I hear that AVN has fired two employees following the recent controversy on my site and GeneRossExtreme.com.
Gene Ross Interview
I interviewed Gene Ross by telephone last week. (Listen here.)
Luke to Gene: "Who's Rebecca Gray?"
Gene: "She's an assistant editor at AVN who I hired in 1998 as a proof reader and eventually she assumed more responsibilities and became a writer, blah, blah, blah. My understanding is that after Ken quit, Rebecca was going to leave AVN. She took over temporarily as managing editor until Mikey Ramone took that over. Then she said she was leaving but she's never left."
Luke: "Is she an essential cog at AVN?"
Gene: "Rebecca is as essential a cog as wings on a pig.
"As soon as Ken Wood discovered this email, he called me at home on a Saturday to come over to AVN. In fact, we were going to a Rob Black wrestling event.
"He showed me the email and of course I saw red. And Ken says, 'I'm quitting.' I'm going to offer my resignation on Monday."
Luke: "How did Ken find the email?"
Gene: "Good question. You might have to ask him that one. He's a smart guy. And thank goodness he did find it. It is an eye opener.
"It strikes me that she's referencing a conversation she previously had with Fishbein... This was already in the works...
"There was nothing wrong going on at AVN. The simple fact is that Ken Wood took over the reins and everybody included Rebecca Gray fought him tooth and nail. It was like a Republican in a house of Democrats. They refused to do anything. They held their breath and kicked their legs like little f---ing children until they got their way. They did not want this guy in there.
"Ken Wood had only come aboard as managing editor. He was only there a couple of weeks when these guys started in... I told Paul long prior to that, pardon the pun, that there were problems at AVN that he needed to address. I said, Paul, there's a cancer here. Certain people have to be gotten rid of.
"Prior, again excuse the pun, maybe a week before the Maui AVN Conference in April, I told Paul, before we left, that there's about four people here who need to be let go."
Luke: "And those four people would be Bryn Pryor, Rebecca Gray?"
Gene: "I could've arbitrarily picked any other two. I just saw this bad vibe all over the place."
Luke: "What was the cancer?"
Gene: "Backstabbing. Backbiting. Disagreement to pitch in and help. People trying to make other people look bad."
Luke: "Was there an underlying philosophical divide?"
Gene: "First you need the intelligence to comprehend something. It was just if somebody didn't like somebody, that was it. There was no particular vision...
"If there was a personal philosophy, Bryn Pryor believed that adult industry movies should be held accountable in the same terms of quality with mainstream stuff. And that anything that fell short was bad."
Luke: "That's amusing. I hear that he would bring in people from different companies and lecture them on the fine points of filmmaking."
Gene: "Of course he's yet to make a film. Oh, he did make one [mainstream film] - Liars Poker. It's actually a good title. It's never been distributed. I have a copy at home. It's bad, really bad.
"Rebecca Gray's the starring character in The Money Shot."
Luke: "She's an actress?"
Gene: "You wouldn't know it to look at her, but she is.
"A lot of the editorial meetings used to be occupied with her flights of fancy. You'd just say, reel her in for chrissakes, or shut her up."
Luke: "Is Paul a savvy businessman?"
Gene: "Paul was a lucky businessman. And just doesn't know how to manage. Paul caught lightning in the bottle with AVN.
"Ellen Thompson got a better offer from LFP (Larry Flynt Publications). Ellen was my inspiration. She was disenchanted with what was going on there. Internal operation. Promises made, promises broken."
Luke: "Rebecca Gray writes that you were not loyal."
Gene: "Well, there you go. Isn't that an interesting assessment? I was a loyal employee for 14 years until I saw that email.
"It all came down to this. They didn't like Ken Wood and I was his mentor. So therefore, by extension, I was evil too."
Luke: "Perhaps they did not like Ken Wood because he was 22 years old."
Gene: "Could be.
"On the one hand they say that I am not loyal. On the other hand, they're chastising me for not having the nerve to leave. What does that mean? Isn't that contradictory?"
Luke: "Rebecca writes, 'If Gene requieres anything of the internal system, he will have to go through me.'"
Gene: "That's basically a coup. An assumption of power by her. I was Vice-President of Editorial Operations."
Luke: "She writes, 'There will be no screaming down the hall.' Did you use to scream?"
Gene: "I used to scream at Mark Kernes because he didn't have any clues about deadlines. If there was anybody over there who drove me nuts, it was Kernes.
"The art direction was terrible. The best art we ever had came from Dave, who had his own personal demons to deal with."
Luke: "How does AVN art director Robin Greenberg keep her job if she isn't very good?"
Gene: "A really good art director wants big bucks. They tried hiring other art directors who came in and said, this is what I want. And once again, AVN in its typically penny wise pound foolish manner of operation, will always go for the cheaper person.
"For instance, I suggested that Quasarman be my replacement. Quasarman came in. Paul interviewed him and said, 'I like the guy. He's terrific. He's great.' Except for one thing. Quasarman wanted money. He actually wanted a salary of substance because he was potentially leaving a pretty lucrative thing with directing. I guess he started waying the options and presented X number of dollars and said, this is what I want. And Paul said, well, I've got to look for somebody else. But I really like him."
Luke: "I heard he was shopping the job around for $50,000?"
Gene: "I don't know what he was shopping it for. But I know that he was trying to keep it under the lid of what Mikey Ramone (the new managing editor) was getting. Paul didn't want to create strife by paying somebody more than Mikey Ramone (Bryn Pryor associate) was getting."
Luke: "What does Paul Fishbein get out of playing to someone like Rebecca Gray?"
Gene: "Maybe he's a drama junkie. You'll have to probe his psyche. But to me it is clear cut. If I had a disruption like this, I'd get rid of the disruption."
Luke: "Why didn't Ken fire Rebecca?"
Gene: "Because he wasn't given the power to do it. And that was one of the things he constantly came to me to complain about. Paul wants me to do this and that but he's not giving me the public vote of confidence... No, Paul encouraged rebelliousness. Any time they didn't like something, they'd knock on his door and complain to him."
Luke: "I've heard that there are employees at AVN who'd like to come to work and find the doors padlocked."
Gene: "Could be. I've always sensed it."
Luke: "AVN.com just seems to be a rewriting of other people's stories."
Gene: "Right. While they're rewriting, we're creating the news here."
Luke: "I can't seem to access AVNGossip.com or Tod-Hunter.com."
Gene: "But you can access Tod Hunter through GeneRoss.com. They're playing off my name. That's gotta tell you something. But you and I know, GeneRoss.com wasn't making any money."
Luke: "They've got 12 little banners here, at $1000 a month."
Gene: "They've got substantially less than when I had that site.
"That's $12000 for recycling news releases. I guess Tod's getting a piece of the action?"
