Perhaps you have seen this latest alarmist screed from Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, by way of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter and the Council of Conservative Citizens
Feb 15, 2009
In her new book, does Ann Coulter actually defend a white supremacist hate group, claiming they’ve been unfairly branded as “racist?”
Unfortunately, she really does. I’m not taking the Southern Poverty Law Center’s word for it, either; I have the book and I’ve confirmed that everything they say in this article is accurate.
Coulter spends the better part of three pages defending a group called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which The New York Times had described as a “thinly veiled white supremacist organization.” Coulter begs to differ. The CCC, Coulter opines, is “a conservative group” that has unfairly been branded as racist “because some of the directors of the CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group.” “There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation,” she says. “Apart from some aggressive reporting on black-on-white crimes — the very crimes that are aggressively hidden by the establishment media — there is little on the CCC website suggesting” that the group is racist. Indeed, its main failing is “containing members who had belonged to a segregationist group thirty years earlier.”
Coulter could hardly be more wrong. And even if she can’t find time to read beyond a page of the CCC’s website, she really ought to know — after all, the organization where she frequently speaks, the Conservative Political Action Committee, has publicly banned the CCC from its annual gathering because it is racist. Also in the late 1990s, Jim Nicholson, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee, asked GOP members to stay away from the CCC because of its “racist and nationalist views.”
How could conservative Republicans be inspired to say such ugly things? Let us count the ways.
The CCC’s columnists have written that black people are “a retrograde species of humanity,” and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a “slimy brown mass of glop.” Its website has run photographic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee. It opposes “forced integration” and decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as “genetically inferior,” complained about “Jewish power brokers,” called gay people “perverted sodomites,” and even named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, “Patriot of the Century.”
This is completely beyond the pale.
I won’t link to the CCC website, but it takes about two seconds of looking at their front page to see that it’s a white supremacist site; prominently displayed as I write is an advertisement for “White Pride T-shirts,” apparently run by the neo-Nazi website Stormfront, and a host of articles with a blatantly racist slant—including one that touts the Eurofascist groups (Vlaams Belang, BNP, National Front) that have been the subject of many LGF posts. It stretches credulity to the breaking point to think that Coulter simply missed all of it.
So much hand-wringing over a fairly innocuous couple of pages from Ms. Coulter’s (great book) Guilty.
Rather than take the Southern Poverty Law Center’s word for what Ms. Coulter says, you can read it for yourself.
From pp 24-26:
Chapter 1 – Liberal Motto: Speak Loudly And Carry A Small Victim
… According to his devoted media claque, Obambi was a victim of "guilt by association" whenever anyone mentioned his two-decade association with a racist preacher or his ties to an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Being offended by "guilt by association" was another new posture for liberals, who heretofore had specialized in making guilt-by association charges.
Republican politicians who had given speeches to a conservative group, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), were branded sympathizers of white supremacists because some of the directors of the CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group, the Citizen Councils of America, which were founded in 1954. There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation, though its "Statement of Principles" offers that the organization opposes "forced integration" and "efforts to mix the races of mankind." But mostly the principles refer to subjects such as a strong national defense, the right to keep and bear arms, the traditional family, and an "America First" trade policy."
Apart from some aggressive reporting on black-on-white crimes—the very crimes that are aggressively hidden by the establishment media—there is little on the CCC website suggesting that the group is a "thinly veiled white supremacist" organization, as the New York Times calls it in one of its more charitable descriptions. At least the crimes reported on the CCC’s Web page actually happened, as opposed to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s claim that the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill blacks.
Republicans Senator Trent Lott and Representative Bob Barr did nothing more than give speeches to the CCC, yet they were forever damned by their association with it. Neither man even belonged to the CCC, nor did they attend CCC meetings once a week for twenty years. They certainly didn’t have their daughters baptized by CCC activists.
But according to the establishment media, Lott and Barr were fully responsible for the decades-old affiliations of some of the directors of a group . . . because they spoke at the CCC. As the media’s hysteria about the CCC reached a fever pitch, a Times editorial howled about "fresh evidence of the persistence of racism" on the part of Lott based on his "links to the white separatist group called the Council of Conservative Citizens." The New York Times was shocked by the group’s "thinly veiled white supremacist agenda," but was somewhat more accepting of the completely unveiled racism of Obama’s preacher. One surmises that the CCC’s thin veil of white supremacy would have become a bit thicker had Democratic congressman Dick Gephardt ever been a serious candidate for president. In the 1970s, he had spoken to a branch of the related, but more outre, Citizen Councils of America. That, and the fact that he’s a preposterous boob, are probably the only two things that kept Dick Gephardt out of the White House.
