Cliff Kincaid
Liberal media work with jihadists
By Cliff Kincaid
It's strange that the liberals in the media who always complain about Joe McCarthy once having a list of communists in government are so quick to cite the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of so-called right-wing extremists or "haters."
With the help of the media, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is setting people up for terrorist attacks inside the United States. Pamela Geller is the latest on the list of the SPLC that has now been targeted for death by the jihadists. ISIS says "...we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter."
ISIS is angry that Geller, an opponent of jihad, has defended the First Amendment right of free speech against Islamic Sharia law.
In response, ISIS tried to massacre people at Geller's Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas on Sunday. Two terrorists were killed and an unarmed security guard protecting the event was shot in the leg.
It's an open secret that ISIS can get locations for its targets from the SPLC website. That's how homosexual militant Floyd Corkins discovered the location of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., and showed up at its headquarters, opening fire on a security guard. He had hoped to conduct a massacre of FRC staff.
Indeed, Corkins told the FBI after the shooting that he intended to "kill as many as possible" and smear the 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches he was carrying in the victims' faces. Chick-fil-A had been in the news because its CEO had defended traditional marriage.
As we noted in a previous column, "The SPLC targets its critics by name...labeling them 'hate groups' and running photographs of officers and employees so they can more easily be identified."
The SPLC sends its "intelligence reports" around the country, listing people and groups by name with their locations. This puts the leaders of these groups and their families at risk of terrorist attack.
Rather than express disgust with this tactic, the media regard the SPLC as somehow a credible source of information.
This brings a human face to the slogan "if it bleeds, it leads," and makes the media complicit in the planned jihad on American soil and its victims.
The SPLC exercises what journalist James Simpson calls "partisan tolerance," which means conservatives and Christians must be demonized and destroyed. On the other hand, anyone on the left is acceptable. That's why the SPLC hailed the "educational" work of Weather Underground terrorist bomber Bill Ayers.
As the leading spear-carrier in the cultural Marxist war on America, the SPLC is one of the most despicable groups on the political scene these days, and yet it is accepted by the media as somehow authoritative and respectable.
No matter how many times the group is exposed for sloppy research and money-making scams, it is still considered a source of legitimate information by some in the media.
That's why its apparent role in the targeting for death of Pamela Geller has to be highlighted and exposed. News organizations are helping terrorist groups by giving the SPLC unwarranted sympathy and publicity.
ISIS has figured out that all it has to do in order to identify their critics is go to the SPLC website and search its "hate map" and various "lists" of so-called extremists. The SPLC makes it easy for terrorists to wage jihad on American soil.
Yet, for a time, the Obama/Holder Justice Department and its FBI openly collaborated with the SPLC. For example, Judicial Watch discovered that SPLC head Morris Dees had appeared as the featured speaker at a "Diversity Training Event" on July 31, 2012, at the Department of Justice. The FBI has even listed the SPLC as a credible source of information on "hate crimes."
The SPLC tends to focus its critical attention on opponents of radical Islam and critics of the homosexual agenda.
The media's reliance on this organization was disclosed publicly by the hapless Bob Schieffer on a recent "Face the Nation" episode when he interviewed Tony Perkins of the FRC and began by noting, "You and your group have been so strong in coming out...against gay marriage that the Southern Poverty Law Center has branded the Family Research Council an anti-gay hate group. We have been inundated by people who say we should not even let you appear because they, in their view, quote, 'You don't speak for Christians.' Do you think you have taken this too far?"
This comment proves that Schieffer has lost it as a newsman. Did he even bother to investigate the SPLC? Was he aware of the terrorist attack on the FRC offices inspired by the SPLC?
Simply because the homosexuals inundated the CBS switchboard, Schieffer felt compelled to take their objections seriously. This is not the usual way journalism is done. But it's the way liberals in the media operate. Their ignorance is astounding.
Geller understands what is happening and frames the issue this way: "Truth is the new hate speech."
The media need to educate themselves quickly about how they are playing into the hands of not only the SPLC but the terrorists who are targeting enemies on American soil.
This assumes, of course, that the media do not want to inspire more violence in America.
Typically, the liberal media describe the SPLC as a "civil rights organization."
For those in the media who want to avoid violence and report the facts, for a change, Jim Simpson's recent talk on "cultural Marxism" is required viewing.
In a report, Simpson defines partisan tolerance as expressing "partisan hatred for everything non-leftist," noting that it "seeks to actively muzzle the views of the majority." This lies behind the labeling of conservatives and Christians as extremists or "haters."
He notes that the concept of partisan tolerance is associated with cultural Marxist Herbert Marcuse and is based on "an extreme arrogance that assumes they are infallible in their utopian fantasies, and have the right to impose their will on us no matter what we think." The notion that all positions incompatible with leftist designs can and must be suppressed is at "the heart" of their worldview, Simpson points out.
He adds, "The idea was further developed in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, especially rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Alinsky popularized the tactic, but Marcuse invented the concept."
In the ISIS message targeting Geller for death, the group said, "The next six months will be interesting...May Allah send his peace and blessings upon our prophet Muhammad and all those who follow until the last Day."
It's time for the media to stop encouraging the bloodshed.
