Why are Megan Kelly and her associates still defending these lies?
For weeks now, Megyn Kelly has been suggesting that scary black men with billyclubs are on their way to a voting booth near you, thanks to the racial favoritism of the Obama Justice Department supposedly at the heart of their decision not to prosecute a small band of fringe African American activists. Yet two days after Kelly had a prima donna meltdown on the air when a Fox News colleague, Democrat Kirsten Powers, challenged the significance of the story, there was almost no discussion about it on Kelly’s America Live show yesterday (7/15/10).
Kelly did take time out to visit the O’Reilly Factor last night but the discussion was more about media coverage – i.e. attacking the so-called "liberal media" for not seeing the "importance" of the story – than it was about the supposedly earthshaking accusations of a GOP activist that Kelly dubbed a "whistleblower."
In other words, on the same day that Kelly turned the temperature way down on her own coverage of the case, she and Bill O’Reilly complained that other media should be ramping it up. Was there absolutely nothing new in the "explosive" story of black radicals threatening the integrity of our voting system that Kelly had trumpeted so many times an hour on so many previous shows? Or was she feeling the heat of the spotlight that Fox News Democrat Kirsten Powers shone on her "news" agenda?
Meanwhile, if Kelly truly thinks the story is so important, why hasn’t she expanded her coverage to examine the larger picture of voter crimes prosecuted by the Department of Justice? Why hasn’t she investigated just how big a problem black intimidation of white voters is? Why hasn’t she showed any interest in any cases of voter intimidation against AFrican [sic] Americans?… [emphasis added]
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While this article points out the hypocrisy of the GOP Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, it misses a couple key points. First, the DOJ decided not to prosecute these individuals while Bush was still in office. Obama had nothing to do with it. Also, I saw Keith Olbermann comment the other night that the NBPP has only three members. It may be slightly more than that, but the group is tiny. The real Black Panther Party disavows them completely. You can be certain that voter intimidation by the NBPP is moot. Republican intimidation of minority voters, however, is another matter.
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I read on Huff Po yesterday that they had 95 segments on this false accusation totally something like 5 hours. If this is such a BFD, show us some tape of this actually occurring – oh, that’s right, you have none, BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
Lisa, don’t actually lnow whether it happened or not, just that no voters claimed intimidation.
Hi Tom,
Me again. Is Megan Kelly the really smart one? There is one on Fox that is actually smart and they probably shop her around all over.
I wish Phil Donahue was still around.
The pundits are all flash and no class. Hey hey hey!
Jason, I’m not sure Faux Noise has a really smart one, but Megan is the one whose principal cerebral attribute is not cleavage.
If memory serves, MSNBC dumped Phil in 2003, because he told the truth about GW’s war for oil and conquest.
That’s funny that you would claim the Obama admin didn’t play a role in it and that it was Bush’s admin who decided to drop the case. Because according to these court documents that’s absolutely false.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6439885/Black-Panthers—Notice-of-Dismissal-Doc-17
Notice of Dismissal file 5/15/2009, pretty sure Obama was around then… Oh and look who is the acting assistant attorney general, Loretta King, an Obama appointee! The person who has been directly accused of pushing for the dismissal on the basis of race! But no, of course it was all Bush! People would have to be dumb as a box of rocks to believe your garbage.
Bonny, I normally welcome new people here, but because of your rude insult, I’ll make an exception. We treat each other with civility here. If that’s too great a challenge for you, your next comment will be your last here. If you can live with mutual respect, you are welcome to share your views.
Your document is accurate, but what you may not know is that there were two separate investigations. The original investigation stemmed from a complaint by a Republican poll watcher. It was dismissed while Bush was still president. That is the investigation to which Kelly referred. The DOJ under Obama opened a second investigation of their own accord, and later dismissed it for lack of evidence. The Notice of Dismissal in your link closed the second investigation. Before you accuse someone of posting garbage, it might behoove you to get your facts straight.
And the lovely air head Megan continues her attack. Why isn’t she being lambasted by other news sources.
Oh I for got ..No Balls..
Tim, the MSM has a conservative agenda all their own.