Shaking my head.



Bafflement from critics at Twitchy.

Also baffled by Chuck Todd's claim? Eric Holder himself.

Adventures in Apolitical Speech: Eric Holder, the apolitical guy.

Also apolitical:

Praise for Eric Holder's apolitical nature from the WaPo:

Just weeks after America saw the inauguration of its first black president, Holder gave what has come to be known as his "cowards speech" -- an address that crystallized the now-outgoing attorney general's place as Obama's man/conscience/inner voice on race (the boldface is mine)...



But even with Obama's silence, and in some ways because of it, Holder has always been up to something else -- both rhetorically and judicially. He has been Obama's go-to man on race, bolstering the civil rights division, unafraid to point to racial disparities....

Holder's anger was, at times, palpable, and the image of the nation's highest law enforcement official -- a black man -- being questioned by a white Southern lawmaker with a thick accent was freighted with history. It evoked those black men from another time, clad in topcoats and fedoras, marching with "I am a man" signs.

And Holder, at a National Action Network conference later, nodded to that history, even as he tried to say it wasn't about him..