March 18, 2004
NPR vs. VDARE.COM; etc.
National Public
Radio just did a piece on the
Sierra Club flap. Some loyal readers thought it
referred to VDARE.COM as a Neo-Nazi website. We think,
in our tolerant way, that it depends how you parse this
sentence from the
radio report:
“The websites included the
Neo-Nazi website, Overthrow.com, and another called
Vdare.” [Listen.
in RealAudio]
Sierra Club
President Larry Fahn was quoted as saying “To pull up
the drawbridge, or dismantle the Statue of Liberty is
just really not the right approach.” Fahn also
claimed that for the Sierra Club to raise the issue of
immigration restriction would divide their
membership—odd, since polls show that immigration
restriction is enormously popular with the American
people.
Instead, Fahn is
throwing the weight of the Sierra Club behind a cause
that no more than about 50 percent of Americans support
at any one time: the
Democratic Party.
Overthrow.com is
in fact an explicitly anti-Semitic website, which
scalped our Brenda Walker’s piece (without either asking
or paying for the privilege) and added the feverish
headline
Save The Sierra Club From Homo Jew Takeover.
VDARE.COM is not
responsible for that—anymore than the Village Voice
is responsible for VDARE.COM, although we reprinted
Lawrence Chua’s review of
Alien Nation, in which Chua said “His
fear is justified. We will bury him."
NPR spent a
large part of its segment on
Mark Potok, the prime mover in the
SPLC’s intervention in the Sierra Club affairs. (The
Sierra Club staff welcomes the SPLC—I guess it’s what
Wall Street takeover strategists call a “White Knight”…if
the term is still permissible).
Potok is a
professional hate-hunter who blamed Gary Bauer and
Pat Buchanan for the much-publicized gay-bashing murder
of
Matthew Shepherd. He’s quoted on the leftist
website,
Tompaine.Com, as saying:
“The Alabama-based Law
Center, which monitors VDARE.com and considers it a
white supremacist site, thought a longtime effort by
anti-immigration activists targeting the club might be
coming to fruition, Potok said. VDARE.com is named after
the first white child supposedly born in colonial
America, Virginia Dare. ‘You thought those
population activists were discredited and
went away,’ Potok said. ‘But they haven't. This has
been a stealth campaign.’”
Actually, we had
thought that the
Southern Poverty Law Center had been about as
discredited as any
organization in
American public life. But they’re still in there
punching.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/npr_nyt.htm#npr
NYT vs. VDARE.COM
The New York
Times has also done the template story on the Sierra
Club insurgency, finally:
“Mr. Zuckerman has referred
admiringly to the writings of both well-known and
obscure advocates of immigration controls. One, John
Tanton, a former Sierra Club official who later founded
the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has
drawn national attention and received financial backing
from conservative foundations. Another, Brenda Walker, a
Sierra Club member, recently urged readers of the
anti-immigrant Web site www .vdare.com to join the club
and vote for the outside candidates.
“In a column about Hmong immigrants
on that site, she wrote, ‘So will thousands of
drug-addicted polygamists be welcomed into America in
another escalation of
multiculturalism against American values?’ [Hmore
Hmong? Polygamous
Hmong?]
Mr. Zuckerman said Monday, ‘I
wouldn't make that statement myself, but I think it's
cultural,’ adding, ‘I don't think that's a question of
race.’ [Bitter
Division for Sierra Club on Immigration,
by Felicity
Barringer; March 16, 2004. Links added.]
Note the
criticism of Zuckerman for having “referred
admiringly” to the writings of two people, and thus
being held responsible for every single thing they ever
said.
This is typical
witch-hunting behavior. And of course the Times
doesn’t provide any answer to Brenda Walker’s
question. Nor does it provide the context:
drug use and
polygamy are indeed part of Hmong culture.
That’s why
they’re not really
suitable as immigrants.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/npr_nyt.htm#nyt
