Eric Holder must know by now that his days are numbered. It is not because the Republicans in the House are deciding if Holder committed perjury. That is old hat. Holder was already held in contempt of Congress when he misled the House in connection with the Fast and Furious investigation (remember that?). No, the reason for this new realization is that the mainstream media (which has been part of the Obama political operation) is no longer going to accept Holder's spinning the facts. If Holder wants to take a position or "explain" what happened, he is going to have to do that on the record in front of the American people.
Just yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that as part of the "investigation" of the subpoenas issued that allowed DOJ to go through thousands of phone records for the AP and to secretly search through the email, phone records and other confidential data of James Rosen and Fox News, Holder was going to have an off the record meeting with key members of the media. This was to be another of those sessions, famous in Washington, where a "high government official" give the Obama story but without attribution. In other words, the Obama administration tells the media what to print and they do so without ever having an identifiable source. These meetings are a great way to spin a story without ever having to justify the spin.
The response to the DOJ announcement, however, has been overwhelming. So far, the New York Times, CNN, the AP, and others have refused to attend the meeting. Only Politico and possibly the Washington head of al Jazeera have accepted. This conduct was so confusing to the Obamacrats that their official spokesman actually tweeted that the reporters had given up any right to complain about what had happened since they would not come to the meeting. Putting that in proper context, it is the same as telling a rape victim that she could not press charges because she refused to go to a private meeting with the guy who raped her.
Certainly, these events are not the end of the love affair between the mainstream media and Obama. They are, however, a clear signal that when the Obama administration takes on the media and the First Amendment, it will not get support even from its allies in the mainstream media. Those allies realize that they are the targets of this action and they are not going to cooperate in that attack. It is also a clear signal to the president's political advisors that the dam is starting to break. If they do not act fast, that dam could actually collapse and the full weight of the mainstream media could come down on Obama because of the IRS and Benghazi scandals as well as what the DOJ did. Such a turn of events would be the end of the administration. No, Obama would not be out of office, but he would lose any chance to accomplish any goal moving forward. He would be a defeated and discarded president. He could still play golf, but he would go down in history as just another Warren Harding brought low by scandals.
Holder will be gone soon.
Just yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that as part of the "investigation" of the subpoenas issued that allowed DOJ to go through thousands of phone records for the AP and to secretly search through the email, phone records and other confidential data of James Rosen and Fox News, Holder was going to have an off the record meeting with key members of the media. This was to be another of those sessions, famous in Washington, where a "high government official" give the Obama story but without attribution. In other words, the Obama administration tells the media what to print and they do so without ever having an identifiable source. These meetings are a great way to spin a story without ever having to justify the spin.
The response to the DOJ announcement, however, has been overwhelming. So far, the New York Times, CNN, the AP, and others have refused to attend the meeting. Only Politico and possibly the Washington head of al Jazeera have accepted. This conduct was so confusing to the Obamacrats that their official spokesman actually tweeted that the reporters had given up any right to complain about what had happened since they would not come to the meeting. Putting that in proper context, it is the same as telling a rape victim that she could not press charges because she refused to go to a private meeting with the guy who raped her.
Certainly, these events are not the end of the love affair between the mainstream media and Obama. They are, however, a clear signal that when the Obama administration takes on the media and the First Amendment, it will not get support even from its allies in the mainstream media. Those allies realize that they are the targets of this action and they are not going to cooperate in that attack. It is also a clear signal to the president's political advisors that the dam is starting to break. If they do not act fast, that dam could actually collapse and the full weight of the mainstream media could come down on Obama because of the IRS and Benghazi scandals as well as what the DOJ did. Such a turn of events would be the end of the administration. No, Obama would not be out of office, but he would lose any chance to accomplish any goal moving forward. He would be a defeated and discarded president. He could still play golf, but he would go down in history as just another Warren Harding brought low by scandals.
Holder will be gone soon.
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