Special Report: The Plan To Silence Conservatives -- Part II
By Cliff Kincaid
January 17, 2007
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Another panelist, Cornell Belcher, the official pollster for the Democratic National Committee, seemed to be taken aback by the conspiracy theories and pointed out that the Democrats had, in fact, made substantial gains on the federal and state levels in 2006.
However, during a conversation over breakfast, Freeman reiterated his belief that the Democrats had won far more seats than they were given credit for in 2006. Asked why they wouldn't protest the stealing of votes, he said, "Democrats are in on it." He described Republicans and Democrats as the A team and B team, and that when one team makes too many mistakes, the other goes in for relief. Asked for his opinion on the 9/11 truth movement, he said, "Nothing would surprise me."
A panel on "Media, War, and Impeachment" featured Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, whose December 2006 magazine features Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on the cover as he addressed the U.N. holding up a copy of Noam Chomsky's book on the dangers of American "hegemony." That was the appearance in which Chavez labeled Bush the devil.
The article inside the magazine by FAIR's Steve Rendall accused the American media of unfairly criticizing Chavez for "challenging the U.S.," not because he makes absurd charges, chums around with people such as the anti-Semitic and anti-American Iranian president, and threatens press freedom in his own country. Promising "Socialism or death," Chavez was just sworn in for another presidential term.
On Saturday night, as participants prepared for an event featuring Jane Fonda, they were given copies of a four-page flier advertising Bob Avakian's book, From Ike to Mao and Beyond. The flier said that Avakian, the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, has been described by Cornell West of Princeton University as "a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism."
Scott Lee, an RCP "helper" passing out the fliers, told me that he thought the conference was worthwhile but too heavily titled in favor of the Democratic Party. He said he wasn't aware that global capitalist George Soros had funded the left-wing conference organizers but that the money had gone for a good cause.
This is what passes for "progressivism" these days. It is a clear danger to freedom at home and abroad.
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Cliff Kincaid is Editor of Accuracy in Media.
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