But Williams, who has often come across as FOX's lukewarm "liberal," gave a pretty good account of why the much-hyped New Black Panthers story is not a story. He shredded the credibility of J. Christian Adams, the former Justice Department official, who is making the rounds talking about the case -- even though all of his evidence is hearsay and he never actually participated in the case.
Williams also points out that Adams is trying to deflect attention from the fact that under George W. Bush, the Justice Department did a lousy job of prosecuting Civil Rights cases. Bush seemed to stock the Civil Rights division with people who were hostile to minorities and did not even believe in the cases they were supposed to prosecute.
This story is BS and FOX knows it. But this is not journalism, but then again neither is FOX News. This is a cable-mounted smear campaign. And like any good smear campaign, it doesn't need to true, all it needs to do is make your opponent look bad. Unfortunately FOX's audience believes everything that runs on the network is the gospel truth!
