Chip Berlet

Chip Berlet (born November 22, 1949) is an American political writer.

Sourced

• Around the country, ideas that originated on the hard right or in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists are finding their way into the mainstream. In a number of cases, these ideas have become commonplace in American minds.
  • "Into the Mainstream" in Intelligence Report (Summer 2003) at the Southern Poverty Law Center

• Today, there are still political and social networks that seek to undermine full equality for all Americans. Their messages are spread using the standard tools: prejudice, fear, disdain, misinformation, trivialization, patronizing stereotypes, demonization and even scare-mongering conspiracy theories. While many of the groups within these networks describe themselves as mainstream — and many disagree with one another — they all have helped spread bigoted ideas into American life.
  • "Into the Mainstream" in Intelligence Report (Summer 2003) at the Southern Poverty Law Center

About Chip Berlet

• Berlet is professional political hit man whose specialty is smearing anyone outside the traditional left-right categories as an extremist, at best, and a nascent Nazi at worst. He and his organization have been a veritable fountainhead of anti-Fulani material, which details the political history of Fulani and her group from a leftist perspective. In Berlet’s view, Fulani endorsing Buchanan is a betrayal of leftist principles, a sell-out that does not augur well for the left.
  • Justin Raimondo in "Behind the Headlines" (5 January 2000)

• Berlet is really saying that he loves the plutocrats and considers any expose of their crimes to be a fascist conspiracy.
  • Ace R. Hayes, Portland Free Press, July/August 1997 issue

External links

• Profile of Berlet at Political Research Associates
• Profile of Berlet at Center for Millennial Studies
• Chip Berlet at the Internet Movie Database
• "Race, Class and Gender: Justice in the Intersections" at Unitarian Universalism Association (1999)
• "Researcher Says 'Watchdogs' Exaggerate Hate Group Threat" by Robert Stacy McCain in The Washington Times (9 May 2000)
• Ace R. Hayes, "Berlet for Beginners", Portland Free Press, July/August 1995