>>> It was a clichéd rant that I found rather funny.
>>
>> It was accurate.
>>
>>>> You asked if his
>>>> comment about the SPLC - a comment in which he told the truth about
>>>> them - gave him an orgasm. I said that if telling the truth about a
>>>> hate group, the SPLC, is orgasmic, then maybe it did.
>>>
>>> And completely missed the point!
>>
>> No, I turned your puerile sophomoric point back against you.
>>
>>>> You're stupid.
>
> You don't even know what the Southern Poverty Law Center is or what it
> does.
I know exactly what it is. It's a far-left hate group and racket. They
shake people and institutions down for money, in order to label anyone
who disagrees in any way with the regressive proggie race agenda part of
a "hate group."
Weekend Edition May 15-17, 2009
King of the Hate Business
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
What is the arch-salesman of hate-mongering, Mr. Morris Dees of the
Southern Poverty Law Center doing now? He’s saying that the election of
a black president proves his point. Hate is on the rise! Send money!
Without skipping a beat, the mailshot moguls, who year after year make
money selling the notion there’s been a right resurgence out there in
the hinterland with massed legions of haters, have used the election of
a black president to say that, yes, hate is on the rise and America
ready to burst apart at the seams, with millions of extremists primed to
march down Main Street draped in Klan robes, a copy of Mein Kampf tucked
under one arm and a Bible under the other, available for sneak
photographs from minions of Chip Berlet, another salesman of the
Christian menace, ripely endowed with millions to battle the legions of
the cross.
Ever since 1971 US Postal Service mailbags have bulged with Dees’
fundraising letters, scaring dollars out of the pockets of trembling
liberals aghast at his lurid depictions of hate-sodden America, in dire
need of legal confrontation by the SPLC. Nine years ago Ken Silverstein
wrote a devastating commentary on Dees and the SPLC in Harpers,
dissecting a typical swatch of Dees’ solicitations. At that time, as
Silverstein pointed out, the SPLC was “the wealthiest civil rights group
in America,” with $120 million in assets.
As of October 2008 the net assets of the SPLC were $170,240,129, The
merchant of hate himself, Mr. Dees, was paid an annual $273,132 as chief
trial counsel, and the SPLC’s president and CEO, Richard Cohen,
$290,193. Total revenue in 2007 was $44,727,257 and program expenses
$20,804,536. In other words, the Southern Poverty Law Center was raising
twice as much as it was spending on its proclaimed mission. Fund-raising
and administrative expenses accounted for $9 million, leaving $14
million to be put in the center’s vast asset portfolio.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/05/15/king-of-the-hate-business/
SPLC is a corrupt shakedown outfit.