Luke: "I don't think so."
Gene: "I don't think so either. I don't think he'll ever see a piece of that action."
I stopped by Extreme Associates Thursday night and snapped these photos:
Concerned writes: Luke, I note in your recent photos of Gene Ross that his trusty red baseball cap has been replaced by a blue one. Does this signify that his street gang affiliation has shifted from the "Bloods" to the "Crips"?
Goddess writes: I see by the pics on your site that Gene is still emitting extraordinarily strong hunk-o-rama rays
Taylor Hayes, Jenna Jameson On Stunningcurves.com
Kevin Moore writes: Hey Lukey, Just thought you might be interested in the chat I have posted with Taylor Hayes. I mention you to her. It is our top story. Also after that I have some more positive stuff about Jenna.
KM: There has been a bit of controversy about you on Luke F-rd’s site.
TH: I haven’t actually read what he wrote, but he evidently calls me a raging alcoholic and that I have this terrible life.
KM: His site is like the Weekly World News of porn, full of gossipy stories with a religious slant.
TH: I feel bad that people have to read stuff like that. There are always going to be people that love you and those people that are going to hate you. Me and Madonna (laughter). I have a great life, I’m not complaining about anything. If this is as bad as it gets then I hope it can get worse! (laughter).
Yishai Habari Takes Over Sex.com
Is it out of the frying pan and into the fire for Gary Kremen?
Kremen, who recently regained control of the domain name Sex.com from Stephen Michael Cohen, has chosen the infamous Yishai Habari to host and conduct his Sex.com site. Yishai, a Jew born in Israel and now living in New York, is the most feared man in the internet porn industry.
Many of Habari's peers suspect that he's connected to the Russian Jewish Mafia.
Porners have been told to not talk about Yishai if they care about their health.
Yishai was behind the Crescent Publishing scam which took in tens of millions of dollars from duped surfers.
In the summer of 1999, I was all set to write a book with Serge Birbrair about the rise of the porn internet when Yishai got to Serge and killed the project.
Contrary to reports, Ron Levi did not fund most of Gary Kremen's $700,000 lawsuit to regain Sex.com. Levi contributed $10,000.
When Seth Warshavsky dropped out of funding Kremen, Levi would take a look at the bills from Kremen's attorney Joel Viktor. And Levi thought they were exorbitent. So he quit paying.
Cohen filed Friday an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court to regain Sex.com.
Frank writes: Stephen Michael Cohen submitted a Declaration just now (in support of an Ex Parte Motion to Suspend the Preliminary Injunction Pending Appeal) stating his total net worth is $700,000. Cohen's $50 million defamation lawsuit against you should surely be dismissed if he never made the kind of money to warrant a claim of $50 million...what am amazingly stupid development on Cohen's part....of course he is asking the court to allow the domain name to stay in his possession until the appeals process is over because Gary never ran the site so there will be no harm in allowing Cohen to keep the site for another year or so during a 9th Circuit appeal. yeah right....
Luke says: By declaring his net worth is $700,000, Cohen's explaining to the court why he can't turn over the $25 million requested of him by Judge Ware.
I'm ripe for a summary judgment motion of my own to dismiss Cohen's libel suit against me. Since his big public defeat over Sex.com, Cohen's not left with much of a reputation to libel. And if Cohen only claims a net worth of $700,000, how can he sue me for $50 million?
People fear Cohen and his crack group of attorneys headed by Robert Dorband. The only people to survive litigation with Cohen so far have been Microsoft, the US federal government and Gary Kremen. Most of the pornographers, from Ron Levi to Serge Birbrair, caved in to Cohen.
Liberty writes: Luke, Have you forgotten that Lee Noga fought Cohen when he sued her? Also, Persian Kitty went to court to fight Cohen when he threatened to take away their website, sexbytes.com. In both of these cases, Cohen backed down. I'm sure if you did a thorough search, you could find many webmasters who told Cohen and his sex.com lawyers where they could stick their legal papers!
You are sounding more and more like an attorney....please don't sneak off and enter law school. I'd rather see you in Israel studying religion.
I found this article about Yishai Habari in the 6/27/97 Newsday:
For a man who makes his living putting pictures of naked people on the Internet, Yishai Habari has an unusual view of what lawmakers should do now that the Communications Decency Act has been struck down by the Supreme Court.
He wants Congress to make another attempt to restrict children's access to adult material on the 'Net. "We would have been more on the safe side of anyone coming and complaining," said Habari, president of the Manhattan-based Net Concepts, which produces pay-per-view adult Web sites that are hosted on computers owned by LI Net in Smithtown.
"And if there had been a restrictive ruling, well, there is a lot of free nudity that would disappear, and people would pay money to go in and see our nudity."
More Bad News About Jews = More Bad News For Jews
Chaim Amalek follows up on my Yishai Habari, Stephen Michael Cohen, Paul Fishbein, Steve Hirsch reportage with these thoughts:
I see that you have introduced to us yet another powerful jew in the world of porn, this one from Israel, a nation supported with billions of dollars in foreign aid, who chose (and was permitted to!) live amongst us here in the United States. Why are so many Israeli's permitted to settle here? I thought the whole point of supporting a jewish state was to keep as many jews away from America as possible. Why then do we permit so many of the least desirable of them to settle here and ruin it for the rest of us, who are NOT involved in porn? AMALEK wants to know.
Also, tell me again why there are so many jews in porn, and remind me again how your explanation differs from that of Pierce.
PS Reb Luke, did God Above give the torah to the jews to protect his chosen people from a corrupt world, or to protect the world from a corrupt people? Perhaps the moral code of the torah exists to fence in the jews into a moral ghetto of sorts so as to protect the innocent dumb goyim from the depravity of an irreducible minority of jewish tribesmen. Discuss at temple, please.
Luke replies: There are many Jews in porn because many secular Jews, not restricted by the Torah, will do anything to make a buck, and they don't mind violating social norms to do so. Torah Jews, meaning Orthodox Jews, must live according to God's will, and that precludes any involvement in such forms of cultural pollution as pornography.
AVNGossip.com
Tod Hunter writes AVNGossip.com. He owns the domain name Tod-Hunter.com but you can't access his gossip site there. You can find sometimes find it at Todd-Hunter.com and usually at GeneRoss.com.
Anonymous writes: "When you have a minute, bring up Network Solutions and do a "who is" on both Tod-Hunter.com and Todd-Hunter.com. When you see who the owner of those sites is I think you'll agree that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know why AVN and Fishbein keep screwing around with the gossip links. I'm surprised Gene Ross hasn't figured that one out."
Hank writes: "Spend two minutes on the so-called "reviews database" and YOU can tell ME why they keep screwing with the links. The Internet department at AVN couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a copy of Gray's Anatomy."
