Here’s an excellent piece by Barrett Brown, on white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, and what it says about the right wing blogosphere that they’ve almost all lined up (including Pajamas Media, the company I helped found) to support a vile racist creep like this: Robert Stacy McCain and the Fall of the Conservative Movement.

Few would disagree that it’d be a fine thing for everyone involved in the national discourse to act in a manner that, if not necessarily pleasant or in accordance with anyone’s religious beliefs, abstains at least from goofy Internet threats. Let it be asserted and subsequently proven, then, that (a) Robert Stacy McCain has fallen short of the standard that I just sort of pulled out of thin air, that (b) he is nonetheless almost certainly a white supremacist, as has recently been alleged by the Charleston Gazette, that (c) he is perhaps the worst-behaved mainstream pundit in operation at this time, as evidenced by his threats towards the Gazette and his colorful comments regarding myself and an organization with which I serve, and that (d) the fact that this fellow has been successful within the confines of the modern conservative movement is as indicative as anything that the modern conservative movement operates under a more ridiculous totality of influence than even the sort of people who give you “365 Dumb Bush Quotes” calendars for your birthday would probably have guessed.

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