As African-American men at the most exalted reaches of government, Messrs. Obama and Holder are a testament to how much racial progress the country has made. It’s a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes — Wall Street Journal lead editorial last Friday
The Journal raced to its main point in the opening three sentences of the editorial:
Eric Holder must be amazed that President Obama was elected and he could become Attorney General. That’s a fair inference after the Attorney General last Friday blocked South Carolina’s voter ID law on grounds that it would hurt minorities. What a political abuse of law.
Mr. Holder’s racially driven concoction is as outlandish as asserting that the sun sprays at midnight above Culver City.
Do not underestimate the absurd We Are Racial Victims agenda of the administration that beats the Presidential seal of approval. It is a constantly moving machine, piloted by Mr. Holder, who gives Swish (I Hate Working) Obama cover so that no blame even accidentally deflect him as he toils tirelessly to re-elect himself. How unseemly that would be, deserved but unseemly.
Mr. Holder kicked off the administration’s Gotcha strategy by excusing three bully-boy Black Panthers — openly armed — who hung around a Philadelphia precinct on Election Day in ’08, daring white voters to defy them.
Months later when Mr. Holder, treating them like lint, brushed off the charges against the three criminals and then acted like he was choking on a bag of carrots when asked to explain his sneaky, race-animated sloppiness.
Don’t Tread on Racial Toes
He was questioned unobtrusively, not in the head-on manner previous administrations have been (deservedly) challenged because certain journalists learned their lesson as soon as Swish Obama entered Presidential race. Any negative comment about Mr. Obama, now and forever, will be interpreted as racist, and your readers or viewers will not be allowed to forget it.
Normally, the Philadelphia incident would have been the kind of scandal that would have adorned front pages for weeks.
If the august New York Times ever carried a line about it, the story was written in pig latin. It was muted so effectively that there may not be five people outside of Philly who can describe what happened. To quoth an old professor, “If it wasn’t in the Times, it wasn’t anywhere else.”
An unusual number of Republicans were elected to statehouses in November 2010. Tired of losing to Democrat manipulation of the voter rolls — in the labor unions’ current recall drive against Wisconsin’s Republican governor —one man’s signature in the petition drive was found 80 times — seven states now have passed common sense voter ID laws.
Four days before the Journal’s editorial, the Times unfurled its latest We Are Victims editorial beneath the headline:
“Keeping Students from the Polls.”
What followed was reasoned with the searching thoroughness of a pre-schooler, what passes on the Left as mature rationalization.
They offered no evidence because none exists. That should have killed the argument.
On a slow day, the Times keeps dipping into the same dish of gruel-thin anti-Republican diatribes for op-ed page material.
The formerly august Times has railed for months against what it calls a Republican plot “to restrict the voting rights of demographic groups that tend to vote Democratic. Blacks. Hispanics, the poor and young.”
Of course they have picture identification.
The Times tells an extravagant lie Left-leaning newspapers have been hammering the daffy assertion into the ground ever since the first law passed — with, disappointingly, little pushback from the right.
