Thread: A media noose for Jeff Sessions

He’s a white son of the South and that’s enough to justify a lynching


Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

By Ken Blackwell - - Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Dishonest media attacks against President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, won’t derail his confirmation. But it’s important to discuss where they come from because not everyone who realizes their origin is comfortable with that conversation.

The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times spent more than a month working on stories that were exclusively about Jeff Sessions and race, to run before Mr. Sessions’ Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Their aim was clear: to try to define Mr. Sessions as a caricature, stepping straight out of the segregated south and into the Department of Justice, ignoring his 20-year career as a United States senator.

There’s only one reason why large news organizations invest so much time, energy and money — they sent reporters to Alabama, each of whom spent a week there — to do these biased stories, and it’s time someone said what it is. The reason is because someone, somewhere, deep down doesn’t believe a white man from Alabama should be the attorney general of the United States.

That’s every bit as racist as saying a black man from Chicago shouldn’t be president of the United States.

The anti-white, anti-southern racist obsession with which media organizations have pursued Mr. Sessions is a sign they have learned nothing from the presidential campaign, where we all witnessed their all-out opposition to Donald Trump. There has been no reflection in editorial board meetings, much less in the newsrooms. If there were any, these stories would provide the public with the full picture they deserve of the man who is likely going to be their next attorney general — the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the country.

That full picture would include multiple endorsements from key African-American leaders, including Gerald Reynolds, former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Sen. Quinton Ross, the Senate Democratic leader in the Alabama State legislature. That full picture would include multiple endorsements from the law enforcement community, which has enthusiastically weighed in to support Mr. Sessions’ nomination. The Fraternal Order of Police, the National Sheriffs Association, the National District Attorneys Association and many others issued endorsements within days (some within hours) of the announcement.

It’s crucial for the attorney general to have an effective working relationship with national, state and local law enforcement. It’s also important for the senators who will be judging Mr. Sessions to know that Americans’ respect for law enforcement is at a 50-year high. This contrasts deeply with the low approval ratings the public consistently registers for Congress.

Additionally, that full picture would include Mr. Sessions’ 20-year career in the U.S. Senate, where he consistently worked with leading Democrats to pass meaningful bills, including landmark legislation that was signed into law by presidents of both political parties.

In 2003 Jeff Sessions and Ted Kennedy — yes, that Ted Kennedy — led the drive to pass the Prison Rape Elimination Act. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

In 2010 Jeff Sessions and Dick Durbin — yes, the same Dick Durbin who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be asking questions of Mr. Sessions — led the drive to pass the Crack Cocaine Fair Sentencing Act. Mr. Sessions actually first introduced that bill in 2001 and never gave up on it over nine years.

He held strategy meetings in his office with organizations such as the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). The bill was signed into law by President Obama and afterward the LCCR issued a news release praising Mr. Sessions and his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

In 2011 conservative Sen. Jeff Sessions and liberal Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut led the drive to pass the Finding Fugitive Sex Offender Act. It also was signed into law by President Obama.

None of these achievements, nor the aforementioned endorsements, were found in either of these stories, each of which were thousands of words long. Jeff Sessions will be the next attorney general despite the national media’s anti-white, anti-southern racism, and the country will be better for it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...jeff-sessions/

Jeff Sessions is a wonderful person who cares about all the people of our country. For anyone to claim otherwise exposes themselves as liars, fakes and frauds.

Ken Blackwell: Media ‘Borking’ Sessions Because He’s Southern ‘White, Conservative, Evangelical’



by DAN RIEHL
5 Jan 2017
Washington, DC
527 comments

Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state and domestic adviser to Trump’s transition team, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday to discuss his recent op-ed on the media’s attacks on Senator Jeff Sessions after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Sessions for attorney general in his incoming administration.

“The Washington Post and L.A. Times spent more than a month working on stories that were exclusively about Senator Sessions and race. Their attempt to define him not by his last twenty years in the Senate, but by the notion that he was white, conservative, evangelical, and from the South meant, in their view, that he could not escape the label of being a racist,” said Blackwell.

“They don’t use facts,” he added. “They don’t use measurable, observable behavior and activity. They, in fact, create this false image of a guy who they would like to bring down because they see him as the tip of the spear of moving us back to a system that respects the rule of law … that respects the Constitution.”

Blackwell said, “This is an all-out political attack. This is an effort to misdefine Jeff Sessions in a way that they can destroy him.”

“This is,” he added, “pure and simple, the borking of Jeff Sessions. They did it to Judge Bork in the eighties, and they’re trying to do it now to Jeff Sessions.”

Blackwell predicted the effort will fail and Sessions will be confirmed.

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/...e-evangelical/

In my opinion, Senator Sessions is a pearl among many swine. They recognize his strength of character and respect for the rule of law and his desire to get immigration under control and operations running properly to catch and deport illegal aliens as well as secure the border. They know he will do the job that hasn't been done for the American people.