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"Overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges": A Republican who actually knows something about the New Black Panther case speaks out

That would be the conservative vice chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Abigail Thernstrom:

Sadly for Alexander, he seems to have written before Abigail Thernstrom told Politico she backed that decision, and said, "This doesn't have to do with the Black Panthers, this has to do with [her Republican colleagues'] fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration," said Thernstrom. "My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president."

Writing in the National Review, Thernstrom also noted the relative thinness of the case against the NBPP: "The legal standards that must be met to prove voter intimidation — the charge — are very high. In the 45 years since the act was passed, there have been a total of three successful prosecutions. The incident involved only two Panthers at a single majority-black precinct in Philadelphia. So far — after months of hearings, testimony and investigation — no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots. Too much overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges has been devoted to this case."

Sounds like Fox News has been "refudiated."