It's often said that you can judge a person by the company they keep.
Dig too deep into this little group and you would need to shower in carbolic soap and gargle bleach for a week.
I have been digging for a couple of days and could make this a very looong diary, however, I'm going to try and keep to the bare bones of the thing.
This is mainly because I want to keep it to a readable length and the connections fan out forever.
CAST OF MAIN CHARACTERS
Robert Stacy McCain
Eddie Burke
Todd Palin
Information about Robert Stacy McCain............
http://www.nypress.com/...
So, let’s take a look at the views and not-so-hidden agenda of one of the actual editors of the paper, specifically, assistant national editor Robert Stacy McCain, who has a habit of posting commentary on message boards and elsewhere around the Internet:
"[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion. The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us."
Yes, you read that right: a "natural revulsion" and "THIS IS NOT RACISM."
That was posted by Robert Stacy McCain (who has contributed to New York Press in the past) on a website called Reclaiming the South. The Washington Times editor posts a lot on the right-wing FreeRepublic.com as well, using an assumed name (BurkeCalhounDabney) but often linking back to his personal website, where there are photos of him and the rest of his large family of Seventh Day Adventists (and which identifies him by his real name and as a Washington Times editor). Editor McCain, who hails from Rome, GA, is one of those Confederate types who still hasn’t gotten over the Civil War and is trying to get the South to secede. He’s a member of a Southern secessionist organization called League of the South.
Information about Eddie Burke............
http://alaskadispatch.com/...
Almost from the beginning, he ran with Sarah Palin's grizzly pack. He was her troubadour, then her disciple and finally, when things started to go bad for the Alaska governor in the days leading up to her resignation, her knight in shining armor. There was nothing -- NOTHING! -- half-term, ex-Gov. Palin could do wrong in talk-show Eddie's eyes.
Watch Eddie defend Palin by putting other women in the line of fire. Watch from 30 seconds to 1 minute 35 seconds, that' all you need for a taste of Eddie.
Also, check this link to see Eddie's famous T shirt, the one where he puts the second s into racist and the h8r on the back.
http://www.themudflats.net/...
Eddie, before he was sacked, did numerous interviews with various Palins and also with the founder of Conservatives4Palin, Rebecca Mansour. Mansour is widely believed to now be the voice behind Sarah Palin's Facebook mutterings.
Information about Todd Palin...........
As we all know, Todd is the spouse and 1st Dude of Sarah Palin, ex half governor of Alaska and former Republican VP nominee.
He is also a former member of the Alaska Secessionist Party, the AIP. He only quit when Palin became Governor.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...
This afternoon, the director of Division of Elections in Alaska, Gail Fenumiai, told TPMmuckraker that Todd Palin registered in October 1995 to the Alaska Independence Party, a radical group that advocates for Alaskan secession from the United States.
Besides a short period of a few months in 2000 when he changed his registration to undeclared, Todd Palin remained a registered member of AIP until July 2002 when he registered again as an undeclared voter.
This is where it gets interesting.........
http://spectator.org/...
Getting an interview with Sarah Palin is difficult. Getting an interview with Todd is next to impossible, and I would never have gotten this far if mutual friends -- including Anchorage conservative talk-radio legend Eddie Burke -- hadn't vouched for my bona fides. So most of the conversation over the next two hours is off-the-record, or at least on background. To breach that agreement would be to put myself into that category of reporters whom Sarah Palin recently described to Sean Hannity as "impotent, limp and gutless."
Professionally, I'm obliged to mention speculation about Sarah's plans for 2012, but Todd says his wife is currently focused on the upcoming mid-term congressional elections, now less than nine weeks away. And after November? I wasn't taking notes and my memory is notoriously dodgy, so it's possible that Todd's answer was, "We'll see."
Or maybe he didn't say that. A good reporter never burns his sources.
Robert Stacy McCain has been pallin' around with Todd Palin this week, as per his blog (with pictures). I only link because of a second picture in the blog post of McCain on Todd's snow machine/mobile (taken by Todd)
http://theothermccain.com/...
This is only remarkable because of the sponsor shown, Mystik, cue funny comment in LGF
Todd's also palling around with Hugo Chavez!!! I knew I had read this somewhere.
See the Mystik logo on Todd's snowmobile?
LOL.
[Link: voices.washingtonpost.com...]
Uh oh! And you know who Venezuela supports!'
Ahmadinejad!
Todd Palin is 5 degrees away from Ahmadinejad: Mystik, Citgo, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad! That's well within 6 degree of separation
!
In fact, Little Green Footballs are all over this. For some reason Charles Johnson, David Weigel and Robert Stacy McCain are all baiting each other. It's got way nasty and far too complicated to go into here.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/...
Todd Palin Pals Around with White Supremacist Blogger
Politics | Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:37:33 pm PDT
So who’s Todd Palin palling around with up there in Alaska these days?
Todd and Sarah won’t give interviews to the "lamestream" media, but they’ll make time to meet with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain: Hey, Who’s the Man? : The Other McCain.
Robert Stacy McCain was recently seen at LGF when he used the racial slur "beaners" to describe Mexicans, and is well known for numerous other overtly racist statements, such as:
Some amusing comments from the nearly 700 generated by this post......
I hope this is the beginning of the end for Palinmania.
Isn't that color scheme on the big machine Islamic Green? I wonder if Geller has seen this yet, it's a stab in the eye to all moose killing patriots.
yeah, there's nothing good about this.
i admit, unless they publicly refudiate this trou du cul immediately, i have been wrong about Palin. unlike many of you, i thought she was silly but not malevolently bad for us.
am i allowed to at least order a side of bbq sauce for my crow?
I'll shut up now, Phew.