Charlie Savage’s newest piece at The New York Times is, as my friend Sean Arthur on Twitter says, a shameless PR drivel and allows Mr. Holder to make ludicrous statements without challenge and pulls the race card. The New York Times and Charlie Savage are really going to do this after all the articles they published during Attorney General Alberto Gonzales scandals? Give me a break.
The hypocrisy at The New York Times is too much to take. I’ve read The New York Times articles on Mr. Gonzales over and over. I never once saw an article that was sympathetic to Mr. Gonzales. My favorite piece is an editorial titled, “Why This Scandal Matters.” What a great title! The Times covered every single detail in the Gonzales “scandal” someone had to write an editorial to justify it. You could fit the first paragraph with Operation Fast and Furious. [Bold my emphasis.]
It (the administration) has offered up implausible excuses, hidden the most damaging evidence and feigned memory lapses, while hoping that the public’s attention moves on. But this scandal is too important for the public or Congress to move on. This story should not end until Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is gone, and the serious damage that has been done to the Justice Department is repaired.
This “scandal” involved the firing of eight US Attorneys. No one died. Not a single person. Three hundred-plus Mexicans have died because of Operation Fast and Furious. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered with a gun from the operation on American soil. I wonder if The New York Times and Mr. Savage could explain to me why Mr. Gonzales’s scandal mattered and Fast and Furious does not?
The best part, though, was Mr. Holder taking a jab at people like Sharyl Attkisson, Cam Edwards, Katie Pavlich, Matthew Boyle, and myself. [Bold my emphasis.]
But Mr. Holder contended that many of his other critics — not only elected Republicans but also a broader universe of conservative commentators and bloggers — were instead playing “Washington gotcha” games, portraying them as frequently “conflating things, conveniently leaving some stuff out, construing things to make it seem not quite what it was” to paint him and other department figures in the worst possible light.
Of that group of critics, Mr. Holder said he believed that a few — the “more extreme segment” — were motivated by animus against Mr. Obama and that he served as a stand-in for him. “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
Conflating things? How do we “conflate things” when we provide the documents PROVING our points? Plus if we are leaving out things it’s because Mr. Holder and the Department of Justice aren’t providing us with all the details.
This is what angers me the most. Basically Mr. Holder says that people like Ms. Attkisson, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Boyle, Ms. Pavlich, and I are staying on top of Operation Fast and Furious and asking you questions is because we’re racist? Let’s return to the Times editorial “Why This Scandal Matters” shall we? Whoever wrote this editorial (I cannot find the author) said, as I stated above, “This story should not end until Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is gone, and the serious damage that has been done to the Justice Department is repaired.”
So was The New York Times being racist? After all, Mr. Gonzales is Hispanic. Think about it Mr. Savage and Mr. Holder.
How about members of the Congressional Black Caucus Mr. Holder and Mr. Savage? As Mr. Boyle and Michelle Fields report the feeling in the caucus is that the congressional investigation is warranted. So do they feel this way because Mr. Holder is an African American? Are they racists against their own race?
Of course Mr. Holder says he thinks it has more to do with his political ideology. No Mr. Holder. We don’t care you’re a Democrat. If you didn’t know about Operation Fast and Furious then why aren’t you outraged? Why aren’t you firing those who are responsible for the operation? Why aren’t you cleaning house? Why aren’t you outraged that the people who started this operation haven’t been identified? Why aren’t you outraged that when people found out about Operation Fast and Furious (including your second in command) did nothing to stop it and more importantly did not tell you? I can’t speak for the others, but the fact it appears you don’t care something like this happened bothers me a lot.
Mr. Savage has not done his research because he says (bold my emphasis):
“Some accused him of perjury; others floated theories that the operation was intended to go bad so as to build a case for stronger gun-control laws and called the Holder Justice Department an accessory to murder.”
Um, Mr. Savage, on December 7th Ms. Attkisson released a story about documents showing the ATF was using this operation to get stronger gun control laws. But I’m not shocked he doesn’t know about this. After all it seems the only time a mainstream media outlet writes on anything about Fast and Furious is when the AP writes about it. The AP has not written about these documents. By the way, Ms. Attkisson provides these emails in her article so Mr. Holder cannot say she conflated anything or left anything out.
