You decide.

First, let's start with Brimelow's friend, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, staunch conservative, defender of the homeland, promoter of the minutemen,, et. al.....Yep, Tancredo, who completely denied having any sort of white supremicist or Nazi connections on the O'Reilly show (I heard him) wrote a letter to Salon Magazine defending Peter Brimelow, whose twin brother, has very close Nazi ties - documented associations.  This is Tom Tancredo who waxes poetic about the problems on the border.  The Tom Tancredo who has userpted the power of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  This is Tom Tancredo a Republican, no less....defending Brimelow (Peter) against charges of racism, etc.  Interestingly, Brimelow isn't even mentioned in the article, but Tancredo is. 

"...Finally, when I was asked about the genesis of the name "Vdare," I replied truthfully that I did not know. Mr. Blumenthal characterized this response as culpable "befuddlement" on my part. Nonetheless, I can say that I was aware of editor Peter Brimelow's solid credentials as a professional journalist, and I had no reason to believe that this online magazine is anything but a legitimate contributor to the vast library of resources on this vital issue. After looking over Vdare's recent work, I have not changed this opinion. -- Tom Tancredo"

Peter Brimelow is the mastermind behind The Center for American Unity, dedicated, its website claims, to Unite America.  How you might ask?  Simple is my answer - English only. In Vdare he writes the following about GWB's immigration plans:

"It will liquidate the American nation.Already, the Census Bureau projects that whites—known to history as “Americans,” the founders and until recently the overwhelming majority of the country—will become a minority in 50 years.  The Bush-Bartley bill can only accelerate this unprecedented attack by a government on its own people."

Why else is this important?  Well, as Subway Canaries has shown time and time again, Michelle Malkin, one of the trio of extreme RINO conservative Brittany wanna-be's is a regular at Brimelow's Vdare.

Brimelow mainstreams his theories through Vdare, which even features Michelle Malkin, the darling of the RINO Conservative set. He is praised by the other Empress of Mean, Ann Coulter.  I can't imagine any viable writer quoting Brimelow, considering his background, but Coulter the vicious does.

"Also, someone must have finally told Bush that the point about America being a "nation of immigrants" is moronic. All nations are "nations of immigrants" -- as Peter Brimelow pointed out brilliantly in his 1992 article in National Review on immigration, which left nothing for anyone else to say. Of the "nation of immigrants" locution, Brimelow says: "No discussion of U.S. immigration policy gets far without someone making this helpful remark. As an immigrant myself, I always pause respectfully. You never know. Maybe this is what they're taught to chant in schools nowadays, a sort of multicultural Pledge of Allegiance. ... Do they really think other nations sprouted up out of the ground?" Brimelow then ran through the Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman-French, Welsh and Celtic immigrant influences in Britain alone. " 

In an effort to be fair and balanced, you will want to read the Front Page Mag symposium that features both Brimelow and Jarrod Taylor.  Are they racist, are they just putting a good front things, or are we wrongfully accusing them of darker paths that don't exist?  You decide.  (This is from the sidebar of the ADL report on Taylor:  "Jared Taylor and the neo-Nazis Taylor's writings have found a responsive audience among unapologetic Jew-haters and Hitler acolytes. In the early 1990s, his work was reprinted, under the name Samuel Taylor, in Spearhead,² an extremist journal in England closely affiliated with the neo-Nazi British National Party. He has also been reprinted in the Journal of Historical Review, published by the California-based Institute for Historical Review, the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the country. He was a featured speaker, along with Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis, at the 1994 convention of the Populist Party, which was founded by Willis Carto and ran David Duke as its presidential candidate in 1988. He has also appeared on "Radio Free America," for several years a popular patriot radio show sponsored by Liberty Lobby. "

Brimelow's twin brother, Peter is a known ex-Nazi who still associates with his old buddies.    "John Brimelow (twin brother of Peter Brimelow, author of the influential anti-immigration tract Alien Nation) who runs the popular VDARE.com website attended and was observed cloistered in the atrium consorting with Black and his cohorts. A controversial figure for some within the American Renaissance milieu, David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (who was succeeded by Black), was there as were the far-right radio talk show host Hal Turner, Mark Weber, director of the California-based Holocaust denial outfit the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), Kevin Strom of National Vanguard and David Pringle, both former members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. There was also a large contingent of Canadians led by Paul Fromm of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee. Fromm is a friend of the Holocaust deniers Lady Michelle Renouf and Ernst Zündel who, much to Fromm’s annoyance, is currently on trial in Germany.."

Brimelow started out as an editor for Forbes, but, according to this posting on his Vdare web site, Forbes no longer picked up his columns after 2001.  Wonder why?  And a link to his official portrait.  Ego?

