-Caveat Lector- Well ... the J Committee proceedings are just bringing out all kinds of things !!! Just forwarding, folks, just forwarding ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ A<>E<>R The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust ---------- : Subject: [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: SEN. LOTT & REP. BARR SUPPORT RACISTSUCCESSOR TOTHE 'UPTOWN KLAN : Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 11:57 AM : : : ------------------------------------------ : FAIR-L : Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting : Media analysis, critiques and news reports : ------------------------------------------ : : : : PLEASE URGE YOUR LOCAL & NATIONAL MEDIA TO COVER THIS : : FAIR ACTION ALERT : : For Immediate Release: Contact: StevenRendall : December 11, 1998 (212) 633-6700 x 307 : : : News Advisory: : National Media Should Cover Racist Links of Prominent Elected Officials : Like Rep. Bob Barr and Sen. Trent Lott : : During the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings on Dec. 1, Rep. : Bob Barr (R-Ga.) clashed with Prof. Alan Dershowitz after Dershowitz : accused the lawmaker of using rhetoric laced with "bigotry" and : "racism." : : Barr had stated: "There really are, I think, two Americas. And there is : a real America out there. And I think our military witnesses understand : that.... And now some on this panel may argue that the president is not : in a position of public trust.... And here again, the American public, : the real America out there understands that there ought to be a very : high standard for our public officials." : : Dershowitz said: "Whenever I hear the word 'real Americans' that sounds : to me like a code word for bigotry, a code word for racism, and a code : word for anti-Semitism." : : Barr responded by saying: "That's absurd, you ought to be ashamed. That : is the silliest thing I have ever heard." : : "A Call to White Americans" : : While a few news outlets noted the clash, it's remarkable how little : follow-up has been done on the charges of racism made against Barr. A : little research would have discovered that not only Rep. Barr, but : Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other prominent elected officials : have been closely linked with the Council of Conservative Citizens : (CCC), a "Southern traditionalist" organization which is the successor : to the notorious White Citizens' Councils-referred to during the civil : rights era as the "uptown Klan." : : One exception among media outlets was the Jay Diamond Show, aired on New : York City's WEVD-AM. Diamond's December 7 radio talk show featured a : discussion including Alan Dershowitz and Mark Potok, an expert on racist : and militia groups from the Southern Poverty Law Center, on which Potok : confirmed Rep. Barr's and Sen. Lott's support for the Council. Potok : pointed to the group's influence with other elected officials-including : Governors Kirk Fordice (R-Miss.) and Guy Hunt (R-Ala.). : : Barr was the keynote speaker at the Council's national conference last : June, and was pictured in the group's newsletter, Citizens Informer, : addressing the Council's board and posing with several CCC leaders. The : Washington Times and Village Voice have both reported that Sen. Lott is : a longtime member and supporter of the organization. : : What does the Council of Conservative Citizens stand for? : : * The Council's website ( http://www.cofcc.org ) features an essay : titled "A Call to White Americans," which urges "fellow white Americans" : to "look at the faces around you: Find the faces like yours, and see : them as your brothers and sisters. Find the fair-skinned babies, and see : them as your children." The website also features a tract called "Our : War!" with a section titled "The Values of the Traditional White South : That Have Been Targeted for Destruction." : : * The edition of Citizen's Informer featuring Rep. Barr's : appearance before the CCC also includes a column written by Robert : Patterson, founder of the Mississippi's White Citizens Council, : describing how interracial marriage degrades white civilization. An : article by Sen. Lott also appears in the issue. : : * The CCC's web site boasts of a trip by its leaders to France for : a meeting with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the neo-fascist National : Front . The article expresses hope the groups will work together in the : future. CCC's web site is now linked to Le Pen's. : : * According to the New Orleans Times Picayune, David Duke : addressed a CCC fundraiser at Clemson University in South Carolina. The : Greensboro News & Record reports that CCC has ties to the Ku Klux Klan : and that its local leader supported Duke for president in 1988. The : Austin American Statesman claims that William Carter was booted from the : South Carolina Buchanan for President steering committee in 1996 when : the press began inquiring into Carter's role as Duke's 1988 South : Carolina campaign chair. Carter chairs the South Carolina chapter of the : CCC. : : * According to the Village Voice, Kirk Lyons, a well-known white : supremacist attorney and member of the White Patriot Party, was a : featured guest at a 1994 Winston-Salem event sponsored by the CCC. : : * One prominent spokesperson for the CCC is Jared Taylor, the : founder and director of American Renaissance, a white-separatist group : that organizes conferences featuring "scholars" espousing the doctrine : of black intellectual inferiority. Taylor represented the CCC on a : recent Fox News Channel broadcast. : : * A 1997 column in the Greensboro News & Record pointed out that : the CCC named the late governor of Georgia and unreconstructed racist : Lester Maddox its "Patriot of the Century," and that the Council is : critical of the Promise Keepers "because PK kisses up to Catholics and : grovels to blacks." : : * Like Rep. Barr's language, the Coucil's rhetoric deploys terms : like "real Americans." The Citizens Informer, for example, recently : declared: "The Confederate Flag signifies the real American way of : life...as it was and will be again." : : News Media Should Apply Single Standard on Associations With Bigots : : Given the above information, journalists should be exploring the : connections between leading Republican politicians and this racist : organization. National media have repeatedly questioned black : politicians deemed too close, to or insufficiently critical of, groups : like the Nation of Islam. 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