To: Michael Hogan <Michael_Hogan@condenast.com>,
"Bradley, Bill" <Bill_Bradley@condenast.com>
Hi, Michael-
I'm in the midst of a public feud with former Washington Times editor and Palin ally Robert Stacy McCain, 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.