A “political witch hunt” to get Eric Holder?

Maybe it’s me, but the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense seems to be inconsistent. The leader of the party, Malik Shabazz, defended Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to drop a voter intimidation suit involving one of its members. At first, Shabazz seems to dismiss the event, calling it, “a political witch hunt” by Republicans against Eric Holder. Shabazz also went on to say that the group does not condone voter intimidation, and it has suspended the member who was involved.

Here’s what I don’t understand: Malik Shabazz claims that the charges are false and nothing but a ploy to attack Eric Holder. Yet in the next breath, he talks about how the New Black Panthers do not condone voter intimidation and seems intent on proving it by bringing up the member’s suspension. If there was nothing to the complaint, then why was the member suspended? By suspending him, it certainly seems that the New Black Panthers thought he was guilty of something.

I’m sure the group won’t be called on this inconsistency. After all, it wouldn’t be politically correct. Instead, they will just take a page from the liberal playbook and blame everything that goes wrong on the vast right-wing conspiracy.