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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">today on Fox News’ America Live, host Megyn Kelly discussed the manufactured right-wing “scandal” surrounding the New Black Panther Party, and whether the Department of Justice is being insufficiently tough against black defendants. As Media Matters has documented, the “scandal” surfaced on Fox News and has slowly migrated to more mainstream networks. (Read background on the issue here.)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This afternoon, <b><u>Kelly invited New York Post columnist — and regular Fox contributor — Kirsten Powers to debate the importance of this story. </u></b>Kelly bemoaned that “no one seems to give a darn” about the allegations promulgated by former Bush DoJ lawyer J. Christian Adams. The conservative activist claims that the Obama Justice Department dropped voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party due to racial considerations. Contrary to the claims, the Obama DoJ has issued an injunction against the member of the NBPP who was seen engaging in voter intimidation tactics, prohibiting him “from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of any Philadelphia polling place through 2012.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Powers effectively dismantled the faux scandal for what it is, telling Kelly, “You can put me in the same category of people who don’t really give a darn.” “You don’t seem to know what you’re talking about,” Kelly immediately responded, growing more enraged as the two wrestled, jabbed, and bickered over the facts:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">POWERS: The minute I challenge you, you tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">KELLY: Because you don’t.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">POWERS: You just want people to come on and just agree with you —</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">KELLY: No, I want informed people.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">POWERS: — that what you’ve been doing and the way you’ve been completely doing the “scary black man thing.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Powers told Kelly, “I don’t remember people screaming” about the Bush administration’s miscarriages of justice in the Civil Rights Division. “Don’t make me cut your mic,” Kelly threatened at one point. Watch the s</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the segment, Powers correctly noted that the allegations about the DoJ’s wrongdoing stem from a “conservative activist posing as a whistleblower” and are being peddled with conservative “hysteria.”</font></div><div>
</div><div>Abigail Thernstrom, the Vice Chair of the Civil Rights Commission, implored conservatives to “forget about the New Black Panther Party case; it is very small potatoes,” adding that “evidence has yet to be offered” to justify the right wing fearmongering.</div><div>
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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Powers is a weekly columnist for USA Today and a contributor to Fox News, where she appears regularly on Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News Sunday and the O'Reilly Factor. Her writing focuses on politics, faith and human rights. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Prior to her career in journalism, Powers served in the Clinton Administration from 1993-1998 </b>and worked in New York state and city Democratic politics. She was Vice President for International Communications at </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">America Online, Inc. from 1998-2002.</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Her writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, the New York Observer, Salon.com, the Daily Beast, the New York Post, Elle magazine and American Prospect online</span>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PowersColumnist, USA Today & Contributor, FOX NewsKirsten Powers is a columnist for USA Today and Daily Beast, where she writes about politics, human rights, and faith, and the author of the forthcoming release, <b>The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She joined FOX News Channel in 2004 </span>and currently serves as a rotating panelist on Outnumbered and as a network contributor, providing political analysis and commentary across FOX News’s daytime and primetime programming, including Special Report with Bret Baier and FOX News Sunday. She previously served as a columnist for The New York Post, a communications consultant at Human Rights First and for the New York State Democratic Committee and vice president for international communications at America Online, Inc. From 1993 to 1998, Powers worked as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs in the Clinton administration. She began her career as a <b>staff assistant at the Office of President Bill Clinton, on the Clinton/Gore Presidential Transition Team</b>.Learn more</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h2 style="line-height: 1.3; padding-bottom: 4px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Editorial Reviews</font></h2><div class="content" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0em 25px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0.375em -15px; clear: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Review</font></h3><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A searing and courageous indictment of the growing intolerance of the American left—written with passion and eloquence by one of the nation's most principled and fair-minded liberals. An important book on a subject many are simply too afraid to touch."
—Charles<b> Krauthammer</b>, Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist and author of the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Things That Matter</i>

"Kirsten Powers convincingly calls out her fellow liberals for being astonishingly illiberal. A great read."
—Brit Hume, Fox News senior political analyst

"Kirsten Powers explodes and skewers 'The Silencing'—the demonizing and repression of different views, especially conservative views. Here is a liberal calling out other supposedly liberal people who claim to believe in free speech but tell all who disagree with them to shut up. Hallelujah—you are lucky to have this book in your hands!"
—Juan Williams, Fox News political analyst and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Muzzled</i>

"I salute my friend Kirsten Powers for boldly and eloquently breaking the spiral of silence on silencing."
—Eric <b>Metaxas,</b> <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Miracles</i> and <i>Bonhoeffer</i>

"Tolerance and free expression are founding values of our republic and yet they're under attack from the extreme wings of the American political spectrum. Shining a harsh light on the 'illiberal left,' Kirsten Powers exposes a grim campaign to silence speech. This is an important book."
—Ron Fournier, senior political columnist and editorial director of <i>National Journal</i>

"In this examination of the multiplying attacks on freedom of speech, Kirsten Powers casts a cool eye on the damages done to politics, academia, and civic discourse by the aggressive assertion of a perverse new entitlement. It is the postulated right to pass through life without being disturbed, annoyed, offended, or discomposed by the expression of anyone else's thoughts."
—<b>George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize</b>–winning syndicated columnist and author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>A Nice Little Place on the North Side</i></font></div><div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px;"><h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0.375em -15px; clear: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the Inside Flap</font></h3><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Free speech and freedom of conscience have long been core American values. Yet a growing intolerance from the left side of the political spectrum is threatening Americans' ability to freely express beliefs without fear of retaliation. <i>USA Today</i> columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers calls it "The Silencing."

Powers chronicles this forced march toward conformity in an exposé of the illiberal tactics deployed to shut down debate on some of the most important issues of the day. While preaching tolerance and claiming to hold liberal values, the "illiberal left" works to delegitimize political and ideological opponents in ways that stifle freedom of expression, thought, and religious belief.

In <i>The Silencing</i>, Kirsten Powers, herself a proud liberal--but from a far more tolerant Jeffersonian tradition--exposes the illiberal left. You'll learn:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font><ul style="margin: 1.12em 0px 1.12em 20px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Why the illiberal left has become an Orwellian "big brother," policing what it deems acceptable speech and opinions</b></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How the illiberal left is obsessed with delegitimizing Fox News</b></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How illiberal left pundits--even self-proclaimed<b> "feminists" </b>(and Powers names names)--engage in outrageously misogynistic and sexist dismissals of their female opponents</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How illiberal colleges and universities limit freedom of expression to tightly regulated "free speech zones" </b>and ban speakers (even liberals) with whom the illiberal left disagrees</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How "truth" matters little to the illiberal left, for whom ideology is everything</b></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How is it that liberalism, once associated with open-mindedness and reason, has become a vehicle for irrational prejudice, ideological conformity, and the marginalization and punishment of alternative opinions? Kirsten Powers chronicles this troubling trend in perhaps the most important--and chilling--political book of the yea</font></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div>