The Pink Flamingo :: The White Supremacist WTimes Used Tancredo To Damage Giuliani on Immigration

MY MOST IMPORTANT RANT - EVER
George Archibald is a Pulitzer winning writer, conservative, Episcopalian, who worked for the Washington Times as long as he could handle it. Since leaving the WTimes a few years ago, he has become relentless in exposing the white supremacist and neo-Nazi ties and agenda within the publication. Because of his CONSERVATIVE credentials as an honest and honorable journalist his background with the WTimes should not be ignored or degraded in the usual conservative manner.

One of the reasons the whole anti-immigration movement has been able to take hold is because of the conservative world’s embrace of the WTimes, without challenging or ignoring the WTimes agenda of racism and bigotry. The whole minuteman movement has been allowed to flourish because of the WTimes. Rush Limbaugh and his other conservative radio sycophants blindly quote the WTimes, never bothering to fact check the information.

As a Republican who still believes in Ronald Reagan’s form of conservative values, I find the Washington Times and those who goose-step lovingly into their web of white supremacist and neo-Nazi lies and quote people who shouldn’t be quoted, deplorable. When I started uncovering these nasty ties I cried. I hurt. I was angry. Then I was puzzled. The information is here. It is proven. It has never been rebuked, debunked, or challenged by a law-suit. It is documented. I stopped to examine the sources. Maybe my background studying the life of Wyatt Earp has helped.

When I first started reading about the life of Wyatt Earp, there were two primary books: Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal and Frank Waters’ The Earp Brothers of Tombstone. Lake presents an almost superman-like saint. Waters turns the saint into a venial monster. Who was the real Wyatt Earp? I started making a list of Wyatt’s contemporaries. Who liked him. Who hated him. Who supported him. Who wrote badly of him. I soon discovered the Pro-Earp list was quite remarkable in scope and quality of character. I also discovered the Anti-Earp list was equally remarkable in the somewhat absence of honesty of character. I had a starting point for research.

I’ve gone about my quest to see who is right (literally) has taken the same path. I’ve discovered that there are some very ugly, nasty, bigoted, evil people who have hijacked the conservative “name” and manipulated the agenda to one of their own. In doing so, they have sucked in unthinking and uncritical supporters like Limbaugh, Malkin, Hannity, O’Reilly, Coulter, Ingraham, Gallagher, and their lesser supporters. I am pleased to discover that William F. Buckley, when confronted with the agenda of Sam Francis, Fran Coombs, and Wesley Purden, Jr. quickly disavowed any association with him. Would that others would do the same.

Instead, they have engulfed every right-wing, conservative source. They are NEVER questioned. They have manipulated. They have destroyed. They have created a racist agenda that is threatening to destroy the Republican Party. And the average Republican has, because of the power of Rush Limbaugh, been pulled into this web of pseudo-conservative canards and prevarications.

This allows the agenda to be pushed farther and farther right, to the extreme. The only way to counter it is for the left to be pushed farther and farther left. Suddenly Republicans like me are considered “RINO” when we were once the conservative back-bone of the GOP. We are no longer acceptable. Why? Have you not stopped to even question why?

Why?

Several decades ago an almost insane megalomaniac named Sun Myung Moon decided he wanted to control the religions of the world. His ego was so great, he saw himself as Christ’s incarnation on earth. He created a web of small businesses, all designed to enrich him, personally, so he could achieve his sick vision. The only way he could achieve this was to pull unbalanced individuals into a cult that would make money for his ventures. He went to jail, fled the country, and bought his way back into the graces of good conservatives in Washington. He founded the Washington Times to promote and achieve his agenda.

Thirty years ago he was feared as a cult leader. Teenagers were warned against him. Now he is one of the most powerful media moguls in the nation – not because the Washington Times is a success financially, but because of the power of his racist associates. The worst of it is the whole political discourse of the nation has become uncivilized because of Moon and the Washington Times. To balance the Times and the extreme right wing agenda, and to defend themselves against the Times, the Clintons brought in George Soros and MoveOn.Org.

