| Subject: RE: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain |
| From: "David Neiwert" <dneiwert@comcast.net> |
| Date: 10/19/09, 23:21 |
| To: "'Spencer Ackerman'" <sackerman@washingtonindependent.com>, "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Yeah, I’d love to take this on. McCain has been flying under the
radar the past couple of years, to the point now that a lot of “mainstream”
cats like Glenn Reynolds link to him regularly now.
We’d love to run this stuff at Crooks and Liars. Right up our
wingnutty little alley. -- Dave
From: Spencer Ackerman
[mailto:sackerman@washingtonindependent.com]
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:17 PM
To: Barrett Brown
Cc: dneiwert@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain
David, meet Barrett. Barrett,
meet David. You guys, I think, will have a lot to discuss.
Also, remind me to tell you about the time RS McCain wrote a letter to my
editors at NY Press when I was 19 objecting to how I took exception to a GOP
bumpersticker that called Democrats Communists. No lie.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Spencer-
Hope all is well and whatnot. Wanted to see if you could
help me out with something real quick. Over the last month and a half, I've
been writing a bunch of pieces for HuffPo and a few other outlets regarding
former Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain (who co-wrote Donkey Cons
with Lynn Vincent, who ghosted Going Rogue) and his
increasingly-evident white supremacist sentiments and neo-Nazi connections.
Back in 2002, he wrote under an assumed name for American Renaissance, an
white nationalist website. Under the same moniker, he used to link to that site
as well the neo-Nazi outlet Overthrow.com from Free Republic and whatnot.
There's more along these lines as well, and I've dug up something else over the
weekend that I think rounds out the case against him nicely and putting the
finishing touches on what I hope will be the last article I have to do on the
guy.
So, anyway, I've now teamed up with Charles Johnson of LGF -
who's actually a pretty cool guy, as it turns out - to ensure that all of this
material gets out and reaches the critical mass necessary to get McCain thrown
out of polite society. But Johnson's not as influential as he used to be since
he started calling out the nonsense among his old allies, and I'm not really
hooked in with too many bloggers myself. I know you're essentially a national
security writer, but perhaps you know some people who might be interested in
bringing all of this to a wider audience and could forward this e-mail along to
them? Here are some links to the pertinent facts. Incidentally, he's also been
making goofy threats to go beat up the editorial board of the Charleston
Gazette, talking nonsense about how I suck Charles Johnson's dick, and
otherwise being a silly-billy. It's an unseemly business.
There's tons more, too. If you can think of someone who
might be interested in taking this ball and running with it, please forward
this to them.
Also, I met Adam Kruvand a few weeks back - not for the
book, he happens to be old friends with a buddy of mine. Had some amusing
things to say about Peretz.
Regards,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
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