© Cliff Kincaid
May 7, 2015
It's strange that the liberals in the media who always complain about Joe McCarthy once having a list of communists in government are so quick to cite the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of so-called right-wing extremists or "haters."
With the help of the media, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is setting people up for terrorist attacks inside the United States. Pamela Geller is the latest on the list of the SPLC that has now been targeted for death by the jihadists. ISIS says "...we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter."
ISIS is angry that Geller, an opponent of jihad, has defended the First Amendment right of free speech against Islamic Sharia law.
In response, ISIS tried to massacre people at Geller's Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas on Sunday. Two terrorists were killed and an unarmed security guard protecting the event was shot in the leg.
It's an open secret that ISIS can get locations for its targets from the SPLC website. That's how homosexual militant Floyd Corkins discovered the location of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., and showed up at its headquarters, opening fire on a security guard. He had hoped to conduct a massacre of FRC staff.
Indeed, Corkins told the FBI after the shooting that he intended to "kill as many as possible" and smear the 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches he was carrying in the victims' faces. Chick-fil-A had been in the news because its CEO had defended traditional marriage.
As we noted in a previous column, "The SPLC targets its critics by name...labeling them 'hate groups' and running photographs of officers and employees so they can more easily be identified."
The SPLC sends its "intelligence reports" around the country, listing people and groups by name with their locations. This puts the leaders of these groups and their families at risk of terrorist attack.
Rather than express disgust with this tactic, the media regard the SPLC as somehow a credible source of information.
This brings a human face to the slogan "if it bleeds, it leads," and makes the media complicit in the planned jihad on American soil and its victims.
The SPLC exercises what journalist James Simpson calls "partisan tolerance," which means conservatives and Christians must be demonized and destroyed. On the other hand, anyone on the left is acceptable. That's why the SPLC hailed the "educational" work of Weather Underground terrorist bomber Bill Ayers.
As the leading spear-carrier in the cultural Marxist war on America, the SPLC is one of the most despicable groups on the political scene these days, and yet it is accepted by the media as somehow authoritative and respectable.
No matter how many times the group is exposed for sloppy research and money-making scams, it is still considered a source of legitimate information by some in the media.
That's why its apparent role in the targeting for death of Pamela Geller has to be highlighted and exposed. News organizations are helping terrorist groups by giving the SPLC unwarranted sympathy and publicity.
ISIS has figured out that all it has to do in order to identify their critics is go to the SPLC website and search its "hate map" and various "lists" of so-called extremists. The SPLC makes it easy for terrorists to wage jihad on American soil.
Yet, for a time, the Obama/Holder Justice Department and its FBI openly collaborated with the SPLC. For example, Judicial Watch discovered that SPLC head Morris Dees had appeared as the featured speaker at a "Diversity Training Event" on July 31, 2012, at the Department of Justice. The FBI has even listed the SPLC as a credible source of information on "hate crimes."
The SPLC tends to focus its critical attention on opponents of radical Islam and critics of the homosexual agenda.
The media's reliance on this organization was disclosed publicly by the hapless Bob Schieffer on a recent "Face the Nation" episode when he interviewed Tony Perkins of the FRC and began by noting, "You and your group have been so strong in coming out...against gay marriage that the Southern Poverty Law Center has branded the Family Research Council an anti-gay hate group. We have been inundated by people who say we should not even let you appear because they, in their view, quote, 'You don't speak for Christians.' Do you think you have taken this too far?"
This comment proves that Schieffer has lost it as a newsman. Did he even bother to investigate the SPLC? Was he aware of the terrorist attack on the FRC offices inspired by the SPLC?
Simply because the homosexuals inundated the CBS switchboard, Schieffer felt compelled to take their objections seriously. This is not the usual way journalism is done. But it's the way liberals in the media operate. Their ignorance is astounding.
Geller understands what is happening and frames the issue this way: "Truth is the new hate speech."
The media need to educate themselves quickly about how they are playing into the hands of not only the SPLC but the terrorists who are targeting enemies on American soil.
This assumes, of course, that the media do not want to inspire more violence in America.
Typically, the liberal media describe the SPLC as a "civil rights organization."
For those in the media who want to avoid violence and report the facts, for a change, Jim Simpson's recent talk on "cultural Marxism" is required viewing.
In a report, Simpson defines partisan tolerance as expressing "partisan hatred for everything non-leftist," noting that it "seeks to actively muzzle the views of the majority." This lies behind the labeling of conservatives and Christians as extremists or "haters."
He notes that the concept of partisan tolerance is associated with cultural Marxist Herbert Marcuse and is based on "an extreme arrogance that assumes they are infallible in their utopian fantasies, and have the right to impose their will on us no matter what we think." The notion that all positions incompatible with leftist designs can and must be suppressed is at "the heart" of their worldview, Simpson points out.
He adds, "The idea was further developed in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, especially rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Alinsky popularized the tactic, but Marcuse invented the concept."
In the ISIS message targeting Geller for death, the group said, "The next six months will be interesting...May Allah send his peace and blessings upon our prophet Muhammad and all those who follow until the last Day."
It's time for the media to stop encouraging the bloodshed.
© Cliff Kincaid
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