[Trajan88]

Equal consideration is in order.

Mr. Sebesta should direct his quill on some of the Democratic party's jewels that also embrace (overtly or covertly) the "neo-Confederate" stance he so despises: a current senator from W. Virginia and a former governor of AR.

Of course, doing so would pop his little bubble that Democrats are as pure as driven snow.

Trajan88

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[niteowl77]

Selective outrage- why, who'd have thought it from the left?

[mrsmith]

Very interesting.

Blogs are much better suited to the Dems than web forums.
An environment controlled by celebrities and authorities is the one Dem ideas can thrive in.

[Robert A Cook PE]

INteresting:

The story IS news because the democrats PUSHED IT .... Using Carville (and others) to "sell it" until the national media (NY Times, in other words) decided to "run it."

Then, because it was "news" .... although many days old, the national kept repeating it BECAUSE Carville (and others) kept talking about it.

But, when Clinton raped Juanita, the media shelved the story, then hid it until AFTER the impeachment, then ignored it. To the point where the "great" helen can claim she DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE STORY.

Same with many others: each time a clear, specific story question (that is unfavorable to the Clintons) is asked to a Donaldson, Brokaw, etc. during an interview, ... they claim never to have heard about it.

[gusopol3]

[When I had lunch with Sebesta a week ago at Gloria's in Oak Cliff, I was struck again by two things. Sebesta is hard to understand when he expresses his views. But he makes more sense and sounds more cogent the more effort I invest]

[Thomas B. Edsall of The Washington Post has written and co-authored some of the most influential stories on Trent Lott from 1998 until now. He told me that Sebesta has consistently been an important source during that entire span of time. "He has over the years provided me substantial material that has been very useful." Edsall said he began relying on Sebesta four years ago for stories on Lott's involvement with the Council of Conservative Citizens.]

the reason why Sebesta is hard to understand is that he is probably schizophrenic along the lines of the Unabomber-- thus, you have the Washington Post propagating paranoid delusional material and calling it brilliant.

[stainlessbanner]

How long til the Sebesta Fan Club shows up?

[okie01]

"What Sebesta has gathered, he believes, is evidence of a serious movement among educated people who are racist advocates of secession and a second civil war."

Sebesta is a kook.

There's simply no other word for it.

Unless it's "lunatic"...

[BenR2]

Sebesta was plumbing a different phenomenon--tenured professors, pundits, politicians and clergy who maintain a double public life, contained and civilized before the big audience but extremely radical, even seditious, in articles and lectures traded more or less behind the scenes in small journals and on Web pages.

Note the use of the word "seditious." Nice of them to slip that one in. Do you suppose this paper has EVER used the word "seditious" and a discussion of left wing radicals or radical Muslims in the same article?

[BenR2]

Sebesta was plumbing a different phenomenon--tenured professors, pundits, politicians and clergy who maintain a double public life, contained and civilized before the big audience but extremely radical, even seditious, in articles and lectures traded more or less behind the scenes in small journals and on Web pages.

Note the use of the word "seditious." Nice of them to slip that one in. Do you suppose this paper has EVER used the word "seditious" and a discussion of left wing radicals or radical Muslims in the same article?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Apparently lulled into carelessness by his warmly receptive audience, the senator from Mississippi had spoken to the big audience in the vocabulary of radical rejectionism, normally uttered only before carefully sheltered audiences of like-minded souls...Gee, for all his expertise, Mr. Sebesta seems to have missed the fact that Lott said virtually the same thing "Here's Strom Thurmond - he should have been elected President in 1947" in front of dozens of fellow congressmen, including Dennis Hastert, at a bill signing on the Capitol steps in 2000 - hardly a "carefully sheltered audience() of like-minded souls". Broadcast across the country for all to see over C-Span at the time, it remains a mystery as to why such disgusting utterances didn't result in a firestorm of outrage at the time and the removal of Lott from his ML position immediately, or at the very least his defeat for reelection to the post in the two cycles since then......

[wardaddy]

Screw this prick.

[LdSentinal]

Does Mr. Sebesta have similar archives on Robert Byrd and Fritz Hollings? Hmmm . . . I don't think so.

[aristeides]

Don't we know Sid Blumenthal had a role in this story? I wonder why he isn't mentioned here.

[GOPcapitalist]

Of course, doing so would pop his little bubble that Democrats are as pure as driven snow.

You hit the nail on the head. Sebesta's a peculiar figure who exhibits some of the strangest tendencies of the radical left, not the least among them being that of double standards. He automatically directs hatred toward any and every conservative who has even done so much as flown a confederate flag, but when one of his own is an ex KKK Grand Kleagle who rants about "white n----rs" on national tv, he seems not to notice.

Unfortunately Sebesta's a tricky individual insofar as he masks his own radical affiliations to some degree. I have seen other freepers quote and link to his website to make pro-north/anti-south arguments, often without realizing what it was. This happened a while ago, prompting me to do a little research on the guy. Turn's out he's a radical activist for homosexual causes, which seems to be one of the major drives behind his anti-confederate PC mongering (he seems to think the confederacy is the root of all things opposed to his homo agenda). He's also a radical leftist with marxist political affiliations, including the Pacifica Radio Network, a marxist operation based out of Berkeley that is run by Mary Frances Berry of US Civil Rights Commission infamy. Sebesta's been a high profile guest on Pacifica, most notably when they brought him on as an "expert" to make the case that George W. Bush was "racist." From what I can tell, the only people who take him seriously are the radical university campus style left wingers, the rabid south haters, and, in some secrecy, liberal media reporters. Everybody else who knows about him can tell right away that he's a fruitcake.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Great article;thanks for posting it.

Walt

[Aurelius]

Sebesta sounds like a small-time Morris Dees to me.

[MissAmericanPie]

Anyone checked his legal status?=o)

[MissAmericanPie]

I did a google search on Ed Sebesta and came up with this war of words between him and the head of the League of the Souths communications director George Kalas. Here is a snippet.

George Kalas: "Ed Sebesta is well-known in the Southern nationalist movement as a paranoid homosexual from Dallas, Texas who's relationship with a black lover has apparently resulted in some sort of kooky obsession with the idea that a massive "neo-Confederate" conspiracy exists to take over the United States."

The exchange can be found at:

http://www.com/reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/february99/los.html

Sorry I don't know how to post a link, but there are quite a few articles on Ed Sebesta to be found.