racism lol
Subject: racism lol
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 10/21/09, 01:25
To: tips@wonkette.com

Robert Stacy McCain, the former Washington Times editor who co-authored a book with Palin biographer Lynn Vincent and now serves as a popular blogger and all-around pundit,  has been discovered to have written dozens of blatantly racist forum postings as well as at least one article for the proudly white supremacist outlet American Renaissance, all under a pen name taken from some Confederate hero. Last week he threatened to go over to the offices of the Charleston Gazette and beat everyone up or some such thing and wrote that I'd get mine "in turn." Plus he accused me of "sucking Charles Johnson's dick," which probably isn't even true. And then he wrote me this flamboyant open letter in which he accused me of forcing him into a Maoist re-education camp, I suppose metaphorically.

In all seriousness, McCain has a range of proven neo-Nazi ties and, as I've recently learned, in 2002 wrote a Times piece on the black professor Jonathan Farley, who himself had recently called the Confederates traitors who ought to have been executed in an op-ed while teaching at Vanderbilt and thereby caught some flack from the local crackerjacks. McCain wrote a piece during the same period in which he was linking to neo-Nazi sites like overthrow.com and posting racist comments in forums under that assumed name - which is to say he was cooperating and communicating with the same groups that were at the time sending dozens of death threats and hundreds of racist e-mails and phone calls Farley's way.

Here's a good starting point if this interests you.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34960_Barrett_Brown_Twirls_His_Handlebar_Mustache_in_Robert_Stacy_McCains_Direction 

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY