a new assault on free speech by Eric Holder (he might’ve been asleep when they taught first amendment at his law school)
Posted on | December 1, 2011 | 11 Comments
https://dailycaller.com/2011/12/01/media-watchdogs-ignore-holders-demands-for-media-silence/
Holder calls for media silence, watchdogs scratch fleas
By Neil Munro 12/01/2011
Established media freedom groups are ignoring Attorney General Eric Holder’s demand that The Daily Caller stop writing about congressional calls for his resignation.
The groups’ silence contrasts with their vigorous defense against Republican critics of the news media, and contrasts with the praise given to the media’s aggressive coverage of decisions by officials in George W. Bush’s presidency.
The media watchdogs’ silence comes as President Barack Obama’s administration faces political peril with public approval having fallen to the level held by President Jimmy Carter. A Holder resignation would likely add to the administration’s immediate problems, and increase the GOP’s 2012 momentum.
Attorney General John Ashcroft “never asked a reporter to stop reporting on a subject, no matter how uncomfortable it may have been,” said Mark Corallo, who served as Ashcroft’s press secretary during his 2001 to 2005 term, when many media articles painted Ashcroft as a proponent of excessive police powers after 9/11.
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. … We understood that we would take a lot of heat,” he said. “Freedom of speech and of the press — our wonderful First Amendment — allowed the media to cover things that made us uncomfortable.”
The controversy began on Nov. 29, when TheDC’s reporter asked Holder about congressional calls for his resignation. The question prompted the nation’s top law enforcement official to point his finger at the reporter and demand that “you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”
“I don’t recall [Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales ever talking with a reporter like that — ever,” said a former department official. In 2007, Gonzales was subject to numerous critical articles following Democratic legislators’ investigations into the administration’s decision to fire several district attorneys, all of whom had earlier been hired for political slots by the same administration.
Holder’s spokesman declined to respond to requests from TheDC that he further explain his demand.
The Washington Post’s media critic, Erik Wemple, did not mention the episode, and instead wrote about an amusing book review, a Rachel Maddow commentary and the cancellation of a sex-related column at a university newspaper.
The New York Times noted the outburst by merely highlighting a link to TheDC’s article.
Politico described Holder’s aggressive finger-pointing as a “plea.”
TMPMuckraker recast Holder’s directive as media criticism when it said he “told a reporter … that the news organization was ginning up calls for him to resign.”
When asked by TheDC for a comment via e-mail, Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for a Free Press, simply said “no.” When asked to explain her silence, she replied she was traveling and did not have the “ability to carefully research and analyze what happened in a thoughtful way.”
David Weigel, a controversial writer now at Slate Magazine, supported the TheDC’s reporting, but didn’t challenge Holder’s extraordinary demand.
Some criticism of Holder was offered by Gene Policinski, senior vice president and executive director of the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, after TheDC called for a comment. “I wasn’t aware of the episode. … I find it extraordinary that this has not gotten attention,” he said.
“The question, of course, is whether it is possible for a government official of that rank to essentially separate an offhand admonition from a government threat,” he said.
However, Policinski muted his criticism by comparing Holder’s demand to the controversy over 2001 remarks made by Bush’s spokesman, Ari Fleischer,
In a daily press conference shortly after the 9/11 atrocity, Fleischer rebuked a GOP legislator’s crude comment about people who wear turbans and also rebuked Bill Maher for his attribution of bravery to the 9/11 murderers. The statements “are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do,” said Fleischer.
This bipartisan criticism was portrayed by many media reports as a White House effort to chill speech by Democrats. Policinski echoed this criticism on Nov. 30, saying “from an academic, [Fleischer’s statement] might be an interesting admonition, from the press secretary of the U.S. President, it took on an altogether different character.”
But, according to Corallo, “there’s a big difference between [the attorney general asking for a delay because of national security concerns] and saying to a reporter, ‘I don’t like this story. You guys are keeping it alive, and you really ought to stop reporting on it… That’s petulance.”
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December 2nd, 2011 @ 12:42 am
“CRITICS: WHEN HOLDER LOSES CONTROL, IT’S ‘NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY’ AS ‘PEOPLE END UP DYING’”
By Matthew Boyle – The Daily Caller
Published: 12:30 AM 12/02/2011
Excerpt:
“Americans for Limited Government president Bill Wilson told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder’s loss of control on Tuesday is a sign that he’s “got something to hide and he’s scared.”
Holder lost control of his demeanor on Tuesday at the White House when TheDC asked him to respond to the surge in calls for his resignation over Operation Fast and Furious. “You guys need to — you need to stop this,” Holder said. “It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”
Fast and Furious was a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program, overseen by the Justice Department, which facilitated the sale of thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers.
Straw purchasers are people who can legally purchase guns in the United States but do so with the intention of illegally trafficking them into Mexico.
At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Since most of the facts have come out, 52 congressmen, two senators, three presidential candidates and two sitting governors have demanded that Holder resign immediately over the scandal.
Wilson said Holder’s loss of self-control might indicate that’s he’s dangerously unstable, something that’s not a positive quality for the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official to exhibit publicly.
“Reading the political tea leaves, if someone in his position cannot take a legitimate question from a legitimate media outlet and deal with it honestly and effectively or use one of the hundred ways that politicians use to dodge questions, it tells me he’s not in control of his emotions on this one,” Wilson said.
“That’s not good for the country. When’s this guy loses control, people end up dying. That’s not a good thing.” (RELATED: Holder lashes out at The Daily Caller, while refusing to address resignation calls)”
Read More Here: https://dailycaller.com/2011/12/02/critics-when-holder-loses-control-its-not-good-for-the-country-as-people-end-up-dying/#ixzz1fMgVHRQ1
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“HOLDER LASHES OUT AT THE DAILY CALLER WHILE REFUSING TO ADDRESS GROWING CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION”
Published: 4:56 PM 11/29/2011
By Neil Munro
and Matthew Boyle
Excerpt:
“Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder today demanded The Daily Caller stop publishing articles about the growing calls in Congress for his resignation because of the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program.
As Holder’s aide was escorting the attorney general offstage following his remarks Tuesday afternoon at the White House, a Daily Caller reporter introduced himself and shook Holder’s hand. The reporter asked him for a response to the growing chorus of federal legislators demanding his resignation.
Holder stepped towards the exit, then turned around, stepped back toward the reporter, and sternly said, “You guys need to — you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”
Holder then walked offstage without answering TheDC’s request for comment about calls for his resignation.”
The Full Article & The Video Is Here:
https://dailycaller.com/2011/11/29/holder-lashes-out-at-the-daily-caller-while-refusing-to-address-growing-calls-for-his-resignation/#ixzz1fMk3DWBM
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“HOLDER CALLS FOR MEDIA SILENCE, WATCHDOGS SCRATCH FLEAS”
By Neil Munro
Published: December 1, 2011 – 7:56 AM
“Established media freedom groups are ignoring Attorney General Eric Holder’s demand that The Daily Caller stop writing about congressional calls for his resignation.”
Read More Here: https://dailycaller.com/2011/12/01/media-watchdogs-ignore-holders-demands-for-media-silence/#ixzz1fMXw0v4x
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December 2nd, 2011 @ 12:54 am
“KRAUTHAMMER RIPS OBAMA FOR ISRAEL POLICIES: ‘AN ARROGANT AMATEUR'”
Jeff Poor
The Daily Caller
December 2, 2011
“At a campaign fundraiser in New York City on Wednesday with Jewish donors, President Barack Obama made the bold claim that his administration “has done more in terms of the security of the state” of Israel.
That claim drew the ire of Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer. On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,”
Krauthammer said Obama had done just the opposite of his claim.
“It is not and I’m sure Obama knows it,” Krauthammer said. “If he doesn’t, he’s delusional. And this is really chutzpah.”
Krauthammer said, “This pResident has done more to delegitimize and undermine Israel’s position in the world than any other president and he did it by arriving on the scene and imposing and demanding of Israel a freeze on settlements, including the building of the Jewish homes in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem of all places, something that had never been precondition in 17 years of negotiations.”
And once Obama took a position on homes in Jerusalem, he backed Israel into an untenable bargaining position, Krauthammer said.
Watch Video At Link Below:
“The Palestinians had to insist on it as well once Obama did and that destroyed the negotiations,” he continued. “It made Israel the fall guy for an error, an error of an amateur — an arrogant amateur that imposed this at the beginning of his term. As a result there are no negotiations.”
Krauthammer took issue with Obama’s claim because of his ineffectiveness in dealing with the Iranian regime and its development of nuclear weapons.
“The most important issue for Israel, for its security is Iran,” he said.
“And this is a pResident who at a time of maximum weakness of the mullahs did not lift a finger to help the revolution because he had another delusion that if he engaged and negotiated with the mullahs, he could sweet talk Iran out of its weapons. The policy is a failure. He knows it. And here we are in the threshold of Iran becoming a nuclear power.”