Luke says: Tod Hunter owns those domain names. AVN owns the domain name GeneRoss.com.
Gene Ross writes: Tod Hunter, trading off my name at geneross.com for the last month, writes: "Some things have changed (my extension is now 114 - call 109 and you'll get Ken Michaels at AVN Online; we are now down the street from Wicked Pictures, so Steve and Joy personally bringing in the tapes isn't that extravagant a gesture now; and Gene doesn't have as much clout around here as he used to) but the fundamental message stands."
Gene sez: "Hunter, I will show you clout. I will teach you the definition of clout. You will be my bitch when you find the doors padlocked and you're out on the street peddling your press release rewrites to some wannabe porno website."
Gene Ross also writes about Marc Bruder, owner of BRI - one of the major suppliers of adult to the cable market. Marc's a competitor of Kimberly Wilson, Fishbein's wife. Fishbein has done his best to discredit Bruder over many years. "I know he's your friend, but he's a thief," Fishbein would often tell me.
Rodney Moore writes: How about those AVN nominations. Let's see....."Cum Covered Faces," a movie which features girls walking around in public wearing Pina Colada Mix on their faces was nominated for an award. Public Pop Shots, a movie which features girls walking around in public with real semen on their faces was not. Apparently the AVN staff gets more turned on thinking about getting drunk then getting laid.
Director John T. Bone writes Quasarmanrants.com: "I notice that secondhand Luke has jumped on the award bandwagon, I was wondering, will the actual awards be stolen from another site or just the ideas?"
Steve Neece writes: It has occurred to me that you and Gene are The WWF and WCW of the porn world.Gene is the WWF and you are the WCW .You gotta try harder.Gene told me that AVN is a rapidly sinking ship ,much like the ECW in the wrestling world.He also told me that practically every woman in porn that he has spoken to grew up as a wrestling fan,most watching with their grandparents.For some reason this does not surprise as I watched wrestling in the 50's with my grandmother . You would be shocked at the 4 letter words that such staid elderly women will utter in the course of viewing a match.I don't think they realize they are doing it.I have seen women literally go into what I call "hate orgasms" at the doings of certain heels(like yours truly) and they are beside themselves in much the same way as religious frenzies grip people in certain Christian religious sects.This is probably less true today as they make no effort to pretend it is real,unlike in the past. Were they programmed unconsciously into porn thru watching wrestling?Were some "ring rats"?
Finally:Luke,do you realize how craven and spineless you sound when you say you take on the the characteritics of whatever group you are with,like you have no personality of your own.You have free will,pal ! Use it or lose it! To willingly give it up is to renounce your humanity.
Katja Kean, Jessica Drake, Sylvia Saint, Zoe, Shay Sweet, Kamiko, Teens
Slightly Misquoted
Kens Wood writes: Dear Luke, I wanted to clarify a few things regarding my termination. I dont feel *grossly misrepresented*, but there are a couple of points. I dont want to see this become something more than a business situation. My feelings have been all along that the situation stemmed from a series of miscommunications, and thats still my position. Someone made a good point here yesterday, I was playing it real close to the vest as far as business info, we had a good friend lose his company because of leaks (and for once it wasnt you ya scumbag:-) A lot of what I was doing looked bad. If it was a setup...so what. Happens all the time in business, and Im a big boy. I know its hard to believe...but this was not the first time Ive been called an asshole. Thats how it started...with a typo. *Is* a big dick...not *has*. Hey, it wasnt all derogatory.
I did read where someone wrote, *at least he's not Luke F-rd*, and Im going to recoup the loss, with an interactive game site You get to run over this little animated *Ken* with your car, and theres a scaffold, all kinds of s---... When you take a step back and look at the big picture, I wasnt the powder keg, just the fuse. You could almost say that disliking me was the only common thread some of these people had after so much time in the business together. When that kind of unraveled, a lot of old s--- came rolling out with it. At least thats my take. I had this mental image the other day of the office crowd all sitting around a conference table, lookin like: *OK now what?..You know I never liked you either*...then it turns into the barfight scene from Bonanza*
Laughs look its a fact that whenever you assemble group ofcreative people togethertensions build up over time. issues go unresolved differences come and inevitablyit blows. not only is inevitables healthy...gets the juices flowing again. (insert caveat here) provided treated as business dosent drag on. my gripe was with lost production time happened after fact. ive out on couple side deals because all attention if i seemed little bi-polar...what can say. hate losing money never been spotlight kind guy. share fame for other guys cashworks me. hopefully resolved to everyones satisfaction way past bury this thing. then we get back work newbigger better f--- ups...we have technology:-) (and christs sake joke) later im out.
Former AVN managing editor Ken Wood says Kens Wood is not him: "That's pretty funny. I can't believe some guy (or girl) spent that much time impersonating me. I'm flattered. But I'm also a better writer!"
Whatever Happened To V Days?
Chad writes: Luke, whatever happened to Kid Vegas' "V" days? Was the bulls--- between him and his ex-girlfriend his lame attempt to stir things up the way Rob Black did? It just seems strange that this all came out during the time that he said his "V" days would be taking place. I dont think he got the response that he was looking for and has given up, especially since it was supposed to be on the scale of the Honorable Judge Gene Ross leaving AVN. Maybe next year Kid.....
Blacks In Porn
Pat Riley writes on RAME: Yes, my gut feel is that if Anabolic/Diabolic were forced (however it's done) to include black females in their productions they'd make less money (not necessarily lose it). The three groups I referred to later (black viewers, white misogynists, and white "black girls are asexual" guys) wouldn't consider the scene worth watching. And, I don't think they need me to come to that conclusion.
The "whites only" hotel of the fifties was an apt analogy. They probably did lose money up until the time that the whites affected decided they couldn't find anywhere lily white to stay or eat and were forced to swallow hard and sleep in a bed that might have been occupied by a black guy the previous night. In the intervening time the hotel lost money (or didn't make as much). Consider it a tax to ensure racial harmony. (Not that that tax should have been borne purely by the hotel IMO but that's an off topic political argument.)
Where the analogy breaks down is that we permit (as we should) movies to be designed around themes or plots which by their nature preclude certain racial groups (your Video Team example); we don't permit (any more) "whites only" hotels. Further, contact between the hotel's staff and the black customer is not quite the same as screwing one.
RJB Telcom Settlement With FTC
Rich Botto of RJB Telcom posts on Netpond: Today, RJB Telcom, Inc. and its principals, Richard (RB) and Bob Botto entered into an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission in the recent lawsuit that was initiated by the FTC. This agreement (a stipulated preliminary injunction) allows RJB to immediately pay webmasters outstanding payments owed by RJB and reverts control of the company to the Bottos.
