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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: A Sex-Free Scandal By Steve Rendall The current scandal involving Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott’s long-term association with a white supremacist hate group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, arose almost by accident. Its emergence as a major story is the result of the dogged reporting of one Washington Post reporter and a handful of mostly African-American columnists, with help from independent researchers (including FAIR). When Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz clashed with U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) during the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings on Dec. 1, he accused Barr of using rhetoric laced with "bigotry" and "racism.” Barr had repeatedly referred to “the real America” that understood why the president needed to be impeached. Dershowitz, who is Jewish, claimed Barr was questioning his “Americanism” and that of his Jewish and African-American co-panelists. Barr responded: "That's absurd. You ought to be ashamed. That is the silliest thing I have ever heard." But a few days later Dershowitz wrote to Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), citing a speech Barr gave to the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) months earlier. Dershowitz wrote, "Congressman Barr, who was fully aware of this organization's racist and anti-Semitic agenda, not only gave the keynote address to the CCC's national board, but even allowed himself to be photographed literally embracing one of their national directors." Successor to the “uptown Klan” The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch & Militia Task Force calls the CCC “the reincarnation of the infamous White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s.” The White Citizens Councils, often referred to during the civil rights era as the “white collar” or “uptown” Klan, were formally titled Citizens Councils of America (CCA). To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1451 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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