Diana West, the Washington Times, Francis Coombs, the SPLC and some people who are our friends

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Pastorius' post about the ill advised Diana West defense of the desirous of a White Europe, Vlaams Belang has raised an even uglier issue about the stage she has been on at the Washington Times.

I have complained many times that the effort to have a secure border is penetrated to noticeable fraction by forces to whom a secure border is a means to the end of keeping OTHER out. Other than what? Other than those who support the ideals of the Celtic cross. (This kind of stupidity can be traced all the way back to the change of cultures represented by the election of Andrew Jackson)

While this does not discredit the idea of a secure border (which has NOTHING to do with immigration BTW, only people illegally crossing the border), it makes the idea far more difficult to defend, and assert. For time which could be spent elucidating why a secure border is a good idea is spent instead on deflecting suspicions (no, I don't think Tancredo's a racist, but he needed some more diligent homework done, AND SO DO WE) that we are in fact, advocating for a white(r) America as the ends.

And so to the repeated, futile attempts to dissimulate over the White Europe of Vlaams Belang, etc. including the latest ill fated attempt.

Diana West, long employed by the Washington Times, and author of many really great columns, and a fine book is not exempt by being correct in one area, from being dreadfully wrong in others...AT BEST. This brings us to examining those who are behind her, and perhaps their aims, and those who left the employ of the Washington Times, and why. This goes to the heart of what is commonly thought of as the conservative movement.

So let's mark the ground a bit
Pat Buchanan is not a conservative. He is probably a racist. Some of the ideas which are required to make an 'intelligent' defense of his inner compulsions sound like conservatism.
Barry Goldwater was a conservative, and his remarks on religion, sexual preference, and race, and his deeds prove it.
William Buckley was conservative, and notably spent a hell of a lot of effort to destroy the forces of racism in the conservative movement

The Managing Editor of the Washing Times, and one of Ms. West's ultimate bosses, was for a very long time, Francis Coombs. We are going to consider the words of some places normally thought of as anathema, like THE NATION, but watch for facts, such as the words of his wife.

SPLC (frame of reference, the Southern Poverty Law Center, an old line civil rights organization of long standing, responsible for the destruction of Aryan Nation is a left leaning, open borders group ...believing that the entire secure borders movement is ultimately racist):

Media Extremism
Washington Times Cleans Out Extremists

Intelligence Report
Spring 2008

Read the Hatewatch Blog The Washington Times has appointed a new executive editor, marking a major change in direction for the perennially money-losing paper that is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. John Solomon, a former Associated Press and Washington Post reporter, replaces Wesley Pruden, who was editor-in-chief for 16 years. Solomon's appointment may mark the end of a tumultuous period for the hard-right Times, which included a spate of extremely bad press such as "Hell of a Times," a devastating exposé of racism and sexism at the paper that was published in The Nation in October 2006. The negative coverage apparently took its toll on newsroom morale. Several prominent staffers -- including Washington insider Tony Blankley, the newspaper's editorial page editor and former press secretary for then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), and FOX News contributor Bill Sammon -- have left the organization in the past year. The appointment of Solomon means that Pruden's once-important vision for the future of the paper, which has a reputation for shoddy journalism, will not come to pass. Pruden told C-SPAN in 2005 that he thought his managing editor, Francis Booth Coombs (who claims on his personal website to have been "in many ways the chief architect of Washington Times news coverage"), should ultimately replace him. But Coombs, whose bigotry has been detailed in the Intelligence Report and who has been accused of racism by former Times employees, also announced his retirement in January. Coombs' wife, Marian, has written extremist material for white supremacist publications, and Coombs has actually published several of her stories in the Times. As revealed by the Report in 2005, some of those stories relied on explicitly racist sources. One of Coombs' favorite editors, Robert Stacy McCain, is a foe of interracial marriage and a former member of the white supremacist League of the South. (McCain resigned from the Times a few days after Solomon's hire was announced.) Coombs' personal website was created and registered by George McDaniel, who has worked for and been published by the racist American Renaissance journal. Possibly even more damaging were March 2007 allegations that Marian Coombs had associated with neo-Nazi leader Bill White, whose website is filled with attacks on Jews and blacks. During Pruden and Coombs' tenure, the Times had on its staff other extremists besides McCain. Sam Francis, who would serve as editor in the late 1990s and early 2000s for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, was the paper's deputy editorial page editor from 1987 to 1991 and then a columnist until 1995. Francis was fired that year after conservative author Dinesh D'Souza wrote about racist remarks Francis had made at a 1994 American Renaissance conference. Even so, when Francis died in 2005, the Times wrote a glowing obituary. The article completely omitted Francis' 1995 firing from the Times and his prolific writings for white supremacist publications, describing him instead as "a leading voice of traditional conservatism."

Well, take a look around at McDaniel, at the American Renaissance movement.
All this, with some research leads to suspicious webs of connections, making the conservative movement SEEM as permeated with white superiority freaks, as the progressive movement is permeated with America (property) hating socialists.

So what does this mean?

We have been extremely skeptical here about connections between Ayers and Obama being meaningless, and we should apply here, the same rule. Did Diana West leave because Coombs and Pruden's demise had meaning? Did she leave BECAUSE of Coombs? Or will there be a Jeremiah Wright-Obama like denial that she ever had knowledge of Coombs 'persuasions'?

Is she defending those who wish a white europe because that is a vision she shares having been at the Times and jihadi freaks are simply a near enemy evidence of the first step required? Or is she simply TRAGICALLY, and HISTORICALLY in error?

I have seen many rejections of the idea that VB are fascists, but I maintain it doesn't matter. We don't need to get that far. They want white europe under the code of cultural hertage.

Here in the USA we have the CofCC, which is very little different in their desired outcome.

Does Ms. West seek to use them as allies in the fight against the Qaradawi's?
Worse still, why do our friends EXCUSE RACISM TO DEFEND "FREEDOM", and continue to raise this flag, COMPELLING THOSE FOES OF RACISM TO RAISE THEIR VOICES?

JIhadism cannot be defeated by alliance with forces of White Europe, or the CofCC. Such alliances instead GIVE STRENGTH to those who wish to see us defeated, and our way of life ruined.

Such alliances hold back those who consider our arguments, but fear these 'allies', and the entire counter jihad movement because of them.

Such alliances WILL end this movement by adding in, except for their color, exactly the kind of people we seek to defeat, especially as the military defeat of the Al Qaeda's occur in faraway places.

Vlaams Belang's leader has had YEARS to discredit the idea that what he wants (White Europe) is more than the pathetic 'metaphor' defense he used.

It's time for our friends who are defending people who seek white dominance in Europe to fall away from such things, and to eschew a simple and blantant rejection of these ideas on this post, as the rantings of some backsliding 'liberal' afraid to 'make pact with Stalin to defeat Hitler'.

This ain't that.

Think I'm dreamin' ??

Wash Times?">Tony Blankley To Rejoin Wash Times?

Now that editors Wes Pruden and Frances Coombs have stepped aside, some kids inside the Washington Times newsroom are speculatiing that former editorial page editor Tony Blankley may be interested in rejoining the team. He joined a public relations firm in September, some say, because he was unhappy with the leadership of Pruden and Coombs. With John Solomon now in charge, he may want to stage a comeback.

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