As part of the agreement RJB Telcom and the Bottos made no admission of liability and specifically denied the charges in the FTC’s complaint. The stipulated preliminary injunction was the result of on going negotiations with the FTC since the filing of this lawsuit on October 27, 2000.
From the day this lawsuit was filed, the Bottos have denied the serious allegations of credit card fraud contained in the FTC’s complaint. The Bottos cooperated fully with the FTC to educate them about RJB’s business and about fraud in all aspects of e-commerce including the adult industry.
RJB is proud of the innovative and proactive fraud detection and prevention measures that it has employed since 1996. Further, it has led the adult industry in crediting consumers and providing exceptional customer support. The Bottos feel that they have been the victims of a witch-hunt.
The complaint filed by the FTC contained allegations that they crammed credit cards and otherwise defrauded consumers. As attorney for RJB, Theodore Monroe stated: “The allegations by the FTC were false. The evidence was unrefuted that RJB never defrauded a single consumer out of a dime. Instead, RJB was the victim of several renegade webmasters who attempted to defraud RJB out of commissions using stolen credit cards or a credit card generator. We believe this is why the FTC agreed to a stipulated preliminary injunction allowing the Bottos to get back their business without paying any fine or consumer redress.”
Richard (RB) Botto stated: “While RJB was under the control of the Federal Receiver, we were not allowed to pay RJB’s affiliates. This has caused us irreparable damage. Now that we are back in control of the business, RJB fully intends to pay all webmasters immediately and will continue to do so in the future." Mr. Botto continued: “We would like to thank everyone who has supported us through this ordeal.”
Lesbians
Kama Sutra writes Luke: Why do heterosexual married men like lesbian sex?
The female is considered the temple of human intimacy and sexuality. Her body is the central focus of sexual attention. The female gender plays a large role in this stimulus, too. In our society, we feel it's more acceptable socially for two women to make love that two men because of our gender sterotypes. Men find two women (lesbians) ostensibly making love together the pinnacle of intimacy, softness, gentleness, eroticism, and sexuality. Men are highly aroused to see two women representing the most sexual side of us sharing in a physically erotic, emotional, and intimate relationship. The appeal may also be attributed to how men view women in that they feel their are no barriers or less boundries to their sexual intimacy because they feel women know their bodies better and how to initmately make love at a deeper level than a man (or at least it appears that way while playing the voyeur). Married men, who feel tied down to the same women who's body they see almost every night, are especially aroused at the sight of two of two female bodies that represent the sexual essence, eroticism, intimacy, and lust.
I do believe that this attraction is do to their relationship with their Mother, to the degree of how much maternal love, nuturing, and affection was received through out a man's childhood. If a man received little affection or unconditional love this might have caused great emotional pain and any desire to see women making love. However, if he had a close healthy relationship with his mother, there may be a heightened curiousness or desire for love, sexual intimacy and pleasure. I also think there are many men who enjoy watching lesbians because of the role reversal involved. Look at the number of closet transvestites out there who are aroused by wearing women's clothing. This same attraction or arousal that men feel towards viewing lesbians or women making love is the same desire or attraction to role reversal and being like a women, or close to a women, and feeling the sexual power of women. This is a REAL attraction to men. It's what drives men nuts and pay to watch lesbians.
JRob writes: Kama Sutra's analysis is, I think, an example of over analysis and off the point. The answer is simple.
1. When a heterosexual man views a standard pornographic scene between and man and a woman, he can fantasize about being in the man's place.
2. When a heterosexual man views a lesbian scene, the nude, sexual females which arouse him are present, and he can fantasize about being included.
3. When a heterosexual man views a male gay scene, he will simply not fantasize about being part of it (if he is a grown up), or he may be actively hostile to it in an effort to re-convice himself that he is not gay (if he has self doubt).
Summary: Is the thing that makes his penis erect ( a naked woman having sex) present in the scene? Then it is good enough for the heterosexual male's viewing / masturbatory pleasure.
Dudley Moore Opines On Lesbians
Dudley Moore writes: Luke, this post is my final one.
I believe that visual socialization provides the BEHAVIORAL MISSING LINK between human versus primate behavior. In other words, what is common to both, what overlaps, is the nonverbal and purely visual part of the interaction. The most significant difference is that in humans, our verbal capacity allows for a far greater sublety, range, and potential for emotional development.
For primates, by contrast, visual socialization is silent, and everything. Thus, in us humans, any psychically traumatic event we are unable to tell others about, unable to express verbally, results in a bizarre state of neurotic primate "regression"(like that created by keeping sexual secrets). That's why therapy is called the "talking cure", since it releases psychic traumas by making them verbal, curatively removing these psychic blocks and allowing once more for healthy emotional development, as is true in the reparative therapy of homosexuals.
Luke, in the below quote from her book Female Homosexuality, Elaine Siegel details the purely visual socialization process which creates lesbians. This is the closest you or your readers will ever get to a "how-to" formula for making millions of future highly visual/exhibitionistic lesbians for the sex industry. I have italicized the essential words which detail the underlying mirroring process:
"The mother's own sense of how she is female and what it means to be a woman will certainly COLOR HER RECEPTION to her infant daughter. If she happily welcomes the baby as potentially like herself and right from the start transmits her joy in refinding her own infant self in the little one, THE ESSENTIAL MIRRORING PROCESS will progress smoothly. If, on the other hand, a female child is regarded with diispleasure or depression, the baby will assume from birth that something is not right with her. Thus, the tiny girl's narcissism is shaped negatively, and THE MIRRORING PROCESS IS DISTORTED FROM THE OUTSET.
"But even when the baby is received with joy and acceptance, the parental responses to her will be different than to the birth of a boy. The MIRRORING BY SIGNIFICANT OTHERS conveys "You are a boy," or "You are a girl." BUT THE MIRRORING OTHER IS NEVER A PURE MIRROR BECAUSE PARENTAL LIFE EXPERIENCE IS TRANSMITTED IN THE WAY THE INFANT IS MIRRORED. Thus, the girl child is the recipient of QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT MIRRORING EXPERIENCES that may or may not reinforce positive gender identity formation.
"All infants create themselves on the basis of WHAT THEY RECEIVE NONVERBALLY FROM THEIR CARETAKERS and on what they are born with. A DISTORTED IMAGE REFLECTED IN THE MIRROR IS NEVERTHELESS RECEIVED AS TRUE BY THE CHILD--the unauthentic self will be felt to be the true one. The little girl who later turns to homosexuality never has a chance to create her true self. She is a creation of her mother, whose self-love she was meant to enhance, instead of the other way around.
