Anti-Immigrant Hate Site Announces Pat Buchanan Think Tank To Host Leading White Nationalist
MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan added to his decades-long history of racist activism by inviting a prominent white nationalist to speak at the of Buchanan鈥檚 immigrant-bashing organization The American Cause (TAC), the white nationalist hate website Vdare.com earlier this week.
According to a bulletin on its homepage, Vdare.com owner is now scheduled to speak at The American鈥檚 Cause鈥檚聽 鈥淏uilding A New Majority Conference鈥� in McLean, Va., on June 20.
The conference plans to ponder the question, 鈥淗as the culture, economy, and demographics of our country passed a tipping point where Conservatives can no longer rule with a mandate?鈥�
Although Brimelow鈥檚 name does not appear on The American Cause鈥檚 website, the keynote speaker for the conference is not identified, and Brimelow was a panelist at a symposium by TAC last January.
Other speakers scheduled to appear at the upcoming conference, according to TAC鈥檚 website, include Hazleton, Pa., Mayor Lou Barletta, who has with the legal arm of the hate group to enact anti-immigrant policies in a region from escalating racial tensions and where a Latino immigrant was beaten to death last summer; and former Congressman Tom Tancredo, a longtime nativist firebrand who earlier this year in a speech at American University that Latinos and Muslims represent 鈥減roblem cultures,鈥� and that immigrants who fail to 鈥渂ecome American鈥� by adopting 鈥渨hite Anglo-Saxon culture鈥� are a destructive force in America.
Conspicuously absent from the speaker list for the June conference is TAC Executive Director Marcus Epstein, a frequent speaker at the group鈥檚 events. Epstein may be keeping a lower profile this time around because he鈥檚 scheduled to be on July 8 for drunkenly calling an African-American passerby a 鈥渘-----鈥� at a major intersection in Washington, D.C., before attempting to strike her with a karate chop.
Despite the hate crime assault conviction, it seems unlikely Buchanan will distance himself from Epstein. On June 7, Buchanan鈥檚 sister, Angela 鈥淏ay鈥� Buchanan, Epstein on Vdare.com from what she termed an 鈥淚nternet lynching鈥� (Bay Buchanan, who has been a CNN commentator, helps her brother run TAC and another anti-immigrant outfit, Team America PAC, which also employs Epstein).
鈥淚 am telling his story because Marcus Epstein deserves to have his good name returned to him,鈥� Bay Buchanan wrote.
According to her post, Epstein committed the assault after a night of heavy drinking in the midst of serious bouts of depression in 2007. She wrote that after he was released from jail, Epstein attempted to commit suicide by alcohol poisoning and was hospitalized for a week. Buchanan said he was allowed to keep his job at TAC because he sought professional help and is now sober.
鈥淢arcus Epstein is one of the bravest young people I have ever known,鈥� she wrote.
Epstein is himself a Vdare.com contributor who has events featuring prominent white nationalists. 鈥淒iversity can be good in moderation 鈥� if what is being brought in is desirable,鈥� Epstein wrote in one VDARE.com essay. 鈥淢ost Americans don鈥檛 mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers 鈥� as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.鈥�
That sort of rhetoric marches in lockstep with Pat Buchanan鈥檚 oft-expressed white nationalist ideology.
Buchanan鈥檚 history of bigoted statements, dating back to his days in the Nixon administration, was detailed in a comprehensive June 8 Media Matters for America . In the 1970s, Buchanan warned Nixon not to "fritter away his present high support in the nation for an ill-advised governmental effort to forcibly integrate races." In 1989, he defended Bob Jones University鈥檚 ban on interracial dating. And in 1990 he lamented the end of apartheid in South Africa.
And he鈥檚 still at it. Media Matters notes that Pat Buchanan appeared on the June 29, 2008, and September 14, 2006, editions of 鈥�,鈥� a white nationalist radio show whose "Statement of Principles" asserts that it "represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White." Buchanan鈥檚 appearance on the show last June was streamed live on Stormfront.org, a major popular with neo-Nazis, skinheads and other hard-core racists. Buchanan鈥檚 recent have been filled with citations of white nationalists鈥� works and advance racist arguments about Latino immigrants, such as that they enter the U.S. to invade it (more on Buchanan鈥檚 recent racism can be found and ).
Buchanan鈥檚 latest rants have focused on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who he believes 鈥渄iscrimination against white males is O.K.鈥�
Buchanan's long and extensive racist track record caused Media Matters Senior Fellow Jamison Foser to , 鈥淲hat would Pat Buchanan have to say to get himself fired from MSNBC?鈥� 鈥淥ddly, the more time goes by, and the further removed America is from the time when sentiments like those regularly expressed by Buchanan were widely accepted, the media increasingly give him a pass,鈥� was Foser鈥檚 conclusion.
