Bagger on why Holder is most anti-gun AG ever: 'I don't have all the facts, but I know that he is.'

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_10/026336.php

'THIS IS THE WORLD THAT FOX NEWS HAS CREATED'.... If you missed "The Rachel Maddow Show" reporting from Alaska last night, the episode was chock full of interesting content. There was one fairly brief segment, however, that stood out for me.

Rachel chatted with some Joe Miller supporters campaigning on a street corner, but before she could walk away, the activists wanted to emphasize that they resent Sen. Lisa Murkowski for being one of 19 Republicans to vote to confirm Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General. Rachel asked why that was a bad thing. That's when it got amusing.

One young man insisted that Holder is "the most anti-gun attorney general this nation has ever had." When Rachel asked how he arrived at this, he had absolutely no idea why he believes what he believes. He referenced Holder's "voting record beforehand," which made no sense, since Holder has never held elected office. Asked what it was, exactly, that Holder did on gun policy he didn't like, the Miller supporter -- who, remember, feels so strongly about this issue that he brought it up -- replied, "I, uh, I honestly, uh, I don't know enough about him to answer that truthfully."

So, Rachel moved to the next voter who's mad about Holder, and who also brought up the subject. "He's anti-gun," the woman said. Asked what he'd done that's anti-gun, the Miller support replied, "I don't have all the facts, but I know that he is."

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. faith based opinions - - - sigh.

[Alexander]

2. Yeah, a similar thing happened when I was smacking down a Repub co-worker.

He's all "We've got to get spending under control, and Obama isn't doing that".

I retorted with "Well, it was Bush who spent us into the worst deficit in history, Obama who cut that deficit in his very first budget, and Clinton who gave us the only surplus we've had in the past 40 years".

"Oh, and by the way, who gave us the worst deficits ever before Bush Jr.? Reagan and Bush Sr."

The only thing he could say was "Well, uh, you obviously know more about this stuff than I do..."

[Bitwit1234]

3. I think he is anti every thing that way he doesn't have to do anything