Mr. Holder also thinks our “attacks” are payback because of Mr. Gonzales and John Ashcroft, George Bush’s other attorney general. No Mr. Holder. We’re holding you and the DOJ accountable for your actions the same way we did for Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Ashcroft. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is or your political leanings. When you do something wrong you should be held accountable. It’s that simple.
Again, it’s awful Mr. Savage just says a Border Patrol agent. Mr. Savage, that agent had a name. His name was Brian Terry. He was a son, brother, nephew, uncle, and godfather. He was a Marine veteran. More importantly he was an American citizen murdered with a gun from this operation on American soil.






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Holder a victim!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAH OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Say it again HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oooooohh we……….. Should take that comedy on the road!
Justice has such an interesting meaning in the hands of progressives. They really took Orwell's book to heart. Social justice, economic justice, but what about criminal justice?
If there is any Justice here, Holder and all those others involved will do serious Federal time. I ain't holding (hehe) my breath this will hapen.
Holder a "victim" – Uh huh …and I am the Queen of England. /sarc
The Times cannot have it both ways. Either someone has deliberately sabotaged Holder from within the DOJ, by working behind his back, in which case Savage should be madly investigating to find out who. or Holder arranged this entire attempt to attack the second amendment.
Holder is a victim of a witch hunt as much as nuclear talks with N.K. are NOW uncertain, I next expect Holder to say, "it depends on what your definition of is is".
The 'untouchable' administration being interviewed by its errand boys…closest thing to communist propaganda.
The thinking of SOME criminals is I'm Gay they bullied me that's why Im a traitor? I look like Obama we are Black so their picking on me? Not one Liberal came to Nixions defense? Only Democrats can break the Laws, The commiting of breaking Laws Murders,Treason,Lying to Congress,Wars and it's EVERYONE ELSES FAULT. Unbelievable,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Why that scandal mattered, why this one doesn't, and why the NYT hasn't mattered for a long, long, time…
The NYT the paper of wreckage should paint him for what this Bum is an Un-American Anti-White Arrogant Elitist Undermining Enemy of America who believes he's above the law……but that would take a paper with a sense of Honor and love of the Truth. Holder…….a Bad Guy. The NYT…It's good for picking up Dog S**t.
The MSM is the enemy too.
Funny, the NYT's shut off the comment section on this article, they seem to do that on the squishy ones.
The thinking of SOME criminals is I'm Gay they bullied me that's why Im a traitor? I look like Obama we are Black so their picking on me? Not one Liberal came to Nixions defense? Only Democrats can break the Laws? Treason, Murder, Lying to Congress? Please someone get a brain about this PC crap.
The New York Times works for Barack Obama. Why should we be surprised that they're now publishing drivel aimed at getting the criminal, Eric Holder, off? If Holder is not held accountable for his crimes, then there is no justice in America.
The New York Times: These rats won't leave the sinking ship…..
From the linked NYT article…
"Bruce Buchanan, a professor of political science at the University of Texas, said Mr. Holder attracted “withering fire” from conservatives because “they sense he is vulnerable and because they perceive him as being a source of a lot of what irritates them about the way this administration does business.”"
No Bruce. I'm not irritated about the way this administration gave assault rifles to Mexican drug lords. I'm irritated that this administration gave assault rifles to Mexican drug lords.
The very moment I scrolled Breitbart.com, I recognized Brian Terry.
Thank you, Mary Chastain, for including a picture of the man.
Here's a link if you would like to learn more about him:
Who is Brian Terry? – Remember Brian Terry http://www.rememberbrianterry.com/who-is-brian-te...
like a victim that o.d.s on heroin??,a victim who dies while committing an armed robbery?? give me a break this political correctness bull chits about to make my head explode.
