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By Tim Graham | July 08, 2011 | 07:05

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James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal just demolished a scare piece by Newsweek reporter Eve Conant (posted on July 4) with the overwrought headline "White Supremacist Stampede: A startling number of white-power candidates are seeking public office."

If we're being warned of dangerous new wave of white racist extremists, it naturally is another product of the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, which warns daily of a radical-racist-right takeover of America. Taranto asked: How startling is this wave of white-power candidates from sea to shining sea?

Potok’s group tracked 23 candidates in 2010 with radical right-wing views, nine of whom they described as white supremacists or white nationalists. (The others had extreme immigration and world-conspiracy views but did not specifically have links to white organizations.) One candidate, the neo-Confederate Loy Mauch, won a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives...

Taranto's rebuttal of the Newsweek reporter, whose article appeared on the Daily Beast website:

Now, the SPLC has been known to exaggerate the prevalence of white supremacy and to smear people by falsely claiming they have white-supremacist sympathies. But even if you take these numbers at face value, they are quite unimpressive. In a country of 300 million, what does the Daily Beast call nine state legislative candidates, eight of whom lose? A stampede!

In Conant's defense, she also tried to scare people that David Duke might run again for president in the 2012 Republican primaries: "A Duke candidacy could have a galvanizing effect. He has been living in Europe in recent years, but maintains a high profile—and stokes his fan base--online." Perhaps Duke can run a front-porch campaign from Europe. Can't you smell the "stampede"?

Naturally, Conant must also connect the white-power fringe to the Tea Party movement. The article's pull quote comes from Don Black of the racist group Stormfront (it's the part in bold type):

Stormfront founder and radio host Don Black tells The Daily Beast the strategy is to start from the ground up, "where we have a chance of winning. It's impossible to get into the Senate or Congress but state legislatures or smaller offices can work." Black says the Tea Party's influence spurred hopes among his ideological soulmates-but that the initial excitement has given way to a realpolitik sense that the Stormfront crowd will have to go it alone. "Many of our people are involved in the Tea Party," says Black. "But much of their leadership is skittish when it comes to talking about racial realities. The Tea Party is a healthy movement but many are too conditioned to run like scared rabbits when called racists."

No office is too small to be scary to Conant when you're trying to find a "stampede."

 In May, the National Socialist Movement's Jeff Hall hit national headlines in a bizarre tragedy: his murder, allegedly at the hands of his 10-year-old son. But before his death, he had campaigned for a low-level water board position in Riverside, California.

He gained 30 percent of the vote as a neo-Nazi, as if Riverside is full of little Hitlers. But do you think most voters have researched who's running for the water board?

Conant also played up "Sergeant" Harriet Paletti, who "has just sent in her résumé to the mayor of New Berlin [Wisconsin], hoping to fill a seat on either the Crime Prevention Committee, Police and Fire Commission, or the Parks and Recreation Board." A volunteer position, she hopes, will build up her run for alderman. Can anyone imagine the mayor of New Berlin giving the "Sergeant" a hand?

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Newsweak is still

Submitted by dr-go on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 8:02am.

relevant? Oh, yes $1.00 and other good and valuable considerations such as Eleanor Clift.

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Would have thought they would

Submitted by gmonsen on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:22am.

Would have thought they would have had to pay the buyer a fairly hefty sum to take on Clift...

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Disregard everything the SPLC utters

Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 8:05am.

The Southern Poverty Law Center must be in another fund drive. Typically, they kick these off with a new and alarming study indicating that we're on the verge of a return to Jim Crow or Anschluss.

But they do reveal what many on this site have regarded as the Dem strategy for 2012, namely playing the race card, and linking any opposition to Obama to racism. You can be sure there will be many Leftists posing as racist Tea Partiers to get on camera and "prove" the claim.

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Liberals? Southern Poverty

Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 8:40am.

Liberals? Southern Poverty Law Center? Newsweek? Daily "Roast" Beast? Scare tactics? Exaggerations?

Who'd a thunk it?

/sarc

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The SPLC? Figures. Their

Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 11:17am.

The SPLC? Figures. Their founder is a lair and so it spoils the whole bunch.

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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→ Black Supremacists

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:01am.

Doesn't seem to be a lot of reporting on the Black Supremacists in Peoria, Chicago does there.

OOPS! Sorry.  We have to refer to them as "Yoot Gangs", and their race is not to be published.

Maybe we should pay attention to what is already happening as well as what might happen.

Thank you Barack Obama for ensuring a 33% unemployment rate among African Americans.  Your plan is working.

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Black Supremacists

Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:04am.

How about those black supremacists in Philadelphia? There was the guy in the street who wanted to kill white people and their babies, and the thugs at the voting booths.

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→ Them too

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:14am.

And the Black Supremacist in New York who organized a mob to rid the neighborhood of "diamond merchants"?

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the southern law poverty center

Submitted by ohio granny on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:32am.

SPLC is more racist than the KKK. the biggest difference is these racist are black and according to the democRATs blacks cannot be racist, don't you know.

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The New Racism

Submitted by iveseenitall on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 10:58am.

The old "racism" charge has lost its power for the left in America today. It's a canard and EVERYONE, including blacks, knows it for what it is. "Liberals" have cried "wolf" too often. Moreover, it is becoming just another cause for anger among many whites who see the unfairness of ploys like affirmative action and the moves by racist officials such as Eric Holder to look the other way when it comes to criminals who happen to be black. "Racism" against blacks has significantly lessened in the past four decades, but racism against whites is on the rise throughout the nation. Yet dare our wonderful "journOlists" write stories about that? Dare they seek the truth--Nah!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" ( progressive)

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I imagine...

Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 1:01pm.

the SPLC as a group of little dweebs running around the office like "benzedrine puff adders", in the words of Cybil Fawltey.

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