While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. They were enraged by an article I wrote for Salon.com about James O'Keefe's attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event featuring open racialists Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire as well as Kevin Martin of the right-wing front group Project 21. Project 21, by the way, is a black front group created and operated by white conservative operatives to provide cover to figures like Taylor.
Did O'Keefe plan the event with his friend, the white nationalist Marcus Epstein, the Tancredo aide who pled guilty to randomly attacking a black woman and calling her the n-word? O'Keefe's role in helping out with and freely attending the event, along with his palling around with characters like Epstein and Taylor highlighted a career filled with racist pranks, from his ACORN pimp costume minstrel show (see Bradblog on the deceptive means Breitbart used to push the pimp costume myth) to his "affirmative action bake sale," in which he and his friends charged white students extra for baked goods while minorities ate for little or nothing. Then there are his diaries about the hell of living in a multicultural university environment. James O'Keefe, the apparent hero of the conservative movement's youth wing, is what racism looks like today.
The only time Breitbart and his goon squad get upset about racism is when they think it is somehow being directed against white people like themselves. That's why a particularly manic mob member (who wouldn't stop using the pretentious word "rubric") seemed to argue to me against the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus because it would not allow a hostile conservative congressman to join. And it's why when CPAC chose as its keynote speaker the race-baiter Glenn Beck, who claimed Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
It is also worth noting that CPAC played host to Thomas Woods, a former leader of the white supremacist League of the South and contributor to the neo-secessionist Southern Partisan magazine. And that CPAC held a seminar called "Abraham Lincoln: Friend or Foe of Liberty?" led by Thomas DiLorenzo, another League of the South figure who insists Lincoln was the very embodiment of evil. The presence at CPAC of Islamophobes Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller (Geller once argued Obama was "involved with a crack whore in his youth"), promoters of the European neo-fascist Geert Wilders, can not be overlooked either. And stay tuned for my interview with Birther leader Philip Berg, who insisted Obama was actually an Indonesian Muslim who should be tried for treason and possibly executed. These people must have left their sheets at the dry cleaners.
Breitbart's tirade against me was filled with irony. The most glaring projection was that I was using "Alinsky tactics," referring to left-wing community organizer Saul Alinsky. For the record, I skimmed Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" about 14 years ago and can hardly remember what was in it. However, Breitbart's boy, James O'Keefe, boasted to the LA Times that Alinsky's book was the blueprint for his work.
Breitbart went on to say that calling someone a racist was the worst thing anyone could do. Actually, there is something worse than that: promoting and paying a racist. And that's what Breitbart is doing with O'Keefe. Meanwhile, Breitbart has some interesting views of his own on racial issues. Besides calling the Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn a "multiculturalist, just like the black studies and the lesbian studies majors on college campuses," Breitbart has howled about "black studies intimidation." As usual, he only sees racism when it is supposedly directed against white people like himself.
According to a recent study by the Pew Center on the States, one out of every 100 adults in the United States is in prison. One of every nine black males between the ages of 20 and 34 has been behind bars, a scandalous statistic owing itself in part to the failed and racially biased drug war, which mandates the warehousing of non-violent drug offenders for long periods of time.
I look forward to working with James O'Keefe on prison reform.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BWEBXKOkaI
Watch, listen to him, then make your opinion. This is the man who is sweeping up a broad base, including both conservatives and liberals. The "Conservative" power chiefs are afraid of him. Listen to his full speech and decide how much you disagree with him. Don't listen with a preconceived idea of what a conservative is. He stands far apart.
"The re-editing of a story that is pushed to the national media should be a big deal. To add footage to a so-called news event with costuming totally changes the narrative. It is basically photoshopping your "facts". I am glad Max is on it with these frauds."
Yeah funny how that works both ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5TOJt6YmQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIeByOeERpY
Well, this explains the Paulite/libbercon factor. Both those creeps are old Lew Rockwell/blabbertarian stalwarts.
Keep it up, and thank you so much.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html See last paragraph.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/paris/text.html Article I.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/text.html Article VI, Section 2.
Lincoln’s Tax War reduced the States to the status of colonies of the federal government.
Lincoln declared, one month before he started the war by invading the territorial waters of South Carolina with 11 armed warships to occupy Fort Sumter, a tax collection fort:
“The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.” and
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” http://www.nationalcenter.org/LincolnFirstInaugural.html Paragraphs 4, 21 and 32.
BUT, people are starting to catch on.
Furthermore, to drop the ad-hominem slaps at Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller as "islamophobes" is to adopt a term that is used by pro-jihadist forces to turmn any criticism of islam into "racisim." A phobia is an irrational fear. is it irretional to be concerned that since 9/11/01 there have been more than 18,000 jihadi attacks around the world (mainly upon fellow Muslims, but also against Chrtisians, Jews, Hindus, animists and Bhuddists?. If you have an argument with Robert Spenceer's anayisis, please attack him on the points, backing your arguments with facts to show him wrong. By this cavalier attack on Spencer and Geller you lose your crdibility on what you say about others.
Geller, by the way, on her website gave a blistering attack on the CPACers --in which she noted the Paulian hoards and gay-bashers and Bircher in attendance.
But if you knew anything about the Netherlands, you would understand that no politician there would have any chance of being elected if he did not support civil rights, gay rights, women's rights.
You are also correct in saying that "the only isue that differentiates it from the "leftist" parties is its stand on Dutch immigration laws"
That is because most immigrants have no voting rights -- so he need not care what they think of him
And also because, in a depressed economic climate, people traditionally turn against minorities -- these are the votes he seeks.
http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2010&month=03&date=16&hrs=0&ts=24&min=0&sec=0&tz=local&lang=en&show=dhms&mode=t&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20To%20Breitbartocalypse
I can't stop shaking in fear.
btw Good job at CPAC.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/marks-new-note-feb-21-2010/322101900945
These accusations of racism at CPAC are not just coming from the left.
Great job by Max Blumenthal, as usual.
I want buy your book now, I thought your performance was priceless!!
Not only could the President be in danger, but any liberal or progressive could be a target. His "I want them all dead" could be take just as it is. A pregnant pause later, he added, "I want to kill all the bills". It was the most toxic thing I ever heard.
He created this juggernaut, he should be held accountable for it.
I imagine America's comedy writers had great fun mining that rich vein of comedy material at that CPAC Convention.
If anyone wants to know what it would be like to spend time in Wonderland they should have watched C-SPAN'S coverage of the CPAC Convention where reality, facts and truth were totally abandoned and replaced by the Mad Hatter's Tea Partier's absurd rantings, ravings and just plain silliness.
One good explanation for this Wonderland event was that most of the people attending had been lobotomized because they had spent so much time listening to FOX NEWS and loonytoons like Limbaugh.
Of course when one realizes that these poor, deluded CPAC people have been deceived and are being used by America's corrupt corporations it becomes more like a tragedy then a comedy.
Good post!
The re-editing of a story that is pushed to the national media should be a big deal. To add footage to a so-called news event with costuming totally changes the narrative. It is basically photoshopping your "facts". I am glad Max is on it with these frauds.