Holder: If Fox Didn’t Obsess over Term ‘Radical Islam,’ ‘They’d Have Nothing Else to Talk About’
Attorney General Eric Holder today dismissed the debate over the usage of the term “radical Islam” — specifically, why the Obama Administration refused to use the term to describe militants such as ISIS — and called out Fox News for being overly preoccupied with the terminology.
“We spend more time, more time talking about what you call it, as opposed to what do you do about it, you know? I mean really,” Holder said with some exasperation at a National Press Club luncheon today in Washington, D.C. “If Fox didn’t talk about this, they would have nothing else to talk about, it seems to me.”
Holder went on:
Radical Islam, Islamic extremism — I’m not sure an awful lot is gained by saying that. It doesn’t have any impact on our military posture. It doesn’t have any impact on what we call it, on the policies that we put in place. What we have to do is defined not by the terms that we use, but by the facts on the ground. So I don’t worry an awful lot about what the appropriate terminology ought to be.
Holder went on to state that the most important conversation should center on what kind of actions the United States should take against ISIS, and not around the specific verbiage used in that conversation. “The terminology, it seems to me little to no impact on what ultimately we have to do,” he concuded.
Watch below via C-SPAN:
[h/t The Daily Caller]
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