In a way, I'm actually happy the Times ran this attempt at PR spin, because Holder's defense is so obviously desperate, it opens him up to not only painting all his opponents in Congress as racists (including normally milquetoast Republicans like Charles Grassley) it also is a formal dismissal of the family and friends of Brian Terry, who paid the ultimate price for the Fast & Furious debacle.
It's one thing for Holder to toss the race card against talk radio, Fox News or even conservative blogs, because there are thousands of Obama fanatics out there willing to play the race card even faster than the administration. But tossing the race card against a dead man's family and friends is going to be an attack only the most blindly partisan will follow, and if Holder opts to double-down on the claim, is one that is really going to alienate moderate swing voters.
The memory of the political writers at the New York Times is about as long as their credibility.
The NYT will do anything and everything to back the administration they got elected. They will cover for bozo-in-chief and his travelling clown show to the end. That paper would be completely irrelevant if not for the NY based media using it as their playbook. In real America, fewer and fewer pay any attention to it. Now we need to wean the "Average citizen" off the big three so called 'news" outlets.
SCUBARATS!
So, why hasn't Holder fired anyone over this scandal?
Because if he does, he knows they will sing like songbirds.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”. Sir Walter Scott
Timing is everything. This scandal will be blown away with the Holiday Wind – replaced with news stories about how much we all love our 'brand-new' iProducts.
Continual evasion from Holder of the truth on Fast and Furious, the cover-up, the deceit, makes him look even more guilty by the day. He's supposed to be the nation's top cop, what a "crock" and disgrace for America.
AAh HAHHH!
Of course we couldn't expect these NYT Leftists to ease into covering this night mare honestly.They used the approach of: Holder Is Just Such A Nice Guy!
As if nobody died.
As if Fast and Furious was not a VIOLENT CRIME.
The violence of that crime continues.
Decent Americans everywhere hopefully wake up to the fact that rats–criminals–have staked out positions of power and authority in our country and we should not expect the news reporters to report that! They are part of the staking out.
First, the MSM tried to ignore the F&F. Now, the MSM Ied by the flagship of the left-wing echo chamber, are trying to spin the story – and protect this administration. Whether it's Clinton's perjury or any host of issues, this has been the established game plan for decades.
Anything to do with the mass invasion of illegal mexicans and the wave of crime and bankruptcy is off limits. Why? Illegals are the future voting base of the DNC – which needs a class of people living in poverty and reliant on subsidies from "you and me". As long as the third world immigrants vote overwhelmingly for the DNC and socialism, then expect a distortion of facts about the border crisis.
Speaker Boehner, why is Holder not being impeached ?
I'm glad to see some of us don't forget.
As JoeKidd said, thank you!
Good point! Taking their usual swine dive.
Of course, it isn't racism to be complicit in the murder of hundreds of Mexicans in order to push a political agenda. Noooooo….
Well, now that the story has hit the NYT, and they've set the narrative, look for the rest of the press to take their cue and run stories on how racists are attacking the poor President and his devoted Attorney General. Heck, maybe even MSNBC will find the time to mention F & F now that their bosses have told them what to say!
By the way, here is Washington State, it was one of our US Attorneys, John McKay, who was fired by Alberto Gonzalez, in a totally legal process, since he was appointed to serve at the pleasure of the President. McKay refused to investigate clear election fraud in the race for Governor in 2004 (John Fund wrote an entire book about the case). McKay deserved to lose his job and the people of Washington state got the shaft, for which we're still paying the price because of the idiot who should never have been in office! Of course, the New York Times never reported that story correctly, either!
Eric Holder exemplifies what permeates Obama's entire Regime… corruption and cronyism…
Of the many things he's done while in office that should have gotten him fired – maybe disbarred – Fast & Furious serves as
a primo example of the bastardization of our entire system.
… And it's exactly why you NEVER, EVER hear ANYONE from the Regime refer to America as it was very PURPOSELY founded… a Republic Of Laws, not of people… guaranteeing Equal Justice because Justice is Blind.