Conservatives are being manipulated. They are being used. They are being made fools of. And, in the process, the white supremacist, neo-Nazi agenda of Coombs and Purden is being realized. Are you part of it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Somewhere it needs to stop.

And that’s the truth.

George Archibald wrote:

"...Coombs repeatedly told us in the newsroom that he believed blacks were “born genetically 15 to 20 IQ points lower than a white person” and that abortion was necessary “to keep the black and minority population down in this country.” His wife, Marian Kester Coombs, confirmed this, on the record, in a fall 2006 interview with reporter Max Blumenthal of The Nation magazine.

Those of us in the Times newsroom were grateful to be working for a respected daily newspaper in Washington and suffered in silence as Coombs voiced extreme views on racial and cultural issues.
We in the newsroom knew Coombs to be an unreconstructed “racial nationalist” and hater of blacks and other minorities.

Marian Coombs, a self-proclaimed “white nationalist” wrote for white supremacist magazines and lunched with neo-Nazi leaders such as William A, White of Roanoke, Va., commander of the American National Socialist Workers' Party.

White lauded Fran and Marian Coombs and Times Assistant National Editor Robert Stacy McCain, another staunch anti-black segregationist advocate, who Fran Coombs appointed to run the Page A2 Culture Page of The Washington Times, which under McCain often prominently ran pieces by White.

On his neo-Nazi Web site, Overthrow.com, White described McCain as “a pretty good friend of mine.”
Max Blumenthal, reporter for the leftist Nation magazine, asked Marian Coombs in an on-the-record taped interview for an October 9, 2006 cover story about The Washington Times whether her husband shared her political and racial views.

“Pretty much,” she said, while insisting that Fran Coombs’ personal views were not reflected in the pages of the Times.

That was not true. Fran Coombs directed and micro-managed news stories as much as possible. He and Pruden would go into stories late at night and rewrite leads, add whatever they wanted, which was the reason a lot of people left the paper over the years...."

The WTimes, America’s Conservative White Supremacist Newspaper of Note is saying that immigration is going to destroy Giuliani’s GOP base and alienate his GOP supporters, according to Tom Tancredo.

“…Rep. Tom Tancredo said Mr. Giuliani's stance is at odds with his "broken windows" law-enforcement philosophy as mayor. Under that theory, going after smaller crimes helps to cut down on major crimes as well. "In this case I guess what he's saying is no broken windows, but we will ignore the fact that you broke into the country," said Mr. Tancredo, the Colorado Republican and presidential candidate who has forced immigration to the top of the Republican presidential discussion.

The immigration issue has roiled the Republican field, with candidates trying to outdo each other with their support for border enforcement. Mr. Giuliani has said he would first secure the borders and deport illegal aliens who have committed major crimes, then offer a path to citizenship to some illegal aliens.

Ms. Comella defended Mr. Giuliani's position on illegal entry as consistent with the 2005 House vote. She said an amendment offered by Republican leaders that would have made illegal entry into the U.S. a misdemeanor, rather than a felony, proves House leaders backed off their stance. She pointed to a column by Mr. Tancredo, who supported the failed amendment, as evidence. But Mr. Tancredo said in an interview that misconstrues his vote. "A misdemeanor is still a crime. I defended the idea of making it a misdemeanor," he said. He said Mr. Giuliani's record as mayor, when he defended New York's "sanctuary city" policy of protecting the identities of some illegal aliens, proves he would be "the worst possible candidate" on immigration. "I think he's even worse than John McCain on the issue, and that's saying something," Mr. Tancredo said….”

Remember, the Washington Times is populated by known white supremacists. NOTE: The WTimes never bothered to debunk this article. From Max Blumenthal

“…Coombs, the staffer continued, "will literally stand there and scan websites and look for anything that's anti-Hispanic, that's immigrant-bashing, and he will order the editors to go with it." According to Archibald, in 2001 Pruden issued a memo instructing reporters to stop using the term "illegal immigrant" and instead use "illegal alien"--a lead the rest of the conservative media soon followed.

