Your head might explode if you consider the source of this quote:
"Completely false allegations incubate in the fringe and jump
within days to the mainstream, distorting any debate or
progress we can have as a society."
That's Mark Potok,
quoted in today's Washington Post. Considering that
Potok has spent more than a decade trying to
convince gullible liberals that everyone to the right
of Joe Biden is a crypto-fascist goose-stepper, your
coffee-spewing laughter is understandable.
Potok covered the 1992-93 Waco standoff and the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing for USA Today. That experience apparently
convinced him that when you scratch a Republican, a dangerously
violent militia crackpot bleeds. Potok's paranoia
landed him a job at the Southern Poverty Law
Center, the $170
million outfit that smart
liberals recognize as a flimsy scam
to frighten stupid liberals out of their money.
The SPLC began when Morris Dees recognized the
lucrative potential of the '72 McGovern campaign's mailing
list. Exactly when the SPLC jumped the shark has long been a
subject of debate, but it was certainly at some point prior
to their
identification of columnist Don Feder (!) as a menace to
society.
"There is an anti-racist industry entrenched in the United
States that has attracted bullying, moralizing fanatics, whose
identity and livelihood depend upon growth and expansion of
their particular kind of victimization."
That quote is from Wilcox's book, The
Watchdogs, which among other things explains what
he describes as the "links-and-ties" method by which the SPLC and
similar outfits create the false impression of ironclad
connections between groups and individuals based on
incidental associations.
Who is this Pingback fellow and why does he keep posting the same
thing? Who wants to read the same thing all the time? And why doe
he always post two, three, four posts in a row?! Does he have
Alzheimers and can't remember he posted? Does he just like
reading his own posts? Can someone please stop him?
Emily Litella| 10.13.09 @ 7:36AM
Oh! Well! Never mind.
Dixie Pixie| 10.12.09 @ 6:31PM
To:Emily
Thank you for your post. I too have wondered who ( pingback ) is
and what he thinks he is doing. Personally, I can do without his
posts as I can type Spectator.org. Maybe he does it to help (
Liberal Reader ) and Funnel-Head ( Bob ) find a path back to
their most recent posts. Your guess is good as mine. I also would
like to hear his explanation. Hopefully he will see both of our
post and reply.
Campy| 10.13.09 @ 5:47AM
Em & Dix,
Pingback is an auto link-back program to notify authors
(bloggers) when their story is linked elsewhere; not really a
person. Hope that helps.
C
Richard Keefe| 10.13.09 @ 6:17AM
Excellent analysis of the PR mouthpiece of one of the most
profitable "non-profits" in the country.
Potok is compensated with more than $143,000 donor dollars a year
to produce his fund raising propaganda, up $4,500 donor dollars
from the previous year.
His boss, multimillionaire Mo Dees, is now compensated with more
than $350,000 donor dollars a year, which includes the $20,000
donor dollar raise he so generously gave himself.
See pages 11 and 40 of the SPLC's most recent tax return.
(http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/static/SPLC990_2007.pdf)
In addition, Mr. Dees also receives $10,000 a pop for his
frequent speaking engagements. In January, 2009, Dees agreed to
speak before a black civil rights group in Michigan at their
Martin Luther King memorial dinner. When the group could not
scrape up the ten grand to pay Dees they had to cancel the event.
Multimillionaire Dees could not even throw them a freebie in
honor of MLK Day.
With this kind of money at stake, including the $170 MILLION
donor dollar hoard in the SPLC's "Endowment Fund," you'd find
"hate" behind every rock and tree too.
Lisa| 10.13.09 @ 12:32PM
In light of the 1965 change in our immigration laws and what I've
been noticing the US CENSUS projections and what will the SPLC
and the ADL do when Whites are, in effect, no longer
around?
Or is that their mission statement?
Jimi| 10.13.09 @ 1:24PM
The Southern Wealthy Law Center is just that, a shakedown outfit
like Jesse Jackson's. Why they get press I'll never know, a
bigger bunch of crackpots cannot be found anywhere.