"The unending impingement of parents'-- especially mothers'-- attitudes about that infant's sex and infant's constructing these perceptions, via its developing capacity to FANTASY, into events, i.e., meaningful, motivated experiences, will determine how the child's core gender identity develops. These girls never doubted that they were female, but they were unable to traverse the usual developmental states that make a female into a sexually mature woman. Their basic endowment for self-love and self-esteem never blossomed. They were expected to fulfill their mother's needs, not their own.
"From the very beginning, they received in one way or another the message that it was unacceptable, even dangerous, to become like their mothers. Of course, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT UNCONSCIOUS COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PARENT TO THE CHILD, not of overt neglect. The women dealt with this basic lack of attunement to their infantile needs with great adaptive strengths and an amazing variety of creative maneuvers that nonetheless expressed, "Mother didn't teach me who I am. Therefore, ANOTHER LIKE MYSELF must show me that I have a sexual self."
But the MIRRORING THEY RECEIVED FROM THEIR FEMALE LOVERS WAS AS DISTORTED AS THEIR PRIMARY,MATERNAL EXPERIENCE HAD BEEN, locking them into the never-ending cycle of the repetition compulsion of forever taking new homosexual lovers." There is really nothing biological about either ultra-femme lesbians nor about butch dykes. Both types result from distorted mirroring and both types are equally exhibitionistic, although we don't normally think of butch dykes as exhibitionistic. Just think of the enormous amount of negative attention that butch dykes get for appearing that way. Dykes use their sexual orientation to adopt a pseudo-political/feminist" stance, while what it's really about is getting lots and lots of negative attention! In fact, many butch dykes were just as likely to be pretty and feminine as any other women when they were younger, so being exhibitionistically butch-dyke is really just about being flauntingly exhibitionistic just as being ultra-femme is.
Luke's Chronic Fatigue Syndome - Excuse To Opt Out?
Lynne L-patin writes: Do you know what I am hoping comes out of all this glorious excuse for copy? (You are, after all, if not a journalist, a self-proclaimed gossip columnist.) Personally? I hope you find out why AVN wouldn't review Bruce's and my work. Before that, I never criticized them in public from the perspective of the magazine business, just editorial policy, say, or sexual philosophy, or ignoring my movies. Was it really trying to tell the truth about a stupid Ed Powers movie from the perspective of people who loved sex?
I hesitate to send you this [Lynne's article about CFS, saying it was psychological], because all the considerable research I actually did leads to the understanding that people who cling to the label of CFS-sufferer are so profoundly deluded that they cannot even question the nature of their purported illness without further self-inflicted suffering.... It is easier for the self-deluding to remain swaddled in the comfort of their delusions than to stand, cold and naked, in the clear light of truth.
You pursue the truth in pornography, but you hide from the truths in yourself. How frustrating for those who care for you. Do you include yourself in that group?
I am just glad to get it out of the way...I find the very topic fatiguing.
Lynne writes: Despite well over a decade of research and millions of dollars devoted to the identification of a physiological cause for the constellation of symptoms making up the illness defined as "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," no physiological cause nor objective signs of physiological illness have been determined.
A diagnosis of CFS is to be excluded if a diagnosis of major depression with melancholic or psychotic features has been made for the patient at any previous time, as well as if they have ever been diagnosed with alcohol or other substance abuse within two years prior to the onset of the chronic fatigue or any time thereafter.
Various theories of psychiatric cause have been proposed for CFS but, for various reasons, individuals who have pursued a diagnosis of CFS are extremely hostile toward examining the potential of their illness being generated by emotional or psychiatric causes. Apparently, debate over a physical vs. psychiatric cause for CFS actually makes these patients increasingly ill, and potentially interferes with their recovery.
Although diagnosis of CFS according to CDC criteria excludes those patients who have previously been diagnosed with depression, a majority of patients diagnosed with CFS exhibit concurrent depression or other psychiatric symptoms. Some of the symptoms shared by CFS and depression include fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive disturbance, although the psychiatric definition of depression does not include physical symptoms such as the sore throats and headaches used to diagnose CFS.
Cognitive behavior therapy is based on the idea that a patient can make deliberate, conscious change in the way he or she perceives their life, as guided by a therapist who actively participates in the intervention, which will enable them to evolve new, more successful coping strategies. It often includes having the patient plan their own treatment and chart their progress toward their personal goals.
Various medications effective in treating depression, such as the older tricyclic antidepressants and the more recently developed serotonin reuptake blockers, are also effective in alleviating the symptoms of associated with CFS. However, it may be important that the patient be allowed to believe their anxiety and depression results from dealing with the physical illness of CFS, rather than either being the original cause of distress.
Those patients who have a great deal invested in their illness will often report reactions to even subclinical dosages of medically proven efficacious drugs, so as to justify their discontinuation.
The diagnosis of CFS allows its recipient a medical excuse to "opt out" of life without the stigma of emotional illness, which is often perceived as personal failure rather than beyond the patient's control.
Patients with CFS report themselves as being fatigued beyond the ability to hold down jobs, contribute to household maintenance or participate in social or family activities. Obviously, this can lead to financial and social problems, yet, because of the physical diagnosis, patients can point to an external cause for their disengagement. Thus, it is "not their fault," and they can justify waiting passively, focusing on their symptoms and becoming increasingly more deconditioned, until a physical cause and cure are found.
Many studies have found that patients with CFS become disadvantaged socially, damaging their support systems of family and friends through their unpredictable behavior through years of dysfunction. Individuals who believe that there is a physical cause for their inability to perform physical activities often stop all activity, leading to an actual inability (through deconditioning) to physically perform these tasks, including the normal activities of daily life, such as housework, shopping and other chores.
This unhealthy focus on the inability to tolerate physical activity may increase the perception of heightened physical sensitivity to normal physical behavior and lead to additional depression, ensuring that depression becomes integral to the constellation of symptoms even if, at initial presentation, it was overlooked or denied.
Even as science and medicine increasingly uncover vital relationships between our physiology and our emotional and mental states, our culture continues to view physical illness differently and with less stigma than it does emotional or mental illness. It also treats physical illness preferentially regarding reimbursement through insurance and disability payments.
Lynne writes:
Dear Luke:
My intuition at the beginning, when I first met you, was that CFS and depression are one and the same, and my research bears this out although, as I mentioned, the research on serotonin itself is incomplete, and as CFS becomes a less popular diagnosis, I don't know that there will ever be a study on serotonin levels in people diagnosed with CFS vs those diagnosed with depression vs a normal control group.
Perhaps I am deluded into thinking that I am depressed, when really I have CFS. The difference being, of course, that I don't have the medical insurance which allows for the diagnosis. I dare say that, with the rise in HMO's as opposed to private medical insurance, not to mention the improvement in anti-depressants, a CFS diagnosis has fallen out of disfavor.
