Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a mind-boggling Monday as the right wing blogosphere unites to support an open racist who associates with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, Robert Stacy McCain — a man who believes Abraham Lincoln was a “war criminal” who should have been tried for treason.Charles Johnson's free to do what he wants with his own blog, but he strains legal and moral boundaries with his libel-blogging against Robert Stacy McCain. And I am happy to disabuse Charles of the notion that R.S. McCain is an "open racist who associates with white supremacists and neo-Nazis." There is no proof for the allegation, not one shred of it. I have known R.S. McCain for two years now, and there's nothing in him that remotely reeks of racist sentiment. Indeed, R.S. McCain represents the epitome of a gentleman and a scholar, and I testify to his unimpeachable integrity on civil rights.
The sources for the common attacks on R.S. McCain as "racist" have long been discredited. Most recently by Stogie at Saber Point, a personal friend of R.S. McCain's during the period of the allegations of racism, "Robert Stacy McCain: I Know Him Better Than Charles Johnson Does." Stogie cites three posts that R.S. McCain has written:
1. "Point One: Charles Johnson doesn't know me from Adam's house cat."I wrote recently that Little Green Footballs "was getting pummeled from all sides." I noted at that entry that it was never personal with Charles Johnson. It's been more a fascination to watch someone who I read and linked to many times descend into cowardly incoherence and megalomaniacal infirmity. It's no longer fascinating; it's now a matter of concern, if not pity. A look at Johnson's blog over the last week shows a search for fringe elements to validate a warped theory that the GOP is taken over by extremists. Sure, the fringe is out there, and these elements include myself, if you want to be technical. It's called the conservative/libertarian base, and it's diverse. I hardly agree with the most unhinged allegations against President Obama and the Democrats. But I endorse many of the charges against them, and I'll defend my positions competently and with ease.
2. "Point Two: Charles Johnson is prejudiced, and subscribes to stereotypes."
3. "Point Three: Charles Johnson will regret it but once, and that will be continually."
It gets ridiculously boring listening to people like Charles Johnson demean common folks as racists and Nazis. Such smears reveal a shallowness of character and a flickering of ideological commitment.
The "right wing blogosphere" has noticed. See:
* "Goodbye Little Green Footballs, Hello Powerline."Image Credit: Saber Point, "Charles Johnson Rides Into the Sunset."
* "Talkin' Charles Johnson Paranoid Blues."
* "Little Green Footballs' Johnson Sinks Further Into the Abyss."
Obfuscate on behalf of your friend Stacy McCain all you please -- but in only scratching the surface, I may repeat:
ReplyDelete1) His writing for Taki Magazine (owned by the self-proclaimed anti-semite Taki Theodoracopulos and edited by by the outspoken white nationalist Richard Spencer)
2) His writing the xenophobic VDARE publication
3) His membership of the League of the South (and other associated neo-confederate groups)
...such actions speak much louder than any words you might choose to defend him.
Mph, you're full of it. A professional writer gets paid to write. Were any of his articles about "white supremacy"? Did any of them advocate "racism"? Were they original pieces or merely reprints of his Washinton Times articles?
ReplyDeleteInstead of your lame attempts at "guilt-by-association," can you present anything substantive or specific to McCain's alleged racism? Actual quotes? I didn't think so. You're rather full of it, aren't you Mph?
I don't see much that is objectional over at Vdare. They're against illegal immigration, whoopee! So are millions of other Americans. I did a search of their site and all of the McCain articles were reprints of his Washington Times articles.
Being interested and involved in Confederate history and heritage does not remotely equate to "racism." If it does, then a large number of Democrats in office are going to be very embarrassed.
Your assumption that such an interest proves "racism" reflects more on your own brand of cultural bigotry than that of McCain.
I knew McCain back in the early days of the League of the South and he was outspoken against racism. We were members when the League was brand new and holding debates as to its membership and mission. Both McCain and I argued for open membership and against any kind of racial discrimination. Now tell me, how does that reflect badly on McCain?
Your guilt-by-association and generalities indicate you are a purveyor of falsehood, innuendo and slander, certainly not an objective or fair-minded observer. You mention only collateral facts that in themselves prove nothing at all.
I too was a member of the League of the South and, like McCain, left it early on. I too am a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, like McCain, a historical 501C(3) nonprofit organization. Does that make me a racist?
If you ever said "yes" to my face, I'd knock your block off. You coward.
Quoted from and linked to at: TCOTS
ReplyDeleteOne hopes this proves a cautionary tale.
ReplyDeleteOne further hopes others build on that caution and offer the peace pipe where reasonable.
Something along the lines of "watching CJ get treated like a leper really got me to thinking: raising hackles is uncool."