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- For a few hours last week, Eric Holder could breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, it wasn’t the attorney general but another African American government official whom right-wingers were smearing with allegations of reverse racism.
But Andrew Breitbart and other conservative troublemakers’ efforts to turn Shirley Sherrod into Angela Davis proved so ludicrously unfair that they only wound up enhancing Sherrod’s reputation; even long-time conservative commentator Peggy Noonan is now holding up the once-obscure Department of Agriculture official as an icon of racial reconciliation. So it wasn’t long before Breitbart et al turned their attentions away from Sherrod and back to Holder, their favorite target in the Obama administration for any racially charged critique. In reality, the case against Holder is just as thin (if not thinner) than the one against Sherrod. But, if you watch enough Fox News, you might think Holder has officially changed his name to Malik Zulu Shabazz.
