Megyn Kelly Upset That No Criminal Prosecutors Will Be At Polls: Justice Department ‘Leans Left’
Megyn Kelly Upset That No Criminal Prosecutors Will Be At Polls: Justice Department ‘Leans Left’
Late last month, the Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page wrote that the Justice Department had “recently decided to reverse a policy in place since 2002 to send criminal attorneys and other federal employees to monitor polling places.” The next day, Fox News host Megyn Kelly, picked up the story, questioning whether it was “legal” because some lawyers in the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division have donated money to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).
In an interview on Dennis Miller’s radio show today, Kelly, who is a lawyer, called it “the most amazing lawyer story coming out of election ‘08.” Echoing House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Kelly also asserted that President Bush’s Justice Department “leans left”:
KELLY: But, I’ll tell you what I think, so far is the most amazing lawyer story coming out of election ‘08 and that is the Department of Justice, which normally sends not just poll observers, but also criminal prosecutors to certain battleground key polling areas. Just in case there’s nonsense, right?
MILLER: Mmm hmm.
KELLY: Met with this liberal group of activists and two weeks later — and the Department of Justice, you may or may not know, leans left — made a decision after meeting with these liberals not to send those criminal prosecutors now. So, if there’s some sort of criminal behavior at the polls, good luck trying to find a prosecutor to complain to.
MILLER: That is unbelievable.
Listen here:
Kelly is referring to a September decision by the Department of Justice to no longer station criminal prosecutors at polling places on election day. The policy, put in place when John Ashcroft was attorney general, raised alarm bells both inside and outside the Voting Rights Section “because few assistant United States attorneys have much familiarity with the laws protecting voter access.” As Jeffrey Toobin reported for the New Yorker:
A lot of assistant U.S. attorneys are going to be more interested in voting integrity than in voter protection,” Jon Greenbaum, a lawyer who recently left the Voting Section, after nearly seven years, to join the progressive Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told me. “How many people are scared off from voting because you ask them a question at a polling place? There is no way to know.” As another civil-rights lawyer puts it, “Voting is kind of an irrational act anyway. It’s easy to discourage people from doing it.”
If there is the “criminal behavior” at the polls that Kelly is so worried about, there will be plenty of resources for voters. Republicans and Democrats are deploying thousands of lawyers across the country to monitor the polls. Both the Justice Department and the Election Protection Coalition have also set up hotlines to help voters.
Despite right-wing hyperbole, there has been very little “nonsense” by fraudulently registered voters trying to cast ballots. In 2007, the New York Times reported that after a five-year effort by the Bush administration to crack down on supposedly widespread voter fraud, just 86 people were convicted. The Justice Department isn’t leaning left; it just finally has some common sense.
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Megyn Kelly sez: “the Department of Justice, you may or may not know, leans left”
Dayum. You mean BushCo got into all that trouble for politicizing the DoJ, but they politicized it the wrong way?
That’s some serious stupid, there.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pmYou want to send criminal prosecutors somewhere on election day you bleached barbie bimbo?,…send them to Diebold..
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pmThe Justice Department? The Bushco Justice Department? The Justice Department that was run by Ashcroft and Gonzales, and is now run by Mukasey? THAT Justice Department? And you think it “leans left”?
What in the world have you been smoking, Megyn?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pmToo bad her bust size is larger than her IQ…
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pmNUTS!!!!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pmThe Justice Dept leans left? Oh, so that’s why they fired those attnys? Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone on faux says something else.
If the Jusice Dept leaned left wouldn’t alot more republicans be in prison, including but not limited to bush, cheney rumsfeld, gonzo, rove,addison, rice, etc.
So that’s where ‘it’s all the democrats’ fault’ comes from: thin air.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmThe DOJ leans left. Wow. That comment opens up a whole new can of stupid. I’m sure her evidence is the simple fact that all of us aren’t in concentration camps somewhere.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmcaption:
“Hey, Joe the Plumber, and all you other hunka-joes out there, come see me at the Foxxxy Pundit after the election! I’m the new keyboard player, and I’ll tell you anything and everything you want to hear…”
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pmFor all the shit that they endlessly claim lean left, I am forced to wonder why the right sucks at so many things that everything seems to lean left. Just what are these people good at? If all the bs about left leaning media, entertainment, education, labor, justice and on and on is true, why are these folks always being out competed? What gives?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pmNo, gum, it’s self-evident. Anyone can see that the Justice Department leans left. So does NASA. And Transportation. And Weights and Measures. In fact, it’s pretty clear that even those people who decide when Daylight Savings Time ends, those bastids are in the tank for Obama too.
It’s a damn librul conspiracy, I tell ya.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pmWell, the Justice Dept. has been tilted so far to the right under Bush that anyone working there would HAVE to lean to the left just to keep from falling over… they call getting your ‘poliSea legs’ down there…
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pmHey Megyn, did you know that McCain sleeps with little boys, sends AK’s to terrorists, and prays to Satan?
