Guests:Eboni Williams & Richard Fowler
"On Tuesday Eric Holder testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the IRS scandal and other controversies. Then, speaking before Al Sharpton's advocacy group on Wednesday, Holder asked, 'What Attorney General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?' The heavy evidence is that Eric Holder is using his skin color as a shield to avoid explaining to the American people why he has been so ineffective on a variety of fronts. It's long past time to stop this kind of nonsense. Richard Nixon was treated far more harshly by Congress than Barack Obama, and his Attorney General, John Mitchell, was ruined over the Watergate investigation. The truth is that Eric Holder has been treated gently by the national press and has not been subject to much scrutiny. His first duty is to the people, not to his party or the president, but we get nothing from him. He holds back documents from Congress and he stonewalls time and again. That's the truth and it has nothing to do with skin color."

The Factor invited reaction from black radio talk show hosts Eboni Williams and Richard Fowler "To say Eric Holder has done nothing is just not true," Williams said. "He has a specific agenda regarding civil rights issues, and on that he has been very effective. He has brought challenges to states that have enacted illegal voting laws, and he's done a variety of things with the NYPD and stop-and-frisk." Fowler agreed with Eric Holder's basic premise, but offered little to back it up. "He is contending that he and the president are treated differently because they happen to be African American. Race relations are not good, and that spills over to the president and the attorney general and the first lady." But The Factor accused Holder of bringing up race in a divisive manner: "We're talking about this country's chief law enforcement officer speaking in a public forum to African Americans and implying that the criticism of him is because he's black. He has nothing to back that up!"

Guest:James Carville
Fox News analyst George Will ranks the IRS targeting scandal right up there with Watergate and Iran-Contra. The Factor asked Democrat James Carville to assess that comparison. "He has everything to support that but evidence," Carville declared. "Watergate and Iran-Contra were characterized by White House involvement, but there is not a scintilla of evidence of White House involvement here. This has nothing to do with the White House or President Obama." The Factor reminded Carville that a high IRS official is invoking the Fifth Amendment,, saying, "If Lois Lerner is taking the Fifth, you know she's done something that she knows she's in trouble for."

Guest:Sharyl Attkisson
Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who recently resigned from CBS News, revealed that her former bosses were loath to follow stories like the 'Fast and Furious' gun running scandal. "We quit pursuing the story due to lack of interest," she complained, "long before we found answers to a lot of questions. The people who decide what stories go into the broadcast felt early on that this story was over, when I felt we had barely begun to scratch the surface." Attkisson added that CBS News executives also discouraged her from digging into the Benghazi terror attack. "I was assigned to look into Benghazi and I pursued that aggressively. But interest was lost in that story as well on the part of the people who are responsible for deciding what goes on the news."

Guest:Heather Nauert
Fox News anchor Heather Nauert responded to some emails sent by irate viewers. One of them, Debbie Rogers Bianchi of Oregon, is ticked off because Hillary Clinton and other liberals often portray women as victims. "We haven't actually heard Hillary Clinton say 'war on women,'" Nauert reported, "but she seems to think there is one. She talks about how the clock is turning back on women's rights and warns that extremists want to go after women. They never talk about the advantages that women have in this country, they like to play victim." Myrna Bauman of Utah complained that derelict fathers often go unmentioned in stories about unmarried moms. "40% of the babies today are born to unwed mothers," Nauert lamented, "and in 1960 that figure was 5%. There are about 12-million deadbeat dads and this is obviously a sad situation."

Guest:Megyn Kelly
As The Factor reported previously, a 54-year-old white man in Detroit was beaten senseless by about a dozen black men. Anchor and attorney Megyn Kelly reported the latest on the story. "This man is clinging to life," she said, "and he is in a medically induced coma. Five people have been charged and one of them has been charged with a 'hate crime,' meaning he can go to jail for more than ten years if he's tried as an adult and convicted. There has to be very strong evidence that the attack was because of racial animus." Kelly turned to the case of 16-year-old Pennsylvania student Alex Hribal, who slashed and stabbed 21 of his classmates Wednesday. "He has been charged as an adult, but his lawyers are pushing to get this into juvenile court. Something is odd about this case - his lawyers are saying his family is like the Brady Bunch, they had dinner together every night, he wasn't bullied, and he has no prior history of mental health issues. It doesn't add up, it's very rare for a boy of this age to just snap."

Guest:Laura Ingraham
Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham reacted to Republican Jeb Bush's description of illegal immigration as "an act of love." "That was a very sloppy formulation by Jeb Bush," she said. "You could use that 'they did it out of love' argument for a lot of behavior that is not good for society. You could say you steal from a convenience store because you need food for your kids. What does that have to do with whether hundreds of thousands of people crossing our borders illegally is good for American workers, good for our public schools, and good for our health care and infrastructure? Jeb Bush believes it's a moral imperative that anyone who can get a toe across the border, as long as they're not a felon, should be allowed to stay here. We have borders that are supposed to mean something!" The Factor concluded, "You can deal with illegal immigrants in a compassionate way but a firm way, and my plan does that."

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