Posted on 06/26/2006 3:43:30 PM PDT by Spiff
You're kidding me...David Safavian hasn't worked for Cannon for years. In fact the MSM describes him as a Bush Aide and/or administration official...no one is calling him a Cannon aide or staffer.
You missed the point by such a wide margin, it's breath-taking: If the aide got busted, it doesn't matter who reported the fact. Is VDARE any worse than the terrorist-loving NY Times? The terrorist-funding AFP? The terrorist-training Harvard University? Does VDARE's politics somehow suggest some way that they could claim an aide was arrested when he wasn't and somehow not be guilty of open-and-shut libel? IOW, VDARE's politics bear NO IMPACT whatsoever on the matter. You're just trying to shut up a news source for saying something you don't want heard.
This isn't like the executive branch where 100,000 people could be called part of the "Bush Administration." This is an intimate, professional associate of Congressman Cannon's, who obtained his political knowledge from Cannon and was busted in a criminal enterprise to corrupt congressmen. Does it prove Cannon is guilty of something? Of course not; no-one on the thread has suggested Cannon belongs in jail. But I think most voters in a given district would be very interested to know that such a close associate of their congressmen was arrested, and they would not be unreasonable to consider choosing someone else in a primary.
Doesn't the SPLC consider Free Republic racist?
Seriously, he has a good point.
NCLR's (La Raza) slogan is "For those of the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing." That's about as bald-face racist as you can possibly get. They support Cannon and Cannon supports them. How dare you complain about ProjectUSA being supported by V-DARE, when your beloved congressman is supported by a group so racist, they are actually named, "The Race."
No doubt it does. I posted information from the SPLC knowing that the SPLC would be unstinting in its critique of these organizations, so that we could see the worst of which they could be accused.
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