Posted on 07/24/2009 11:09:07 PM PDT by Red Steel
J. Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), asks CNN President in a letter dated today to remove Lou Dobbs from the airwaves. He describes Lou Dobbs reporting as “both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.” The letter ends with:
Respectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda. It's time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves.
The letter was prompted by Mr. Dobbs repeated questioning of the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate, despite evidence to the contrary:
The truth about the president's birth is not in dispute. It has been verified by Factcheck.org, among many other serious news organizations, and his official birth documents have been made public. CNN itself has repeatedly reported on the falsity of the claims of the "birthers," and the network's esteemed legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, recently called those claims "a joke." As you know, even Mr. Dobbs' frequent fill-in anchor, Kitty Pilgrim, debunked the birthers on the July 17 edition of Mr. Dobbs' own CNN show. The fact that Mr. Dobbs suggests otherwise on CNN — while real CNN reporters tell the truth — is both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.
According to Mr. Cohen, this “radical racist right” conspiracy theory:
was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States. Among its adherents was neo-Nazi James von Brunn, the alleged murderer of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this June. Von Brunn had helped spread the birthers' claims on the Internet and attacked the "dishonest & conspiratorial Media" for not taking them up.
Read the entire letter here.
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=390&splcnewsletter=dnewsgen-072409
We know he's black (well, half-black). We're not questioning that. We simply want to know if he's 'American' (i.e. qualified under the Constitution).
They were a source for the Department of Homeland Security’s “right-wing extremists” report. If I recall correctly they were involved in the case where the rancher was sued after detaining some illegals on his land...he lost the case, and his land was taken to pay the judgement.
Southern Poverty Law Center Tries To Cash In On DHS Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2231068/posts
“The serial exaggerators at the radical left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center are trying to capitalize on the Department of Homeland Security report that smears Americans on the political right.
“That odious report quotes from the SPLC, which I’ve argued is ideologically motivated and unreliable.
YUP. The crackdown against those who think differently has begun inside their own newsrooms. Not that there are many targets.
deviationism
They don't have a problem with jokes about pedophilia and rape, but when a journalist has the temerity to exercise his constitutional right of questioning government and it's power-brokers, they have a fit.
Had to look that one up...
“In Stalinist Communism a deviationism is an expressed belief which is not in accordance with official party doctrine for the time and area. A deviationist is person who expresses a deviation.”
Southern Poverty Law Group is a terrorist group in my eyes. Pure scum. I hope they go after Lou Dobbs and the story gets some traction.
I hope Lou does not back down. He is well liked and the only thing on CNN that is any good. Lou also has good ratings - on a network that has sinking ratings.
CNN is horrible - it is liberal govt Obama TV.
Cohen and Klein versus Dobbs.
when was the last time Jews fought the Irish?
Hit a nerve...
Deviationism is now threatening to take down Lou Dobbs. I guess we will soon find that all media outlets must share the party outlook or they’ll be subject to lawsuits and if broadcasters license renewal challenges and stuff.
Someone should start sending this word around the blogosphere. Start using it in mailings to Limbaugh and Levin and others too.
This lawyer is one big liar.
He also must be one insecure brown noser to hold a position like that.
The Southern Poverty Law Center does not like the idea of their meal ticket being proven a fraud.
Jack.
Bump Dat from a “useful idiot “ as “Birthers” are called
by some on FR...
As opposed to loud-mouthed shyster organizations being required to employ disreputable race pimping lawyers peddling real propaganda?
So tell me from your statement I will assume that you are from the:
Office of Redundancy Office
Well this POS waited until the 2nd line to show his proclivity "racist conspiracy theories" Pulease, when are these no-load race baiters going to get a new song to sing.
I am so tired of the "evil white" chorus from some the most gifted members of our society but absolutely dumbest malcontents crying over this tired sh!t.
They have had the very best of America handed to them and like most no class, free loading, poor cripple me, rejects from a B horror movie. It is the same ole crap.
They have (the left)been practicing genocide on the African-American (or what ever they are classifying themselves this week) people for 30+ years, and they can't even see the hypocrisy of their own lives.
Here is a clue SFB, LIFE AIN"T FAIR suck it up or go the hell away.
In 1994 the Montgomery Advertiser won a journalism award for a series of incisive and penetrating investigative articles exposing the unethical fundraising practices of Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center...
The SPLC which has crusaded for the rights of blacks for 23 years, is controlled by whites. It has hired only two black staff attorneys in its history, both of whom left unhappy. 12 of 13 former Black employees interviewed by the Montgomery Advertiser complained they experienced or observed racial problems during their employment. Several said the SPLC was "more like a plantation."...
In 1986 the entire SPLC legal staff resigned in protest of Dees refusal to address issues such as poverty, homelessness, voter registration and other issues they considered more pertinent to poor minorities rather than to get rich fighting a Klan ....
Dees (the founder) has actively campaigned for for laws in which "associations of two or more persons" who train in the use of firearms for defensive purposes are declared "illegal militias."...
Read about them here
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Southern%20Poverty%20Law%20Center%20Pushes.html
http://www.slrc-csa.org/site/dees.php
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