| Subject: Re: Barrett Brown here |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/20/09, 17:27 |
| To: Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> |
You'll be getting an email with a link to activate the account...CJ
On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Cool.name: Barrett Brownpw: ThomasPaineOn Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
By the way, I'll set you up with an account at LGF so you can chime in if you like. Just send me a username and password and I'll get it started.CJ
On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Ha, very nice.On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
So it is written, so shall it be done.CJ
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Great. Meanwhile, I've forwarded Sergey Romanov's fantastic research to a couple of folks with the means to make these things common knowledge. It looks like we're about done here.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:Will do.(Stacy is lying when he says he doesn't hate you. But you know that.)CJ
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Just replied to McCain; would you mind linking to it?http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/20/my-response-to-robert-stacy-mccain/
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Another crack in the wall of schtoopid:CJ
On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Okay, I've told David Neiwert about everything and he's very interested, so something should appear on Crooks and Liars very soon, which should alert a great number of the lefty blogs and then the moderates in turn. Amusing note - I asked Spencer Ackerman if he knew anyone who might be interested in covering this, and he forwarded my e-mail to David Weigel before realizing that Weigel and McCain know each other socially. Poor Spencer Ackerman.On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:Dude, he called you a script kiddie.On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Just got some choice hate mail through the LGF contact form, titled "Dear Charles, how do I donate to your wonderful blog?'Ha! You really thought someone is going to give you actual money?
No, Chuckie boy, I don't give money to obsessive, filthy, nigger
loving, pony tailed overgrown script kiddies.
But Chuckles, you are entertaining in a way all messed up wackos are.
So I may hit the tip jar and give you 0.02$ so you could get yourself a
nice male, black crack whore for teh funs!
Stacy has fans!CJ
On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:Finally, a real scandal:But with Vietnam, it was somehow different. How many poor kids in Cape Girardeaux, MO, were shipped off to die in Vietnam, while Lardass Limbaugh -- his dad a prominent attorney -- stayed home with (by varying accounts) a bad knee or some kind of cyst. Ever since I learned about that, I've had ZERO respect for Limbaugh, Gramm, Gingrich, George Will, Dan Quayle or any number of other hawkish "conservative" Republicans who managed to avoid 'Nam. "Whited sepulchres," as I was taught in Sunday School.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
New post on that Sergey Romanov piece -- check out the update for Stacy's ideas for bumper stickers:CJ
On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:<CJCartoonImproved.jpg>Disregard that one. I sent this version to the original creator.Maybe a brief cartoon that puts forth the essential info on McCain's racism for people to Google on their own will be helpful; I'm going to send this around a bit.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:Goddamnit, I spelled McCain with one C.On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm assuming you saw that wacky cartoon they did of you. I thought it needed a little work; improved version attached.On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Great post here on RSM's Usenet ravings (and more):CJ
On Oct 18, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:I accidentally came across the worst poem ever written while doing research just now:http://www.everypoet.net/poetry/blogs/neocon_shakes_fear/fuck_you_john_mccain_open_letter
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Here's Robert Stacy McCain posting as 'RStacy2229' in the Usenet history forum alt.war.civil.usa.Neo-Confederateism. Reeking atcha.CJ
On Oct 18, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:Not just now - he coined "Lemming Herd of Godless Fools" in reference to my PAC a week back; he seems to consider the term meme-worthy. I'm a little dubious myself.Meanwhile, Daily Kos is apparently fucking worthless as a means of disseminating significant news stories. I've been feeding them these tips for weeks now and they don't seem to understand the significance.Anyway, I just sent finished piece to Mike Hogan at VF; hopefully he'll take it and run with it this week, at which point I'll do yet another Huffington Post piece to bring further attention plus whatever else I can think of. Based on the fact that some of this info on McCain has been around for years yet he still hasn't been made a pariah, I'm assuming that we're going to need to make a huge push to reach whatever critical mass is necessary. I'm going to call American Spectator with my little recorder here and ask them to address the facts, will also try to alert as many of my contacts as possible.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
RSM is getting increasingly crazed and incoherent. A good sign.He's breaking out the big guns now -- "godless."CJ
On Oct 18, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:Jesus, here we go:On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:Well, so far, so good.http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Robert+Stacy+McCain&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g3
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Here's a comment by McCain calling Richard Spencer his "friend."CJ
On Oct 17, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:Here's a rough draft of my Vanity Fair piece on McCain's wackiness. Do me a solid and took a look and tell me if there's anything that merits adding. I haven't put in the ending yet but I'm going to call on McCain to just come out of the closet and be a white supremacist pundit, since surely they're entitled to representation in the commentariat.In 2004, Professor Jonathan Farley received the Harvard Foundation's Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award. He has been referred to by prominent neuroscientist and longtime Harvard administrator Dr. S. Allen Counter as "one of the world's most impressive young mathematicians." He has served in varying academic capacities at Cal Tech, Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, Harvard, and MIT, among other institutions; today he's a member of the algebra department at Johannes Kepler University in Linz. From 2001 to 2002 he was one of only four Americans to be named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. The city of Cambridge has even named a day in his honor.
