Jim Hoft misreads, misleads, and misspells
Reporting for Big Government, Jim Hoft wrote an article on July 17 entitled “Disgusting! NAACP Leader Ben Jealous Labels Tea Party ‘White Supremist (sic) Group’”
The focus of the article is a snippet from a CNN article by Ben Jealous. Emphasis Hoft’s, not mine:
Over 2000 delegates voted. The resolution was proposed by our Missouri State Conference, from the home state of the Council of Conservative Citizens, widely recognized as the linear descendant of the White Citizens Council. Their fealty to racism is not obscured.
Like stormfront.org, a website founded by former KKK leader Don Black, the Council celebrates its allegiance to and influence in the Tea Party. The avowed racist David Duke notes that thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for president. When the Tea Party marches by, Duke thinks it’s his fiesta.
Our members know too well the pain and the potential danger of white supremacist groups. Since our resolution was publicized, a number of our branches and our corporate offices are reporting violent threats.
Let’s read that again: is Jim Hoft really trying to convince his readers that stating the CCC’s, Stormfront’s, and Duke’s acceptance of Tea Parties, and not the other way around, is comparing the Parties to White “Supremist” groups? Association fallacy is one thing, but Hoft seems to have completely reversed it.
Also fascinating is that Hoft’s article omits the last two paragraphs of the Jealous article. Emphasis mine this time:
As Americans seeking peace, harmony, and goodwill, we have too much at stake to be derailed by the rancor of racism. It’s been said that “Evil flourishes with the silence of good men.”
It is time for all people of goodwill — and especially the leadership of the Tea Party — to break the silence and make it clear that this type of vile bigotry is antithetical to the moral ethos of our nation.
Because we sure can’t let off that the NAACP *gasp* thinks there’s goodwill in the Tea Party! That would be “supremist!”