By utilizing the Lenin technique – 'something repeated often enough become truth' – and ALWAYS describing America as a 'Democracy', denotes a system based on the rule of Men NOT Law, thus leaving open to the 'connected' to 'deem' what is and is not permissible/legal and when & by whom… Or more plainly put by Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D – MI), in explaining the egregious behavior during the unconstitutional way ObamaCare was shoved down our throats : "They make up the rules as they go along…" ,,,, In a nut shell, this explains everything about the Obama Regime…
Now, Eric Holder's Dept of InJustice, where the credo is 'Justice for me but not for thee' isn't working out before Congress or the American people!…. Well Boo Hoo – cry us a river Holder!…
Fast & Furious is just a 'chip of ice' off a huge iceberg of corruption and deceit that engulfs the Regime's agenda… And it appears that money laundering and weapons smuggling, under the guise of formulating a basis for gun control, is just that – a cover for much, much worse considering everything that is happening around the border… It might be high crimes and misdemeanors next!….
Holder doth protest too much… He is lucky they're only trying to take him down for Fast & Furious! And by pulling out the race card – proving he's a complete loser- he besmirches all hard working, honest Black Americans!!
You're welcome! I talk to the Terry family and my heart breaks for them, especially his mother. I won't stop fighting until the media gives her son proper respect.
I think that the Terry family should write a letter to the editor of the NYT. Actually, I think Brian Terry's family should personally confront every member of the MSM that is burying this story for political reasons.
The free press is not free anymore its been bought and paid for and it has turned its back on the people.
He already tried that with his description of what a "lie" is, Malachi.
NYT=Loserville.
How did that go again, Mr. Holder? We're a nation of cowards because we can't have a discussion of race?
You are the perfect example of why that discussion cannot take place with people like you in positions of power. We won't leave you alone because you're black? You smug, sanctimonious little prick!
It's because you're a criminal!
Well put, Awakened. I'm only surprised he took so long to play the card!
The absolutely perfect place to put a link to your piece Mary (instead of cut and pasting as I usually do, in an e-mail) and they shut down the comments section!
Not only are they corrupt, morally bankrupt, progressive liberals at the NYT. They are cowards too.
I loved this gorge rising line in the NYT piece as well, "scrutinizing new restrictions on voting in search of signs that they could lower turnout among minorities"! Search for signs??!! Would that he done more searching in Philly in 2010!!
Well the NY Times, which is part of the state controlled media, has to make absurd claims like this. Otherwise their overlords in the Obama administration will come down on them.
"…the fact that we’re both African-American"
Really? I hadn't noticed. What does that have to do with anything in Obama's post-racial America?
Perhaps it's unfortunate that Brian Terry wasn't African-American. Maybe then the DOJ could get him some justice.
It must be because he is Black !
Holder & Odumbo are the 2 biggest racists in Washington today .
THE FACT YOUR BOTH AFRICAN AMERICAN ?(communists??) RUINS IT FOR OTHERS, your arrogant biased black attatude (favoring blk panthers and illegals over real americans) set race relations back centuries,the last time a blk person will be trusted??herman cain would probably have made a good president compared to these mutts.
Holder and Co. redefine 'aiding and abetting'. They are simply and positively criminally-complicit in the deaths of not only Agent Terry but everyone those guns have killed. By the time this is over they'll have redefined 'criminal act' as well.
Considering who we are dealing with- the Times and Charlie Savage, we shouldn't be surprised. In 2007 Charlie Savage authored, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy" savaging (pun intended) the Bush administration. Now with an administration that makes GWB look like the second coming of Sam Adams, what do we get from Charlie Savage? ……. not much.
Charlie Savage won't bite the hand that feeds him …. especially if that hand is attached to fellow Harvard alumnus Barack Obama and a Sulzberger is signing his paycheck. Savage is the consumate Washington insider. He lives Washington, D.C and works for the New York Times and the Times owned Boston Globe previously- both of which scrupulously stick to the Obama/ Sulzberger script. In the tank for Obama doesn't begin to describe it but in time Savage may come to realize that like his employer and his fellow alumnus Obama, he is circling the drain. He can not serve two masters, a failed ideology or the truth and his profession. He chose poorly.
AG Eric Holder a victim…NO, a criminal, YES.
