{"id":17671,"date":"2010-02-25T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17671"},"modified":"2010-02-25T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:53:38","slug":"mark-potok-and-the-anatomy-of-a-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17671","title":{"rendered":"Mark Potok and the anatomy of a smear."},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of folks who are unencumbered by any honor or integrity, but at the top of that list must go Mark Potok and SPLC. Even when it is proven that what Potok has said is incorrect, he blithely argues against the facts. What makes him so odious is that he ostensibly even does it in the name of stopping racism and creating equality. Those are laudable goals, but they are not effectuated by just making shit up and smearing people. Which is why Potok is the biggest pile of excrement in a field full of bullshit.<\/p>\n

As a case in point, I will refer to today\u2019s \u201cHatewatch Headlines<\/a>.\u201d Specifically, this one:<\/p>\n

Austin Killer Becoming a Hero to the Radical Right In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an IRS building, white supremacists and their fellow travelers have elevated Joseph Andrew Stack into an icon of resistance to tyranny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s not even subtle the way he did that. See, if you are a white supremacist, you are by definition \u201cRadical Right.\u201d How does that work exactly? Doesn\u2019t matter, Potok says it does, so there. It\u2019s the same way that he called gang members in a previous report \u201cRadical Rightwing Racists.\u201d I mean sure, they were gang members in Seattle, but let\u2019s not let that get in the way of a good mantra.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look closer at his article. Mind you, he only writes shit like this because he knows that some of you suckers on the left will buy into it and open your checkbook. It\u2019s just like their bullshit legal case that they were doing for the poor downtrodden youth whose name and home address they just threw up on the internet despite their claims that they were doing it because he was ashamed to be singled out. They don\u2019t actually care about those people they purport to represent; all they want is the greenbacks.
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Actually, before reading any more, a question: Is every person who attacks federal employees because of their job a \u201cright wing radical\u201d according to Potok\u2019s definition? What about those who attack federal property? If anti-government means right wing, then yes, right? Well, I remember some gentlemen of a certain faith attacking and killing soldiers in Arkansas and Texas, and yet I don\u2019t remember Potok writing about them. I remember \u201cPeace Activists\u201d attacking recruiting stations, including with bombs, and nary a word from Potok. Why is that I wonder? Does anti-government radicalism then depend on the target Mark? You need to go after those right wing Religion of Peace folks and their counterparts in the Radical Right Wing peace movement like Code Pink. I mean, if you even want to make a pretense towards honesty.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s look at Potok\u2019s proof that the \u201cRight\u201d views this absolute lunatic as a \u201cHero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Guy is a true HERO!!!\u201d wrote \u201cnorthroad\u201d on Stormfront.org, the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world. \u201cGod bless him,\u201d chimed in \u201cRudyard,\u201d following a comment by \u201csuepeace\u201d: \u201cThis was quite heroic. There is a gradual awakening underway. I wonder how racially conscious he was.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

M\u2019kay. So some dirtbag racists think he was a hero, I don\u2019t see how that pertains to the \u201cRight.\u201d Stormfront isn\u2019t from the right, they are just a bunch of loser assholes. I went to look at that site briefly once, and the hallmark of that place wasn\u2019t less government intrusion on economics, stressing personal responsibility and the merits of the free enterprise economy. It was how Whitey is being oppressed and how those damned Jooooos run everything, including FoxNews.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, white supremacists were thoroughly excited by his attack. \u201cI can feel the crunch coming,\u201d wrote \u201cLady Spirit Warrior,\u201d another poster on Stormfront. \u201cThis is just the beginning. Prepare for battle!\u201d \u201cThings are heating up in America,\u201d added \u201cAstragoth.\u201d \u201cThis man won\u2019t be the last to do something like this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, yeah Dick, we get it, the assholes at Stormfront like the guy, how again does that go against \u201cthe right\u201d? Got something from someone actually associated with the right? Like for instance, our site? Or maybe RedState? You know, a website actually associated with politics and not with skin pigmentation issues?<\/p>\n

\u201cLeshrac,\u201d writing at another radical Web forum, the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network, said: \u201cOnly bad I see about this is that he didn\u2019t kill enough.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dude, you do know that \u201cNAZI\u201d is for National Socialist, meaning not the right side of the spectrum, right? These aren\u2019t tea partiers and shit you are quoting, these are nutbag racists.<\/p>\n

A few other white supremacists suggested that lionizing Stack could be a bad thing for the radical right, but they appeared to be in a minority. At the White Revolution website, \u201cstephen3\u201d said that \u201calthough Mr. Stack\u2019s reasonings are true and correct, I am not hinting by any means that this is the way to protest against our corrupt government. \u2026 Although the time for direct action is here, do not go out and kill yourself to make a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

A more common point was made on Stormfront by \u201cberdoofool,\u201d who asked simply: \u201cAre there ANY innocent IRS employees???\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that is it. Not one person readily identifiable as being on the Right. Just a bunch of racist douches.<\/p>\n

But\u2026\u2026..the guy himself was a right wing extremist, right? I mean sure, look at all the Right Wing straw men that he railed against in his manifesto: the church, Capitalism, Big Business\u2026.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. The Right Wing doesn\u2019t bash those things, we are beholden to them, remember? The right wing values Capitalism over everything, that is why we are ruining the lives of little brown people I thought? And religion is hated on the right? But, Mark, you argue on a second page how many members of the right were involved in the \u201cChristian Identity\u201d movement. So which is it? If you hate Religion you are right wing, and if you love it, you are right wing?<\/p>\n

The reality is that Potok is completely full of shit. The Austin lunatic was not a right winger, and the people deifying this jackass are racists, not right wingers. Potok just thinks he can keep using \u201cRacist\u201d and \u201cRight Wing\u201d interchangeably until his smears stick. It makes him look worse than it does us. Try a little integrity, Mark, it might do you some good. <\/p>\n

EXIT QUESTION:<\/p>\n

Which Radical Right Wing, Anti-Government Extremist group said the following:<\/p>\n

Our tax dollars have purchased Predator and Reaper Drones, padded the pockets of Eric Prince and Blackwater mercenaries, Halliburton and the “too-big-to-fail” banks at the expense of our communities, our main streets, our small businesses, our neighbors’ homes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

EXIT EXIT QUESTION: How does the above quote differ from the manifesto of the Austin guy?<\/p>\n

Exit Comment:
\nIn the Comments OT compares Potok to Bizzaro from Super-Friends<\/a>, but I have indisputable photgraphic evidence that he was actually the Swamp Monster from the Herculoids<\/a>.
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