Loretta Lynch is our first black female U.S. attorney general, and there’s a reasonably good chance that she will also be our worst black female U.S. attorney general, because, frankly, you’d have to go pretty far to be more of a witless hack than poor Loretta, who simply can’t tell the difference between the Obama Administration’s partisan agenda and “justice”. Because if it wasn’t just we wouldn’t be in favor of it, right?
Loretta’s most recent, if not most egregious, intellectual pratfall came with the release of the transcripts of Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen’s 911 calls made while he was slaughtering dozens of hapless gays, carefully redacted to prevent anyone from knowing that Mateen was, well, you know, a “radical Islamist” who praised both Allah and ISIS as he went about his murders. Letting people know what Mateen actually said, “explained” Lynch, would be wrong: “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda.”
Politico’s Jack Shafer administers the beatdown that Lynch’s mealy-mouthed hypocrisy so richly deserves:
“when and how did Lynch acquire a duty to protect the public from what she considers “propaganda”? What business is it of hers or the Justice Department’s what political thoughts my ears are exposed to? And where exactly will her powers stop? Magazines and Web sites that espouse jihad exist already. What would we say if Lynch attempted to ban or edit those, too?”
It’s a good bet that this exercise in mind control was prompted by the president’s long-running “we luv Islam!” campaign, which pushes the meme that “if it’s bad, it’s not Islam,” which unfortunately is not always the case. This shtick, which clearly rubs me the wrong way, is most likely undertaken to please our good pals the Saudis, whose own brand of Islam is noxiously anti-Semitic and has been spread throughout the Moslem world via hundreds of billions of petro-dollars—the Saudi’s way of buying friends on the Islamic Right.
Afterwords
Let me hasten to add that Loretta is far from the worst attorney general we’ve ever had. She is, after all, a law-abiding citizen, as far as I can tell, unlike John “Jailbird” Mitchell and Bobby “Make a deal with the Mafia to assassinate Castro” Kennedy, nor a high-end smoothie like Eric Holder, who could turn the sharpest of political corners without losing his balance yet knew what the law was and frequently attempted to follow it when others wouldn’t—for example, by insisting on trying accused terrorists in the civilian court system. But Loretta simply doesn’t know what the law is. She only knows what’s “right”—what’s politically correct—regardless of the law.
