Corrections and UpdatesPolitical Research Associates strives to maintain a high level of accuracy in all of its reports. We believe it is important to post corrections and clarifications whenever appropriate. If you are in possession of one of the published reports mentioned below, we urge you to note the correction in pen in the actual report. We apologies for these errors, and regret any inconvience they may have caused.
The Public Eye
In the Summer 2001 (Vol. XV, No. 2) issue of The Public Eye, I used the term “young turks” to describe the young white men of the Old Right who were the founding strategists and leaders of the New Right. I used the term in its popular sense: young men with new ideas.
We quickly received a phone call from one of our most loyal supporters, a woman of Armenian descent, who pointed out that the popular use of “young turks” is derived from the Young Turk Movement, which emerged in the early 20th century as a reform-minded group in Turkey. A sector of this movement, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), seized and monopolized power in 1913, promoting a form of Turkish nationalism that was xenophobic and exclusionary.
The CUP devised a secret program for the extermination of the Armenian population, a civilian minority population. Thus, it was the CUP faction of the Young Turks who implemented the Armenian Genocide, characterized by mass deportation and slaughter.
I apologize to all our readers for my error in not knowing the historical roots of the term “young turks.” For an account of the role of the Young Turks in the history of the Ottoman Empire, see an article by Dr. Rouben Paul Adalian of the Armenian National Institute, which can be found at http://www.armenian-genocide.org/encyclopedia/young_turks.htm. [from Encyclopedia of Genocide (ABC-Clio 1999)]
In the original Public Eye article there was information based on an article published in the Washington Post. This article was in error and later was corrected as follows:
CorrectionAll references to Scaife being an investor in Regnery or Phillips Publishing are therefore incorrect.
The Resurgent Right: Why Now?
On page. 5, col. 3: "Rev. Tim LaHaye's Focus on the Family," should read "Rev. Tim LaHaye's family seminars and Dr. James Dosons' Focus on the Family."
On p. 17 we identified Dennis King as author of Habits of Mind: Struggling Over Values in America's Classrooms. The author is Melinda Fine.
PRA Publications & Co-publications
Defending Reproductive RightsOn page 138, the last sentence under the listing for “Missionaries to the Preborn” states that the organization “Hosts the American Nazi War Memorial.” This is incorrect. In fact, the American Nazi War Memorial was hosted by a website of a different organization, Missionaries to the Unborn. We apologize for the error and are correcting all the books we can locate.
Defending Immigrant Rights
Eyes Right!Edited by Chip Berlet
The Pioneer Fund did not directly finance the book The Bell Curve. The Pioneer Fund financed many of the studies on which the book was based.
Note that a number of claims about Pioneer Fund financing of projects and authors in several published works need to be independently verified.
In one later version of Right Woos Left, a sentence noted that the work of Antony Sutton was cited in Robert Singerman, Antisemitic Propaganda: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1982). Sutton's work is cited in the research section, and the sentence did not mean to imply that Singerman considered Sutton was an antisemite. Elsewhere in Right Woos Left was the sentence: "Another conspiracy theorist, Antony Sutton, avoids explicit anti-Jewish rhetoric, but pursues a line promoting arcane banking conspiracies (often involving Jewish banking families traditionally scapegoated by bigots)."
Armed Militias, Right Wing Populism, & Scapegoatingby Chip Berlet
Please note that in one short-lived version of this report, a sentence noting that Jack McLamb had replaced Tom Donohue on WWCR was erroneously condensed into an indication that Donohue had actually become McLamb. The author apologizes for any confusion caused by this error.
WebsiteClarification regarding Michael C. Ruppert
Corrections for Right-Wing Populism
in America: Too Close for Comfort
Quotes from Steven O'Leary's book Arguing the Apocalypse had their page cites shuffled in several articles by Chip Berlet, including an entry in the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. All the quotes were accurate, but the cites did not link to the proper text in the proper order. Here is where the quotes and page numbers are correctly arranged: http://www.publiceye.org/apocalyptic/OLeary.htm
In several articles, including an entry in the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, the name of author Paul Carus was misspelled. [Paul "Caras" is incorrect]
In several articles and book chapters mentioning the hoax document, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the London newspaper where they were publicized in 1920 was incorrectly identified as the "Sunday Post." The correct name of the newspaper was the "Morning Post."
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