Johnny Reb

From Barrett Brown at True/Slant:

There’s a bit of good news for those various conservative commentators who’ve been defending Robert Stacy McCain in the wake of mounting evidence that he’s a degenerate white supremacist weirdo with connections to various neo-Nazi movements and a penchant for flamboyant metaphors – you fellows have some powerful new allies!

The folks at League of the South – the nation’s most prominent consortium of degenerate, pro-Confederacy, anti-American traitors – have just now thrown in their hoods with the good people at American Spectator, Hot Air, Protein Wisdom, The Pirate’s Cove, and all of those other nodes of conservative commentary that have either defended McCain and attacked his detractors or provided him with an outlet for his relatively well-written bullshit.

From the cited previous post:

Few would disagree that it’d be a fine thing for everyone involved in the national discourse to act in a manner that, if not necessarily pleasant or in accordance with anyone’s religious beliefs, abstains at least from goofy internet threats. Let it be asserted and subsequently proven, then, that (a) Robert Stacy McCain has fallen short of the standard that I just sort of pulled out of thin air, that (b) he is nonetheless almost certainly a white supremacist, as has recently been alleged by the Charleston Gazette, that (c) he is perhaps the worst-behaved mainstream pundit in operation at this time, as evidenced by his threats towards the Gazette and his colorful comments regarding myself and an organization with which I serve, and that (d) the fact that this fellow has been successful within the confines of the modern conservative movement is as indicative as anything that the modern conservative movement operates under a more ridiculous totality of influence than even the sort of people who give you “365 Dumb Bush Quotes” calendars for your birthday would probably have guessed.

Here’s the League of the South website.

Here’s Robert Stacy McCain’s blog.

I try not to get caught up in the feud with Charles Johnson at LGF, as it’s silly and a waste of my time. After all, DTP has the best context:

Fundamentally, neither Little Green Footballs nor Charles Johnson has changed a whit over the past four years. He’s still a bigot, he’s still intolerant, he’s still dishonest and he’s still genuinely creepy. The only thing that has changed is that he is no longer serving the interests of certain portion of the right-wing blogosphere. That is the only thing that has changed.

Back to Barrett Brown, who provides ample evidence these booger eaters should be kept at arm’s length in the absence of a long pole:

Last week I challenged the conservative blogger Christmas Ghost to back up her claim that I’d never pointed to any evidence of Robert Stacy McCain’s racist sentiments and activities. Simply getting this person to understand what was being asked of her – to find even a single article of mine in which I’d characterized McCain as a white supremacist without also providing the reader with links to instances of him acting all white-supremacist-y – took a considerable amount of work on my part, including but not limited to some half-a-dozen restatements of the challenge in increasingly simpler terms, the use of a metaphor regarding houses and what color they may be inside and how one might be able to find out such a thing by actually walking into one of the houses and taking a look at the fucking walls, and a bunch of cursing. Meanwhile, she noted that she is a busy corporate strategist and thus had little time to actually read those articles of mine that she’d been characterizing without having seen, presumably because she’d already spent all of her free time writing me a series of long, crazy e-mails about things she was too busy writing long, crazy e-mails to read.

From Wikipedia:

The League of the South is a Southern nationalist organization, headquartered in Killen, Alabama, whose ultimate goal is “a free and independent Southern republic.”[1] The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy.[2] While political independence ranks highly among the group’s goals, it is also a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditional, conservative Christian-oriented Southern culture.

The secessionist rabble aren’t only down south:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin reports she received $1.25 million as a retainer for her upcoming book “Going Rogue.”

The former Alaska governor says in her financial disclosure statement released Tuesday that she received the money from publisher HarperCollins.

Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, resigned in July. She kept a fairly low profile as she worked with her book’s ghostwriter.

“Going Rogue” catapulted to No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com after HarperCollins announced in late September it had moved up the release date of 1.5 million copies from spring to Nov. 17.

The book is currently listed at No. 6 on Amazon.com and No. 11 on Barnes & Noble.com.

Palin will appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” the day before the book’s release of her book.

The list of Books I’ll Never Read grows longer.