008;

So, no matter how many times J. Christian Adams declares that the Obama administration refuses to protect the rights of white people — and no matter how many times Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh repeat it — it's not true."


And THAT is why, Bruce, there was such 'deafening silence' while you waited for we **Liberals** to gasp and quiver at 'our' DOJ's failure to 'do something' and why the trumped up charge "... that Obama's DOJ has a policy of NOT pursuing any Civil Rights case where the victim is white, and the accused is black. And it is lying to Congress about it." is simply nonsense.

I repeat, from 4 days ago....Can YOU say "spin"?