Around the time that I began receiving documents from Farley, I was informed that someone else had already been waging a campaign by which to bring attention to Robert Stacy McCain's obvious racial sentiments. Charles Johnson had for years existed as the darling of the conservative blogosphere, having been instrumental in the conservative victory over Dan Rather after that anchorman had run with documents that appeared to have revealed special treatment for Bush during Vietnam but which turned out be fraudulent, and having otherwise been at the forefront of some of citizen journalism's most memorabble victories over the mainstream media. His blog, Little Green Footballs, was among the most prominent of its kind from the time it turned to politics in 2001 up to the present day; he had also co-founded Pajamas Media, a conservative blog network which remains a cornerstone of the internet's right-of-center informational infrastructure to this day. Lately, though, Johnson had grown disgusted with the conduct of his colleagues, and began to say as much in public; naturally this resulted in a fissure which has only grown since.
The matter of R.S. McCain had become a particular sticking point. Johnson's efforts to point out what McCain had been up to in years past had prompted a massive counter-campaign against Johnson himself; many of his former allies were now attacking him on a regular basis while also defending McCain, even as the evidence against the pundit continued to mount. Nothing seemed to matter to McCain's apologists, even as they found themselves confronted with more and more for which to apologize. McCain has admitted to a long friendship with Bill White, an unusually fluid radical whose views ranged from communism to anarchism at least 2002, by which year he had transitioned unambiguously into an active white supremacist and thus decided to attend an American Renaissance event. There, he hung out with McCain, who himself was covering the event in the capacity of a "reporter" for the Washington Times - and who, of course, was secretly writing for American Renaissance on the side. McCain had in fact known of White's various bizarre activities before meeting him, having interviewed the fellow in 1999 for a story on White's anti-government website Overthrow.com. McCain today admits to having been friends with the fellow for much of this time, though he claims that the two drifted apart before White made the transition from Libertarian Anarchist or what have you to full-on white supremacist. One might wonder what the two would have had in common before White's move to white advocacy; White was on the record as opposing Christianity, whereas McCain is such a staunch Christian that he involves himself in such movements as Quiverfull, which itself advocates heavy child-bearing on the part of Christians that they might outnumber their unbelieving adversaries and otherwise be in possession of a "quiver full" of young adherents.White was also a communist of various sorts for the entirety of his adult life before moving on to fascism, whereas McCain is, of course, a conservative who spends much of his time attacking leftists of considerably less socialist sentiment than one might expect from a communist. At any rate, McCain chose to publish four letters from White in 2000 in his capacity as an editor at The Times. During the same time, he was also linking to White's bizarre anti-government website from other forums under his Burke C. Dabney alter-ego.
McCain wrote off the relationship thusly in December of 2009, upon the occasion of White's conviction for crimes involving violent threats he'd been making in the course of his activism:
When he lived in the D.C. area in 1999-2000, White was actually a useful source for behind-the-scenes information on, among other things, the anti-globalization protests and the effort of Pat Buchanan's supporters to take over the Reform Party. After the 2000 election, however, White got mixed up with the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization run by William Pierce.
The implication here is that McCain would not want to associate with any such person with such ties as this - nevermind that McCain was linking to Overthrow.com from the conservative forum Free Republic as late as 2001, that he was himself involved with the white supremacist organization American Renaissance at the very same time as he was supposedly concerned with White's association with the National Alliance, that something about White had prompted his inclination to publish several of the nutty fellow's letters in The Times in his capacity and his editor and to keep in touch with him via e-mail and phone calls - all despite White holding several views that were fundamentally opposite to McCain's. What was it about White that appealed to McCain, who would have had such strong disagreements with the fellow on so many fundamental issues?
The idea that White just suddenly became a white supremacist leader in his own right in 2002 without first having held white supremacist views beforehand is, of course, nonsense. McCain associated with White for the same reason he associated with American Renaissance, Sons of the Confederacy, The League of the South, and whatever other individuals and organizations that he's actually managed to conceal having been involved with - McCain is, and long has been, a white supremacist. And if this were to be brought to fuller public awareness, it would discredit all manner of individuals and outlets with whom McCain has been associated to some degree or another - Glenn Reynolds of the popular conservative blog Instapundit and others who have linked to the fellow over the years, American Spectator, Human Events, the network Hot Air, and other venues which have continued to publish McCain's work even after this information has come to prominence - and, of course, Lynn Vincent, the writer with whom McCain co-authored the book Donkey Cons and who later went on to assist Sarah Palin in writing Going Rogue. That such an active racist has managed to make a name for himself in the midst of the conservative informational infrastructure would be embarrassing to a number of parties, and so these same parties have taken great pains to either ignore the evidence or attack those who bring it forth.