The House Cleaning Continues at The Washington Times
Yesterday, longtime assistant national editor Robert Stacy McCain from The Washington Times. McCain was particularly close to managing editor Fran Coombs, who had assigned him to write the paper鈥檚 鈥淐ulture, Et Cetera鈥� section.
McCain, who was of the neo-Confederate hate group , often filled these briefs with items from hate sites. A , McCain regularly neo-Confederate activists favorably in his stories. In 2005, stories freelanced by McCain to the website of the conservative newspaper Human Events were after that publication鈥檚 editor, Thomas Winter, was given information by the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Report about McCain鈥檚 racism.
This Tuesday, Hatewatch contacted McCain for comment about the managerial changes at the Times. McCain, who then seemed upbeat, told Hatewatch that he felt that newly named executive editor John Solomon was a 鈥渟tand-up guy.鈥� McCain added, 鈥淥f course, the newsroom was shocked by the back-to-back announcements that both Wes Pruden and Fran Coombs were leaving,鈥� and called both men 鈥渆xcellent newspapermen.鈥� He especially praised Coombs 鈥� who has his own of ties to white supremacy 鈥� for being 鈥渢he cog that turned the wheel, the straw that stirred the drink鈥� at the Times.
But, apparently, the changes proved to be too much. In his Wednesday resignation letter, which was posted to his personal blog, McCain writes that with the exit of Pruden and Coombs, 鈥淚 suppose now is as good a time as any for me to go.鈥�
