Fwd: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain

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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain
To: David Neiwert <dneiwert@comcast.net>

Perfect. There's even more new info coming in this evening, and plenty of backlog, so I'll get back to you tomorrow with the best of it thus far. I'll paste a few more links and summaries of what's been going on below and will otherwise bother you with a couple more e-mails this week as anything else unsurfaces. Also, I'll let you know when my next big McCain piece is up; got some rather damning conflict of interest stuff to go with all the threats, racism, and all-around poor breeding.

http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/18/mccain-composes-non-defense-of-his-blatant-racism/ - good overview plus accounts of his latest bizarre attacks on myself and Charles Johnson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/robert-mccain-fine-with-p_b_290261.html - the first piece I did on him, noting how he worries over minority teen pregnancies while elsewhere laughing off reports of pregnancies in general. Of course, a few of his allies denied this and said I'd libeled him; afterwards Johnson brought to my attention the 2002 piece he'd written under his pen name for the white supremacist website American Renaissance in which he combines these two varying views more explicitly, warning of white "race suicide" and calling on anti-pregnancy programs directed at teens to skip over whites.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/tag/Robert+Stacy+McCain - LGF's tag cloud for RSM; tons of additional instances of McCain posting all sorts of nonsense in forums, linking to white hate sites, etc.

Let me know if you need anything else. Also, good to meet you; have admired several of your pieces.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM, David Neiwert <dneiwert@comcast.net> wrote:

Yeah, Id 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.

Wed 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/robert-stacy-mccain-and-t_b_319987.html

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34935_Robert_Stacy_McCain_Ankle-Bites_Again

http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/08/stacy-mccain-demands-retraction-over-white-supremacist-charge-predicts-doom-for-smartass/

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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