Eric Holder, Media-Spoiled Brat
Attorney General Eric Holder granted an exclusive interview to ABC’s
“This Week” from London, where he was portrayed by ABC as deeply
concerned about the global terrorist threat. What stands out from this
very rare session – Holder hasn’t been on Sunday network television in
four years – is that Holder pulled out the oldest, lamest card in the
Obama political deck: Obama and he are opposed by people who should be
suspected of racism.
And darned if he didn’t get away with it again.
Pierre
Thomas, ABC’s Justice Department correspondent, interviewed Holder, and
asked him why he believes they are “‘sometimes treated differently,’
those were your words. What did you mean by that?”
Holder took that softball and hit it over the fence. “There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president,” he answered. “You know, people talking about taking their country back.…There's a certain racial component to this for some people.”
Holder’s been “treated differently,” all right. He’s been pampered by the press, a coddling that is ongoing, more than five years after he called America “a nation of cowards” on racial matters. Thomas at least raised this disreputable speech again, and Holder doubled down on it. “I wouldn’t walk away from that speech,” he said.
The man who avoided Sunday TV interviews for four years is going to accuse someone else of cowardice? But this is the kind of latitude that Holder gets. No one has found it bizarre that the nation’s chief law enforcement officer refuses to take network questions, even when swirling in controversy. No one demanded he explain why he lied to Congress about his knowledge of the disastrous “Fast & Furious” gun-running operation he ran. No one has demanded he explain why he refuses to name a special counsel to investigate the IRS. No one in the media demanded he explain anything, even his historically aggressive record of prosecuting journalists.
Eric Holder hasn’t suffered any of the media hostility that these “objective” reporters uncorked on John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales when they held his office in the Bush years. No one sympathetically asked Gonzales if his opponents' objections had a “racial component.”