After the initial flurry of articles, editorials, and news stories in the Times excitedly reporting that Barr had spoken to the CCC, Democratic representative Bob Wexler introduced a resolution in Congress for the sole purpose of denouncing the Council of Conservative Citizens. Other than the 9/11 terrorists, the CCC may be the only group ever singled out for denunciation in a congressional resolution. How about a resolution from Obama porn-porn girl Wexler on Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ?
When Barr later gave a speech on the House floor favorably citing President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy’s son, Representative Patrick Kennedy, got in Barr’s face, shouting, "How dare you! Anybody who has been to a racist group has no right invoking my uncle’s memory!’ Liberals are now reserving the right to tell us which former presidents we can mention by name.
Barr had given a speech to a group that, even assuming everything that the Southern Poverty Law Center says about it is true, does not hold a candle to the racism of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama was married by the Reverend Wright, his daughters were baptized by the Reverend Wright, Obama gave his second autobiography the title of one of the Reverend Wright’s sermons. And yet after decades of majoring in Guilt by Association, liberals were indignant when an ad on cable television linked Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. The Times produced a blistering editorial decrying the "hate mongering" and calling the ads "the product of a radical fringe that has little regard for rational debate."
Liberals, who will attack with whatever is available because they have no principles, were also appalled by any attempt to link Obama to Bill Ayers. In an op-ed so clever she couldn’t stand herself, New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote that if Obama was responsible for Ayers’s actions then she was responsible for the banking scandals of the eighties by virtue of the fact that savings-and-loan king Charles Keating had spoken at her high school thirty years earlier. Collins’s satirical chain of causation did not, however, apply to Republicans speaking to a group containing members who had be-longed to a segregationist group thirty years earlier, which, come to think of it, pretty much describes Collins’s connection to the banking scandals.
Can Trent Lott and Bob Barr get an apology now?
As any sentient being can tell, Ms. Coulter was writing about the power and dangers of ‘guilt by association,’ as it is selectively applied by our watchdog media.
Ms. Coulter was not defending the CCC, but describing it as no more racist — and quite a bit less racist — than Mr. Obama’s preacher of 30 years.
Nothing in the subsequent attacks upon her contradict her characterization of the CCC. They are just the worst kind of (liberal) moral posturing.
The Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Wright was far more racist and Mr. Obama’s ties to him were far more immediate and direct. And yet mentioning Mr. Wright’s connections to Mr. Obama was deemed to be out of bounds during the campaign – and ever since.
It is cited as yet another despicable instance of the (imaginary) ‘Republican attack machine’ practicing (the underrated) ‘guilt by association.’
Indeed, the CCC could actually be a lot more racist and Ms. Coulter’s points would still be accurate.
Mr. Obama attended Trinity Church going on 30 years, and is now the sitting President.
Messrs. Lott and Barr merely gave speeches to the CCC, and neither ever ran for President on major party tickets, much less won their party’s nomination.
Obviously Ms. Coulter’s comparison was too subtle for some.
Meanwhile, Discover The Networks provides a handy refresher course on the background of both the Southern Poverty Law Center and its con artist boss, Morris Dees.
And FrontPage Magazine spells out some more specifics of their doings here.
to Rush ( His idea during the Clinton plague upon America ) I am starting a file on “The One,” mostly starting from the election date. 
The election results were long expected, but now that the day has arrived it’s quite a letdown, anyway. Reading about the joy expressed by Hamas and Syria and Italy and Indonesia… contemplating Obama’s Secretary of State, or (God help us) Defense… Thinking about the USA becoming just like Sweden, only with a real army, and aircraft carriers, and nukes… First Lady Michelle…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Freedom of speech no longer exists in the nation that gave the world the Magna Carta. It has been replaced by Islamist tyranny.
I wish I could put it less bluntly, but the facts are against me. The British government -- my government, unfortunately -- has just sent a message to the world that no longer will it stand up for First Amendment-style principles. From now on, if you don’t like what someone has to say, our surrender-monkey government is quite happy to ban them from saying it. Provided, of course, you happen to be a Muslim.
