Non-profits and money
Often you'll hear one pundit or another claim that a non-profit interest group is peddling fear in order to keep itself in business. For example, on NRO today David Klinghoffer suggests that the Anti-Defamation League beats the drum of Christian domination in order to raise funds. Well, he first suggests that, then kind of sort of retracts it, or molds it into something slightly different.

I agree with Klinghoffer's assessment that defending Jewish life against a benign, even pro-Jew (fine, "philo-semitic") American Christianity is absurd in and of itself, not to mention that there's another world religion we might need to be a tad more worried about. (Hint: It ain't radical buddhism.)

But I just don't believe that the ADL leadership doesn't believe what they're saying (or even have tricked themselves into believing it). I believe that they believe it. I guess it's possible they're ignorant, or perhaps even willfully (if not blissfully) ignorant, or the real world situation. But then, that's a general Right critique of the Left, isn't it? (And it's the Left who usually says that the Right is lying to drum up support.)

And I don't buy it in general. For example, I don't think that the mainstream American black leaders cry "racism" in order to keep their status and their jobs (and their people's votes) - I think they believe what they believe. They just happen to be wrong more often than not. - served up by Ralphie @ 11:40 AM