Hell, if all you have to do is make sh!t up, this fear and smear thing is easy.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pmIf there is the “criminal behavior” at the polls that Kelly is so worried about, there will be plenty of resources for voters.
– - Kelly is making a mountain out of a mole hill, an oak out of an acorn.
Oh, wait….
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pmThe right wing is in spontaneous combustion mode. They are floundering in the cesspool of their own making; wallowing in the rancid, decaying corpse of conservative republicanism. Flailing away at some unseen, imaginary communist/terrorist/leftist/anti-Christ; in their sick demented minds they project misguided scorn at others in a pathetic attempt to displace the shame they feel about their own failures and shortcomings.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pmwell, if Boner and Bimbo say the DoJ leans left, then it must be true!
never liked Miller.
p.s. what do you call a Boner that leans right?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pmAnswer – Peyronie’s disease!
KELLY: Met with this liberal group of activists and two weeks later — and the Department of Justice, you may or may not know, leans left [HA!] — made a decision after meeting with these liberals not to send those criminal prosecutors now.
who? when? how? why?
WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?
what happened, specifically???
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 pmLeans Left? Horse Hockey! I contacted them three different issues and only once got a reply. Below are my concerns.
1. The White House Lessons Learned report after Hurricane Katrina omitted the hospital with the highest patient death toll. The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare weeks before landfall. LifeCare rented space from Tenet Healthcare. Jeb Bush joined the Tenet board of directors not long ago. No response.
2. The Carlyle Group purchased ManorCare, a huge nursing home company. If Carlyle could fail one of twenty one LTACs in a time of crisis, what can they do with over 500 nursing homes? No response.
3. Triad Hospitals signed a deal with Shannon Health System to merge their flagship nonprofit community hospital into a for-profit entity. Antitrust division responded to my complaint.
My experience with the Justice Department is they’re AWOL, much like the SEC in our current financial meltdown.
Justice didn’t guarantee rights, but aided BushCo in dismantling them. Their staying away from the polls fits with that abdication.
Do Republicans have shennanigans planned? Are they conducting a preemptive blaming? Typical Rove…
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pmIt must be a set-up so that even before inauguration, they can perpetuate the myth that the country is too liberal. Then everything bad happens because that’s the price we pay for being too liberal.
Pretty sad, though, the DoJ shouldn’t lean at all. I guess this is not only the worst but the weakest president ever. After his eight years the DoJ leans in the opposite direction and everything is Clinton’s doing. In that case bush hasn’t done anything.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 pmMaybe if Ashcroft had managed to cover up her boobies we wouldn’t have found out that the left one appears to be larger…
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:59 pmMegyn Kelly. I didn’t think it was possible to have ANOTHER heapin’ helpin’ bimbo bag of stinkin DUMB don’cha know. But I was wrong. Sarah has competition.
What is in the air there at Fox studios? Besides the FLATULENCE that comes from the talking heads there, I mean?
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pmFacts do have a liberal bias, along with reality. Maybe that’s what she’s refering to.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pmThat’s the repubs. Sham outrage, real injustice.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pmOf course the Bush justice department leans left.
And any ditzzy blonde can work for fox.
And,and,and,and…fuuuuck!!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pmThe DoJ is a job placement program for Regent Law. They have to stop every few hours to anoint themselves with Crisco and pray.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 pmAfter the election, Kelly can team up with Palin and debut their new show on FOX: “Harpy & the Has-Been.”
See your local listings…
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:24 pmCompared to Fox News everything leans left.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:30 pmdbadass Says:
She’s compensating by leaning to the right.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm(Believe it or not, the blame for covering up Lady Justice has now fallen on none other than Monica Goodling… go figure…)
She’s a lawyer?? where did she get her degree liberty U
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pmwhere 98% of the tree stumps are smarter than there graduates
This is all part of the Right Wing plan to claim the election wasn’t legitimate. (It’s their pathological SOP that every thing they actually do they always accuse the Left of doing–without evidence of course.)
BTW if Megyn Kelly “is a lawyer” why is her full time job TV-host?
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:57 pmAnd its obvious from her “logic” that she can’t put forward a coherent argument, so what kind of lawyer was she?
This is a stupid bottle blonde who belongs on a pretend news network…like FAUX!
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pmThe fact that she could say “left leaning DOJ Judges” with a straight face tells you something about this a$$hat. I’m not exactly sure what it tells you, though.
We really need Department of Justice attorneys at each and every polling place to make sure that Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are not allowed to vote! That would kill democracy as we know it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
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The fact that she could say “left leaning DOJ Judges” with a straight face tells you something about this a$$hat. I’m not exactly sure what it tells you, though.
We really need Department of Justice attorneys at each and every polling place to make sure that Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are not allowed to vote! That would kill democracy as we know it.