Coombs oversaw the Times's coverage of the anti-immigrant Minutemen patrols along the US/Mexico border in 2005. A 2006 report by the ACLU, "Creating the Minutemen," singled out the Times for inflating the number of volunteers and overlooking the involvement of white supremacists in the Minutemen ranks. The Times correspondent tasked by Coombs with reporting on the patrols, Jerry Seper, was subsequently honored by an anti-immigration think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies, for his "dogged, committed" coverage. (Seper, for his part, is an ex-cop whose anti-immigration leanings are driven more by his close relationship with Border Patrol agents than by nativist ideology. He is described by a Times senior staffer as "disgusted" at Coombs's views on race and has been posited as a potential successor to Coombs as managing editor.)

In an interview, Coombs spoke proudly of his influence on the immigration debate. "Every article used to be about how the government abuses immigrants," Coombs told me. "Not one showed the negative impact of immigration. I don't want to suggest we led the way, but we were the first or one of the first to discuss immigration not from some feel-good perspective."…”

“….Inside the Times newsroom, Coombs has played a critical role in expanding Pruden's neo-Confederate cabal. For years, one of Coombs's closest friends at the paper was the late Samuel Francis, a right-wing intellectual who joined the Times as an editorial writer just as he plunged headfirst into white nationalism.

Pruden felt compelled to fire Francis in 1995 after conservative author Dinesh D'Souza reported on Francis's remarks at the American Renaissance conference, a gathering of academic racists, international neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis. (Francis said, "The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people.") Recently Coombs praised Francis as "the voice of the Founding Fathers speaking down through the ages," on a website promoting a posthumous collection of Francis's writings called Shots Fired.

In 1997 Coombs and his wife organized a dinner for American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor, a man the SPLC describes as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist."…”

George Archibald has a fascinating piece on his blog this week.

“…Fran Coombs, product of a career Army family and graduate of William and Mary College in Virginia, is a go-for-the-jugular nut-crushing editor with a worldview that disdains women and mirrors the racial and cultural views of Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan, as well as the tenacity and ferocity of Buchanan and his wonderful sister, Angela Bay Buchanan, former treasurer for the United States of America.

The problem for many of us with a Goldwater-Reagan libertarian-with-morality orientation who worked at The Washington Times was the ferocity of the nativist racial and cultural views of Coombs, his enabling supportive boss Wesley Pruden Jr., The Washington Times editor-in-chief, the Buchanans, and all their fellow-travelers in the worldwide media opinion business who stretched out through radio, television, the Internet, U.S. Postal Service, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express to respectable groups such as Rockford Institute and Chronicles magazine, the inimitable Human Events weekly conservative newspaper-of-record, and not-so-respectable groups such as the racist and anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby and its newspaper Spotlight, a vile hate-publication read by executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh that constantly fed the fever-swamps….

…Buckley felt compelled in the 1980s to take on the bigoted people on the political right. Their ascendance caused considerable angst, and people left the fold because they couldn’t stomach the direction of Pat Buchanan and even more far-right advocates such as Willis Carto and Liberty Lobby.

The same challenge has faced talented reporters and editors at newspapers like The Washington Times and a big television operations like CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN.

No reporter, editor or producer worth their salt wants top-down skewing of news in an ideological or political direction.

Certainly journalism is war. But the badge of honor for all of us, regardless of our own personal political, cultural, and religious beliefs, is to be honest and complete in our reporting for readers, listeners, and viewers as we also work to counter those news organizations that do not provide a complete and honest report.

But to go over the edge in one ideological direction or the other, to be racially-bigoted, anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-white, anti-Semitic –- whatever bigotry -- and spin the news to promote a prejudicial bigoted perspective on any side of the cultural divide is dishonest and nasty, whether on the left or right of the ideological spectrum….”