Google And NBC And The Dems Flex Their Muscles Again

Google has demonetized Zero Hedge and The Federalist. Not the first. Not the last.

As you may have read on NBC, Google has decided to suspend ad hosting on the "far-right" Zero Hedge (which apparently can be anything from "batshit insane Austrian school blog" to Russian propaganda or framed in any other way that serves the agenda of those who disagree with our views - which apparently these days is a lot of people) along with The Federalist, a decision that would have a materially adverse impact for both websites. The reason presented to us for this decision is far more mundane than what has been disclosed by NBC: we are currently appealing it, and expect to remedy it.

That said, we were surprised by the framing of the suspension by the NBC article, which disturbingly appears to be another attempt at activist targeting of inconvenient media outlets, especially since the core argument presented by the NBC employee is different than what Google actually has said. In fact, half the NBC article just happens to be dead wrong.

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12 Ways The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Scam To Profit From Hate-Mongering

Why do so many folks treat the SPLC with undeserved reverence, the way too many high school kids treat a self-appointed nasty queen bee? Why do they accept the Southern Poverty Law Center as the nation’s Grand Inquisitor dictating who may speak and who must shut up? And why are its smears and caricatures so often blindly accepted at face value? What qualifies the SPLC to act as judge, jury, and social executioner of any human being who is not their blind supporter?

Those questions have been hanging in the air for decades. As with all vilification campaigns, the SPLC plays a dangerous and cruel game under the guise of defending victims. So let’s take a closer look at some of the SPLC’s history and behavior. Let’s count some ways it’s a con game.

1. It’s a Big-Money Smear Machine

The SPLC’s main role is as a massively funded propaganda smear machine. The following information on the SPLC, provided by Karl Zinsmeister of Philanthropy Roundtable, is an eye-opener: “Its two largest expenses are propaganda operations: creating its annual lists of ‘haters’ and ‘extremists,’ and running a big effort that pushes ‘tolerance education’ through more than 400,000 public-school teachers. And the single biggest effort undertaken by the SPLC? Fundraising. On the organization’s 2015 IRS 990 form it declared $10 million of direct fundraising expenses, far more than it has ever spent on legal services.”

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Linking from The Federalist article:

The Family Research Council shooter, who pleaded guilty today to a terrorism charge, picked his target off a "hate map" on the website of the ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center which is upset with the conservative group's opposition to gay rights.

Floyd Lee Corkins II pleaded guilty to three charges including a charge of committing an act of terrorism related to the August 15, 2012 injuring of FRC's guard. He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the law center's website for ideas.

At a court hearing where his comments to the FBI were revealed, he said that he intended to "kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims' faces, and kill the guard." The shooting occurred after an executive with Chick-Fil-A announced his support for traditional marriage, angering same-sex marriage proponents.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the Southern Poverty Law Center should take responsibility for the shooting and take down their hate map.

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And lastly, let us belatedly honor Morris Dees on his 1998 induction into The Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. Can anyone argue that the SPLC founder is undeserving of such exultation? Morris Dees, marketing genius.

Renée Wijnen

July 02, 1998

DMA Names 4 to Hall of Fame

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A man who founded one of the South's largest publishing companies and the creator of a multimedia teaching program are among four new entries in the Direct Marketing Association's Hall of Fame.


Morris S. Dees Jr., chief trial counsel and chairman of the executive committees of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Richard Hodgson, president of Sargeant House; and Robert J. Teufel, president and chief operating officer of Rodale Press Inc. will be formally inducted at the DMA's 81st Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Francisco on October 11-14. Thomas S. Foster, co-founder and former president of Foster & Gallagher, will be inducted posthumously. He died in 1996.

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16 RECENT Fake News Stories Parroted By The MSM

Since at least Donald Trump’s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. Despite Trump’s constant railing against the American press, there is no greater enemy of the American media than the American media. They did this to themselves.

We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than “epidemic,” insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when “an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.”

Complete Story At The Federalist

The Myth Of Different Perspectives And A Referendum On The Ruling Class

Originally I was going to reference a recent article in "Time" that covers late night comedy getting morphed into overt political propaganda. I scanned the article in the chiropractor's office before my number was called. What seemed interesting was that finally, the MSM admitted to the mass politicization of popular culture. Comedy used to mean that which makes us laugh. Now it means cheering for the ruling class.

Unfortunately, one has to be a subscriber to view  "Time" articles and I do not recommend that any more than I would advise one to buy a hard copy of what is usually a waste of paper. Here is a link that addresses the article:   http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/19/trump-no-excuse-turning-late-night-comedy-propaganda

This election does not fit the hackneyed narrative of left vs. right/liberal vs. conservative. Not that most elections fit that model, but it provided a narrative cliche and our media need their simplisms. This election is about class warfare. We are seeing the interests of the political class pitted against the interests of the politically disconnected. That's the struggle.

When Angelo Codevilla wrote his seminal piece in "The American Spectator" a lot of us took time to reflect. That was six years ago and just about everything that's happened since then confirms Codevilla's perspective on the political class. George Will, Mitt Romney, the Bush Family to name but a few GOP stalwarts, have thrown their support to Hillary. Not one Fortune 100 executive is endorsing Trump. Meanwhile, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, Warren Buffet, Mark Cuban, Michael Bloomberg...the list of politically-sanctioned Hillary supporters reads like a "Who's Who In Overlords".

Codevilla's piece hit home not because it was revolutionary, but because it clarified and confirmed what we already knew. Many of us already saw the struggle between Insiders and outsiders. Codevilla stuck it in our faces. By now, almost everyone sees political struggle from a similar perspective. The gulf is between those of us who root against the ruling class and those who wave the pennant for American Royalty.

John Stewart, Lester Holt, Seth Meyers, every late night propaganda host, every sanctioned showbiz fixture, view America through the same lens we do. They have pledged their loyalty to our social superiors and they will live richly ever after. These people no longer have to sweat the small stuff like mortgages and health insurance and job security. We might do the same thing if we were in their shoes.

We hear a lot about cultural divides but our perspectives have never been so similar. There is not much talk about policy and ideology this time around. Intellectually, we all see this election as a referendum on the ruling class. Viscerally, we either support the entrenched powers or we resist them. That is the gulf that divides our country.