With good justification, Establishment conservatives sounded the alarm after the Giffords shooting that the Left was out to censor them by falsely tying them to the shooter, Jared Loughner.
But when the DHS and the Main Stream Media falsely reported that Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance newsletter was tied to Loughner, Establishment conservatives stayed silent—because they were afraid of being called “racist”.
After a few days of hysteria, Politico ran a piece exposing the lie. However, only a handful of outlets who published the original claim ran a retraction. Fox News, the Associated Press, and NY Times all refused. The original false claim is still on Greta Van Susteren's blog on Fox. Even the Politico reneged on running a piece by Taylor on the craziness and the Fox News, perhaps the worst offender, would not allow him as a guest.
Even after it was safely refuted, with a few exceptions such as Accuracy in Media, no conservatives or libertarians even reported this outrage, much less defended American Renaissance on civil libertarian grounds alone.
Now, Democratic politicians are blatantly blocking American Renaissance’s biannual conference, long set for Charlotte, NC on February 4-6. But the Conservative Establishment stays silent, as it prepares for the Conservative Political Action Conference (February 10-12), its annual rape of the trusting grassroots.
