southern poverty law center

I haven’t written anything in the way of an op-ed piece in quite some time now. I’d honestly wondered if I have lost my touch. Like, was getting my book published the peak experience I will ever have? I don’t want it to be that way. As I wrote in the final pages of my book, I have spent half a lifetime fighting something that has taken so much from me. Getting that back matters an awful lot.

This morning American Thinker, a site I’ve long admired, published my first essay for a wider audience since January of last year. “Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal” is something that I must confess I had some pleasure in writing. For decades I’ve watched too many journalists cite Southern Poverty Law Center as a legitimate source of information. I can only imagine the looks on the faces ...

I’ve a number of criteria for judging whether a news agency is reputable or not. Usually it’s a long-term process of determination but lately it’s become much, much easier for me.

Wanna know why?

It’s real simple: any news outlet that cites the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reputable source of information, gets a honkin’ HUGE demerit and damn near an unforgivable one.

I first heard of ethnic warfare whore Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center fifteen years ago, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Dees was pimpin’ himself on most of the news channels, claiming his Southern Poverty Law Center was warning the feds way in advance about “the militias movement”. ‘Twas enough to make me wonder who this twit was. Since then I’ve discovered that he’s not much more than the worst sort of perpetual pest: the kind that demands everyone see a ...

American Thinker has published my first essay in quite awhile this morning

Southern Poverty Law Center, or: How NOT to respect a news outlet!