Joseph Farah used his July 8 WorldNetDaily column to promote the dubious and unsubstantiated claims of J. Christian Adams that the Obama administration “dropped the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party because Obama’s Justice Department refuses to prosecute black defendants accused of victimizing whites.” Farah adds: “It’s a shocking case – given the overwhelming evidence against the radical, revolutionary racists in the center of it.”
What Farah won’t tell you: the Bush administration — not the Obama administration — declined to press criminal charges against the New Black Panthers, and Adams has no firsthand knowledge of the claims he’s making.
Nevertheless, Farah goes on to whine: “Think about this: The Obama Justice Department refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party. The Obama Justice Department has refused to prosecute ACORN. But the Obama Justice Department is prosecuting the state of Arizona for enforcing U.S. laws against illegal immigration!”
Farah was joined in promoting Adams’ bogus claims by Erik Rush, who ranted:
To American progressives and the establishment press (which has been complicit in every seditious machination devised by Barack Obama and his minions) the contention that our president and this administration are racists is practically incomprehensible – but that is precisely where I am going. Although it still eludes those who are either dedicated Obamanoids or profoundly dim, our president’s antiwhite, anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-Semitic sentiments have been painfully evident for some time. The New Black Panther Party case is just the cherry on the topping.
[…]This retrograde, black-nationalist comportment is the worst sort of policy held to by an administration since the days of segregation.
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In short, it is abject racism.The long and short? We’re stuck with a racist president. Well, we’ve survived those before; it’s Obama’s intention to transform our nation into a cross between China and Venezuela that I’m more concerned about.
Of course, the Obama administration isn’t the one playing the racism card since they weren’t the ones who declined to prosecute the case. But nobody ever said that Farah and Rush care about telling the truth.