The SPLC expose:  "one that is actually used by many of those who attended the New Orleans meeting of the Rockford Institute's John Randolph Club, might be racial nationalists. The club used to include libertarians and others with a variety of political views but, as chronicled in an important article by James Lubinskas, that has changed. The club has shrunk, become more politically isolated, and focused in on issues related to race. Peter Brimelow exemplifies that change. In 1995, he published the bestselling Alien Nation, a book that argued that America is historically white-dominated and should stay that way — but that was also written in a genial style and was careful to treat black Americans as part of the polity. By 1997, he was warning that by 2008 the GOP would no longer be able to compete in presidential elections because the racial makeup of the electorate would be changed by non-white immigration. Today, the former senior editor at Forbes magazine edits an anti-immigration Web page that carries an array of frankly white supremacist and anti-Semitic essays. The Role of Race Brimelow's political evolution might have been predicted. Although his Alien Nation was well reviewed in many places, it included strong veins of racism and xenophobia. ..."   About the Rockwell Institute. and the SPCL report.

Read carefully the Vdare article supporting (sort of ) David Duke and remember Brimelow owns Vdare.

More from the SPLC report - which is very important.  We're dealing with entangled links here, people.  "...Back to the FutureFast forward to 2003. Once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page, VDARE has now become a meeting place for many on the radical right. One essay complains about how the government encourages "the garbage of Africa" to come to the United States. The same writer says once the "Mexican invasion" engulfs the country, "high teenage birthrates, poverty, ignorance and disease will be what remains." Another says that Hispanics have a "significantly higher level of social pathology than American whites. ... In other words, some immigrants are better than others." Yet another complains that a Jewish immigrant rights group is helping "African Muslim refugees" come to America. Brimelow's site carries archives of columns from men like Sam Francis, who is the editor of the newspaper of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, a group whose Web page recently described blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity." It has run articles by Jared Taylor, the editor of the white supremacist American Renaissance magazine, which specializes in dubious race and IQ studies and eugenics, the "science" of "race betterment" through selective breeding. Recently, VDARE has even begun to publish the writings of Kevin MacDonald, a psychology professor at California State-Long Beach. MacDonald accuses Jews of "dominating" the "movement to change the ethnic balance of the United States by allowing mass, non-traditional [i.e., non-white] immigration." He writes that Jews, believing "the masses ha[ve] to be deceived," frame their appeals in universalistic language. But behind that are "the Jewish agendas" of the deceivers. MacDonald also mentions "the famously heavy Jewish role" in television news...."

Brimelow recently took on the Rocky Mountain News after he was called 'white seperatist'.  ..."

Summary: Even as he criticized a Rocky Mountain News article that described his VDARE.com as a "white nationalist Web site," Peter Brimelow acknowledged that VDARE publishes writers that he "regard[s] as 'white nationalist.' " VDARE has recently been touted by radio hosts Mike Rosen and Peter Boyles.

In a July 23 "Speakout" op-ed in the Rocky Mountain News, Peter Brimelow -- editor of the "immigration reduction" website VDARE.com, a website recently touted by radio hosts Mike Rosen and Peter Boyles -- acknowledged that VDARE.com publishes writers he "regard[s] as 'white nationalist.' " Brimelow's admission came as he called a July 15 Rocky Mountain News article that described VDARE.com as a "white nationalist Web site" "seriously wrong" and a "mischaracterization" of the website.

According to Brimelow, such "white nationalist" authors "unashamedly work for their people -- exactly as La Raza works for Latinos and the Anti-Defamation League works for Jews."

In his Rocky Mountain News op-ed, Brimelow, who also is a financial journalist for MarketWatch.com and the president of the Center for American Unity, responded to a July 15 News investigative article by staff reporter Kevin Flynn that scrutinized out-of-state contributions to Defend Colorado Now (DCN). DCN was the campaign organization for Initiative 55, a proposed constitutional amendment to deny non-federally mandated, non-emergency services to illegal immigrants. Flynn reported that DCN received "[i]ts largest contributions from a national group whose longstanding campaigns for immigration cuts, border defense and official English have brought it some fringe and sometimes unwelcome bedfellows -- racists." In his article, Flynn described VDARE.com as a "white nationalist Web site."

Brimelow responded in his Rocky Mountain News op-ed that "the merest glance [at VDARE.com] would show that we are not 'white nationalist.' " Brimelow explained, however, "We also publish on VDARE.com a few writers -- for example, Jared Taylor -- whom I would regard as 'white nationalist,' in the sense that they aim to defend the interests of American whites." Taylor is editor of the magazine American Renaissance, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described as "focus[ing] on alleged links between race and intelligence, and on eugenics, the now discredited 'science' of breeding better humans." The SPLC also described Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist."

