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March 03, 2003
Catching Up With Augusta
The AP's Jim Litke has a great catch up piece on the Augusta National dispute on the wire today that has some interesting facts. Late last week, National Council of Women's Organizations President, Martha Burk, was cackling at high volume when she announced that the Ku Klux Klan would be protesting in support of Augusta during the Masters. Litke did a little more digging, and found out what was really going on: [Jim] Harper became the unanimous choice to run the KKK's American White Knights chapter earlier this year, but that's because he also happens to be the only member. As a spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, told the Daily News, "If he shows up at Augusta with his two poodles, he'll have a protest of three." So, what we really have here isn't the Klan at all, but rather a lone kook who only became consequential when Burk decided to give him some free publicity. More importantly, Litke also repeats Burk's less than inclusive comments about men that most recently got an airing in the New Yorker, and that we picked up on courtesy of the folks at Sportsfrog. Here's hoping more reporters start calling Burk out for who she really is -- a man-hating publicity hound.
Eric
10:38 AM
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