Bay Buchanan: After Assaulting Black Woman, Calling Her 'Nigger,' Epstein Was 'Lynched'
TPM
Really? Lynched? Pat and Bay are truly lost in space and the southern past.
Talking Points Memo reports this trying their best to do it with a straight face. Credit to them. Somehow I'm having a hard time restraining myself by the absolute lack of awareness being displayed by Bay and Pat.
In the piece she acknowledges both that she knew all along about Epstein's crime and that she nonetheless kept him on staff at both of the anti-immigrant organizations which she chairs--facts which she more or less conceded when I interviewed her earlier this week.
She also writes this: "What happened next was a modern day lynching by a faceless, angry, ignorant mob who reveled in the collective assault on their victim."
Some backstory:
Remember how Tom Tancredo went on CNN last week and called Sonia Sotomayor a racist, accusing her falsely of being a member of a "Latino KKK"? Well, if racism so offends him, how does he explain this?
On July 7, 2007, at approximately 7:15 p.m. at Jefferson and M Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., defendant was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the complainant, Ms. [REDACTED], who is African-American. The defendant uttered, "Nigger," as he delivered a karate chop to Ms. [REDACTED]'s head.
That defendant is named Marcus Epstein--a former Tancredo speechwriter who now works as executive director of Tancredo's political action committee.
If you can stand it the entire piece is by Ms Buchanan is on the website of Human Events.
The Internet Lynching of Marcus Epstein
For the record I do believe we all make mistakes. Epstein made one and and the personal problems he is hopefully confronting. As youths we are all prone to making mistakes. We grow and learn by them. However, there is no excuse for Bay's inherent lack of sensitivity and inbred racism. She and Pat are far too consistent in their expressions of hatred.