Kevin Lamb and Human Events Magazine

Readers may recall Kevin Lamb was fired from his post as editor of Human Events magazine after a complaint from the SPLC, a hate organization. VDARE has just published Kevin Lamb’s account of his experience at Human Events. (permalink).

To my bosses, the SPLC’s Heidi Beirich was a faceless, nameless individual. Nevertheless, without hesitation or reservation, they accepted at face value her accusations and descriptions about my avocational work. Three years of collegial respect simply vanished instantaneously over accusations that were never questioned.

Today Mr. Lamb is the editor of The Occidental Quarterly and the communications director of the National Policy Institute.

Posted by leslie on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 10:25 PM in Conservatism
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Posted by Fred Scrooby on September 22, 2005, 11:16 PM | #

I for one feel what Geoff is doing here, and has done in others of his recent commentaries I’ve seen, cannot be recommended too highly (and it is something I myself strive to remember always to do though I may forget here or there):  do not omit, at every single mention, to call those groups which are aggressively seeking the genocide of white Euros “hate groups” when you refer to them by name.  The groups include the SPLC, the ADL, the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and many others.  Also call them “anti-white Christian,” “white Christian-hater,” “white-Christian-phobic,” and so on.  (You can’t just call them “Christian hater” without the “white” part, because they can come back and say they love Mexican or Negro Christians.  That’s a lie—they don’t love Mexican or Negro Christians except as tools to attack white Euros—but they can come back and, in some way or other, claim they do.)  When you name their leaders or politically-active members or supporters always refer to them as “haters,” “hate mongers,” “hate-filled,” and so on.  Never forget to do that, each and every time you have occasion to refer to them.  And put in modifiers and qualifiers such as “well-known,” “rabid,” “extreme,” “fanatical,” and so on.  So, for example, you might say, “Morris Dees, the well-known extreme hater and founder of the hate group, the SPLC, said yesterday that ....”  Try always to put this stuff in, and avoid saying things lacking this stuff, such as, “Morris Dees of the SPLC said yesterday ....”  Understand and never forget that all this labeling of us as “haters” is calculated, planned, agreed-upon, and highly organized behind the scenes by the other side’s planners, theorists, operatives, foot-soldiers, and movers-and-shakers.  None of it sprang up spontaneously.  It’s all artificial from A to Z and is cultivated and nurtured with extreme care lest it die out from neglect.  The dupes, such as lefty college professors, have no idea they’re being manipulated by the simplest propaganda tricks in the book—that’s how stupid they are.  Well, let’s not be stupid ourselves:  we’ve seen how it’s done, now let’s start defending ourselves in kind, shall we?  We never wanted it or started it ... but by God we’re going to finish it.

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on September 22, 2005, 11:24 PM | #

In the above comment I was referring to where Geoff wrote, in the log entry, “a complaint from the SPLC, a hate organization.”  That’s exactly the way to do it.  Always insert those qualifiers and modifiers when talking of this ilk, always—that’s the way to start getting someone’s or some group’s name and the word “hater” automatically associated with each other in the public’s mind.  Hey we have to start somewhere!  The other side started forty years ago and look how far they’ve come—they’ve got us on the ropes.  We can do exactly the same to them if we’ve the will, starting now.

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Posted by Guessedworker on September 23, 2005, 02:48 AM | #

Stuka,

That’s deletable, you know that.  An invitation to violence is not just another freely expressed opinion.  The taking of life is no part of any strategy for fighting the enemies of Western Man.

I won’t delete the comment because you are a good guy, I know that.  Please, though, operate here within the constraints of natural justice and the law.

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Posted by anonymous on September 23, 2005, 04:03 AM | #

http://www.blogger.com/publish-comment.do?blogID=14734235&postID=112630730618486373&r=ok

;_________;

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Posted by anonymous on September 23, 2005, 04:06 AM | #

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14734235&postID=112630730618486373

whoops, wrong URL

but still ;__________;

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Posted by AD on September 23, 2005, 05:52 AM | #

I won’t delete the comment-Guessedworker

Stormfront(or even VNN) wouldn’t leave that comment sitting there,GW.You might want to reassess.

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Posted by Martin Hutchinson on September 23, 2005, 08:18 AM | #

Not knowing the circumstances, I applied for that Human Events job in spring.  In spite of a glowing personal recommendation from John O’Sullivan, who knows the people there, I wasn’t even interviewed.  If even I’m too extreme for them, the place has been captured by the left.  Don’t renew your subscription.

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on September 23, 2005, 09:09 AM | #

<i>“the place has been captured by the left.  Don’t renew your subscription.”

I would agree that someone at the top who remained unnamed in the Vdare.com piece is a closet leftist and is exerting pressure—intense pressure from the looks of it—on this wet noodle named Winter over there, who fired Lamb.  A man with backbone would have stood up to leftist pressure from ownership and exposed it and if naught else—if worse came to worse and he himself got fired—would have gone down taking as many upper-level lefties with him as possible—the potential for which which might actually, if he played his cards right, keep them from firing him obviously, knowing, as they would, whom the readership would side with if it saw what was going on behind the scenes.  This incompetent man Winter lacked even the vaguest notion of playing his cards right and is absolutely contemptible, no better than a writhing worm.  Reading the piece I kept asking myself, “Who in the world hired this imbecile in the first place?  How in the WORLD did he rise so high without a shred of talent or integrity???”

Question:  How can a conservative organization or publication keep from going leftist with the passage of time, let’s say after the original founder has passed away—or even before that as National Review did?  What steps can it take to rule that fate out for itself?

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Posted by Stuka on September 23, 2005, 09:15 AM | #

My apologies, GW. I was out of bounds.

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Posted by Martin Hutchinson on September 23, 2005, 09:21 AM | #

Fred, I don’t think it can.  All flesh is as grass and the same is true with conservative journals.  In NR’s case, Buckley passed over control in stages in 1990-2003.  You need to find a new right wing billionaire who’ll found a new magazine.

Know any?

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Posted by Geoff Beck on September 23, 2005, 09:33 AM | #

This from FOXNEWS. Remember it is foxnews.

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Posted by Guessedworker on September 23, 2005, 10:13 AM | #

Divebombing in safety

I’ve taken AD’s sound advice and deleted Stuka’s RPG comment.  Frankly, if I read on some blog-thread something commending a terrorist strike against me or mine I would be horrified.  I would also protest mightily, and demand an apology.

If that is what I think I should receive in such a circumstance, I am bound to respond sympathetically to any such request from the SPLC people should they wish to contact me.

So ... leave the extremism to AQ.  We are operating within a legal and moral framework which has to be respected.  This is not war.  This is politics and if we want to curry opinion amongst our own people on a wider scale, we have to aspire to the highest standards of moral conduct.

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Posted by Guest on September 23, 2005, 12:19 PM | #

If we do not dare to speak about who is doing what to us then our survival as a people is in question.

Cherchez le Juif

Will fear of loss of employment or imprisonment or social ostracism[ see Anne Morrow Lindbergh here] cause us to remain silent?

As Michael Rivero wrote regarding, Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals:

So here is the mother of all scandals.For two years, the FBI has suspected AIPAC of spying for a foreign country, and for those two years (and for decades before) that group suspected of spying for Israel has been reshaping the US Congress for the benefit of a foreign government.
And THAT is the mother of all scandals.
Think about that as billions of your tax dollars flow to Israel while your roads and schools crumble and decay and services are cut.
Think about that as the coffins come home with your loved ones inside.
Think about that when you and a million of your fellow citizens march down the streets of America opposing wars built on lies and deceptions and wonder why the government just doesn’t want to listen to you any more.

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