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The Patriot Post Digest 3-18-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Mar. 18, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/61831-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/61830-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
SPLC dumps its cofounder for harassment and discrimination.1
Is Kirsten Gillibrand really the Democrats’ “brave” candidate?2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
SPLC, Morris Dees, and Their Hypocritical Facade10
Mark Alexander
We have written at length about the so-called “Southern Poverty Law Center11,” which has nothing to do with the South, poverty, or the law.
The SPLC was founded by a marketer and self-promoter, Morris Dees, who perfected the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton race-bait shakedown model12 for extorting money from corporations. Despite his social-justice-crusader cape, his former law partner, Millard Fuller, said of their years in business: “Morris and I shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money. We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich.” The examples of how “not particular” they were included defending racists whose legal fees were paid by the KKK.
In a moment of honesty, JoAnn Wypijewski of the leftist Nation magazine once described Dees as a “millionaire huckster.” According to Harper’s Ken Silverstein, the SPLC exists “to separate wealthy liberals from their money.” And Dees used those funds to build his “Poverty Palace13” offices and exotic luxury home.
Last week, Dees’s unmitigated arrogance caught up with him and, according to The Washington Post, he was fired14. SPLC President Richard Cohen, an equally leftist hack handpicked by Dees, noted that under Dees, the organization lacked “truth, justice, equity and inclusion.”
His own organization finally cut ties with him after decades of internal complaints about his sexual harassment and racial discrimination15.
For much of the SPLC’s history, it was an obscure collector and disseminator of mostly open-source news about racist organizations — fascist and anarchist groups with a handful of members whom Dees mislabeled as “right wing.” But as we noted in our coverage of the mass murder in New Zealand16 last week, “There’s nothing uniquely ‘right wing’ about racism or nationalism. The ideological spectrum is better understood as circular, not as linear. And in that sphere, fascism occupies the space between Left and Right.”
But Dees is an archetypal “useful idiot17,” a hypocrite who lives high on the hog while embracing Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism.
Consequently, on the political spectrum, the SPLC falls in the increasingly narrow gap between the Democrat Party18 and the Communist Party USA — reflecting Dees’s personal views. At the time he was founding the SPLC, he also served as national finance director for the presidential campaigns of leftist George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and uber-leftist Ted Kennedy when he was seeking the nomination to run against Ronald Reagan19.
The SPLC was largely unknown until the last decade, when Dees promoted it as the go-to organization for Leftmedia outlets20 and social-media giants21 for SPLC’s rankings of hate groups22. Most of those groups were correctly labeled in prior years, but, increasingly, Dees has made a practice of rating organizations and people as “haters” because they do not comport with his views. Among many examples would be his labeling of the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom as “hate groups.”
After the election of Donald Trump23, and the epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome24” that followed, Dees capitalized on the Left’s “Hate Trump25” wave. Predictably, SPLC’s Hate Watch26 list jumped to more than 1,000 groups.
Given the SPLC’s rising status as the arbiter of what constitutes “hate” for media platforms, it has become an insidiously dangerous organization. And consistent with his “overriding purpose of making a pile of money,” Dees has turned that star status into cash. The SPLC’s slush fund “endowment27” is now more than $500 million — some of which is reportedly maintained in offshore accounts.
Dees has been terminated and even his bio has disappeared28 from the SPLC website. But a day after he was fired, his successors at the SPLC were doing what they do best: fundraising on the blood of innocents. They broadcasted an email to their list not to explain Dees’s firing but to fulminate about the New Zealand attack, declaring that “this hatred is even being amplified by our own president.”
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61829-splc-morris-dees-and-their-hypocritical-facade
Gillibrand’s ‘Brave’ Presidential Bid29
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) has officially and “bravely” announced her bid to enter the crowded field of Democrat presidential hopefuls. In a two-and-a-half-minute video released Sunday, she referenced the national anthem’s final line about the “home of the brave” to set herself up as the candidate to take on President Donald Trump, whom she accuses of promoting fear. Seeking to further the image of herself as the “brave” anti-Trump candidate, Gillibrand plans to give her first big speech in front of the Trump International Hotel in New York City. So … brave. Never mind the fact Trump currently resides in the White House.
Gillibrand’s platform is a litany of the latest leftist extremism, which includes30 “universal healthcare, paid family leave for all, end gun violence, pass a Green New Deal, get money out of politics and take back our democracy.” We’re not sure who “took” our democracy, or where it was taken, as the American republic is still (largely) operating under the system established by our Founding Fathers over 200 years ago. But even still, Gillibrand will “take it back.”
Evoking the moon landings, Gillibrand declares that her socialist agenda is entirely doable if we are just “brave” enough to put our minds to it. This is the stuff of fairy tales, not facts, but remember — “we landed on the moon,” so anything is possible. (By the way, on that moon-landing allusion, she probably owes Cory Booker for copyright infringement31.) And as for getting money out of politics, it’s ironic that Gillibrand herself doesn’t seem to want to walk the walk, as the first item on her campaign page32 is an ad asking for donations.
As the sixth woman to enter a crowded Democrat field, Gillibrand is not a particularly unique candidate and she is already well behind in the polls compared to the rest of the field. However, her biggest problem may be answering the charge of flip-flopping. Gillibrand was first elected as a moderate who supported gun rights and opposed illegal immigration. But she has swung to the extreme left, while at the same time claiming that flip-flopping is not “part of my record.” She’s a microcosm of the entire Democrat Party over the last 20 years.
At this point, it’s difficult to see Gillibrand catching up and surpassing the likes of Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, or Joe Biden, should he decide to enter, but she will surely be a factor in how the race plays out.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61825-gillibrands-brave-presidential-bid
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Are Third-World Pilots Being MAXed Out?33 — As theories solidify for recent deadly airline crashes, we wonder if the right question is being asked.
Colleges or Ruling-Class Collaborators?34 — Admissions bribery? The real problem with higher education is far deeper than that.
The End of the World … Because Leftists Say So35 — Kids are always pawns for leftist indoctrination, this time walking out over climate.
Reparations Decoded36 — Can “40 acres and a mule” solve black America’s problems today? Not a chance.
Pelosi Wants to Lower Voting Age to 1637 — Democrats would love nothing more than to increase the number of ignorant voters.
Video: What Is an Automatic Weapon?38 — Well, for one thing, it’s not the same as a semiautomatic weapon.
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
“President Donald Trump on Friday issued the first veto of his presidency, defying a bipartisan rebuke of the national emergency he declared to circumvent Congress to get more money for his proposed southern border wall,” ABC News reports40. “Attorney General William Barr was on hand to tell the president that his emergency declaration was ‘clearly consistent with the law.’ Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told him that the fact that it was an emergency was ‘undeniable.’” Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced, “On March 26, the House will once again act to protect our Constitution and our democracy from the President’s emergency declaration by holding a vote to override his veto.” |
