| Subject: Re: Robert Stacy McCain |
| From: Michael Hogan <Michael_Hogan@condenast.com> |
| Date: 10/15/09, 18:48 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Bill Bradley <bill_bradley@condenast.com> |
Hi, Michael-
I'm in the midst of a public feud with former <goog_1255612850681> Washington Times <goog_1255612850681> editor and Palin ally Robert Stacy McCain <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/robert-stacy-mccain-and-t_b_319987.html> , who's been making a series of goofy, violent threats towards myself, my PAC, and the Charleston Gazette this week. I was contacted this morning by Jonathan Farley, a prominent mathematics professor of African descent. He's forwarded me a series of death threats he received in 2002; many of these were the direct result of McCain's insanely one-sided Times article on a controversy surrounding a column Farley had written that year in which he referred to Confederates as traitors; Farley himself had to move out of Tennessee and is now teaching in Austria. Incidentally, McCain is himself a member of the neo-secessionist group League of the South and has ties to a number of self-proclaimed neo-Nazi organizations and individuals; nonetheless, he has managed to remain a mainstream figure, having co-authored a book two years back with Lynn Vincent, who herself ghosted Palin's Going Rogue and who also has questionable ties.
Let me know if you'd like to take a look at the piece when it's finished.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302