{"id":2163,"date":"2010-07-06T01:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2010-07-06T01:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:56:25","slug":"republican-mole-poses-as-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/republican-mole-poses-as-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Mole Poses as Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time, I watch Fox News during commercials, just to see what  misinformation they are feeding to those sufficiently ignorant to trust them as an information source.  I learned that it\u2019s Obama\u2019s fault that there is no immigration reform, and that it it Obama\u2019s fault that the economy is in bad shape, on and on.  But they went overboard on their latest voter intimidation scam.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Fox-sheep\"<\/a> As the right wing gears up for its regular, election-year fear-mongering over \u201cvoter fraud,\u201d there are signals Fox News is setting up Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama to become this year\u2019s ACORN for conservatives<\/strong>. The opening salvo in the latest \u201cvoter fraud\u201d war came last week when Megyn Kelly interviewed a former DOJ attorney \u201cwhistle blower\u201d who alleged that Holder has instituted a policy of not protecting whites\u2019 voting rights or prosecuting African American violators<\/strong>. Not only did Kelly and Fox News buy into their source\u2019s secondhand allegations about an insignificant case<\/a> that showed no indications of representing a larger pattern \u2013 either of voter fraud or the DOJ\u2019s policy \u2013 but Kelly trumpeted her interview as evidence that black thugs now have license to intimidate white voters in upcoming elections<\/strong>. It’s little more than an outsourced echo of Glenn Beck’s now-infamous accusation that Obama is a racist with a "deep-seated hatred for white people" but with an electoral, Department of Justice twist.<\/p>\n

The so-called whistle blower, J. Christian Adams, is a GOP activist<\/a> who contends that the DOJ dropped its voter intimidation case against a few members of the New Black Panther Party, who behaved thuggishly at a polling place on Election Day 2008, because African American Holder \u2013 and by extension, Obama \u2013 has decided not to enforce whites\u2019 voter rights. <\/p>\n

The DOJ has an entirely different point of view, one that was barely explored on \u201cfair and balanced\u201d Fox News, even though Kelly\u2019s 1 PM show is supposed to be part of its \u201cobjective news\u201d<\/a> line up. The DOJ has said<\/a> that the case against the Black Panthers was shaky and that this one incident didn\u2019t constitute an orchestrated campaign<\/strong> or pattern to deny voting rights, the usual criteria for deploying federal resources in litigation. In fact, as Main Justice<\/a> has reported, no voters at all in the Philadelphia precinct have come forward to allege intimidation<\/strong>. The complaints have come from white Republican poll watchers, who have given no evidence they were registered to vote in the majority black precinct. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Kelly deliberately led her viewers to think that Black Panthers would be showing up at voting precincts across the country<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Let me qualify this by saying that the New Black Panther Party (or any other group) ought not to be demonstrating outside of any polling place  There is already more than enough voter intimidation practiced by Republican \u201cpoll watchers\u201d inside polling places.  Nevertheless, it was an isolated incident, not a pattern, making it a subject better suited for local than federal action. In the absence of complaints from voters who were intimidated, there was no case to be made.  What we have here is a simple example of the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda sowing fear and racism in their brainwashed viewers.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

More important is the continued presence of Republican Moles embedded in federal agency career posts that are supposed to be nonpartisan.  A mole is an individual who placed in a nonpartisan post because of ideology, not qualifications.  Adams, a long time conservative activist, is an example.  Other examples include the replacement of career scientists at EPA, FDA, MMS and others with recent graduates of tight wing Christian fundamentalist colleges, such as Jerry Falwell\u2019s, Liberty University, with no science education, let alone experience.  Republican moles occupy hundreds of DOJ positions.  They are using their positions to undermine our government.  Even before Obama won the Democratic nomination, I warned that the Bush\/GOP regime ideologues were burrowing into key nonpartisan posts.  They must be exposed and replaced.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time, I watch Fox News during commercials, just to see what  misinformation they are feeding to those sufficiently ignorant to trust them as an information source.  I learned that it\u2019s Obama\u2019s fault that there is no immigration reform, and that it it Obama\u2019s fault that the economy is in bad shape, on […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}