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Fox & Friends Beyond Outraged at Holder: He’s ‘Tougher on Fox’ Than on ISIS
Mediaite ^ | February 18, 2015 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 02/18/2015 5:09:45 AM PST by maggief

Attorney General Eric Holder called out Fox News yesterday for fixating on the Obama’s administraton’s terminology for ISIS. “If Fox didn’t talk about this, they would have nothing else to talk about, it seems to me,” said at the National Press Club.

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“They want to kill us and yet the Attorney General, chief law enforcement officer for the United States of America, is bugged by the fact that Fox brings up the accurate point they are Islamic extremists, let’s call it Islamic extremism,” Steve Doocy said. “Obviously this administration talks tougher about Fox News than they do about ISIS, which, that’s sad.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: daesh; ericholder; isil; isis; media
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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/02/18/eric-holder-annoyed-fox-news-is-calling-islamic-terrorism-islamic-n1958692

"We spend more time, more time, talking about what you call it, as opposed to what to do about it. You know? I mean really. If Fox didn't talk about this they'd have nothing else to talk about," Holder said. "You know, radical Islam, Islamic extremism, you know, um, I'm not sure an awful lot is gained by saying it."

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/17/eric-holder-were-not-at-a-time-of-war/

The attorney general was making a broader point about the need for reporters to consider whether publishing sensitive information might undercut American national security.

“I’ll use an extreme example, perhaps unfair. In World War II, if a reporter had found out about the existence of the Manhattan Project, is that something that should have been disclosed? Now we’re not at a time of war, I understand, and I said, it’s an extreme example. But I think there is a question that members of the press should ask, about whether or not the disclosure of the information has a negative impact on the national security of the nation,” Holder said.

1 posted on 02/18/2015 5:09:45 AM PST by maggief
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2 posted on 02/18/2015 5:12:23 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: maggief

“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”-—Barack Obama


3 posted on 02/18/2015 5:13:49 AM PST by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: maggief
“I’ll use an extreme example, perhaps unfair. In World War II, if a reporter had found out about the existence of the Manhattan Project, is that something that should have been disclosed? Now we’re not at a time of war, I understand, and I said, it’s an extreme example. But I think there is a question that members of the press should ask, about whether or not the disclosure of the information has a negative impact on the national security of the nation,” Holder said.

Whaaaaaat???

So, journalists are blowing some big, national-security secret by pointing out that ISIS is Islamic?

What on Earth do we gain, national-security-wise, by not pointing out the obvious?

4 posted on 02/18/2015 5:17:59 AM PST by Washi
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To: Travis McGee

And none dare call it treason.


5 posted on 02/18/2015 5:18:31 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: maggief

Yeah, right. And the fact that ISIL is an Islamic and terrorist entity is Top Secret.


6 posted on 02/18/2015 5:19:27 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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Holder has a special spot in his heart for terrorists. Remember during the administration of the impeached former president clinton, he advocated at the end, to have FALN terrorists pardoned. After his service to that administration, Holder’s law firm represented terrorists in US courts.

Holder simply sees ISIS as likely clients and he’s demonstrating his willingness to support them against Americans.


7 posted on 02/18/2015 5:20:29 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: maggief

What does H0lder call F&F Gun Running?


8 posted on 02/18/2015 5:22:16 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: maggief

The population perceives that there is no de facto national security. National security has been waived by the Obama administration and replaced with touchy feely moonbat coexist bull crap.

It all boils down to the administration racist policy of unity. If the administration succombs to reality and splits out the radical islamists, it is admitting Islam is not a homogeneous population. No such admission can be made because it is very very dangerous. ( I don’t know why Free Republic dogma fails to realize there is no Islamic homogeneity)

The whole core being of the administration is based on the assumption there is a Black Community. All action are made to preserve the concept of unity. That is, the black thug killed in Miami and the black thug killed in Ferguson are no different than the black ladies wearing the big hats in church on Sunday or the Norton woman that pretends to be in Congress.

There is no black community. Rather, the black population like all other segments is composed of several, even many sub groupings having little if any commonality. The leaders of the black community can not tolerate that fact.


9 posted on 02/18/2015 5:24:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Holder has a special spot in his heart for terrorists. Remember during the administration of the impeached former president clinton, he advocated at the end, to have FALN terrorists pardoned. After his service to that administration, Holder’s law firm represented terrorists in US courts. Holder simply sees ISIS as likely clients and he’s demonstrating his willingness to support them against Americans.

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Does any sane person still pay attention to what Attorney General Holder has to say about anything? I don't think so.

For instance, if Attorney General Holder told me it was raining outside, I would get up from my seat to double-check to make sure he was telling me the truth. What a sad person.

10 posted on 02/18/2015 5:34:12 AM PST by john mirse
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“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”-—Barack Obama

*******

Huh? Has Obama lost his mind? I wonder what Obama calls the unconditional surrender of the Germans at the end of World War II. Does he call it "the end to a simple disagreement among nations"? What an idiot.

11 posted on 02/18/2015 5:42:05 AM PST by john mirse
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The quips about FOX News only shows how much they’re get tinder his (and Obama’s) thin skin.


12 posted on 02/18/2015 5:55:49 AM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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Well you see, the Nazis didn't have good enough jobs and stuff and they were just feeling discriminated against because their economy was in the crapper.

If we'd paid them lots of money and reasoned with them and let lots of them move here undocumented and marry American women and make babies who were going to grow up to be like them, here, there wouldn't have been a war. It was our fault in the first place.

See?

13 posted on 02/18/2015 5:57:51 AM PST by OKSooner ("...for if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Holder is a Commie bastard going back to his sit in days in College. He toned down his radical activities to sneak in under the tent.

He is at Bambi’s side in the mind set and actions of a peaceful overthrow of our System on Government.

Eric Holder is Scum. He has spent more time on Bashing and wire tapping Fox News than protecting American Citizens from Terrorist Threats.


14 posted on 02/18/2015 6:13:13 AM PST by VRWCarea51
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To: john mirse

In addition, the Japanese emperor did not sign the surrender.


15 posted on 02/18/2015 6:18:52 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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“In addition, the Japanese emperor did not sign the surrender.”

Very true. The surrender was signed by his underlings on the Battleship Missouri. Hirohito was allowed by McArthur to stay away and not be humiliated by signing the documents himself.

Another example of this president not knowing, understanding or caring to understand the history of the nation he was elected to lead.

Of course 95% of the people who elected him don’t know, or respect, the history of the nation either.


16 posted on 02/18/2015 6:26:16 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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Using the term “Islamic Terrorists” over and over again is akin to the way the Clinton’s did/and still do, throw “sh&t” against the wall enough times and it will stick. A page out of the demodummies own playbook and Holder is mad about it? I definitely works to repeat it over and over so every real American should be repeating it.


17 posted on 02/18/2015 6:48:25 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
[snip] Holder said. "You know, radical Islam, Islamic extremism, you know, um, I'm not sure an awful lot is gained by saying it." [/snip]

18 posted on 02/18/2015 11:31:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: maggief

here’s the full video clip

4:53 Minutes
Don’t Believe The Hype - AG: Fox News Hype To Point Out Radical Islam - Rise Of Islamic Extremism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVpNGWD2bw


19 posted on 02/18/2015 12:35:59 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Washi

FDR had a problem naming the “Axis Powers the enemy, didn’t he?

P*$$ poor example, no matter how Holder wants to slice it.


20 posted on 02/18/2015 12:39:42 PM PST by EDINVA
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