Quinn the non-Eskimo: McCain's racist advisor

[hfojvt]

from Monday's Liberal Oasis
http://www.liberaloasis.com/

"Today, McCain is in Selma in a high-profile attempt to reach out to African-American voters and show that he rejects the racism that has been prevalent in the Republican Party -- as he did earlier when he apologized for previously opposing a Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.

Yet one of his long-time "senior political consultants" is Richard Quinn, long-time head of the racist Southern Partisan Quarterly Review. That's a far closer tie than what Obama has to Ayers.

According to the blog Anti-Neo-Confederate, Quinn was still listed as the owner of the magazine as recently as 2005.

McCain's employment of Quinn was raised in his 2000 presidential campaign. Quinn was editor-in-chief of Southern Partisan at that point, though he tried to downplay his role ..."

"In 2000, People For American Way called on McCain to fire Quinn, listing his disparaging of Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist," his promotion of David Duke ("What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?") and his selling of t-shirts praising Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

McCain wouldn't fire him. He rejected the guilt-by-association charge, defending the man and disavowing the publication. From the Associated Press ("Bush, McCain Dogged on Racial Issues," 2/18/00, available on Nexis):

McCain, meanwhile, refused to fire campaign adviser Richard Quinn as requested by the private group People for the American Way. Quinn edits the magazine Southern Partisan, which has published racially charged articles.
"This is a fine man who worked for Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond and other fine people. This is an outfit I almost never agreed with and so this is another case where we have disagreement," McCain said.

McCain said he did not consider Quinn a racist and had never read anything written by him.


And McCain still works with Quinn."

Yet if the M$M has its way most Americans will have "not seen nothing like the mighty Quinn".

[nomorenomore08]

1. "Please ignore the confederate behind the curtain. Oh, and vote McCain in '08!"

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[hfojvt]

2. An Oz reference.

I like that :applause:

but it should be "PAY NO ATTENTION to that ..."

[hfojvt]

3. "Come on without. Come on within..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-5FByUZCo