Re: In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice of targets

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
>>Attacking left liberals has been Cockburn's forte.
>>He's run a long time smear job on Morris Dees of the
>>Southern Poverty Law Center, a man who has done more
>>to put the Klan and the Ayran Nations literally out of
>>business than anyone else, because Dees doesn't live a
>>life of ascetic poverty, unlike, uh, Cockburn . . . .
>>Oops, I forgot, Cockburn lives pretty well. jks
>
> Actually, it is Ken Silverstein who has exposed Dees.
>
> The Church of Morris Dees
> By Ken Silverstein
> Harper's Magazine, November 2000
> How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance
>

the article says that dees/splc has done nothing about violence against
mexican immigrants at the border. that is not true any longer: a recent
issue of SPLC's magazine covered some of the issues and their efforts
w.r.t this problem. whether this action was in response to such goading
(the article is after all dated nov 2000), i do not know. the only
valuable information that i get from this piece is the fact (assuming it
is correct) that the SPLC is over-funded. that alone of course (if true)
is enough to divert my donations elsewhere next time around.

        --ravi