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In a move that is sure to endear it permanently to America鈥檚 nativist extremist demographic, the Outdoor Channel last night featured hate group leader on 鈥淏order Battles,鈥� a recently debuted reality show about 鈥渨hat it takes to protect our nation鈥檚 borders from drug smuggling, illegal immigration and terrorism.鈥�

Spencer is the racist, anti-Semitic head of , a nativist group that uses high-tech sensors, infrared video cameras mounted on model airplanes, and ATV-mounted vigilantes to monitor, track down, and confront migrants on Spencer鈥檚 ranch along the Arizona-Mexico border. He鈥檚 on his ranch and played host to , the Arizona Minuteman leader now sitting on death row for her role in the slayings of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father during a 2009 home invasion. He also has his own record of run-ins with the law.

But somehow, none of this made it into 鈥淏order Battles.鈥� Instead, the show presents a glowing portrait of Spencer as an American patriot risking his life to do a job the U.S. government refuses to.

鈥淓xtreme times can give rise to extreme measures,鈥� booms a voiceover at the beginning of the show. 鈥淕lenn Spencer is the president and founder of the American Border Patrol. He believes the US government is failing to stem the tide of illegal immigration and the invasion of drug traffickers. Now, his mission is to stand sentinel on the border and report what he sees, even if that means placing his own life at risk.鈥�

The 30-minute episode intersperses footage of Spencer cruising his ranch on an ATV and demonstrating his high-tech gizmos with 鈥渞e-enactments鈥� and dramatizations of dark-skinned men leaping from the backs of pickup trucks, aiming high-powered rifles and skulking about menacingly, all backed by music worthy of an episode of 鈥�24.鈥�

Breaking for commercials advertising ATVs, rifle components and testosterone supplements (really), the show lionizes Spencer as a man 鈥渟et on a personal crusade by the unchecked lawlessness he witnesses on the U.S.-Mexico border.鈥� His views, the voiceover concludes, 鈥渁re based on stark reality.鈥�

Er, not really. In fact, Spencer is a vitriolic Mexican-basher who may have done more than anyone to spread the myth of a secret Mexican conspiracy to re-conquer the Southwest (an effort supposedly known as 鈥溾��).

He believes that 鈥淛ews do, in fact, control the media,鈥� which they use to spread 鈥渃lever pro-illegal alien propaganda.鈥� And in the past decade, he鈥檚 had two run-ins with the law, both of which were based on paranoid fantasies.

In 2003, thinking he was hearing noises outside his Sierra Vista, Ariz., home 鈥� presumably the sounds of 鈥渋llegal aliens鈥� heading north 鈥� he grabbed a gun and started shooting into the dark outside. He managed to hit a neighbor鈥檚 garage, among other things, and was charged with four felonies. (The charges were eventually reduced to a single misdemeanor.)

In Feb. 2011, he was convicted of disorderly conduct, threatening and intimidation, and assault after he threatened to unleash his dogs on a man he took to be a drug smuggler because he was parked on the side of the road and talking on a cell phone at a supposedly 鈥渇amous pick up spot.鈥� The man turned out to be the son of a neighbor Spencer accuses of having a 鈥渞eligious vendetta鈥� against him or possibly being involved in illegal activity himself. (The source of Spencer鈥檚 accusation of religiously motivated 鈥渉ate鈥� is that the neighbor and his son are Baptist, and some Arizona Baptist churches have outspokenly opposed Arizona鈥檚 draconian anti-immigrant SB 1070.)

The Outdoor Channel did not respond to requests for comment about its decision to showcase Spencer. Presumably, it doesn鈥檛 much care: After all, American Border Patrol isn鈥檛 the only radically anti-immigrant group to be featured on 鈥淏order Battles.鈥�

A different episode of the show centers on Texas Minutemen President , a former bail bondsman whose group as recently as 2005 boasted ties to 鈥淪tormfront patriots,鈥� apparently referencing the well-known white supremacist website. McGauley, whose group is listed as the Texas chapter of Jim Gilchrist鈥檚 (American Border Patrol is listed on the Minuteman Project鈥檚 website as a 鈥渟upporting organization,鈥�), has also appeared on a screamingly racist radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers, white supremacists, and leading lights of the antigovernment 鈥淧atriot鈥� movement.

None of this is even remotely hinted at in the blurb on 鈥淏order Battles鈥欌�� website, which describes the Minutemen as a 鈥渃ivilian border watch organization鈥� and McGauley as a 鈥渕inuteman near El Paso TX鈥� who has video of the 鈥渄ramatic events鈥� that unfolded when he 鈥済ets caught in a stand off with drug smugglers鈥� and 鈥渇oils them at every attempt.鈥