Read More: https://dailycaller.com/2011/12/01/krauthammer-rips-obama-for-israel-policies-an-arrogant-amateur/#ixzz1fMbLBQ55
December 2nd, 2011 @ 1:02 am
“AMERICA WILL BE DESTROYED UNLESS PATRIOTS ACT”
“WILL THE ENEMY WIN?”
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
© 2011, The Post & Email.
October 5, 2011
“Has the U.S. Congress become complicit in the downfall of our Constitutional Republic?”
Excerpts:
“(Oct. 5, 2011) — Only the truth will save the United States.
There are anti-democratic and anti-American forces working aggressively inside the country to reduce American global influence, control that influence or simply bring down our republic.
These forces are promoting the interests of nations hostile to the United States, global financiers and radical Islam.
The work of these forces is primarily facilitated by corrupt or cowardly politicians, radical leftists and by useful idiots, who are oblivious to the fact that they are aiding and abetting American enemies, who will ultimately eradicate freedom.
The United States no longer has a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The government has been hijacked by an oligarchy composed of a self-serving permanent political class, supported by an obsequious press and financed by and beholden to wealthy special interests.
[…]
The survival of our nation is now at stake.
The greatest success of the anti-democratic and anti-American forces and their primary tool for the impending destruction of the United States has been placing Barack Hussein Obama in the White House.
Obama is an illegal President, who has always been Constitutionally ineligible for the office he is occupying because he is not a natural born citizen, that is, a US citizen, born of US citizen parents at the time of his birth.
With the assistance of the forces that control him, Obama has manufactured an economic crisis and has deliberately polarized the electorate to create conditions for the fragmentation of American society and the downfall of our republic.
Both before and after occupying the Oval Office, Obama has committed felonies: forging his birth documents and his Selective Service registration and using a Social Security Number not issued to him.
All members of Congress know Obama is ineligible for the Presidency. They are aware of the evidence substantiating his commission of felonies. And they are passively observing in real-time the execution of policies that will lead to the destruction of America.
Congress does nothing because it is now complicit in the Obama cover-up and because its members, both Republican and Democrat, value their political survival more than their country.
The corrupt or cowardly politicians, rather than tell the truth, have declared war on the American people.
Nancy Pelosi, for example, side-stepped the Constitution and cleared the path for Obama’s illegal nomination for the Presidency by issuing two different Certifications of Nomination prior to the 2008 election.
Pelosi then helped steer Obamacare and the stimulus package through Congress, which were comprised largely of kickback schemes to Obama supporters as a means of maintaining left-wing Democratic control of the US Government through vote-buying.
Such insatiable lust for power and total disregard for the well-being of the country have brought the United States to the precipice of economic collapse, have polarized our society and made us vulnerable to exploitation by anti-democratic and anti-American forces.
Washington, D.C. oozes corruption, weakness and political correctness.
Truth and justice demand that the illegal and criminal Obama Administration be immediately removed from office.
We will not allow a corrupt government that has subverted our Constitution and flouted the rule of law to make America defenseless against our enemies.
The survival of our nation is now at stake.
If Congress members are too corrupt or too cowardly to adhere to the Constitution and defend their country, then patriotic Americans will have to take matters into their own hands.
Which side of history will you be on?”
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© 2011 Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
© 2011, The Post & Email.
December 2nd, 2011 @ 3:14 am
OF COURSE: THE COMPLETELY CORRUPT & ROGUE
ATF AND THE EVIL, AMORAL, ILLEGAL, & UNCONSTITUTIONAL – NWO MAFIA – GANGSTER – ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT & MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OBAMA DOJ IS RETALIATING AGAINST FAST AND FURIOUS WHISTLEBLOWERS
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall.com
November 30, 2011
Excerpt:
“When Dobyns reported the incident to both ATF and Newell. He asked for an investigation into the case. Newell not only refused to investigate, calling the incident “just scorching,” but allowed his subordinates, including Gillett, to attempt to frame Dobyns, accusing him of purposely burning down his own home with his family inside, has named him as a suspect and is investigating him. Newell conspired to destroy and fabricate evidence to “prove” his case. Emails, witness testimony, phone conversations and other documentation show the ATF Phoenix Field Divisions’ intentions, led by Newell, were to frame Dobyns, yet Newell denied under oath any involvement in this activity. His subordinates Gillett and ATF Tucson Group Supervisor over Operation Wide Receiver Charles Higman, also denied any attempts to frame Dobyns under oath, despite evidence showing otherwise.