Author Greg Robinsonmakes an interesting point about Malkin that can be applied to many of the RINO conservatives of the extreme right. "Also, Malkin, unlike all other writers I have seen, deliberately impugns the motives of those who disagree with her. Although she sets herself up as a disinterested seeker for truth with an open mind, she is gratuitously nasty towards all others: "Unlike many others who have published on this subject, I have no vested interests: I am not an evacuee, internee, or family member thereof. I am not an attorney who has represented evacuees or internees demanding redress for their long-held grievances. I am not a professor whose tenure relies on regurgitating academic orthodoxy about this episode in American history." Well, I am none of these things, apart perhaps from being a professor, and I was not even that when I researched and wrote my book. I am mindful, however, of the wise counsel of Sidney Hook, who in his "Ethics of Controversy" reminded people "[b]efore impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments." Since there is a great deal to criticize in Malkin's arguments from a logical and historical point of view, I will start by focusing on that."  Robinson has picked up on a problem with the entire 'genera' of Malkin-Coulter type RINO Conservatives.  They do the impugning thing about motives but never bother ansering the criticism.

Once upon a time (2001) Malkin wrote this piece about Senator Robert Byrd.  Please read it carefully.  "If this ex-Klansman were a conservative Republican, he would never hear the end of his sordid past. "Ex-Klansman who opposed civil rights and black justices" would appear in every reference to Sen. Byrd. And even the "ex-" would be in doubt. Maxine Waters and Ralph Neas and Julianne Malveaux and Al Sharpton and all the other left-wing bloodhounds who sniff racism in every crevice of American life would be barking up a storm over Sen. Byrd's latest fulminations. Instead, the attack dogs are busy decrying latent racial bigotry where it doesn't exist, while the real thing roams wild and free in their own political backyard." Yet by her very association with certain anti-immigration and anti-Hispanic personalities, Malkin has become 'the enemy'. But, the problem is no one seems to care.

"It is always funny when anti-immigrant activists try to declare they are not racist in their anti-immigrant activities, or that they would never associate with anyone that is. It is always funny, because if that was the case, they would not have all that many people within their circles. The new stunt is to find as many black people that they can to join them in protests to show the world that they are not the racist ignoramuses people like us peg them to be. Sure, Latinos are a plus, but since many blacks have expressed their own hatred of Mexicans, they are easier to recruit. It will work except for one thing: the white supremacists are still within their ranks, and that makes for a little comedy." FromOne People's Project. We should also note this is a very liberal web site.  But, the truth is the truth and intellectually honest conservatives should be able to recognize the truth and accept it. 

Michelle Malkin presents a real conundrum.  On one hand she is a very patriotic American, relentless in her champion of our military and the war on terror.  She is merciless as she attacks liberal hacks who constantly seek to devalue the war, the military, and truly harm us with their foolish anticts.  But there is also a Michelle Malkin who is a ruthless opponent of immigration, someone who associates with known racists, white supremacists, naturists, separatists, and those who even are less savory - all in an attempt to cleanse the nation of illegal immigrants.

One can understand her dislike of the Japanese culture when one considers her family came out of the Philippines after World War II, and they truly saw some nasty stuff, but that should make a person less racist, not more.  Her anti-immigration associates are truly anti-Hispanic bigots.  Why would a person like Malkin associate with them? 

Some of the answers can be found in a series of essays by Muller and Robinson on Is That Legal.  They discuss the inaccuracies of Malkin's 2004 In Defense of Internment.  The question is does Malking have the courage to go where none of us in this politically correct world fear to go or is she just plain racist?  Or is she intellectually dishonest?  Maybe, as Muller and Robinson show, it is a combination of the three.

The following is excerpted from their essays:

