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Fortunately, the intellectual weight lies with the 200 pounds.
Here's the deal: Two weeks (?) ago, Bob Schieffer at Face the Nation had Eric Holder as a guest and failed to even bring up the Black Panther voter-intimidation case. Others rightly "called out" Schieffer for the lapse, to which he responded that he just was unaware of the issue and that he would have asked about it if he had known.
So what is Face's response? They now set up a show largely on the Panther issue (apparently).... and stack the deck 4 to 1 against the notion that the case has any merit.
If this isn't establishment media bias, then David Duke wasn't a KKK member.
Here is Sunday's lineup of panelist (in addition to the vaguely left-leaning Schieffer as the host): On one side, radical black lefties Cornell West and Michael Eric Dyson. On the other..... oops, I mean on the SAME side, two putatively conservative guests whose role is to trash the conservative position. There is Abby Thernstrom, the Civil Rights Commissioner who has made a major vendetta of trashing the Panther case that she once supported. And there is Michael Gerson, who makes a habit of sneering at other conservatives and who just this week described the Panther case this way: Fox News obsessively played video showing two members of the New Black Panthers wearing military gear outside a Philadelphia polling station in 2008, one carrying a nightstick. Voter intimidation is a serious thing and a federal crime. But two men engaged in revolutionary political theater do not a conspiracy make. These reactions are disproportionate...
In other words, Gerson made fun of the whole issue.
So on the Panther case, there are four people to trash the case that Face ignored for more than a year. Aligned against those four is....
One man. Four on one. That's about as fair as asking Shirley Temple to wrestle Hulk Hogan, with Temple's right arm tied behind her back.
Or at least it would be unfair except for the identity of that one. On the side of thinking the Panther case is indeed important is none other than WSJer and AmSpec senior editor John Fund, one of the savviest analysts around and one of the most knowledgeable on vote fraud and related voting issues in general, and on the Panther case in particular. (In a recent blog post listing the journalists who kept this story alive for a year, I forgot to list John; I was in a rush. But he has been superb all along; witness this column from last summer.)
Here is a vote for expecting Fund to mop the floor with the other four. But it's also a vote for blasting Face the Nation for its sickening attempt to rig the deck.
UPDATE: I was having so much fun with that post that I forgot to add the really sober, thoughtful, larger analysis of the larger meta-issue that was published today by Jen Rubin. Do read the link!.
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Richard Baker| 7.24.10 @ 7:15AM
Let's see. If it were two Klansmen engaging in "revolutionary political theater" would the Lefties still find the voter intimidation benign?
Curly Smith| 7.24.10 @ 8:01AM
Yes, provided the panel paid homage to segregationist William Fulbright (D, Arkansas) and Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd (D, West Virginia).
Oldefarte| 7.24.10 @ 12:30PM
Jennifer Rubin's editorial is outstanding truth. I'll repeat myself into constant redundency by suggesting any/all conservative/moderate readers [seekers of truth from printed/viewed news reports] to CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS [AND ANY NATIONAL MAGAZINES SUCH AS TIME, NEWSWEEK,ETC]. There are now tons of online/internet alternative new sources available which give straight, non-BS, news stories [I suggest Newsmax but there are many other depending upon one's preferences]. Of course, everyone should primarily include THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR for their reading inventory, as I have found NONE BETTER at truth telling concerning news issues [due to their outstanding group of staff writers/editorialists]!!!!
Mutt Williams| 7.24.10 @ 8:46PM
A skinny joke in fatigues and a stick acting angry is an irritation and source of minor intimidation to be removed - by the authorities or if not available or unwilling (and when was the last time you went to a polling place and there was not a policeman on site?) then any male American citizen should simply disarm and remove this joke. Certainly the little lunatic should not be allowed to intimidate. End of story. Why do we allow these little morons to become such an obstacle. We - all of us normal citizens empower these radicals by our inaction. What exactly do you think this puffed up hyperbole was prepared to do in the face of a citizen with some backbone.
ummmmmmm| 7.26.10 @ 1:36AM
According to the citizen on the tape they moved out of the way when he approached to enter the station.
ummmmmmmmmm| 7.26.10 @ 1:31AM
"WSJer and AmSpec senior editor John Fund, one of the savviest analysts around and one of the most knowledgeable on vote fraud and related voting issues in general, and on the Panther case in particular."
After weeks reporting as established facts that the Barack Hussein Obama Administration is unprecedentedly racializing the Justice Department by 'refusing to charge black people', 'harassing Voting Section attorneys who pursue cases against black people' and 'doing terrible things to people who "decide that a race-neutral enforcement of the law was appropriate.
" '.
Mr Fund mops "the floor with the other four" by stating "we don’t have all the facts" and "Do I know exactly what they’re hiding? I don’t" because "this Justice
Department is stonewalling subpoenas issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights."
Without the facts or even knowing what was being hidden what was there to REPORT? The controversy roiled by putting the accusations, suppositions, manipulations and character assassinations on full 24/7 radio-TV-print-internet rotation?
[Everything " " and ' ' quoted from above article and 7/25/10 Face the Nation]