The New York Times Runs Fast and Furious Defense for Holder

Attorney General Eric Holder needs to send Charlie Savage at The New York Times a huge box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day. The NYT is the biggest cheerleader for Mr. Holder and this entire administration.

We all know how well I get along with Mr. Savage. His articles are notorious for being incredibly pro-Holder. This one is no different. Actually, it’s very anti-Darrell Issa. There isn’t anything negative about Mr. Holder or the Democrats on the committee. The more I read it I realize it’s not really about the hearing: It’s almost as if Mr. Savage and the Times used it as an excuse to write an article to prop up Mr. Holder. Mr. Savage completely glosses over anything the Republicans brought up.

First off, Mr. Savage, Operation Fast and Furious was not botched. Katie Pavlich at Townhall wrote about it here. It worked exactly the way it was suppose to. It was not botched. It did not fail. If anything, Operation Fast and Furious worked out the exact way it should.

Mr. Savage is right: The Republicans did rip into Mr. Holder, but for good reason. He forgets to mention the reason why the Republicans are so mad. They gave Mr. Holder and the DOJ a subpoena on October 12, 2011 and the department has given them the bare minimum. The department is stonewalling them. They’re mad because the documents were dumped on a Friday night. Again. Mr. Savage only brings up a quote from Representative Burton about Mr. Holder stonewalling them. He could have talked about Mr. Issa’s opening statement about the DOJ not cooperating.

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Instead, Mr. Savage jumps to the ranking Democrat, Representative Elijah Cummings. Of course Savage brings up Mr. Cummings criticizing Issa and the other Republicans. Actually, all of the Democrats mentioned in some way this is a witch hunt. Cummings insists Issa just wants to make this political instead of getting to the truth. Cummings said Issa promotes unsubstantial allegations and wants to escalate controversy. Yes, Issa clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

But as we know from my post on the document dump last Friday Issa does know what he’s talking and Savage doesn’t bring this up. I don’t think Savage read the documents because The New York Times ran the AP article. Well, Mr. Savage, THIS is what the Republicans were talking about.

The Republicans are upset because an email from the document dump is extremely suspicious Savage. They want to know why Holder didn’t know about Fast & Furious until last February when Burke told Wilkinson about it right after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death. But he doesn’t mention the emails from the document dump about Breuer’s trip to Mexico City. I’m going to take a wild guess Savage didn’t read the documents. I’m glad Mr. Savage did bring up the memorandum Issa released before the hearing, which discussed Breuer and Weinstein’s involvement with wiretaps.

But no, Savage returns to his favorite people, the Democrats, and goes on at length about their attacks on Issa. If anything, Savage helped out the Republicans by giving the readers proof the Democrats will do anything to help Holder cover up and Department of Justice involvement in Operation Fast and Furious. It must be nice to live life behind rose colored glasses.