I am happy with having done the research, because I have substantiated my beliefs in a scientific fashion. I didn't do it to change your mind, only to satisfy myself by knowing as much objective truth as I could. CFS is a coping mechanism that works well for some people, yourself included, or they (and you) wouldn't hang on to the diagnosis and all it represents. I found it very interesting that it is well recognized that to challenge the diagnosis causes general distress in those people who cling to it. It is like challenging someone's religion.
We have discussed homeopathy before, and as an intelligent man, I am surprised you would not avail yourself of the research as to that, which I made sure to supply you. You know that can't affect you one way or another other than as a placebo. It is as much of a scam as a 500 man gang bang (50 guys, 10 times, or is that 2 guys, 250 times?). But you wouldn't be the first intelligent man to hold various delusions...
As to therapy, only one particular type of therapy is mentioned as being effective, and I doubt that is what you are receiving, but that's something I can't know. Furthermore, the diagnosis of the "narcissistic personality disorder" should actually invalidate the CFS diagnosis, as that is a major emotional disorder, and CFS can only exist in the absence of any depressive or psychotic states..... Exercise is good and essential....but it won't necessarily change your mind set. If you want to have CFS, you will have it. If you want to be a Jew, you are one. If you want to be a Republican, you are that, too. So, it is really a non-issue.
You are a sensitive person, easily overwhelmed, easily conflicted. Your coping mechanisms tend toward flight rather than fight. You invest a great deal in your beliefs, and maintaining them is so vital to your self-image that you discard any challenge to them. There is no appeal to your intellect -- you think with your emotions, consequently are irrational much of the time. Remember that the opinions of anyone who takes money from you are less than objective.
Do I still love you knowing the depths of your delusions? Oh, yes.
Would I count on you in the trenches, under fire? Hardly.
I have two papers to write this morning, and then am finished with the worst of it. Give my regards to Gene. Too bad no one ever saw fit to hire me. The magazine would have been glorious.
Luke says: I don't care if homeopathy has just a placebo effect on me. So long as it makes me feel better, I'm happy to live in ignorance.
Luke Gets Mail
Wit writes: Dude, Whatever happened to...no, not Baby Jane, whatever happened to April Rayne? She was a pretty under rated star in the biz in my somewhat less than humble opinion. I've asked before and I'll ask again put a April Rayne bio in with the rest of your stars listed in this hot lil' website of yers, dude! She was one hot mama jama that April Rayne! And I think she's about read fer her comeback! See if you can find out some news, dude! And hey, I don't know what you've been so depressed about lately, Luke. Yer boy, Georgie Porgie Dubya Bush has won the presidency! So you'll be gettin' a nice big tax cut along with all the other rich folks out dere in Beverly Hills! I've seen pictures of your "hovel" as you call it on yer site. It wouldn't be so bad if ya fixed the joint up a bit and maybe cleaned it up a bit. It kinda looks like a interior of a temporary job agency or something. Is yer home a residence or just some cheap office space you rented cheap? From the outside it! looks like a decent area. An unk empt apartment can affect yer self esteem, Lukey. I know about it first hand. Cos when yer heading home yer thinking, 'man, now I gotta go home to that dump I live in." Or something along those lines. By the way, is 'Japster' the term you're using fer some Asian chick yer dating? Aaa, you might try something along the lines of "BEAUTIFUL ASIAN PRINCESS" or something like dat, dude. Trust me, she'll appreciate it. Later, gator...
Morty writes: Morty writes: I noticed that you had no trouble running the hateful work of Jack Chick when his tracts were ridiculing the faiths of the Muslims, Mormons, Catholics, and Masons. Well, Mr. Ford it seems Brother Chick has a strong opinion on the Jews and their failure to recognize Jesus as the true Messiah. Still laughing? Click here: Where's Rabbi Waxman?
Laura writes: Regarding Dennis Prager's open letter to the Democrats, and the current republican hysteria, Gore has won the popular vote and currently leads in the electoral college, with the remaining electoral votes to be decided by Florida in which Gore merely trails by a few hundred votes and there are thousands which have NEVER BEEN COUNTED, because the machines didn't tabulate them. Given these facts, the suggestion that Gore is trying to "steal" this election is absolutely absurd. The republicans and bush himself know full well if every vote is counted, Gore wins. That is why they are so desperate to impede the hand counting by any means possible including sending a hired mob to Miami/Dade to intimidate the canvassing board into stopping the hand recount. Gore has every right under Florida law to request a hand count as has been done there before and elsewhere around the country in very tight races INCLUDING TEXAS where shrub signed a law three years ago that stated hand counts are more accurate than machines and where the standards for judging a vote are the very same ones they are asking for in Florida: dimpled chads, hanging chads, light shinning through. The republicans have become undemocratic fascists and Gore has every right and in fact has an obligation to contest this sham of a "victory" declared by Katherine Harris, his campaign co-chair who is seeking an ambassadorship and who may very well be having an affair with his brother Florida Governor Jeb.
Ian writes from Great Britain: Hi Luke, For a bunch of wankers, your contributors seem to have a wide variety of interests. Since the Presidential election has been brought up by a number of them, perhaps I could show you a viewpoint from across the Big Pond. Your Presidential election is important to us because whoever wins is going to have to face dilemmas, and make decisions, which impact on the whole world. Unfortunately, and certainly for the first time in my life, the likely winner is someone who seems as unqualified for to be President as, say, Jesse Ventura, or Coco the Clown. It has come about as a result of your political system which allows nonentities to be pushed forward as a representative of one of the two parties, and then a big push by lots of money, buying lots of tv advertising and direct marketing can propel such a nonentity into the White House. To watch George Dubya discuss a serious subject under pressure reminds me of what Dr Samuel Johnson said about a dog walking on its hind legs. It's not that he does it well that impresses you, but that he can do it at all. Thus, in the Presidential Candidate debates, Gore sounded far more knowledgeable, but since George Dubya neither fainted nor made any of his characteristic gaffes (ie he had learnt his pre-debate lessons well, and stuck to well-known passages of past speeches) he was hailed as having won the debates!
I suppose I can't blame him too much for the delaying tactics of the Republicans in the Florida election - if the roles had been reversed, the Democrats would probably have behaved in the same way. Morally speaking, however, the Democrats clearly hold the high ground in the post-election wrangling, since all they are asking is for Florida's votes to be properly checked, while the Republicans seem anxious that no one knows in time who actually won in Florida. The blame for the debacle must fall on the positively cavalier way in which certain parts of the USA supervise their elections, so that you wouldn't think it was an important objective that those who want to vote should be given every facility to do so and to have their votes properly recorded. And, as I said, the end product can be that the leader of the free world is an intellectual donkey (not compared to me, I hasten to say, but compared to the elevated nature of the position and the complexity and importance of the decision-making faced.) It couldn't happen in my country. It is possible for individual constituencies to throw up inadequate representatives, but the Prime Minister is chosen by the elected representatives of the governing party, and it is in their interest to select someone substantial.
