NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist

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23. The racism of the Reagan years keeps trickling down in other ways

When Ed Meese was known in the White House as the "Big Bigot," his assistant T. Kenneth Cribb was called the "Baby Bigot." (See http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/hijakjustice.html)

For a suck-up account of Cribb's role in the Reagan administration, see this passage from a history of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) by long-time movement conservative and Reagan idolator Lee Edwards:
https://books.google.com/books?id=5DHmwRGIWqAC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22kenneth+cribb%22+%22antonin+scalia%22&source=bl&ots=yhmk-_EfwT&sig=59JZF42HBjV8hM7iL4CDxOrX_MM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjumIe67NbJAhWEHT4KHTmZDPkQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=%22kenneth%20cribb%22%20%22antonin%20scalia%22&f=false

Cribb, an old-line Southern racist, not only headed the ISI after leaving the Reagan White House but was involved with many other conservative groups. According to his Wikipedia entry, "He was President of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute from 1989-2011, and served on its board until May 2012. During his tenure, ISI expanded its educational programs. He also served as vice chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1989 to 1992. He was also president of the Collegiate Network, an association of alternative college newspapers; president of the Council for National Policy, a conservative umbrella organization; member of the Board of Advisors for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; is counselor to the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a conservative legal organization."

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, of which the Collegiate Network is now a part, is a funding source for most conservative college newspapers and launched the careers of right-wing "journalists" like James O'Keefe. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education was recently behind the viral video of Yale students losing their decorum over the question of cultural sensitivity in Halloween costumes. And of course these two things are closely connected -- O'Keefe himself was just banned from the Yale campus for pulling his video stings there -- and display the same combination of racism and underhanded methodology.

And to bring this back round to Scalia, here's another page from that Lee Edwards book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=5DHmwRGIWqAC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22The+three+law+students+recruited+antonin+scalia%22&source=bl&ots=yhmk-_EizR&sig=GCPbivalFqLcPFsBBJufkpmQeMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig96rW7dbJAhXBHR4KHZi5DM4Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20three%20law%20students%20recruited%20antonin%20scalia%22&f=false

It describes how the Federalist Society was founded in 1981 by three University of Chicago law students who "recruited Antonin Scalia, then a professor with a long-standing ISI association at the University of Chicago Law School, as an adviser."

The same paragraph goes on to say, "As chief assistant to Edwin Meese III in the White House and later as counselor to Attorney General Meese, Kenneth Cribb encouraged the development of the Federalist Society at every possible opportunity and used the group as a wsellspring of legal and judicial talent for the Reagan Administration."

And one of those three founding students is quoted as saying, "Ken took enormous interest in the Federalist Society. ... He immediately saw it as a continuation of ISI."