Category: Media Extremism

Once Again, Buchanan Cites Racist Sources

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Immigrant, Extremist Propaganda, Media Extremism by Brentin Mock on May 4, 2008

MSNBC cable television commentator and two-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has once again relied on white supremacist sources for inspiration and information. In his May 2 column “The Way Our World Ends,” Buchanan complains that people of European descent are being wiped out worldwide and even in their own backyards, where “[t]he Third World is [...]

Immigration Report Being Released Today Linked to White Supremacists


Last Friday, a highly conservative publication called Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) published an editorial on its website called “The Real Cost of Immigration” that previewed a report to be released today at the National Press Club — an analysis, as IBD noted, by one Edwin S. Rubenstein that is being published by The Social Contract [...]

New Direction Apparent at Washington Times

Posted in Media Extremism by Mark Potok on February 27, 2008

Just one month after taking the reins of The Washington Times — a paper with a long history of far-right reporting and several top editors linked to white supremacist ideas — Editor-in-Chief John Solomon has signaled a major change in direction.
In an internal memo issued on Monday, Feb. 25, the Times’ Patrick Tuohy listed a [...]

Hate Radio’s ‘Political Cesspool’ To Shut Down

Posted in Anti-Gay, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Semitic, Media Extremism, Neo-Confederate by Heidi Beirich on February 14, 2008

Citing his father’s illness and “strain on [his] marriage,” James Edwards (below, right), a prominent white nationalist and host of the hate radio program, “The Political Cesspool,” sent out an E-mail to supporters Wednesday with the subject heading “All Good Things Come To An End.” In it, Edwards announced that he would broadcast his final [...]

Lou Dobbs: Once More, With Gusto

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Media Extremism, Nativist Extremist by Mark Potok on February 6, 2008

The wild man of CNN was unleashed again the other night, launching into a furious attack (here, here and here) on the president of the National Council of La Raza, who went on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss her organization’s new initiative against hate. The initiative — motto: “Take the hate out of the immigration [...]

The House Cleaning Continues at The Washington Times

Posted in Media Extremism, Neo-Confederate, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on January 17, 2008

Yesterday, longtime assistant national editor Robert Stacy McCain resigned from The Washington Times. McCain was particularly close to managing editor Fran Coombs, who had assigned him to write the paper’s “Culture, Et Cetera” section.
McCain, who was once a member of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, often filled these briefs with items from [...]

The Washington Times Cleans House

Posted in Media Extremism, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on January 15, 2008

The hard-right Washington Times has appointed a new executive editor, Washington Post reporter John Solomon (right), marking a major change in direction for the perennially money-losing paper that is owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Solomon, who is taking over a paper with a long history of shoddy journalism, replaces Wesley Pruden, who was editor [...]

The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 1st Annual Smackdown Awards


It’s been a heck of a year in the world of hate. As usual, white supremacists and sundry others on the radical right have shot, bludgeoned and maimed their way into police blotters and newspapers across the land. They’ve cursed, defamed and insulted the usual laundry list of their enemies. But for Hatewatch aficionados, that’s [...]

Learning the Law: A Lesson for Lou Dobbs

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Conspiracies, Media Extremism, Nativist Extremist by Mark Potok on December 12, 2007

Lou Dobbs was at it again last night, unleashing a foaming-mouth attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which the CNN host variously described as “left wing,” “liberal,” “pitiful,” “an absolute disgrace,” and a “socio-ethnic centric special interest” group with an “open borders agenda.” Dobbs was livid because a short, just-released story in the [...]

‘Democracy Now’ Takes On Lou Dobbs

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Media Extremism, Nativist Extremist by Mark Potok on December 5, 2007

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of “Democracy Now,” a serious radio and television news and analysis program, conducted an hour-long interview with nativist CNN host Lou Dobbs yesterday, and it was a doozie. Dobbs was pounded with questions about the bogus “facts” that he regularly trots out to demonize undocumented immigrants, such as his claim [...]

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