Frank writes: http://www.whatwomenwantmovie.com/ Luke, maybe the original should be rereleased so the public can compare it with this Mel Gibson - Helen Hunt movie of the same title.
Steve Neece writes: Dennis Prager has to be one of the great hypocrites of the age.Everything he accuses the Democrats of were stock in trade of the Republicans,past and present.Name a Republican president that did not milk racial animosities for all they were worth?Or hatred of Gays and intellectuals.If the people Prager want to win get in office he will be just another 'kike' to them.Get real ,Dennis.I'm not saying the Dems don't have serious flaws but this time the truth is on their side as far as the race/lifestyle/gender question.
Krissy Luv writes: I can't believe you think you can write these horrible descriptions about female talent like on teen extreme#9 or Bring U'm Young. I am affiliated with these videos, you don't have to like them or dislike them, just don't talk down about people you don't even have a f---ing clue about! And another thing you are a complete f---ing asshole!!!!!!!!
Alec Jensen writes Luke: "Just having your "Bio" or "About Luke F-rd" on your site is an insult. Just listing the "achievements" you have made shows your over-inflated ego of yourself alone.
"Hope to see you in Vegas this year. In case you don't know who I am, I will be the guy with his foot on your head while I piss in your mouth."
Luke asks Chaim: How should I handle guys like Alec?
Chaim replies: 1. Are you free and clear of all litigation? I recall you were talking about moving to eretz israel once all that unpleasantry was resolved. But the arabs who view it as their land do not want you there, so perhaps you have changed your mind.
4. In general, the way to deal with those who threaten you is to become so rich and/or powerful that no one dares mess with you. I would focus on (4).
5. Is it too late for you to launch Pimpline, the service where you name you own price for sex with famous porn whores and other sex workers?
KV writes: Hey you forgot to include Raylene in your list of Jews working in the porn industry. Of course the mistake could be mine, so if she's not please correct me so I can stop telling people that she is. Your sections on Jews is always a shocker and a thought provoker. Where do those opinions come from? You have told me in the past they are not yours, but you never credit them. A more knee jerk person would assume they were yours and that you are a Nazi, which quite obviously you are not.
Luke says: The sources for my essay on Jews in porn are clearly laid out in my essay.
John writes: Dear Luke: Do you want to become a Vivid Boy ? Is it possible to become a Vivid Girl without going in the magic bed of my wonderful Boss ? ( Nikki , Lexus , Lisa Ann . . . the sister of Steven isn't very happy !!! )
Frank writes: It's all a biological prank. Marriage occurs when instincts take over (or when men get sick and tired of the dating scene). It is not a rational economic decision.
The feminist line about women taking a hit when they get divorced is misleading. Women who take a financial hit do so because their marketable skills are not as good as their spouses. In short, by being married, they get an economic benefit they would not otherwise be entitled to. This 27% drop merely drops them off at a level closer to what they would actually deserve, given their skills.
The truth of the matter is that men suffer economically when they get married and when they get divorced. Had I been married since leaving college, half of everything I worked for would be owned by my spouse. If I got divorced, I'd lose half of everything. If that isn't taking a hit, I don't know what is. Only a boob who knows nothing about the community property laws would ever think that divorce benefits men and hurts women.
Chaim writes : Luke, why did you choose to send this [link] out under the subject header "Luke"? Why is everything always Luke Luke Luke?
Helpful responds: *ahem* Narcissistic complex. Remember? Face it Chaim. This is Luke's world. We are just living in it. ;-)
Rumdar replies: It is Luke's world and Luke's column. We hang with Luke for various reasons. He is a lovable scamp without scruples. He prints our takes and rants. He is the only guy I know who seeks to marry yentaistic, unattractive, pre menopausal Jewish women with mega dollar aspirations. And it is comforting to know that there is a guy in the porn business who gets laid less than we do. Any other reasons? Come on guys, there must be more.
Fred writes: Sure--I harbor the deep-seated aspiration that when I quit my job and move to LA, he'll introduce me to Kendra Jade.
Chaim replies: Sorry, Fred. He introduced me to Kendra Jade, and all I got out of it was a series of denials from her that she even knows me.
Dr William Pierce With This Week's Torah Portion
Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, with which portions of the following analysis are you in agreement, and with which are you in disagreement? It pains me to say this, but I think that his analysis of the effect that the changing racial composition of the country has had on the electoral prospects of conservative republicans is correct. For example, in Florida, over 93% of the black vote went to Al Gore, and that is fairly typical. If the electorate had remained as white over the last forty years as it had been for the previous forty years, LBJ likely would have been the last democratic president, and even he only became president because of the immensely destructive act of the communist Lee Harvey Oswald in murdering John Kennedy.
For the record, I do not agree with Pierce that the so-called "leadership principle", by which German Socialists under A. Hitler governed Germany, is better than democracy. Hitler f---ed things up for the white race more thoroughly than any other man of the 20th century. The evil that wickedly great men do, to borrow one Black Man's characterization of Hitler, lives on long after they have died. Had neither Hitler nor that boob Kaiser Wilhelm II ever gotten their hands on a powerful nation like Germany, the world today would be a far better place. Also, I think that it is possible for a clever man to at least slow the slide towards biological oblivion that the white race faces. That is a topic for another day, but let me just say here that the judicious use of the incongruities presented by a formally "jewish" state in the mideast have as yet been unexploited by American patriots.
To make this relevant to your web site, let us ponder the role of pornography, which you have informed us is disproportionately the product of jewish minds and mostly consumed by white gentile men, in keeping the white race under the iron heel of the ruling class by making them docile.
Luke says: I'm often asked why I print excerpts from an evil man, the white national Dr. William Pierce, a modern day Nazi. I do so because I think his thought, while morally repugnant, often raises tough questions that establishment types won't struggle with. I hate Dr. Pierce and I hate his solutions, but I think he often puts his finger on American problems (or on what many Americans view as problems).
My perspective is that I care far more about people's values than about their ethnicity. I care about character rather than skin color.
Dr. William Pierce writes:
What we have now, of course, is a rapidly changing electorate, and that is more important than fluctuating conditions. Until 80 years ago we had a White male electorate. For roughly another 30 or 40 years, even though women were voting from 1920 and were shifting the process to the left, the electorate was still almost completely White. The Second World War, fought in the name of equality and democracy, set the stage for changing all of that. The country was 90 per cent White as late as 1950, and most Blacks still didn't vote, but the process of change had begun. A massive campaign was underway to move the country further and further to the left, to make it more and more democratic.
