so here s my message for the folks at lowe s who made the decision, frankly anyone out there of sound mind considering getting behind the growing anti-muslim bias. you re better than this. you know the history of this country and of this world never, ever looks kindly on this kind of marginalization you endorsed with your actions. whether it was against irish-americans or jewish-americans or african-americans, the history books make sure this exclusionary politics becomes a stain on the reputation of anyone who takes part in it. that was congressman chris murray calling out home improvement retail chain lowe s on the house floor today. why? the company pulled its ads from a show called all american muslim, the reality show airing on tlc. it follows five muslim families living in dearborn, michigan. take a look. the city of dearborn, michigan. dearborn is a whole other world.
but the question is, whether or not elvis has already left the building. if you think about it, if they start right now trying to enjoin a lot of these laws, it s very difficult. when you consider the federal courts are packed, absolutely packed with republican appointees. so the timetable here, mike, what i m hearing is this is going to have to be really a big-time priority by the justice department to have it effect 2012. ed, that s exactly right. you re going to have to staff up. it s going to have to be a priority that look, you re going to have federal judges that can do all types of things, that owe the republican party something. now, you don t usually hear an attorney say that, but to ignore the fact that republican judges are part of the agenda here, i promise you they are, and if a republican judge gets a case like this, they simply put it off. they delay it. they have hearings. they have discovery. there s all types of ways they can delay coming up with the decision be
vote. what we see is we see situations where their intent is to create chaos. to keep people away from these advocates that are out there fighting for voters rights, what can they do at this point? well, the 1965 voting rights act is a strong act, ed. it s been ignored for too long. as a matter of fact, three years ago, the u.s. justice department was told that this pattern was taking place. what i like about the act, lbj pushed this act through. you know what he did, ed? he said, we don t have to show intent to discriminate. we don t have to prove that rick perry and what he s doing in texas was done to discriminate. all we have to show is by way of demographics is show an analysis where we have a disproportionate interference with minorities. and so the threshold is not particularly difficult. what s happened with this administration, for some reason, now they understand it, and i m glad to see, i m glad to see eric holder talking about this, but the question is, whether or no
the world, thank you. i think we ve got to get past this and not allow the gop to exploit our people. i hope pastors are listening to your show and listening to me on these radio shows i ve been doing all day. we ve got to get a noble, honest, trustworthy person to go up against barack obama. sometimes a mainstream media has a hard time talking about faith because they think it turns people off. i think it s a phenomenal political story. and i m not quite sure that how could the polls nationally show newt gingrich doing so well, with him struggling in iowa? i mean obviously the faith vote out there has got to do something. nationally he s at 40%, romney at 23%. for lack of a better term, you re ready to throw both the top front-runners under the bus and leaves you with ron paul, michele bachmann and rick santorum. do they have a solid chance despite the national polling, in your opinion? i think so. i think rick santorum in particular is going to surprise a lot of people. i heard
dearborn is a whole other world. being in dearborn has allowed us to practice our faith without losing our sense of american patriotism. so why would lowe s pull ads from a show like that? because one right wing group told it to? lowe s and scores of other companies had been the target of a campaign by the florida family association. the group claims the show is problem began do that riskly hides the islamic agenda s clear and present danger to american liberties and traditional values. so what we have here is a major american company, lowe s, caving to bigotry. the florida family association, you might think, must be a pretty large and influential group to be able to pull off a stunt like this. well, according to think progress, the group has only one paid staff member. its president. and he s a real winner. well, the show portrays these