"...A big part of what drove Michelle to write this book was her disgust with people on the left who have never met an antiterrorism policy they like, and who have trotted out the scary specter of the incarceration of Japanese Americans at every opportunity...Now I hasten to add that Michelle is also slaying dragons of her own creation. She's outraged, she says (see pages 95-99), at all of the people who liken the War Relocation Authority's "Relocation Centers" for Japanese Americans to Nazi death camps by naming them with the historically accurate term "concentration camps." (That's what FDR himself called them — see the quotation from FDR on page 21 of Michelle's book.)...I don't have the faintest idea who Michelle is talking about here. I know of no one who compares Manzanar to Auschwitz, and Michelle's book doesn't cite anyone who does so... But Michelle does exactly the same thing, rejecting the historically authentic term "concentration camp" while insisting on using the historically authentic but grossly misleading term "evacuation." (People are "evacuated" in order to protect them from a threat, such as a hurricane or a forest fire. Japanese Americans were evicted from their homes, not evacuated.)...If in fact there were people who compared this country's camps for Japanese Americans to Nazi Germany's death camps, I would certainly understand Michelle's angry desire to set the record straight. My grandfather was in Buchenwald,** and I'd be as outraged as anyone--probably more outraged than most--by the suggestion that this government ran places like that. But--to foreshadow my next post on this topic--the way to counter a comparison of Manzanar to Buchenwald is to describe Manzanar carefully. It is not to compare Manzanar to a Boy Scout Camp, which Michelle comes very close to doing. ...**I note that Michelle has set up an "errata" page for the book. Here's one. On page 99, she says that "[h]istorians who compare the American relocation camps to Dachau and Bergen-Belsen will be hard-pressed to find a single European Jew who ... was given permission to leave ... a Nazi death camp." Not so. Nearly all of the German and Austrian Jews (like my grandfather) who were seized at Kristallnacht and taken to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen in early November of 1938 were released over the following several months. Those who could not get visas out of Germany and Austria were later recaptured and killed (like my great uncle Leopold). But Nazi Germany's policy from the mid- to late 1930s was to "encourage" (by which I mean terrorize) Jews into leaving the country. You can read more about this episode here if you're interested....

Robinson also wrote, "Malkin thus follows in the paranoid style of Lillian Baker, the most important internment denier, whose gift to posterity, "The Concentration Camp Conspiracy," likewise charges an immense conspiracy on the part of Japanese Americans to defraud the government and distort history. To be fair, Malkin does not go as far as Baker in claiming that the camps were pleasant places or that the guard towers were for the inmates' protection. Still, her central premise is that the government acted justly in establishing camps to which Japanese Americans were "free to move elsewhere (initially)" "free to leave" and " free to enter". This is a serious distortion. Let us break down her comments....She might have gone further, in order to defend the government, to point out that the War Relocation Authority did initially intend to place Japanese Americans in communities outside the West Coast, but that when WRA Director Milton Eisenhower visited a Western Governor's conference, the rabid anti-Japanese sentiment he experienced forced him to shelve his plans and prepare for confinement for the duration. Rather, Ms. Malkin's talent for overkill shows itself in her insistence that hostility from inland Japanese-Americans was a significant factor in striking fear in the hearts of the West Coasters."

Maybe Malkin is not as accurate as we think she is.  

Let's start at the begining.  Malkin is the daughter of immigrants.  An aspiring concert artist, she attracted the attentions of future husband Jesse Malkin while in college  A career in journalism was the result.  As her husband acquired position, Malkin's writing style became nastier and nastier.   

From this 'liberal' profile, we learn the following:

"...Tying every issue to a leering swipe at the physical appearance, personal style or intimate life of a prominent figure — especially those with a high sex-appeal quotient — was becoming Malkin's trademark. It didn't matter that the subject had done nothing to invite focus on her personal life. Even Elizabeth Dole didn't escape Malkin's radar. In “Is Bush a Liddy Dole Republican?” (Mar. 17, 2000) Malkin snipes, “She's baaaack. Elizabeth Dole has been buffed, polished, and pulled off the Republican trophy shelf by Texas Gov. George W. Bush in a lame attempt to attract liberal women voters,”. Malkin even seemed to hint at a bit of sexual chemistry between Dole and Bush. “She cooed that Bush was ‘my kind of conservative.’” She sexualizes Dole with the gratuitous observation: “The woman nicknamed ‘Sugar Lips’ has been wading inside the Beltway for decades, like a giddy queen bee in a bottomless pot of taxpayer-subsidized honey....”

"...Malkin was becoming skilled at supplying back-door titillation to those who liked to heap righteous indignation on supposed immorality while leering at its sexiest exponents. Some observers thought Malkin was out to make herself an object of right-wing titillation. For her column's headshot she cultivated a put-together look that included parted lips coated with red lipstick, big wind-blown hair and a red blouse unbuttoned to expose a prominent V of flesh..."

