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SESSIONS’ ATTORNEY GENERAL CONFIRMATION MESSAGE: I’M NOT A RACIST

 December 18, 2016  admin  76 Comments  POLITICS,

(Politico) — Jeff Sessions took a surprise trip to South Carolina this week at the behest of the Senate’s only black Republican. His allies talk up how Sessions locked arms with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. And the senator, in a lengthy nominee questionnaire delivered this month, practically depicts himself as a civil rights hero.

When the Senate takes up President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the nation’s next top law enforcement official in January, allegations of racism that have dogged Sessions for three decades running are certain to be his biggest liability. So he and his allies have mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to refashion Sessions’ image.

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The core message: The charges that sank Sessions’ bid to become a federal judge in 1986 don’t represent who Sessions is now, or even who he was at the time. Delivering it is a lineup of prominent black leaders and others with personal ties to Sessions enlisted by Trump’s transition team.

“He knows all of my brothers and sisters,” said one of the character witnesses, William Huntley, who worked under Sessions in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. Huntley, now a lawyer in Mobile, Ala., said in an interview that he’s never encountered racial insensitivity from Sessions in the three decades they’ve known each other.

“He came to the hospital when my first child was born,” Huntley said. “He has come to birthday parties at my house.”

Liberal outside groups are unmoved. Alarmed by what they view as a weak legislative record on voting issues, gay rights and immigration policy, Sessions’ opponents are trying to litigate a broader case against him rather than focus solely on the racism questions…

Sessions, who appeared with Trump at a rally in Alabama on Saturday, has forcefully denied accusations of racism ever since they prompted the GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee to reject him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. During the lengthy testimony, senators heard from a former black deputy to Sessions that Sessions once told him to “be careful what you say to white folks” and that Sessions [joked] he was fine with the Ku Klux Klan until he found out its members used marijuana…

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Obama Gets Free Pass On Many Lies, Yet Carson Is Grilled Over Minutia.

Nit-picking Carson’s past, but not Obama’s

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Personal Liberty News Desk

When they weren’t busy fretting over how Donald Trump’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” would turn out, the mainstream media spent most of the weekend dissecting the nuances of Ben Carson’s personal story.

Did he really have an epiphany that helped steer him away from violence and poverty? Was he really even a “bad” kid? Was he really offered a scholarship to West Point? Did he really even say, in so many words, that Gen. William Westmoreland ever offered him one?

One thing’s for sure: If the answers to these not-so-burning questions are never known, it won’t be for a lack of probing. And that’s something that can’t be said for President Barack Obama, who has fabricated, embellished or given conflicting accounts of significant portions of his own personal narrative. Seven years into his presidency, there’s much about the man we don’t know — and that the media, so assiduous in parsing Carson’s past, has enthusiastically avoided finding out.

“What are cases in the past when President Obama misstated points about his biography, but the media did not cause a national firestorm or characterize him as a pathological liar?” Independent Journal’s Kyle Becker asked Sunday.

Becker surfed the Internet and came up with nine examples. He elaborates on each one at the link, but we’ll just bullet-point them and leave you with a question: How many more can you name?

The list:

1. “Obama’s Staff Corrects WWII Story” (New York Times)
2. Selma Birth Connection (Independent Journal)
3. “Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father” (Washington Post)
4. “Tale of British brutality toward Barack Obama’s grandfather probably untrue, book claims” (The Telegraph)
5. The heroic story of Obama’s step-grandfather dying while fighting the Dutch is untrue (New York Times)
6. “Obama Lied About Mother’s Health Insurance Problem” (Commentary)
7. Obama makes white Occidental College classmate “Regina” into African-American aka “composite girlfriend” (Washington Times)
8. President Obama’s “improbable love” narrative (Jack Cashill)
9. Obama and his mother not “abandoned” by father in 1963 (Buzzfeed)

Note Obama’s piece of damage control for item No. 6: the made-up story about his mother’s health insurance.

“In response to inquiries, ‘a White House spokesman chose not to dispute either Ms. Scott’s account or Mr. Obama’s memory, while arguing that Mr. Obama’s broader point remained salient.'”

But of course it did.

For the left, the end always justifies the means.