Paleocon Starts New Extreme-Right Magazine
Hard to believe there鈥檚 a need for yet another far-right magazine or conference, but now there are both. Richard Spencer, who was editor at 鈥淭aki鈥檚 Magazine,鈥� an online paleoconservative magazine, is now executive editor of a new online magazine called 鈥淎lternative Right.鈥� He calls this venture 鈥渁n online magazine of radical traditionalism鈥� that hopes 鈥渢o forge a new intellectual right-wing that is independent and outside the 鈥榗onservative鈥� establishment.鈥� It also is loaded with contributors who, like Spencer, have long lamented the white man鈥檚 decline.
Meanwhile, Joseph Farah, founder of the conspiracy-laden WorldNetDaily website, says he is organizing a conference to be held in September called 鈥淭aking America Back.鈥� Farah says the conference is a response to what he describes as the shabby treatment accorded him by the director of (CPAC), which was held last month. 鈥淭his one is about the ultimate issues of God, the Constitution, the tea-party uprising, freedom and justice,鈥� Farah wrote in a WorldNetDaily commentary.
At 鈥淎lternative Right,鈥� Spencer鈥檚 senior contributing editors are and Paul Gottfried. Brimelow founded , an anti-immigrant website, and he has described 鈥淎lternative Right鈥� as a project of the VDARE Foundation. Gottfried has been a contributor to 鈥淭aki鈥檚 Magazine鈥� and has spoken at conferences of the white nationalist magazine, whose has written that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization. Gottfried gave a speech at the inaugural meeting of the H.L. Mencken Club in November 2008 titled, 鈥淭he Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right.鈥� Brimelow was the keynote speaker at that event, and Spencer the master of ceremonies. Spencer and Gottfried also appeared together last October on 鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥� a racist and anti-Semitic radio program.
One of the bloggers at 鈥淎lternative Right鈥� is Richard Hoste, who recently wrote that 鈥渓ow-IQ Mexican immigration is the greatest threat to America.鈥� He also wrote: 鈥淪chools should stop wasting time trying to close achievement gaps. And not only do whites have nothing to feel guilty about, they are the best thing to ever happen to blacks. Even ignoring race, humanity will not move forward through equality or by raising up the really stupid to the level of just plain stupid.鈥� Finally, Hoste had this pithy observation: 鈥淲hile there鈥檚 more miscegenation [interracial sex] than in the past 鈥� we should be heartened that white teenage girls aren鈥檛 passing themselves around in black neighborhoods.鈥�
Joseph Farah, for his part, seems to be more concerned about President Obama鈥檚 birthplace than race. He鈥檚 miffed because he was a CPAC sponsor in 2009 and has addressed the group in the past. He says he notified CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale that he鈥檇 be interested in speaking to this year鈥檚 confab about matter of where Obama was born. Conspiracy theorists claim 鈥� without a shred of evidence 鈥� that the president may have been born in a foreign country and therefore is illegible to hold his office.
De Pasquale was quoted in The Los Angeles Times as saying that Farah鈥檚 eligibility lecture would have drawn a crowd, but added 鈥渟o would a two-headed monkey.鈥� That comment, plus the fact that a 2010 CPAC sponsor promotes same-sex marriage, led Farah to announce plans for his own conservative conference. The only details he鈥檚 provided so far are that 鈥渢here will be free and open discussion of issues like the constitutional eligibility of the man occupying the White House.鈥�
