October 8, 2009
Fake journalists attacking real journalists: the smear campaign against Stacy McCain.
People who know me have often said that they don’t ever want to get on my bad side. See, I’m a fiercely loyal person and very protective of those I care about. If you happen to be one of those people, you know that I would do anything for you and fight to the death to protect you. If you’re one of my enemies, I will do everything in my power to destroy you. That’s just how I am built. So, here we go, again.
I know that she-man Rachel Maddow did not start this rumor, she just gave it new life by bringing it up on Meet the Press this past Sunday. That doesn’t matter. She considers herself a journalist while slandering true journalists with the new burden of proof, which apparently only requires that somebody believe the lie. It has been believed that she’s a crack whore. And, I believe it so it must be true. This new burden of proof thing is fabulous!
Now, the Charlston (W. VA) Gazette has put the lie in print, for the first time, without any evidence to support the claim (because no evidence exists, as Stacy McCain is not a white supremacist!). Kind of amusing that a paper in West Virginia, of all places, is trying to put someone down for being racist! We’re talking about a state that has been represented by a former Klansman for how many years, now? What a joke!
Now, for the most part, Stacy is staying above the fray. And, I applaud him for that. He shouldn’t have to defend himself against such wild accusations. And, the truth is, he doesn’t have to. People who know Stacy know that he’s not a white supremacist. We also don’t care what the liberal elite believe. But, I don’t have the restraint Stacy has, so here I am once again to defend his good name.
I have never quite understood why the left hates Sarah Palin so much and can’t leave her the hell alone. Who cares if she wrote a book and who cares who helped her write it? She’s the FORMER vice presidential candidate. The election has been over for almost a year. Give it a rest, already! You never seemed to care Obama’s first book, which was clearly written helped along by domestic terrorist William Ayers, and Obama is just a tad more relevant than Sarah Palin, at this point, dontcha think? You betcha!
This smear campaign to insinuate that Palin is a white supremacist because Lynn Vincent, who helped author the book, co-authored a book with Stacy McCain, by perpetuating the lie that Stacy is a white supremacist is sickening. If we’re taking people down for guilt-by-association, we have bigger fish to fry. We can start with Barack.
It is really no wonder the newspaper industry is going down in flames if this is what passes for “journalism” these days. That and the fact the New York Timeswould rather spend more time looking into Michelle Obama’s slavery roots than investigating the Commander-in-Chief for all of his ties with corruption (ACORN connection might be something to look into.) is a clear indicator of why the industry is going down in flames.
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You don’t understand why?
They are afraid of her and the values she represents, they are the same values that the left has been quietly trying to wean Americans from for my entire life.
She is the “actual toothache” that can shake people from their slumber.
That is why she has to be destroyed.
Comment by datechguy — October 8, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
This entire post is a such a monument to right wing krazy! It should be preserved in a hall so someday children could read it and to mock it.
We have “McCain’s not a racist, because I said so no matter what the evidence says.”
We have “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first book, errr helped, because someone else said so.”
And, [best of all] we have the full-throated defense of a likely contender for the 2012 nomination and boils down to “why would she matter, just because she’s a favorite for the nomination and that very same week Republican officials came out of the woodwork to denounce her dangerous”
Wow, Palin love and fallacies all wrapped together with a pretty bit of homophobia! After reading this dreck, at least the school children will understand why the Republican party evaporated in 2016.
Comment by timb — October 8, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
Did you even read that pablum before you hit send? If RSM is a racist then give us proof or shut the hell up. As to who helped write Obama’s book, I checked and couldn’t care any less. And your first real paragraph fails the reality check and your fuzzy pipe dream of a final paragraph is so full of holes I could drain my pasta in it.
My students can come up with better arguements than what you just wasted bandwidth and server capacity with.
Comment by vegas art guy — October 8, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
Proving a negative is impossible, which is why the burden of proof is always upon the accuser. I’ve never seen the first indication, or hint there might be one lurking somewhere, that McCain is racist, white supremacist, or anything remotely resembling either.
The Left observes a different standard of “truth,” which bothers not even so far as to care if anyone “believes the lie” at all; it merely requires someone assert it. Given the Left’s “diverse” collection of miscreants, it’s fairly easy to get a false assertion from one of them. What is difficult is getting an honest or true statement from any of them.
Comment by Adjoran — October 9, 2009 @ 12:53 am
I agree with you that Maddow’s attempt to tar Palin as a white supremacist was reprehensible. If working with someone who worked with someone makes you guilty, then everyone in Hollywood is responsible for anything Kevin Bacon says. Maddow is a partisan hack.
At the same time, these accusations about Stacy aren’t just coming out of thin air. Since you and vegas art guy and Adjoran all said there is no “evidence,” let me comment on two things I know about that trouble me the most.
1. Two people who worked with Stacy at The Washington Times went on the record to say he was a blatant racist who defended slavery and made bigoted comments about blacks, Hispanics, and interracial couples.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/washington_times/4
http://snipurl.com/archibald_blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-archibald/time-for-regime-change-at_b_29968.html
I can’t vouch for the truthfulness of their statements, but I also can’t ignore that professional people with first-hand knowledge of Stacy made these accusations in public.
2. Stacy publicly endorsed white-supremacist stuff that was published in American Renaissance magazine.
Here’s a link to the article, called “A Defense of the Faith”:
http://www.amren.com/ar/1997/09/
And here’s a link to a subsequent letter to the editor in which Stacy said he agreed with the article:
http://www.amren.com/ar/1997/11/
There’s no way I could read that article and react with anything other than condemnation. And Stacy’s letter isn’t the only evidence of his enthusiasm for American Renaissance, which is blatantly pro-white and anti-non-white in its focus. It’s a historical fact that Stacy repeatedly presented Jared Taylor and his American Renaissance organization in a favorable light in the Times, and that Stacy never even hinted to his readers that American Renaissance’s core mission is fomenting racial antagonisms until after the Anti-Defamation League complained about his unbalanced and uncritical coverage.
There’s more evidence — on both sides of the question. Based on what I’ve seen, I wouldn’t pigeon-hole Stacy as a “white supremacist.” But I’ve seen enough to know that the accusation isn’t “wild.”
Comment by ilovemuenster — October 9, 2009 @ 8:19 am
hey, vegas guy, I was responding to assertions made in the post. if you can’t understand that Monique is defending McCain by saying “who cares about evidence, he isn’t a racist because I said so” then I can’t help you or your students.
Similarly, Vegas guy, the Ayers book thing is mentioned by MONIQUE, not me. Your disinterest, while admirable, is not shared by Ms. Stuart.
And, obviously, the first and last paragraphs of a rhetorical construction…..look, here’s the point art guy, this is a comments sections of a blog. I am responding to the wit and wisdom of Monique and you should try to read her posting before commenting on my comment. Let’s hope your students don’t fail at basic comprehension the way you did here.
But, I’m generally a nice guy and I appreciate Monique’s rather strange politics and use of her bandwidth, so I’ll just conclude by noting you might to refrain from attempting to drain your pasta through my arguments, when your head would seem to make a better colander.
Comment by timb — October 12, 2009 @ 4:30 pm