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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: CIS' Jerry Kammer accuses SPLC of engaging in "jihad for dollars"

March 18, 2010 5:46 pm ET

From Media Matters' video of the Center for Immigration Studies' March 18 press conference attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center:

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    • Author by Major Tom (March 18, 2010 5:53 pm ET)
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      Can you exaggerate the 'Menace' of the Klan?
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      • Author by jerry kammer (March 19, 2010 5:39 am ET)
           
        Dees has taken millions from well-intentioned but uninformed donors by exaggerating the menace of the Klan. Here is what JoAnn Wypijewski wrote in The Nation as she ripped the SPLC as "puffed up crusaders" in 2001: "No one has been more assiduous in inflating the profile of (hate) groups than the millionaire huckster, Morris Dees."

        This from Alexander Cockburn as he described Dees as the "arch-salesman of hate mongering" last year in a piece titled "King of the Hate Business." He wrote that Dees prospered by "selling the notion that there's a right resurgence out there in the hinterland with massed legions of haters, ready to march down Main Street draped in Klan robes..."
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    • Author by liberalXtian (March 18, 2010 6:09 pm ET)
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      As usual, the right is falsely claiming that a group on the left is using their "playbook", and, as usual, another right wing attempt at wit ("jihad for dollars") turns out to be in no way clever, witty, or funny.
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    • Author by redrage (March 18, 2010 6:36 pm ET)
         
      Who is this guy?

      The SPLC are Civil Rights Ninjas.
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    • Author by Sharpe (March 18, 2010 11:33 pm ET)
         
      yea that kkk - whos to say how menacing they are besides all the victims of their horrendous crimes. Its like saying the nazis were misunderstood or were controversial.
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    • Author by jerry kammer (March 19, 2010 9:53 am ET)
         
      Sorry, guys, I'm not on the right. I'm one of many Progressives who believe that we will have more successful immigration if we have less. The massive immigration of the past 20 years--both legal and illegal--has us on a course toward doubling our population to 600 million by the end of this century. We're also importing a new underclass, poorly educated and unskilled people who work at the bottom rungs of an economy that is losing its middle rungs. This is great for the Chamber of Commerce, which lobbies hard for "comprehensive" reform and loves to privatize gain and socialize loss.
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