FOX Using Black Panthers Case to Stoke White Fear

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder

Just when you thought FOX News could not get any lower, they prove you wrong. FOX News' audience is 95 percent white and many of their stories play on white fears. John Gibson, a former FOX News contributor, reporting on a story about the nation's changing demographics came out point blank and said that "white people need to have more babies."

The latest story to get white people diving under the beds and reaching for their guns is a claim that the Department of Justice dropped a case involving white voter intimidation. During the 2008 election some members of the New Black Panther party were spotted patrolling election booths to guard against voter intimidation. They were armed with dangerous weapons such as "sticks."

FOX News tried to promote the story, but it disappeared quickly. Now former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams is claiming Attorney General Eric Holder deliberately dropped the case because "voter intimidation cases involving white people were not important."Adams is a self-described conservative who also writes for Pajamas Media, a right-wing web site, so he is not exactly objective. Media Matters also reports that while Adams was with the Justice Department, officials declined to pursue civil rights charges against the Minutemen for intimidating Hispanic voters.

Justice Department officials have described Adams as a "disgruntled employee who distorted the facts." And judging by the many incidents of death row inmates being released due to false testimony, this would definetly not be the first case of a prosecuting attorney embellishing the facts.

There are several things wrong with this story. First of all, any black person who has had a run in with the law knows that the authorities have no problem throwing brothers in jail. Secondly the Justice Department, under the Bush administration, was a hot bed of cronies who were selected based on their loyalty to the president, rather than on their legal ability. In addition, the Bush Justice Department was infamous for not acting on civil rights cases. The Black Panthers in question where guarding a voting booth in a largely black neighborhood, which probably did not attract many white voters. And it is sadly ironic that the Bush administration tried to pursue a voting intimidation case against black people, when there were hundreds of clear cases of voter intimidation in black neighborhoods in the 2000 election.

The Holder Justice Department looked into the case and likely dropped it because they knew there was nothing to it. One of the Black Panthers was an accredited poll watcher and he did not have a weapon in his hand.

Of course that never stops FOX. They have folded this story into their continued narrative about white people being under threat by the encroaching black and brown hordes. Evidently FOX never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. By the way Adams' story has been picked up by Stormfront, white supremacists' favorite online destination.

Witness in GOP Voting Fraud Case Died in Plane Crash

I am a big fan of political thrillers and I love conspiracy shows like "The X-Files," "Fringe" and Jesse Ventura's "Conspriacy Theory." It's easy to dismiss conspiracy theories, but I believe truth is often stranger than fiction. Watergate sounds like a cheap pulp novel, but the fact is it happened. Just last week, a team of GOP operatives, lead by "filmmaker" James O'Keefe, was busted posing as telephone repair men and attempting to bug the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu.

It seems that the Obama administration has agreed to overlook the many crimes of the Bush administration. One of those crimes was allegations of vote rigging in Ohio, which was a critical swing state. Although unemployment was high in 2004, the state still mysteriously voted for Bush. There were many complaints of faulty voting machines in black neighborhoods, and electronic votes dissapearing. Here are some facts:


Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, who was in charge of verifying votes in the state, was a member of the Bush campaign. He also gave a $100 million contract to Diebold to supply voting machines.

• Diebold was also a major campaign donor to Bush. Blackwell also had shares in Diebelold when he awarded them the contract, which is a major conflict of interest.
• Blackwell also hired Mike Connell, a GOP IT guru, who had a long history with the Bush family, to set up a state web site that provided election information. Connell's company GovTech, received a contract from Blackwell.

Blackwell is facing several lawsuits involving his actions in the 2004 Ohio elections. Connell was subpoened to testify in a case involving election tampering, but he died in a December 2008 plane crash, before he could appear in court. (Convenient don't you think?) Before his death, Connell said that his life was being threatened and his family has called for an investigation. There is an article in the February issue of Maxim, which details the mystery surrounding the death of Mike Connell, and his connection to the Ohio election.

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