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Think about it Bilbo, do you really think that there is as strong a chance that Mickey and Donald will show with proof of ID or is there a stronger chance the thugs in the crime family have sabotaged the voting machines? Be honest, if you can.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pmThe most surprising item in this story is that they’re still giving Dennis Miller shows to tank.
He’s moved from stinking up TV to rancid radio. What’s left after his next subsequent cancellation, two tin cans and some twine??
Hey Dennis, get the hint….people would rather listen to viral videos by amateurs in their basements than endure your grindingly unfunny obscurantism. Recently, Arbitron rated Dennis Miller last place overall behind static, dead air, and the Emergency Broadcast System squeal….
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 pmMegyn “Kelly” is another member of the Fox News Trifecta Club. She’s not just crazy and stupid but she’s also a liar as well.
Also, Megyn? WTF kind of way is that to spell her name? It screams cheesy broadcaster name change. Since she’s already switched her last name from Kendall to Kelly, I’ll bet she wasn’t born “Megyn.”
-AF
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Despite right-wing hyperbole, there has been very little “nonsense” by fraudulently registered voters trying to cast ballots. In 2007, the New York Times reported that after a five-year effort by the Bush administration to crack down on supposedly widespread voter fraud, just 86 people were convicted. The Justice Department isn’t leaning left; it just finally has some common sense.
I bet all 86 were repugs.
Bold: Ha!
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:46 pmI’m really too excited to pay attention to repug rats.
Tomorrow, honorable history will be made.
Obama\Biden
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pmFor Sure!
Greed, being paid to lie, only explains part of FAUX. The stupidity must be from something else. Lead based coffee perhaps?
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pmI don’t know about y’all. I’m voting early tomorrow. Then in the honor of President Obama (DID I SAY THAT FIRST! I’M FIRST!) and his state of Hawaii I got us some Kahlua.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pmpete Says:
Greed, being paid to lie, only explains part of FAUX. The stupidity must be from something else. Lead based coffee perhaps?
Lead based genes.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pmWell, since nearly all of the voting shenanigans from the past two presidential elections have benefited Republicans, this move points to a political decision by the Bush administration, not something some lower-level liberal lawyers decided on. But leave it to FOX to spin it as part of the vast liberal conspiracy.
To FOX and their minions: Just shut the hell up and go vote.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 pmKelly needs to be downgraded to talk radio at this point.
Maybe the DOJ would “lean left” (as if that meant anything in a specific bureaucracy) if all of the attorneys who weren’t hard-right hadn’t been FIRED.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pmWow, an arm of the Bush administration is suddenly declared left-leaning. Well it’s not surprising that conservatives have resorted to their one-size-fits-all solution in casting blame for their mess-ups: LIBERAL BIAS!
In this crazy worldview, Bush becomes not the embodiment of conservative values, but a LIBERAL who was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:50 am.
Well…
… Just how many AG’s would Megyn Kelly settle for being fired for NOT pressing nonexistent cases of fraud?
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:19 ammooseyak said her friends made the right decision in clearing her name. this woman is like “No Way Out.”
that god I’m spared the hell of a ticket with the top slots going to mcchimpy, mooseyak or lieberman.
Obama\Biden
November 4th, 2008 at 1:27 ammcchimpy will not have one moment of hope during the tally. CNN said it would take “Magic” for mcchimpy to win.
The long lines are ridiculous. Could it be the districts are too large to manage and should be divided into a more cohesive groups.
What about the district chopping the runofthemill repug crook, delay, did in texas? Of course his chopping (redis) benefited the repugs. has that been righted?
November 4th, 2008 at 2:04 amWhy is it that these “Legally Blonde” RW lawyer types (Coulter, Ingraham, Kelly, Goodling, etc.) are all foaming ditzes?
Cheers,
November 4th, 2008 at 2:06 amIs she expanding “Das Homeland Security”?
Or is she just to afraid to leave her gated American community ?
November 4th, 2008 at 2:59 amReich Wing blondes, only in America and nazi Germany!!!!!!!!
November 4th, 2008 at 8:49 amShe could be pretty if it was not for the fact that she is a GOP warpig fascist that will burn in hell for her advocacy of killing innocents in immoral wars.
She is a mouthpiece for Evil.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:01 amThis is hallarious ….the criminals want the police to stand and make sure no one else steels except them.
YOUR TIME IS UP YOU FOOLS!!!!
November 4th, 2008 at 10:20 amWhat is she talking about??
Sounds like illegal “legal” intimidation.
Even in Iraq everyone who can vote was able to vote.
I guess she doesn’t believe in democracy. Unless it fits her “agenda” of course.
And does that make the Bush DOJ liberal???
How stupid can she get???
November 4th, 2008 at 11:15 amKelley is a dufus, and a Repub mouthpiece. I cannot beleive she has the brains to be a lawyer, sure doesnt seem like it. I guess she just has to spout off irregardless of whether she knows what she is talking about. The DoJ leaning left is she crazy or just stupid.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:41 pm