As much as he's managed to accomplish, Dr. Farley probably would managed even greater academic success were it not for a widespread campaign among neo-Nazis and Confederacy apologists to harass the professor and damage his career by way of death threats and disinformation. In the end they were successful, due in large part to the machinations of a prominent conservative pundit with numerous ties to the white nationalist movement and a respected university dean who used dishonest means to protect his domain. Both remain at the height of their influence; Farley, on the other hand, was compelled to flee the country.The nonsense began in 2002 with one of those irritating controversies over Confederate iconography; in this case, various administrators at Vanderbilt had expressed an interest in removing the word "Confederate" from one of its dormitories. Farley, who was then teaching mathematics at the university, wrote an op-ed piece for The Tennessean to the effect that officers and enlisted men of the Confederacy ought to have been executed for treason after the war and their property dispersed among former slaves.Being a black academic of a leftist bent, Farley was perhaps not the best person to deliver that particular message to a region where the most destructive and poorly-conceived insurrection in American history is still celebrated as some sort of neat thing. The threats on his life, challenges to duels, racially-charged e-mails, and denouncements by public figures of various sorts began immediately, as these things tend to do. And then, just as it seemed that the whole incident might run out of steam, the story went national.On December 3rd of that year, The Washington Times ran a "news" piece by features editor Robert Stacy McCain, a rising figure among the conservative commentariat who had successfully made the transition from sports to politics. A couple of passages merit particular scrutiny:
Mr. Farley has complained of threatening e-mails and phone calls, while the newspaper has received letters from across the country.
Another way of phrasing this would be, "Mr. Farley has received threatening e-mails and phone calls," as this was by then a verifiable fact; Farley had by this point forwarded many of the more sinister messages to Tennessee police. Incidentally, I have seen a selection of them, and have managed to determine that several of the death threats came from presumably armed military veterans living within a half-hour of Memphis, whereas others came from out-and-out white supremacists with ties to violence-advocating organizations like the National Vanguard. Still, no one appears to have been charged or even investigated, which is why I will soon be releasing the names and associated threats in order that everyone may see for themselves how easy it is to get away with threatening to kill a prominent black man in Tennessee.Now, take a gander at the following excerpt from the same article:Tim Chavez, a columnist for the Tennessean, described one 66-year-old reader's frustration over Mr. Farley's views: "This just burns me because I don't know what to do about it," the man said. "If someone compared your ancestors to mass murderers, what would you do?"
