“We’ve been hearing this for six years suggesting that there’s race behind everything. No. No. There’s really not.”
“Because of racism, that’s what — I mean, Holder, that’s what he suggested yesterday, right? He’s right; absolutely no Attorney General has been held in such contempt as this before — unless of course you’re talking about Janet Reno who was accused of murder by Republicans after Waco.”
For over seven minutes on Thursday’s Morning Joe program, host Joe Scarborough took apart Eric Holder’s contention that he and President Obama are treated poorly because they are African-American.
The segment began with clips of the argument Attorney General Holder had with Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) during a congressional hearing on Tuesday, and a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network where Holder said, “What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?”
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