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There is a media web site watcher and cataloguer who calls himself Mark Pitcavage. That's his name--and I won't wear it out, believe me (on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if that was really his alias, but from various sources who have chronicled his deedsm he is Mark Pitcavage). His web site, listing literally hundreds of others--800 he claims--is called Militia Watchdog at "http://www.militia-watchdog.com". That is a serious misnomer. While he might do some monitoring of militia/"patriot"/white supremist-type sites, the vast majority of sites he lists are newsletter/alternative media/commentary pages and the like, with the single notion uniting them being that they are unabashedly politically incorrect and opposed to the present Clinton/Gore administration. He lists what he calls "hate sites"--the thing is, while some of these sites (as reported in his blurbs on each one) are obviously hate sites (his definition of hate is unabashedly the politically correct definition of any site that promotes negativity against blacks, Jews, gays, feminism, Hispanics--or to put it another way, promotes white male superiority in some way) because of racism, etc.--but many on his list are anything but "hate" sites. They are simply sites he disagrees with! Three sites that definitely do NOT belong on his list are: WorldNetDaily.com at "http://www.worldnetdaily.com/", which reports articles linked from such paragons of politically correct press as the New York Times and CNN, has commentary from even leftists like Maralyn Lois Polak (who readers are constantly exhorting to editor Joe Farah to remove due to her leftism, but Farah, in the interest of balanced commentary, won't do it), and which is one of the top news sites anywhere on the Internet, with readerships approaching that of CNN! AntiWar.com at "http://www.antiwar.com/", which is anti-war. Since when did left-wingers start being pro-war? Since a left-wing administration is promoting it, maybe? (Oddly enough, one of its columnists, George Szamuely, is not exactly anti-war lately, and supports Milescovic... But a "Hate" site? The only thing it hates is war, period. LewRockwell.com at "http://www.lewrockwell.com/" is decidedly pro-traditionalist, but a "hate" site? Again, you can find all wings of links here, including articles written by pro-Clinton people (for contrastive purposes maybe, but this site is more balanced, again, than many that Pitcavage believes are "good" news sites, like the Washington Post at "http://www.washingtonpost.com/" Rockwell's site was only recently added, throwing it's editor, Burt Blumert, into a serious tizzy, fearful that the next thing that would happen was that the FBI or someone would have the site shut down as a "hate" site, when there is no hate! Go To Page: 1 2
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