If you're a neo-Confederate, you'd probably write a semi-literate e-mail to the effect that the offending black man is "just an ignorant nigger," as was the case with Madisonville bed-and-breakfast proprietor Russell Walker. Or you might explain to him that he "will reap the whirl wind for your transgressions" and further advise him to "[g]et a Bodyguard [sic] or carry gun [sic] you will need it," as did Army veteran C.S. "Chris" Barwick of Maryland, who still maintains an e-mail account with his chosen military branch. You might opine that "all niggers should be exterminated from this earth, starting with loudmouthed, smelly, worthless, smart-alecky, boot-lipped jigaboos like you," as did some random fellow whom I've yet to identify. Or you might engage in some or another variant on all of these things, as did the hundreds of other proud southern folks - lawyers, business owners, veterans, and educators - who filled Farley's e-mail box with sentiments of comparable cuteness. Also, notice how the anti-Farley crowd is merely "frustrated," as opposed to, say, responsible for hundreds of racist e-mails and phone calls.McCain, though, was more interested in Farley's own transgressions against civility than he was with the death threats that he'd received. This brings us to our next excerpt:
In response to complaints from [Sons of Confederate Veterans] members, Mr. Farley has posted e-mail replies that "drip venom," [Allen] Sullivant said. Replying to one SCV member, Mr. Farley vowed to "form our own armies to expose and smash you. ... Very simply, we represent good and you represent evil."Apologies to the reader for any venom drippings, but it's important that we look evil square in the face, even in the case of something as a mathematician replying angrily to potentially dangerous racists who'd like to see him dead. It's also important that we honor the suffering of SCV members such as the one who wrote to Farley: "wait a minute,,,you arent even a fucking american,,,go back where you came from, was it the islands or the mother country,,,,,d." For the record, Farley is indeed an American, although his parents were immigrants and, for all I know, terrorists. I actually forgot to ask him.If McCain's Times piece seems to be lacking in traditional journalistic objectivity, this could be explained in a number of ways. Maybe he's just a shitty journalist. Or maybe his piece was biased against the black professor in question because McCain himself is a white supremacist who, at the time he wrote the article, was also writing under an assumed name for the white nationalist publication American Renaissance, linking to that site as well as to the neo-Nazi outlet Overthrow.com from popular conservative forum Free Republic, hanging around with neo-Nazi agitator William White, serving as a member of the League of the South, and doing God knows what other things that he actually managed to conceal. Also, he's a shitty journalist.He's actually not an unskilled commentator, though, which is why he's managed to build himself into a prominent blogger while also writing regularly for American Spectator and a variety of other conservative outlets and being cited, defended, and otherwise elevated to supposed respectability by dozens of prominent conservative bloggers such as Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit. Had he been merely some random guy who turned out to be a racist, this would be of no concern to anyone. But McCain has managed to find a place in the commentariat and associate himself with a number of individuals who themselves are suddenly confronted with the clear evidence of their own poor judgement. Few of them are willing to acknowledge this; rather, they have almost uniformly denounced Charles Johnson - once among the most prominent conservative bloggers of all as well as the fellow who helped lead the way in such early victories of citizen journalism as Rathergate - for his recent work in uncovering and accumulating the large body of evidence that now exists to prove that McCain is the white supremacist he always appeared to be. McCain has also taken to making bizarre comments about both myself and a political action committee for which I serve as director of communications, making comments along the lines of, "Barrett Brown: He'll get his in turn," and otherwise conducting himself in a strange and goofy manner.Meanwhile, McCain is still attempting to explain away his demonstrable sentiments. He wrote the other day that he has "neither any personal nor political interest in the marital preferences of others and have many friends of all races, some of whom are of mixed ancestry and some of whom are in mixed marriages," but in an e-mail he composed a while back, he proclaimed that the "media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion. The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us. And in an interview with Alan Colmes that took place after that e-mail was revealed, he said he didn't know if being disinclined to do business with a black bank clerk constitutes racism, either.On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
That's a good thing. If you start understanding how James Edwards thinks, you're in deep trouble.CJ
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:I'm confused.On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Wow. And then we have this twisted-up defense of RSM from the white supremacist at Political Cesspool (put on your hip waders before clicking):CJ
On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:Holy shit, it says here he's got black friends - ABORT ABORT ABORT!111!!!On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Get a load of this one at Hot Air:http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/16/smear-re-smear-lather-rinse-repeat-my-comment-at-a-liberal-blog/
CJ
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:A beautiful tribute to our love from McCain:http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15405#comment-798373
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy.Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. 512-560-2302.Thanks,Barrett BrownBrooklyn, NYOn Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett,
Send me a phone number and I'll give you a call in about 30 minutes...
CJ
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:18 AM, barriticus@gmail.com wrote:
Charles-
I need to speak to you ASAP; writing a piece on McCain for VF today and
need some quick info. Also have info that might interest you. Thanks,
Barrett Brown.