Fox & Friends Invites J. Christian Adams To Hype His Lies And His Book

Written by Brian Powell

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Fox News' Fox & Friends hosted the network's favorite disgruntled storyteller, J. Christian Adams, to complain about his former employer, the U.S. Department of Justice, and hawk his new book, "Injustice," which is out today. While on the curvy couch, interviewer Gretchen Carlson gave Adams the green light to talk at length about phony allegations that President Obama's DOJ dismissed their case against the New Black Panthers and enforces the law with an anti-white agenda.

It's no surprise that Adams' book tour would find a home on Fox News. After Adams pushed his claims in a two-part interview on Fox News' America Live last summer, Fox devoted hours of coverage to hyping the myths about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.

Unsurprisingly, Adams' interview this morning did not delve into the results of the DOJ's extensive investigation into these allegations. In a March letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Robin Ashton of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility wrote that their investigation found that “department attorneys did not commit professional misconduct,” and that there was “no evidence” that their decisions were improperly affected by political considerations or by the race of the defendants.

Despite their non-stop hype of Adams' New Black Panthers allegations, Fox devoted a mere 88 seconds to the OPR letter in the fifteen days following its release.

During their interview, Adams repeatedly pushed the falsehood that the DOJ dismissed the case against the New Black Panthers.

CARLSON: So let's go back to the Black Panther situation. You decide to come out and tell your side of the story, which was what?

ADAMS: Well, that they dismissed the case because there's a hostility to enforcing the law in a race neutral fashion. In the Black Panther case, the victims were white. The defendants were black and those were the sorts of things many people in the department don't want to enforce.

Adams failed to mention that it was the Bush DOJ who decided not to pursue criminal charges against the New Black Panther Party and that the Obama DOJ obtained a judgment against one of the defendants in the case.