| Subject: Re: P.J. O'Rourke |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/20/09, 03:54 |
| To: Gemma Sieff <gemma@harpers.org> |
Wanted to see if you and Roger might be interested in this one. I've been writing some pieces for HuffPo on former Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain (wrote Donkey Cons with Lynn Vincent, Palin's biographer), whom I and the conservative blogger Charles Johnson are attempting to expose as a white supremacist. In response, he's made a series of goofy attacks on the two of us, though he isn't refuting anything because he simply can't in this case; it seems he wrote an article for the white supremacist publication
American Renaissance under a pen name, along with a number of racially charged messages on various internet forums under that same name and occasionally even his real one, and has also posted links to the neo-Nazi site
overthrow.com at the popular conservative forum Free Republic. He's a character.
I've just finished a piece that further details his various racist escapades, with particular attention to the 2002 Times article he wrote regarding Professor Jonathan Farley, the black mathematician who received hundreds of racist e-mails and death threats after writing that the Confederates were traitors, and who has since just given up and moved to Austria after having received continued harassment. I spoke to him at length over the weekend and he seems convinced that McCain was intentionally setting out to destroy his career; what's more, it's now evident that at the very same time that McCain was writing this "news article," he was also in direct and constant interaction with various neo-Nazis as well as making numerous racist comments himself in various forums under a false name. Remember that this fellow currently writes for American Spectator as well as the popular Republican blog network Hot Air and is directly associated with dozens of prominent conservatives.
Please let me know if you'd like to see the piece.