Anyone reading this piece finds uncomfortable racial references.  The only possible explanation is that Malkin is possibly a true racist, but wraps it in red, white, and blue.  She does have a razor sharp pen, as does Ann Coulter. "Malkin's success wasn't unprecedented. She had been following doggedly in the footsteps of another female columnist who had become wealthy as a rightwing attack dog. Since the mid-1990s the radical right's top poster girl had been the forty-something Ann Coulter, a onetime corporate lawyer with a cruel eye, firm grasp of wingnut psychology and enough vampish blonde hair to pass for telegenic among older, more conservative audiences. Coulter had cut her teeth on the Clintons and terrorized politicians with names like “pimp”, “gigolo” and “poodle”. Her columns were studies in hyperbole. “Eight More Thomases!”, “Attack France!” and “Affirmative Action for Osama” are typical titles. Her major appeal for the far right is revealed by the photos covering the dust jackets of her four best-selling books: big blonde hair, little black leather outfits, pancake makeup. Coulter's restraint was diminishing in inverse proportion to her success. Recently, even publishers and networks positioned for right-wing audiences have been forced to ban her from time to time to keep from losing advertisers." Fact is, they may be, in part, responsible for the new incivility that has taken over the far right. And, FYI, Malkin gets $10,000 a pop for her appearences as an 'expert' for various TV appearences.

And so we have her evolution as an extreme anti-immigration personality who really doesn't care who she 'shacks up' with as long as she is heard. "...Foremost among them are foreigners entering the U.S. The rights granted illegal immigrants became a Malkin pet peeve. In a bit of serendipitous timing, on the day before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, her column (“The end of American citizenship”, Sep. 10, 2001) lashed out at the ease with which some illegal immigrants were allowed to become legal residents and citizens. It was criticizing the federal government's amnesty program for illegal migrant workers from Mexico, but its dire tone seemed borne out the very next day by the 9/11 terrorist attacks..."  One is left with the disturbing possiblity that all of this is done for the money.  Or one is left with the even more disturbing possibility that the Malkins are true racists wrapped in patriotic clothing.  I would post excerpts from that article, but I find it extremely uncomfortable.  One also wonders if we arent' dealing with a woman who isn't 'all there'.  Something is seriously wrong here.  This woman is not flying on all thrusters.

And then there is her husband Jesse Malkin. There are allagations that he is 'ghost blogging' for Michelle.  And there are also allegations of an explosive temper, and the possibility of an alleged assault of a student writing for a college newspaper.

Then there is Malkinwatch that keeps track of Michelle and Jesse.

So let's get started on the anti-Hispanic twist to Malkin, who decries Robert Byrd for being a member of the KKK.

"Aztlan is a long-held notion among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class, which asserts that the American southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. Advocates believe the reclamation (or reconquista) of Aztlan will occur through sheer demographic force. If the rallies across the country are any indication, reconquista is already complete." Jewish World Review.  Alex Koppelman of Dragonfire, responds to her 'breathless' rantings, which have absolutely no reality behind them.  "Now, I understand that the fact that racists are the only ones to discuss reconquista and Aztlan in the same tones as Malkin doesn’t necessarily make her a racist. But as if speaking in the same coded language as the racists wasn’t enough, Malkin makes no bones about allying herself with organizations that expound profoundly racist ideologies.

Organizations like VDARE, listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Malkin’s columns are reprinted on VDARE’s website, and VDARE contributor Juan Mann is one of the principal contributors to the immigration blog on Malkin’s own site. Mann himself was propagating the reconquista myth in a column for VDARE Monday, writing that “An estimated 500,000 reconquistas took to the streets in Los Angeles over the past weekend to demand illegal alien amnesty.”

Again, no evidence was presented to prove that the 500,000 protesters were all reconquistas, or even that a majority were. (Malkin’s evidence was the quote of a single 16-year-old student who simply said, “This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out.”)

But that’s hardly out of character for VDARE, which as of press time Wednesday featured on its front page along with Malkin’s column an article by J. Phillippe Rushton approvingly reviewing a new book purporting to show racial differences in IQ — a book that claims the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans is 67, that is, below the commonly accepted standard for mental retardation.

So here’s the question: Given her use of racist code language, given her spreading of a myth propagated otherwise by white supremacists, given her public links with a hate group, why is Michelle Malkin given the mainstream forum I would not be were I to have been serious in quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion earlier?"

David Niewert does an excellent job of exposing Malkin on Orcius.  It is long, but well worth the read.  Niewert may be liberal, but he is worth reading. 

Now on to Malkin and her love for the minuteman,et.al bunch.  Bleeding Heart has some photos of the DC meeting.  Note the 'costumes' of a few of the minutemen supporters.  Like the Bleeding Heart mentions, Malkin has a love affair with the misc. minutemen.  To be honest so do 80% of the ultra RINO conservatives.  They see the minutemen as the purveryers of Truth, Justice, and the American Way!  Never mind their connections to the warm and cuddly little Nazis who are littering the whole anti-immigration landscape. 

Minutemen attacked