Part of this campaign involved elevating the status of the descendants of our former Black slaves to that of the Whites and registering them to vote. Part of it involved changing our immigration laws to cut off the flow of immigrants from Europe -- except Jews, of course -- and to bring in millions of non-White immigrants from the Third World. Part of it involved organizing and encouraging the growth of various alienated and aggrieved segments of the White population: homosexuals and feminists, for example. And part of it involved enlarging the portion of the electorate dependent on the government for handouts of one sort or another by greatly increasing the number of government welfare programs: food stamps, rent subsidies, medical assistance, and a hundred others.
So now we have a country which is 30 per cent non-White, and that 30 per cent is part of a Democratic coalition which also includes the Jews, the homosexuals, and the feminists, not to mention a substantial minority of Whites who for one reason or another also have joined the coalition. In some cases the reason is simply a bolshevik resentment of people who are more successful. In some cases it is a fashionable sort of liberalism, which is propagated vigorously by the schools, by the Christian churches, and especially by the mass media. And in many cases, especially among the growing segment of the population which is elderly, it is simply a matter of voting for whoever promises them the biggest government handout: something at which the Democrats traditionally have been better.
And this Democratic coalition can only grow, not because of changes in economic conditions or in the mood of the electorate, but because of the changing biology of the electorate. In particular, the country is becoming more non-White with each passing year. The Democrats have been gloating during the past decade that before the end of the first 50 years of this century the United States will have a non-White majority, and that then there will be no way the White race can ever regain control of its own destiny and put a stop to the growth of multiculturalism. Bill Clinton, in particular, has been boasting of this to college audiences around the country, generally to enthusiastic applause from the bolshevik and liberal elements which have become so prominent on our campuses since the Second World War.
Of course, this process can be stopped -- but not by voting, not through the democratic process. Unfortunately, most White American males, feminized wimps that they have become, are afraid even to contemplate the necessary means for reversing the biological degeneration of their country. And as for the Republicans, they refused even to use the electoral process while that was still a feasible means for reversing the slide toward racial oblivion. People could see what was coming a long time ago. What has happened to America may be a surprise to the lemmings, to the people who know nothing except what they see on TV, but it certainly is no surprise to the leading Republican politicians, to the party bosses, or to the principal financial supporters of the Republican Party. They could see the consequences of our government's policies as well as the Democrats could, who were formulating and promoting those policies.
So why didn't the Republicans do anything? Well, I believe you already know the answer, but I'll state it anyway. The Republican Party long ago succumbed to the inevitably lethal disease of party politics, wherein the electoral campaigns in which they engaged ceased being campaigns to support certain principles of government which they believed would be of benefit to the country or to our people and became instead mere scrambles for patronage, scrambles to get their man at the head of the trough instead of the Democrats' man, so that the Republicans could reward their people with government jobs, pass laws that would benefit their supporters, and so on. For the most part they ceased caring what happens to the country in the long run and cared only about the immediate material benefits to be gained by winning the next election and getting control of the government: especially the Treasury. And to the extent that some of them still did care about the country, they were afraid to act. They were afraid that they might lose votes by acting. They were afraid that more people might vote against them for taking a principled stand than would vote for them.
Take the current immigration disaster as an example. There are Republican businessmen who actually favor the continuing flood of non-Whites into the country, because that keeps the cost of labor down. But those Republicans who are opposed to the continued darkening of America won't take a strong stand against non-White immigration because, first, they are afraid that they will alienate more non-White voters who already are in the country than they will gain in White voters who approve of their stand.; and second, they are afraid of the powerful forces which would attack them if they took a stand in opposition to non-White immigration, the most powerful of those forces being the controlled mass media.
Fred writes: As always, there is much that is screwed up re Dr. Pierce. First, Pierce thinks that the Republicans are selling out by catering to blacks. Pierce seems to forget that the Republican party came into existence precisely for the purpose of improving the lot in life for blacks. In particular, Lincoln (the first Republican president) campaigned on an anti-slavery platform. After the Civil War, the Republicans enacted the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (anti-slavery, equal protection and voting rights). The Republicans pretty much kept on that track until Hayes was elected president.
So is it the Republicans selling out, or the Republicans being true to their roots?
(By the way, Lyndon Johnson predicted that because he and the Democrats enacted the civil rights legislation of the 1960's, the South would go from being solidly Democrat--as it was from Reconstruction until Reagan--to being solidly Republican--as it is today. The Southern states were rigidly Democrat as an obvious reaction to the Republican Party that waged the Civil War. They are mostly Republican as a by-product of the Civil Rights legislation that was (rightfully) rammed down their throats.)
Next, Pierce thumbs his nose at the coalition of folks who support the democrats: women (more than 50% of the population and in fact, more than 50% of the white race by themselves), blacks (another 10% of America), hispanics (I don't know the percentage), homosexuals (1 to 5%, depending upon who you believe), and roughly left wing males.
Well, with a coalition like that, how the hell could you not come up with a majority. Pierce then thumbs his nose at the Republicans for trying to kow-tow to the electorate. Any political party that fails to kow-tow to the electorate is not long for this world, and is destined to become a collection of marginalized political nut-cases like Dr. Pierce.
Pierce is correct, that if democracy continues to hold firm in America, Pierce is doomed to be marginalized for all eternity. The only way for his views to hold sway is if some extremely non-democratic event occurs. The problem with such a non-democratic event is that if such an event occurs, the leaders of that event are just as likely to line Pierce and his comrades against a wall and have him shot as to tolerate him.
Pierce fails to take note of that possibility. In any event, only a crackpot could possibly believe that democracy will end in America. The trend in this world is apparent. Other than a few places like North Korea, Cuba, the People's Republic of China, and the Arab world, most of the planet is becoming democratic. By the end of the next century, I think it likely that all of the planet will be democratic. Pierce will wind up in the dust bins of history. Enjoy the dust, Dr. Pierce.
Luke writes Chaim: Would you like to write a book with me about secular Jews as cultural polluters?
Chaim replies: It is not possible for any book that denigrates any jews from a such a perspective to be published in America by a mainstream publishing house. This is not a good idea because there would be no reward for our efforts. But you already have all the material you need for such a book anyway. Why not put it all together as a "e" book? I am sure that XX would be willing to write the introduction.
PS Regarding Fred's comments concerning the survival of democracy in America, Pierce is an avowed enemy of democracy. His primary concern is for the survival of the White Race. My question to you and to all in Lukeland is this:
Would the world be a better place if the white race vanished through miscegenation?
Would the world be a better place if the jews vanished through intermarriage with goyim?
Do you look forward to the day when white people are a minority in the United States?