Now I'm a 'white supremacist'

I want to thank my old friend, Arianna Huffington, for authorizing Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp distinguished professor of politics at Occidental College, to quote at length from an extraordinary (if I do say so myself) speech I delivered last year to the first national tea-party convention.

You can find the complete video on YouTube – and it's still getting plenty of views.

But apparently Dreier's idea about quoting me so extensively was to pin blame on me – along with Glenn Beck and others – for mean, nasty, ugly things being said about Francis Fox Piven of the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy, which I addressed in my talk.

For the record, I have never said or written anything about Piven that wasn't documentable fact. I've never called her names. I've never made ad hominem attacks. I've never slung any mud her way.

All I have done was to expose her radicalism and warped ideas that still seem to be influencing some pretty powerful people in our country, including Barack Obama.

But what really caught my eye about this opus conspiracy tale by Dreier was his characterization of my news agency as "white supremacist."

I note there was no evidence offered to back up such an assertion.

So, here we have a guy – a college professor – blaming me and others for inspiring others to write hateful words about Piven. And what does he do in the process? He actually uses scurrilous, hateful words about me – without even an attempt to substantiate them.

Isn't that just like the left?

Even in a piece that is ostensibly decrying fighting words, they employ them – not, by the way against the people who actually used the fighting words, but against those who, in their twisted logic, incited them.

That's responsible, isn't it?

I don't know much about college professor Dreier. I've never heard of him. I've never met him. I kind of doubt he has actually ever read WND, the largest and oldest independent news source on the Net, which happens to publish more black columnists than any other two news sources combined. The only thing that is obvious from reading his fairy tale in the Huffington Puffington Post is that he's got Piven envy.

But I do know Arianna Huffington.

And, if I were actually a white supremacist, wouldn't she would have thought twice about seeking my counsel as often as she has in her life? Wouldn't she have thought twice about asking me to edit her books? Wouldn't she have thought twice about inviting me to nosh with her and her ex-husband, former Rep. Michael Huffington, in the Capitol? Wouldn't she have thought twice about asking me to help her develop an ill-fated television show? Wouldn't she have thought twice about asking me to ghostwrite a book for her?

Would Arianna Huffington ask a "white supremacist" to do that?

Maybe she would.

After all, she invites inveterate liars and mudslingers to write opinion pieces on her website.

She's actually got one nut job on her payroll who pretty much writes full-time about me and WND – with hardly a word of it connected to reality.

I guess you can do that when you marry an oil heir, divorce him and invest the California community property capital gain in a left-wing fantasy website the mainstream media love because it makes them look centrist by comparison.

I guess I should be flattered by insults from the likes of Huffington and her cult-like leftist cadre. Nevertheless, I know how sadly derivative Internet journalism can be. I can't count how many times I've been defamed and defiled by the likes of these smear merchants.

At least now you know the rest of the story.