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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

New York Times Won't Attend Off-The-Record Eric Holder Meeting

The Rats begin to flee the sinking ship.
Long time Black Panther co-conspirator Eric Holder is beginning to lose the leftist media as 2014 elections loom.

NEW YORK -- The New York Times will not attend a meeting this week betweenAttorney General Eric Holder and the Washington bureau chiefs of several media outlets to discuss guidelines for journalists in leak investigations.

Times executive editor Jill Abramson cited the Justice Department's request that the discussion be kept off the record as a reason for not attending.

"We will not be attending the session at DOJ," Abramson said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off the record meeting with the attorney general. Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time."

"Evidently, there will be a future session with department officials on the substance of how the law should be applied in leak cases and I am hopeful that our counsel, David McCraw, will be able to participate in that meeting," Abramson added.

President Obama announced last week that Holder would meet with media executives to discuss guidelines concerning journalists caught up in leak investigations. There has been growing concern among journalists and lawmakers about the DOJ's tactics following the seizure of Associated Press phone records in one investigation and the accusation in court documents that a Fox News reporter may have committed a crime in the course of reporting in another.

With the Times refusing to accept the off-the-record ground rules, it seems likely other news organizations will similarly decline to meet with Holder.

Following the Times decision, Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse tweeted that President Obama asked the attorney general "to review how leak investigations are done but some in the media refuse to meet with him. Kind of forfeits your right gripe."

Journalists would argue that the issue is not about simply refusing to meet Holder, but that the government shouldn't set conditions that would prevent news organizations from reporting on what takes place.

CNN's Jake Tapper tweeted a link to Woodhouse's remark and noted mockingly that "this is actually the spokesman for the Democratic National Committee."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/eric-holder-new-york-times-off-the-record_n_3355251.html#slide=2510348

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I thought of a couple of titles for this article:

-The Wicked Witch Of The Left Neither See's, Hear's nor Reports Obama Administration Evil
-The name "Eric Holder" is the new Voldemort for the Rachel Maddow Show

I Tivo Rachel Maddow. I occasionally watch this show that never lets facts get in the way of a good story. Rachel Maddow is fundamentally dishonest. She will twist facts, omit context, attack straw-men and use every trick in the book to promote leftist ideas, and in that promote the Obama Administration.

When she opened last night, she reported on fires and explosions, I waited to see how the Republicans were responsible for these, but it never came. She was filling time in order to not report on Eric Holder, The AP scandal, Benghazi, the attack and use of government against political opponents, including the FBI, the Justice Department, the EPA, the IRS and, well I probably left out a few.

Try to imagine a Republican administration with the same scandals going on and Rachel Maddow self censoring on it. Impossible. This propaganda arm of the Obama Administration is clearly afraid of these stories, so afraid, that they cannot even report it to their dedicated low information listeners.

Maddow then unearthed Bob Dole in a long, drawn out story and attempted to make him a current, recent politician in order to compare him dis-favorably with the current Republican party.

Bob Dole? This committed leftist will go to any length to avoid talking about the biggest stories of our day.

Every day MSNBC discredits itself and shows it will ignore creeping tyranny as long as it is coming from the left. When you are already part of the propaganda arm of the left, the prospect of crushing liberty and expanding government is merely a form of job security.