You may not remember the name Geert Wilders, but you should. He’s the Dutch parliamentarian who gave us the 14-minute movie, Fitna.
If you haven’t seen it, you should. If you’ve seen it, you should take the time to see it again.
FABIUS MAXIMUS: “The media doing what it does best these days, feeding us disinformation.”
READER MATT HOLTZMANN WRITES: “Today’s Times has a front page expose’ of the secret drone base in Pakistan. It tells all, including fuel usage. This should immediately result in censure of Dianne Feinstein. She has recklessly endangered American lives once again. She should have her security clearance pulled at the very least.”
TROJAN PIG.
Posted at 10:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds
STILL MORE PICS from the Denver taxpayers’ rally.
Plus, news coverage in The Examiner and the Denver Post. From the latter:
Well, that’s certainly true.
MORE: Still more coverage, plus a photo slideshow.
Plus, reader Fred LaSor writes: “Did you notice who was NOT at the Denver Taxpayers’ Protest? Tim Geithner. ‘Cause he’s not a taxpayer?” Heh. Not really fair, but . . . not really unfair.
STILL MORE: Video.
A BUNCH OF PHOTOS FROM THE DENVER TAXPAYERS’ PROTEST.
Plus, “Yes we care.” “Community organizing helped propel Barack Obama to the White House. It could work for fiscal conservatism, too.” Still more here. And reader Judith Sears emails:
Was anybody else there? Oh, yeah, here are more pictures.
And more pictures here.
POLITICO ON STANFORD FINANCIAL: Accused fraudster gave big to Dems. So, expect this story to die?
Plus, Dan Riehl is connecting the dots.
L.A. TIMES ROUNDS UP reactions to the stimulus-bill signing.
UPDATE: “The beginning of the end?”
ANOTHER UPDATE: “The administration official said the president was reserving for himself any decision on the viability of G.M. and Chrysler.”
Kind of a striking phrase, isn’t it?
MORE: “What you didn’t see.”
Nutroots suddenly hypersensitive about Nazi/president comparisons
February 17, 2009 11:38 PM by Michelle Malkin
For eight years, we’ve heard “Bushitler” invoked endlessly.
Nutroots suddenly hypersensitive about Nazi/president comparisons
For eight years, we’ve heard “Bushitler” invoked endlessly.
Again:
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again:
But now, get this.
The left-wing blogosphere is suddenly up in arms over the sight of others mimicking their over-the-top rhetoric of the past eight years.
Rob at Say Anything:
Census. Oppo researcher. Fairness Doctrine. ACORN. Transparency.
Way to go, Kickback Boy!
Not to be a total downer, so wish Patterico a happy 6th blogiversary.
Just so’s you knows who your masters are:
White House seeks to rein in executive pay excesses
Report: Postmaster Gen. Rakes In Big Bucks
Burma Shave
Comments (365) "Another fxxking “stimulus” package ?!?!?! After the first trillions, and then a few trillion more in TARP2, why not? Good Allah, we were looking at buying a new house and a new car, but I just told Better Half that I simply will not contribute to the economy in such a way that makes it look like the dirty little socialist fucks are doing something right."
Federal Workers Don’t Pay Taxes Either
February 18th, 2009Given the recent and seemingly endless revelations of tax cheats amongst the Obama nominees, it might be timely to post this article from last September from Washington DC’s radio station WTOP:
Oddly enough, just a few days later we got these tidings, via the Sacramento Bee:
So much for crime not paying.
(Thanks to Canary for the heads up.)
Markets Tank Over Fears That Generational Theft Act Won't Help Economy ...Update: Dow Ends 1 Point From November Low
The announcement today Obama will sign the largest spending bill in history did not help any. Stocks tumbled out of the gate by 250 points or 3.0% as investors worried that efforts to stabilize the beleaguered financial system may not prove sufficient.
IowaHawk provides the mood graphic:
The Democrats are driving the economy off a Cliff to Nowhere.
...But, at least they got their pet pork projects funded.
UPDATE: The Dow shed nearly 297.81 points, or 3.8 percent, to close at 7552.60, within one point of its November closing low.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 2/17/2009 02:27:00 PM
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