The retaliatory actions of Newell, and other ATF management agents, were reported to ATF senior management at the highest levels and were ignored.
Now, Dobyns is speaking out on behalf of the whistleblowers facing direct retaliation as a result of exposing the Obama Justice Department Fast and Furious scandal to the public and Congress.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/11/30/of_course_atf_and_obama_doj_retaliating_against_fast_and_furious_whistleblower
Is the Obama Administration Taking Revenge on Fast & Furious Whistleblowers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zhSGpiyzV6c
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Issa: Holder Should Come Before House Judiciary to Clarify Fast and Furious Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5gzcM7EHM&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP5C707B741C53C532
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Obama Spoke About “Fast & Furious” Before Holder Claimed He Knew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD6YKFF5ss&feature=related
December 2nd, 2011 @ 6:18 am
All good info, Starla, but have you not ever hear of copyright laws?
December 2nd, 2011 @ 7:09 am
(Holder): “The First Amendment? Isn’t that something some dead white guy wrote? Don’t bother me with that #$&@!!”
December 2nd, 2011 @ 8:29 am
Yes, Holder was definitely asleep at Columbia Law School.
And thanks to Starla for spamming the site with dreck again.
December 2nd, 2011 @ 9:56 am
Starla,
Your posts are too long to read. Can’t you distill your drivel into a few sentences?
December 2nd, 2011 @ 1:37 pm
Heard Darrell Issa received a bomb threat the other day. Connection?????????????????
PS- This blog is much more tolerable since PI314 joined the Occupy bunch
December 3rd, 2011 @ 6:40 am
“ERIC HOLDER CHANNELS NIXON”
Thomas Lifson
November 30, 2011
Excerpt:
“Holder has dissembled — either through incompetence or perjury, he denied knowing about Fast & Furious despite receiving [many, many detailed personal memo’s] on the subject —[…] is stonewalling on demands for full records on the scandal, which has cost the lives of two federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans. It has also enraged our next door neighbor, Mexico, which for some reason doesn’t appreciate America funneling impressive weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists threatening its political stability.
On Planet Holder, nobody would be upset about this lethal program, for which Holder bears ultimate responsibility, unless the media were whipping opposition. That is simply delusional.
Ed Lasky points out that this echoes his boss Obama, who complained that “they [the media] treat me like a dog,” despite the most positive press coverage of any president in my lifetime.
I take this as a sign of desperation. Fast and Furious should have already driven Holder out of office. He has blood on his hands.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/eric_holder_channels_richard_nixon.html
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December 3rd, 2011 @ 11:13 am
“AMERICA WILL BE DESTROYED UNLESS PATRIOTS ACT”
“WILL THE ENEMY WIN?”
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
© 2011, The Post & Email.
October 5, 2011
“Has the U.S. Congress become complicit in the downfall of our Constitutional Republic?”
Excerpts:
“(Oct. 5, 2011) — Only the truth will save the United States.
There are anti-democratic and anti-American forces working aggressively inside the country to reduce American global influence, control that influence or simply bring down our republic.
These forces are promoting the interests of nations hostile to the United States, global financiers and radical Islam.
The work of these forces is primarily facilitated by corrupt or cowardly politicians, radical leftists and by useful idiots, who are oblivious to the fact that they are aiding and abetting American enemies, who will ultimately eradicate freedom.
The United States no longer has a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The government has been hijacked by an oligarchy composed of a self-serving permanent political class, supported by an obsequious press and financed by and beholden to wealthy special interests.
[…]
The survival of our nation is now at stake.
The greatest success of the anti-democratic and anti-American forces and their primary tool for the impending destruction of the United States has been placing Barack Hussein Obama in the White House.
Obama is an illegal President, who has always been Constitutionally ineligible for the office he is occupying because he is not a natural born citizen, that is, a US citizen, born of US citizen parents at the time of his birth.
With the assistance of the forces that control him, Obama has manufactured an economic crisis and has deliberately polarized the electorate to create conditions for the fragmentation of American society and the downfall of our republic.
Both before and after occupying the Oval Office, Obama has committed felonies: forging his birth documents and his Selective Service registration and using a Social Security Number not issued to him.”
Continue To Read The Full Article Here:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2011/10/05/america-will-be-destroyed-unless-patriots-act/
© 2011 Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
© 2011, The Post & Email.
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