Howie Kurtz: Holder ‘Afraid’ To Get Tough Questions from Fox News

BREAM: "Attorney General Eric Holder is getting ready to end his six year run as nation's top law enforcement official. So yesterday he sat down with CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and Politico for so-called exit interviews, but he is refusing to speak to Fox News despite numerous requests. Fox's Executive Vice President for News Michael Clemente issued a statement saying in part, 'The Attorney General's decision does a deep disservice to America’s largest cable news audience and the interests of a free press.' Howard Kurtz is a host of Media Buzz Sunday's on Fox News. All right, Howie, what's this all about?“
KURTZ: “I guess the attorney general would rather have Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC saying you are smooth as a duck and would you please quack for us. Look, I'm sure Eric Holder doesn't want to be pressed on Fox News about why he said we are winning the war against ISIS; his role in Ferguson; his relationship with Al Sharpton. But what he really doesn't want to be pressed on, Shannon, is the outrageous assault on press freedom that was the James Rosen case where the Attorney General authorized, as you know, surveillance of our Fox News colleague and in the separate case reporters of the AP, and even authorized James Rosen to be named as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job."
BREAM: "Yes, and going to through James' emails and those of some family member’s and certainly he would have to address that, I'd imagine, by any of us at Fox that would interview him. But does he help himself at all by walking out of door and slamming it in our faces essentially saying, look, I'm not gonna ever try to address your audience which is notably by far the largest cable audience out there for news. I mean, maybe he can make some new converts."
KURTZ: “(Laughs) Maybe he could reach a different kind of audience. Look, I think that it's a sign of confidence when any politician, political figure, cabinet officer, congressman is willing to sit down and take tougher questions from those you might perceive to be your harshest critics. Now, in the case of Eric Holder, he is paid by the tax payers and while it's not unusual for politicians to need their party to kind of pick and choose favorite outlets, while he's doing all these other interviews and to thumb his nose so openly on Fox, I guess he feels like he doesn't have to worry about it after this. But is the nation’s top law enforcement officer really afraid of Bret Baier?"