It might be worth pointing out that some Republicans and the like
occasionally sound like Potok and use variants of their lines to
support massive/illegal immigration. For instance, LGraham's
"tell the haters to shut up" and many many more.
If anyone gets a chance, ask them about their indirect link to a
foreign government:
It was a very nice idea! Just wanna say thank you for the
information you have shared. Just continue writing this kind of
post. I will be your loyal reader. Thanks again.
asdasd| 10.25.09 @ 9:39PM
Splc is a pro muslim group filled with self hating jews , basicly
anti semetic leftwingers
Emily Litella| 10.12.09 @ 6:03PM
Who is this Pingback fellow and why does he keep posting the same thing? Who wants to read the same thing all the time? And why doe he always post two, three, four posts in a row?! Does he have Alzheimers and can't remember he posted? Does he just like reading his own posts? Can someone please stop him?
Emily Litella| 10.13.09 @ 7:36AM
Oh! Well! Never mind.
Dixie Pixie| 10.12.09 @ 6:31PM
To:Emily
Thank you for your post. I too have wondered who ( pingback ) is and what he thinks he is doing. Personally, I can do without his posts as I can type Spectator.org. Maybe he does it to help ( Liberal Reader ) and Funnel-Head ( Bob ) find a path back to their most recent posts. Your guess is good as mine. I also would like to hear his explanation. Hopefully he will see both of our post and reply.
Campy| 10.13.09 @ 5:47AM
Em & Dix,
Pingback is an auto link-back program to notify authors (bloggers) when their story is linked elsewhere; not really a person. Hope that helps.
C
Richard Keefe| 10.13.09 @ 6:17AM
Excellent analysis of the PR mouthpiece of one of the most profitable "non-profits" in the country.
Potok is compensated with more than $143,000 donor dollars a year to produce his fund raising propaganda, up $4,500 donor dollars from the previous year.
His boss, multimillionaire Mo Dees, is now compensated with more than $350,000 donor dollars a year, which includes the $20,000 donor dollar raise he so generously gave himself.
See pages 11 and 40 of the SPLC's most recent tax return. (http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/static/SPLC990_2007.pdf)
In addition, Mr. Dees also receives $10,000 a pop for his frequent speaking engagements. In January, 2009, Dees agreed to speak before a black civil rights group in Michigan at their Martin Luther King memorial dinner. When the group could not scrape up the ten grand to pay Dees they had to cancel the event.
Multimillionaire Dees could not even throw them a freebie in honor of MLK Day.
No dough? No Mo.
(http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/01/mondayking_celebration_cancele.html)
With this kind of money at stake, including the $170 MILLION donor dollar hoard in the SPLC's "Endowment Fund," you'd find "hate" behind every rock and tree too.
Lisa| 10.13.09 @ 12:32PM
In light of the 1965 change in our immigration laws and what I've been noticing the US CENSUS projections and what will the SPLC and the ADL do when Whites are, in effect, no longer around?
Or is that their mission statement?
Jimi| 10.13.09 @ 1:24PM
The Southern Wealthy Law Center is just that, a shakedown outfit like Jesse Jackson's. Why they get press I'll never know, a bigger bunch of crackpots cannot be found anywhere.
24AheadDotCom| 10.13.09 @ 3:02PM
It might be worth pointing out that some Republicans and the like occasionally sound like Potok and use variants of their lines to support massive/illegal immigration. For instance, LGraham's "tell the haters to shut up" and many many more.
If anyone gets a chance, ask them about their indirect link to a foreign government:
http://24ahead.com/s/southern-poverty-law-center
links of london Rings| 10.21.09 @ 1:33AM
It was a very nice idea! Just wanna say thank you for the information you have shared. Just continue writing this kind of post. I will be your loyal reader. Thanks again.
asdasd| 10.25.09 @ 9:39PM
Splc is a pro muslim group filled with self hating jews , basicly anti semetic leftwingers