Posted on 05/31/2013 2:33:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sean Higgins thinks this Washington Post " report " on Eric Holder's widely-boycotted confab with journalists is "beyond parody." Yeah, pretty much:
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists’ First Amendment rights. Holder’s commitment came at a private meeting with news executives after criticism that the Justice Department had infringed on the news media in several high-profile leak investigations. Participants said he told them officials would revise guidelines for issuing subpoenas to obtain reporters’ phone records. The 90-minute meeting was attended by a small group of journalists after several news organizations objected to the Justice Department’s insistence that it be held off the record. The participants, however, reached an agreement with the Justice Department under which they could describe what occurred during the meeting in general terms ...
Eric Holder pledged to take "concrete steps" to address the actions of Eric Holder -- up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder's ability to abuse Eric Holder's power. What a guy. Direct quotes would be priceless here, but those weren't allowed, of course. Instead, the DOJ very magnanimously permitted reporters to offer "general" accounts of what was discussed. There's more:
Holder and aides “ completely endorsed the president’s statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job,” said Martin Baron, The Washington Post’s executive editor, who was among the participants. “They acknowledged the need for changes in their own guidelines and the need to have a more rigorous internal review.”
Reassuringly, Eric Holder has "completely endorsed" a principle that Eric Holder has already explicitly violated. How many times has Eric Holder done so? Eric Holder can't quite say . Click through to witness the pitiful spectacle of journalists quoting each other and vaguely discussing a meeting they've been barred from describing in any detail. Finally, for good measure:
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
Perfect.
UPDATE - Eric Holder has decided to "loosen" the rules regarding what attending journalists are allowed to report. The contents of today's meetings are "largely" permitted for publication, whatever that means.
[[Not Satire: WaPo’s Surreal Report on Holder’s Off-the-Record “Press Freedom” Meeting]]
A press freedom meeting where the press is NOT free to discuss what went on in the meeting- unreal-
FYI
Imagine if Reagan pulled this : )
Key point here is semantics. Namely, what is the "job" of a reporter? Obama, Holder, and the Democrats believe job of the media is to advance the leftist agenda. What they are saying, in libspeak, is, "We won't punish you so long as you agree with us and make us look good."
Liberals use code words so that they mean the opposite of what theynappear to be saying.
“...officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists’ First Amendment rights.”
“Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...”
How do you craft a procedure or right a law any clearer than this???
Holder is a self-serving d-bag who - by his own words - reveals himself to be wholly unqualified to serve as he does.
place keeper to read later.....
agreed - his face practically oozes douchiness
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Let's give him some concrete shoes, and set him down at the bottom of Chesapeake bay to take some steps!
Precisely!
Considering who attended, I am guessing it went like this:
“Geez, guys - we gotta come up with some crap the public will believe - anybody have any ideas?”
Well alrighty then...
Cute.
Reassuringly, Eric Holder told the truncated media gathering, that he has "completely endorsed" a principle that Eric Holder has already explicitly violated. How many times has Eric Holder done so? Eric Holder can't quite say. Finally, for good measure: Jarrett ordered a Justice Department spokeswoman not to comment.
Figures.
THIS JUST IN Jarrett told Holder to "loosen" the rules regarding what attending journalists are allowed to report from the chit-chat. The contents are now "largely" permitted for publication, whatever that means.
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CONCLUSION---you just witnessed the diseased deranged minds of the (gag) WH progressives.
Holder is the real boss. If he goes anywhere, he’ll be replaced by a capo.
Holder will strongly word a ‘stickey note’ to Holder ,himself ,advising him to allow (for now) freedom of the Press, until this all blows over.
The stickey note will demand a response... which Holder will then ignore !
after all , he knows that the LibTurd media have the memory of a gnat !
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