M,
Where does the Mexican Government stand on F&F currently? I remember reading something about Mexico, and its wanting of an International Extradition of F&F participants? Any Updates?
Eric Holder is a heartless black bigot. And Charlie Savage is a clueless white apologist for black bigots.
I wonder what Mexicans think of all this.
Mary,
Since Mr. Holder indicated that his critics (journalists, bloggers, etc…) are only attacking him and in a sense, Obama because they are African-American due to racism (we all know that this is not true). I would like to ask Mr. Holder, …well, isn't racism just a "State of Mind"? [referencing Holder's statements during the 12/08/11 hearing where Holder said "Lying" would be dependent on the person's state of mind).
I don't get it. If Attorney General is a 'victim' of Fast and Furious why is he alive?
I'm not asking the question so that he will be assassinated. Far from it. I don't wish ANYONE physical harm. I merely ask for the same justice that all citizens are entitled to. We are a country of law and no-one is above that law particularly the Attorney General of the United States.
I don't understand what he has to fear if he is truly innocent.
And it's being investigated by itself.
God Bless you… keep fighting, we've got your back!!
It was not the Bush administration that let guns walk across the border. Under Bush there was CONTROLLED delivery — so that the ATF watched the deals occur, typically with an undercover agent involved. Then once the deal was made, arrests were made.
This was ENTIRELY different from F&F, which was GUN WALKING — and, to make matters worse — appears to have been done primarily to advance a political cause.
THAT is the scandal. Get a clue.
It's EASY to play the race card
It's always easy for those who can't argue the facts. In fact, it's second nature for your kind.
…when partisan hacks like you ignore reality and turn a blind eye when it's "one of your own."
Laughable. Your "facts" and "reality" are a joke.
Good comedy routine you have there buddy…take it on the road. Everyone here is too informed for your BS.
Really, Operation Wide Receiver let thousands of guns walk accross the border between 2005-6? Were is your links? Your backing data?
So if it was ongoing, poor or Holder did not know that this was going on in his own department, even though there seems to be credible evidence that he did know? Did Bush use a "Forget-Ray" developed by the CIA from their torture seccions and use it on Holder?
You are FUNNY!
I guess what StopTheRhetoric meant was:
"Since I can't argue the facts, I'm just going to inderectly call you a racist!"
The race card is the last refuge of the leftist who has lost the argument. And it's the first card of the really stupid ones.
He does everything but wear it on his sleeve – or should I say as a chip on his shoulder!… this is just the 1st time he's vocalized it on the record…
Also, reportedly, one of his professors told him that no matter how high he rose professionally, he'd always be seen as 'Black' 1st and foremost….i.e., the 'Black' Lawyer or the 'Black' DA or the 'Black' Atty General, etc… rather than the 'Formidable' (or whatever) Atty General and he keeps a copy of the quote – like what you'd get in a fortune cookie! – in his wallet to this day!…
So, I think it's safe to say, it always 'colors' his thinking about everything & everyone…. ;>)
Might want to take up that whole race card thing up with the first speaker at our Anti-Holder protest in Austin last week: http://northtexasteaparty.org/2011/12/15/a-respon...
Holder is either incompetent or he is guilty of suborning the law to promote the elimination of the Second Amendment. He is personally responsible for 300 dead mexicans and who knows how many dead in Honduras died with Holders weapons? He has to be investigated. He must be removed.
I think they should file a civil suit against Holder and another one against the Justice Department and another one against Obama.
That's exactly my reaction! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. He has only himself to blame.
Obama can't throw Holder under the bus because Holder has been protecting Obama by not prosecuting his FORGED birth certificate or multiple SSN's used in real estate scams- If Eric goes people may want to know the TRUTH about the Obama CRIMES that have been burried and hidden- That's why his entire past has been hidden or destroyed (at great expense)- both men are crooked lawyers who lie easily only Obama surrendered his law license in order to avoid an investigation of his past (secreted) history- even hObama's kindergarten records are sealed- A decent man would NOT do this- Obama is the ONLY president in history to have covered his entire past history- and ther first president to have an alias- the first president to have more than one SSN-
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