Subject: RE: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain |
From: "David Neiwert" <dneiwert@comcast.net> |
Date: 10/20/09, 16:58 |
To: "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Thanks, Barrett. You’ll have to forgive me for being a bit slow
on the draw here – I’m in the middle of writing a manuscript while still
maintaining C&L, so I’m working on an extended timeline. Hopefully I can do
a post on this for tomorrow. -- Dave
From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:25 PM
To: David Neiwert
Subject: Re: Favor Regarding Robert Stacy McCain
Another update, with a good link to some research that
Sergey Romanov has dug up over the past few days; this is among the most
damning material, I think.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM, David Neiwert <dneiwert@comcast.net> wrote:
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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