Dear Town Hall Protestors: The Left thinks you're just like those racist militias
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Oh dear. It seems those Evil, Extremist, Racist, Right-Wing Militias are On The Rise Again. At least they are if you ask the Southern Poverty Law Center, a supposedly non-profit tracker of “hate groups,†which has released a new study (seen here, though it contains little research and mostly anecdote and innuendo) finding just that.
Theoretically, the SPLC would find itself out of its lucrative line of work if hate groups weren’t continually on the rise everywhere, at all times. The Center makes a pretty penny churning out similar headlines every few years, always with calls for money to oppose such groups – though strangely enough, when a real hate crime, like that committed by the New Black Panther Party occurs, the SPLC is nowhere to be found.
But during an otherwise unremarkable, paint-by-numbers rant, SPLC Director Mark Potok used this new study to pull a particularly egregious slur during his dialogue with Anderson Cooper (on Anderson Cooper 360) Wednesday evening. After going on for some time about the reasons these groups are on the rise – mainly, Potok asserts, because a black man was elected president – we got this little gem of an exchange:
COOPER: And how many of these groups are just, you know, talkers? People who, you know, talk big, you know, love running around in forests dressed up in paramilitary gear, but ultimately, they don’t amount to much?
POTOK: Well, I think that a lot of them are essentially just talkers, but talk is not always completely benign. I mean, I think we’re seeing that right now in the town-hall meetings and so on.â€
Get it? If you’re a town hall protester, you are just like those militias. You may not actually do anything, but Potok knows that in all your hearts lies a simmering pot of racism that is, naturally, the only reason anyone could be opposed to anything Dear Leader Obama wants. And you, like the militia, are just poised for a real outbreak of violence. All this despite the fact that these protesters are the ones having violence done to them.
Then Potok went on to accuse the protesters of being the ones responsible for the “poisoning of the mainstream political discourse.â€
I’m sorry, Mr. Potok, are you familiar with the ancient computer proverb “does not compute� Mr. Potok, could quit chugging that Hypocrisy Cola for just a second, and look in the mirror? Would that be too much to ask?
It’s not terribly surprising that Potok would make such a statement–the SPLC’s definition of “hate group,†once solely the province of organizations like the KKK or White Aryan Resistance, has expanded in recent years to include anyone who disagrees with the SPLC’s politics (while still containing groups like the KKK, of course, because guilt-by-association character assassination is just that cool). It’s just disheartening that Potok can make such a claim with a straight face. And even more disappointing, though not necessarily surprising, that Anderson Cooper gave the man unchecked latitude to spew this over the airwaves.
None of this is to diminish the fact that there are militias out there with very racist and racialist tenets. And those people should be properly marginalized and discredited. But it’s a far cry from extremist militias to opponents of government-run health care … er, health-care reform … er, health insurance reform — sorry, I lose track of Obama’s shifting euphemisms. And it is extremely “irresponsible” (I’ll steal one of the left’s favorite scold-words for this) to make comparisons between the two.
That would be like me comparing every leftwing union member, every Democrat in Congress, and every leftist university professor to members of the Earth Liberation Front, an eco-terrorist organization responsible for at least $95 million in property damage since the late 1990s. And if I did just that, I’m sure Anderson Cooper would be willing to give me 5 minutes on his show. Right?
You know what? More Americans had better become like the militias and be prepared for their very survival.
How can you watch these programs without going completely insane?
Wonder if Potok was aware he was being interviewed by a real “tea bagger”, Cooper.
morris dees and his little elves have been working this racket for years, i’m amazed anyone still buys his line of shoddy, half baked bovine waste.
Morris Dees is just a fundraiser who will magnify and multiply any perceived threat to keep his Southern Poverty Law Center funded.
Morris Dees and friends have a real good financial thing going on, where do they get their money anyway?
Maybe he should change the name to “The Southern Wealthy Law Center”.
Just a bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers getting rich on the backs of the ill informed.
I don’t care what the left thinks or the right thinks. The Democrats and Republicans are all, ALL, corrupt. They don’t serve the citizens interests, and are even planning to allow Mexico to receive free medical care from American taxpayers. Amnesty is a moot point, and a stupid debate as well as the North American Union, so-called debate. Question to clueless Americans: What in the hell do you think refusing to close the borders and offering illegal aliens free medical care is, if not amnesty? When engough foreign nationals from mexico enter the U.S. they will do whatever they please, as we already witnessed during the Gran Marches of the illegl aliens, where they told Americans to skiddaddle back to Europe. MOST AMERICANS ARE CLUELESS TO THE CORE.
SPLC = Slimy Putrid Lying Conmen
I read that Morris Dees used to sell cook books at one time.
Attacking Americans that insist on RULE OF LAW and calling them haters
I guess is more profitable.
It was said that while Morris Dees, and partner,were looking for a business to start, it didn’t matter as along as they made, ” a pile of money.” Man, that “human rights” racket is profitable. Too bad so many Americans actually have to work for a living.
Bobby is on to something. It is amazing that both parties have defied the desires and interests of the great majority of Americans by not securing the borders. As technologically advanced as this country is, why can’t they complete a fence?
I often feel like my five years as a leftist kind of inoculated me to it. I can handle quite a bit of it. That’s just me, though.
Ooohhh! Snap! One of the wittiest disses I’ve seen yet in a NewsReal comment