Sunday, February 01, 2009

Shaidle's American Friends

From today's New York Times on the state of the Republican Party's far right fringe:

What was perhaps more notable than the report itself was the team that delivered it. It included Bay Buchanan, former adviser to Representative Tom Tancredo and sister of Pat, who founded the American Cause and wrote “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.” She was joined by James Pinkerton, an essayist and Fox News contributor who, as an aide to the first President Bush, took credit for the racist Willie Horton ads run against Michael Dukakis.

So far, so foul. But even more telling was the presence of Peter Brimelow, a former Forbes editor and founder of Vdare.com, an extremist anti-immigration Web site. It is named for Virginia Dare, the first white baby born in the English colonies, which tells you most of what you need to know. The site is worth a visit.

Actually, here's some Canadian content from the Vdare site: the short fat chick herself, defending Paul Fromm by appealing to one of his "more respectable" supporters...Ezra Levant!

See, its not just my opinion. All three of these characters are officially whack jobs.

2 comments:

Ti-Guy said...

I'll start worrying when the fat chick. the ponce and...Newman...start making sense. No chance of that happening.

meddy said...

One could consider Brimelow to be Canadian content --
"Brimelow subsequently emigrated to Canada. After a brief stint as a securities analyst, he settled down in Toronto and became a business writer and editor at the Financial Post and MacLean's magazine." [wiki]

SPCL on Vdare --
Editor's note: Based on evidence compiled by the Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center is adding VDARE to its list of hate sites on the Web.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=152