PrintNovember 1, 2010
The NAACP's Red Smear Artist
Last week, in a lame stab at an October surprise, the NAACP released a report by a pair of presumed authorities, Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind, on the alleged links between "certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups."About Burghart I know little, but Zeskind has been frightening his fellow travelers in mid-America with a projected "abyss of mayhem and murder" for the last two decades. Indeed, Zeskind could find racists in each of the nine choirs of angels and feel comfortable designating at least three of those choirs as hate groups. Yet for all his fear-mongering, the Amazing Zeskind has chosen to keep mum about certain hardcore extremist groups of his acquaintance. And with good reason. He himself has carried their banners.Zeskind first surfaced in Kansas City in 1973 as the front man for The Sojourner Truth Organization (STO). STO's primary role, according to its own literature, was to motivate the working classes "to...(Read Full Article)
