Swift Boat Veterans’s Racist Publisher

Wow. Oliver Willis has a link to this shocking report about the family that’s publishing the book by those swift boat dickheads :

William Regnery II, an heir to the Regnery publishing fortune who’s a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for “heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage.”

In an appeal to potential investors titled “Population is Destiny,” the famously reclusive Regnery wrote this March that the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure “the survival of our race,” which “depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting.”

Regnery, who says he’s long been concerned with a “tendency to bachelorhood” among white men, told the potential investors that his latest effort to save the white race would not stop with match-making.

The dating service, he says, will be only the “first arrow in a business quiver” providing “services and products to whites.”

Promoting white nationalism is nothing new for Regnery ? or his family. His grandfather, William I, signed incorporation papers for the America First Committee, an organization that opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II. His father, Henry, created Regnery Publishing, one of the major purveyors of books by right-wing attack dogs like Anne Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy.

Now I’m really uncomfortable with the slur that many liberals jump to that all Republicans/conservatives are racist. I think it’s a pretty degrading stereotype and one that lumps in the fiscal and small government conservatives that aren’t racist (like John McCain) with the social conservative lunatics.

But at the same time, this is an association that conservatives like McCain have chosen to make. I know I could never feel at home in a party that’s become the de facto home for white supremacists, so I think it’s worth asking publicly whether or not the views of their extremist peers reflect their own. Sure, we may already know the answer, but considering that this is the same group that plays the “denounce your extremists” game at every opportunity (ex. the MoveOn “Hitler” ad), I think it’s only fair to fight fire with fire and score some political points.

So let’s hear it. Who’s gonna be the first pundit to mention the Swift Boat Vet’s ties to a racist dating service??


posted by greg on August 16, 2004 @ 10:21 pm

7 comments

  1. So long as the GOP adheres to its rule of “no enemies to the right” there will always be the risk of associations with hideous connections. They know this and are prepared to sacrifice principle for votes, so I see know reason why we shouldn’t criticize them for it.

    Comment by oyster — August 16, 2004 @ 11:25 pm

  2. Connecting a few dots…

    You may have heard of this recent bit of right-wing hackery, the book Unfit for Command, which accuses presidential candidate of various unpleasantries. Oliver Willis and The Talent Show note something else: the book was published by Regnery Publis…

    Trackback by Pharyngula — August 17, 2004 @ 7:01 am

  3. What’s this about eHarmony?

    Comment by Kyle — August 17, 2004 @ 1:57 pm

  4. Kyle, you know eHarmony has connections to rogue biker gangs (they get free memberships) that live in your area. You’d look pretty funny eating corn on the cob without any fucking teeth.

    Comment by dAnimal — August 18, 2004 @ 10:44 am

  5. It sounds to me like Oliver Willis might be going a little overboard here. Regenery is not, to my knowledge, “a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing.” Regnery publishes a lot of stuff for the mainstream right. Besides which, barely disguised racism was popular in the early ninties (The Bell Curve, for instance), and Regnery was probably hip deep in that crap.
    The America First Committee tried to keep the U.S. out of World War II before we were attacked, which isn’t quite the same as “an organization that opposed fighting the Nazi Germany in World War II.” They weren’t, as the author implies, a group of crazy pro-Nazi racists and traitors. Joseph Kennedy was a prominent member of the America First Committee, I think. Little inaccuracies like that make me doubt the whole piece.

    That being said,

    Comment by Historious — August 18, 2004 @ 11:21 am

  6. Does anyone know of any democratic-oriented white-supremacy groups? It may not be true that all republicans are racists….but its pretty close to true that all racists are republicans.

    Comment by Alexis — August 18, 2004 @ 11:29 am

  7. Actually, their are right wing third-parties that are, though nominally non-racist, dominated by openly racist voters. These include the Constitution and U.S. Taxpayer Parties. So not all racists are Republicans, because some racists don’t think the Republicans are explicit enough in their race-baiting.

    Comment by Historious — August 19, 2004 @ 10:43 am

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