THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

TRIBUTE TO AN EXTINCT SPECIES | 2003-11-15

The best fact-checking reader we have for Whitaker Online is not only a socialist professor, he is a white man who has a black wife.

Nobody knows his quotes and facts better than this fellow. He is a throwback to the old leftist intellectuals who actually liked facts and discussion. Believe it or not they actually liked to hear different points of view. When he dies, there won't be any of them left.

When I was at the University of South Carolina, I set up a lot of groups. I never had any shortage of student members, but, as on today's campus, that didn't matter. You had to have a faculty sponsor. Then as now, leftists could get sponsors, rightists couldn't.

When I showed up with that "I need a sponsor-for-my-new-group" look in my eye, professors ran, hid under tables, or went into fetal position.

Except for one: Professor John McConaughy. He was a liberal from Chicago. His father had been a law professor. I never had a problem with him. If I had some members, as I always did, he would sponsor my group.

John McConaughy was an actual, honest-to-God free speech liberal.

He's dead now.

IF WE DON'T DUMP RESPECTABLE CONSERVATIVES, WE WILL LOSE EVERYTHING | 2000-04-22

I told people in the 1960s that the Confederate flag would eventually be banned. Like every other correct prediction I have made through the decades -- and Lake High will testify to how many there were -- I was laughed at for saying this.

I saw Germany outlawing the Nazis, but allowing the Communists free reign. The same thing happened in other countries. With respectable conservatives as our spokesmen, we could not demand rights for right-wing haters. But the left demanded all the rights for left wing haters any mainline political party had, and they never apologized for it.

When an American Nazi was lured to Denmark and seized there and taken to Germany for trial, the left cheered. They said he had been "hiding behind the first amendment" in America and putting Hate Speech on the web. Everybody agreed Germany was right to arrest someone got putting "Hate" on his Internet page, though it was legal in America.

But no liberal or respectable conservative will ever say a Communist who puts his hate on a web page is "hiding behind the first amendment." He is "exercising his constitutional rights."

In other words, through our respectable conservative spokesmen, we agreed that the right could be jailed for Hate, but the left was always innocent of it.

Now here is the point: In real world power politics, if you give someone the first step, they will take the second. That is how people who deal in power ALL do things.

The left had no intention of STOPPING with Nazis. They used Nazis to get our agreement that the left had freedom, but the right didn't. Next, they got Britain to agree that Pinochet, who was not a Nazi, could be seized, but no leftist could be. The right became a happy hunting ground for leftists out to crush anything they decide to call a hate crime.

So now the Boston Housing Authority has declared the SHAMROCK to be an official hate symbol! So the Confederate flag is now a sign of Hate, and respectable conservatives shout their agreement. I saw that coming as soon as I saw that the Buckleys of the world are the liberals' official wimps on call.

NORTH KOREA HAS NO EXPORTS, BUT NEITHER DID THE USSR | 2003-10-25

Speaking of treason, Teddy Kennedy is out there fighting for North Korea.

Teddy wants the United States to have unilateral talks with North Korea so we can finance North Korea's Communist regime the way we have every other Communist regime in history.

North Korea has NO exports. It lives on weapons money and drug money, and its people are in desperate want, as has always been the case with Communist regimes.

The Soviet Union, during seven decades of concentrating on industrial development, never had a single industrial export. It had caviar, sable and oil and, as always, its people were in desperate need. The Soviet Union survived on American help, direct and indirect.

No non-Communist economy has ever survived without producing one single thing anybody else wanted. Only an economy planned by "intellectuals" can be totally worthless.

It is all in the tradition of the founders of Communism, Marx and Lenin. Neither of them ever did a day's productive work in their entire lives, and either one of them would have held a pitchfork upside-down if they had ever actually touched one.

Marx and Lenin spent their whole lives talking about The Working Class and Communist regimes spend their whole time talking about production. The Founders didn't do any work and the regimes didn't do any producing.

TODAY'S SUPERPATHETIC SENATE | 2001-04-28

Conservatives who are not declared "respectable" by the media are banned from having their say not only in those media but in conservative outlets too.

Respectable conservatives are given or denied that precious "respectable" title by the liberal media. So all respectable conservatives have done some really serious groveling before liberals.

In bowing down before the left, no group of conservatives does a more professional job than those in today's United States Senate. I discussed Orrin Hatch's dubiously heterosexual worship of and sellouts to Teddy Kennedy on July 1, 2000 in ORRIN STILL LOVES TEDDY.

Outside today's Senate, Orrin would be special. But in the Senate, he is only middling. Orrin's worship of Kennedy cannot put him in the same category with the behavior of John McCain. I described that on March 31, 2001 in FIFTH COLUMN CONSERVATISM.

But even in the Senate sinkhole of wimpishness, Trent Lott deserves special mention because he is a SOUTHERN perversion. The old Southern senator combined gentility with a steel-hard devotion to principle.

Lott has perverted gentlemanliness into pure squishiness.

In his landmark book on the Senate, "The Citadel," published in 1951, William White discussed the Senate as the World's Most Exclusive Club.

White discussed the fact that there was the whole Senate as a club and then an even more exclusive Inner Club that was closed to most of the Senate itself. He said that every one of those old Southerners was an automatic member of the Inner Club.

Old style Southerners fulfilled two requirements to be members of the Inner Club. First, they fought like lions for the South and for their own constituents. Secondly, they remained gentlemen while doing it.

Lott and his followers have totally dropped the first characteristic. When Teddy Kennedy and his buddies are handing out that "respectable" label, nobody is more ready to sell his people out than the Modern Southern Conservative. And they do it while perverting the concept of a Southern Gentleman.

A real Southern senator was first of all a MAN. He was known for his willingness to fight ferociously for what he believed in. Trent Lott has twisted that into a pure perversion, where "gentleman" means a simpering, grinning, absolutely wimpish weak grin as a substitute for principle.

Lott loudly denounces liberal media bias when he's talking to conservative groups. But when he faces them, he simpers about how fair they are.

The Old Southerner had his feet rooted in Senate Tradition, and he used it as a weapon. Lott's idea of Tradition is described on March 31, 2001 in REAL HISTORY IS STILL NEWS TO SENATE WIMPS.