Speaking of Confederate Apologists
By It seems that the hand-picked successor of Washington Times editor Wes Pruden is a bit too much of a racist crackpot–for the family of Rev. Moon. The whole article is a must-read, but a tasty excerpt about the editor of a major conservative newspaper:
In 1993 Pruden gave an interview to the now-defunct neo-Confederate magazine Southern Partisan, which routinely published proslavery apologias and attacks on Abraham Lincoln. Pruden boasted, “Every year I make sure that we have a story in the paper about any observance of Robert E. Lee’s birthday…. And the fact that it falls around Martin Luther King’s birthday.”
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In his 1993 Southern Partisan interview, Pruden proudly recounted Coombs’s speech that year at the Capitol hailing Confederate President Jefferson Davis. “I read the speech and it was quite good,” Pruden told the Partisan. “I was originally asked to speak, but I was going to be out of town and Fran filled in for me. He was telling me what a thrilling thing it was to stand there and sing ‘Dixie’ in the statuary hall of the U.S. Capitol. I would have liked to have been there just for that.”
While Coombs sympathized with Pruden’s Lost Cause nostalgia, his politics were even harsher. “The thing about Wes is, he has other vices,” said a Times senior staffer. “He loves a good meal, loves to have his ego stroked, he loves women, the social scene. As for bashing blacks and Hispanics, he shares Fran’s views, but he has other preoccupations. Fran is the really hard-core ideological white supremacist.”
I mean, “States’ rights!” And, of course, let us not for get their Assistant National Editor Robert Stacy “Emmet Till Had It Coming” McClain.
…Dave, of course, has more.