CNN's Brown Touts 'Rise in Right Wing Extremism;' Guest: SPLC 'Exaggerates'

Truth Excavator's Commentary: The political elite and the MSM's playbook is running thin. They know the gig is up, but that's usually when criminals get even more ruthless, and throw everything at the people below them. But no matter how many rocks they throw down the hill, we're coming up, we're dodging every boulder left and right, and we're not stopping. Justice will be done. But it remains to be seen just how far the current crop of elitist criminals will go to maintain the present illegal order. It also depends largely on how we react, and what our threshold for dictatorial bullshit is. Some people are deciding to give em' hell, and are drawing their guns at public rallies near the Capitol, but I think its best if our corrupt political and moneyed elites taste a little slice of heaven, so they can at least know what they're missing in this life, which is something that we all seem to be missing; a peace of mind.

NewsBusters.org: CNN's Brown Touts 'Rise in Right Wing Extremism;' Guest: SPLC 'Exaggerates'

By Matthew Balan

On her CNN program on Monday, Campbell Brown forwarded one of the Left's talking points about the tea parties by stating that "it does appear that we are seeing a rise in right wing extremism recently." However, her guest, historian Robert Churchill of the University of Hartford, downplayed her claim and claimed that groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center were "exaggerating" the threat.

Brown brought on Churchill at the bottom half of the 8 pm Eastern hour. Midway through the interview, she made her "right wing extremism" claim and cited "a number of studies that have looked at this. The Department of Homeland Security came out with a study last year saying that, perhaps, it's the economy, or possibly the President's race." The anchor then asked, "What do you see as driving recruitment right now, beyond just sort of the generic more- or not generic, but more general libertarian view?

The historian gave a careful answer to her question:

CHURCHILL: Well, I think we have to really be careful to distinguish what's going on on the right end of American politics right now. It is absolutely correct that there's a lot of activity in what I'd call the Christian patriot public sphere, that is to sort of say, that part of the political spectrum that kind of casts out beyond the mainstream. There's lots of political organizing going on. There's lots of groups that are emerging or old groups that are getting stronger again.

One of the new groups is... [the] Oath Keepers. One of the older groups that, apparently, is picking up steam again is the John Birch Society, which has been around for a long time, but apparently is enjoying a resurgence. All of this is political organizing and I don't see it as being particularly threatening.

Brown reacted to Churchill's answer with some surprise: "You don't? That was going to be my question. Are there examples- I mean, there aren't real examples but we- you know, this is also the anniversary of the- you know, bombing in Oklahoma City. So that has a lot of people thinking about this....Does that worry you?"

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