- Robert Stacy McCain
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Robert Stacy McCain 
McCain in his FedoraBorn 1959
Atlanta, GAEducation Jacksonville State University Occupation Journalist, Columnist, Editor, Blogger, Author, Political activist Religious belief(s) Protestant Christian Notable credit(s) The Washington Times, Donkey Cons, theothermccain.com Robert Stacy McCain (born 1959) is an American conservative journalist, writer, and blogger. McCain is a former assistant national editor for The Washington Times and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of the 2006 book Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party. He is proprietor of The Other McCain, a somewhat ribald conservative blog.
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Biography
McCain was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1983 from Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His journalism career began with the (now defunct) Cobb News-Chronicle in 1986. He then worked as a sports editor for the Marietta, Georgia-based Neighbor Newspapers, before joining the Calhoun (Ga.) Times as sports editor in September 1987. The Calhoun newspaper is a division of Rome, Georgia-based News Publishing Co.
In 1991, McCain joined the staff of the company's flagship daily newspaper, The Rome News-Tribune, working closely with special projects/editorial page editor Pierre Rene-Noth. Frequently writing about such subjects as education and history, McCain was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal from the conservative Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his 1995 series of columns about the National Standards for U.S. History.
The Washington Times
McCain joined the staff of The Washington Times in November 1997. In addition to his regular duties as an editor, McCain also contributed numerous by-lined news and feature articles to The Washington Times. He frequently reported on controversial issues in the “culture war,” including stories related to sexuality, education and history. His writings about communism included feature stories about Joseph McCarthy, The Black Book of Communism, and the obituary of former U.S. Communist Party leader Gus Hall. McCain’s reporting on controversies surrounding sexuality has included features about Alfred Kinsey, the Jesse Dirkhising murder case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Judith Levine’s controversial 2002 book, Harmful to Minors.[1]
In 2003, McCain was named editor of the “Culture, Etc.” page of The Washington Times, which appears on Page A2 of the newspaper Monday through Friday. Over the years, McCain interviewed many prominent authors and personalities, including John Stossel,[2] David Horowitz,[3] Peter Jennings [4] Wendy Shalit,[5] Ronald Radosh,[6] R. Emmett Tyrrell,[7] Tammy Bruce,[8] Andrew Breitbart,[9] William J. Bennett,[10] Phyllis Chesler,[11] Ward Connerly,[12] Michael Savage,[13] Dinesh D'Souza,[14] L. Brent Bozell III,[15] David Frum [16] Ann Coulter[17] Michelle Malkin[18] and Cal Thomas.[19] When former President Ronald Reagan died in June 2004, McCain authored the memorial article that appeared as a special feature in The Washington Times.[20]
In 2006, McCain co-wrote Donkey Cons with Lynn Vincent (ISBN 978-1-59555-024-8), and created a blog to promote the book.[21]
McCain also contributed freelance articles, reviews and commentary pieces to a number of publications including The American Spectator,[22] Reason,[23] The American Conservative,[24] Ripon Forum,[25] and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture,[26] as well as such online forums as The Conservative Voice[27] and The American Thinker.[28]
After The Washington Times
In January 2008, McCain announced he would resign from The Washington Times in order to concentrate on a book project[29] and began blogging about the 2008 presidential race as "The Other McCain". Stacy McCain argues that John S. McCain is not a "real conservative," and ended up supporting Bob Barr in the 2008 election.
His main blog, The Other McCain, has been growing in popularity since he started it in early 2008, reaching a million hits in February 2009. Soon after that he wrote "How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year".[30]
On March 30, 2010, McCain sarcastically commented that "we know that John McCain is sincere about his newfound border-security concerns, right? All that stuff a few years ago calling his critics hatemongering xenophobes – just kiddin’ guys, hahaha." He then wrote 'J. D. Hayworth for U.S. Senate' in all capital letters.[31]
Personal life
McCain lives in Maryland with his wife. They have six children, whom they homeschooled.[32] He is a Baptist, and has remarked, "I am a poor excuse for a Christian, but I really do have a deep faith in God".[32]
McCain frequently derides Senator John McCain, as "Crazy Cousin John". The distant kinship is based on a common ancestor in South Carolina listed in the 1790 Census.[33]
Dispute with SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that McCain is a member of the Southern nationalist League of the South, which the SPLC feels is a white supremacist hate group--[34] a charge the League denied.[35] In response, McCain states that the SPLC "first attacked [him] after" he reported statements criticizing it in a Washington Times news item, and that he "was an outspoken leader of the non-racist faction" when a white supremacist tried to get the League to adopt supremacist views.[36] He also claims that The Washington Times forbade him to respond to the SPLC's accusation for many years, because doing so would supposedly have publicized the SPLC.[37]
Views and opinions
McCain was once a staunch Democrat, but now supports conservative Republicans; he has said that "anything that is good for the Democratic Party is bad for America, and vice versa."[32] He pointed to reading back issues of The Freeman, a libertarian magazine, through the mid-1990s that his then-editor lent him. McCain identifies as a supporter of Austrian economic theory in the vein of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek such that he thinks that government imposition of broader social goals such as "social justice" cannot practically work out. He also calls himself "profoundly skeptical of radical notions of moral and political progress" in social issues, citing Edmund Burke as an influence.[32]
McCain said in March 2010 that he disagreed with the invasion of Iraq and wanted to express his criticism publicly at the time, but he could not do so since his supervisors and colleagues at The Washington Times did not approve. He remarked that "Any way you look at it, war is a very bad thing" while adding "but losing a war is worse" (italics in the original).[32]
Multiple disputes have cropped up between McCain and the feminist blogosphere, both liberal and conservative. Mediaite's Tommy Christopher once took McCain to task for appearing to excuse date rape when, in a blog post, McCain wrote about promiscuity among women: "Listen up, sweetheart: You buy the ticket, you take the ride." After indignation broke out among both liberal and conservative defenders of women, Christopher confronted McCain on-camera at the CPAC conference in March of 2011, seeking clarity. McCain conceded the point, explained why he had been skeptical of a widely publicized date-rape accusation (against Julian Assange) and repeated after Christopher: "No means no; stop means stop." Writing about this encounter, Christopher remarked that "McCain still holds many opinions that I find objectionable, but I also think that [the video] places the 'character' that is RS McCain into a context that simply reading him does not."
Likewise, McCain has been intensely critical of any thought he regards as "feminist," even among conservatives--to the point of making "Offend a Feminist" a running theme on this blog. This has brought him into conflict with Roxeanne de Luca of the Haemet blog, Darleen Click of Protein Wisdom, and Joy W. McCann of Little Miss Attila (whom he famously debated on the topic of "Feminism Within Conservatism" on the radio show "Peter I, Da Tech Guy" on April 2, 2011 on WCRN in Massachusetts).
McCain is a fan of Herman Cain in the contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination; Cain, who comes from a business background, is one of the two African-American "Tea Party"-linked potential candidates.[38]
References
- ^ http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/essays.html
- ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071005/CULTURE/110050045/1015
- ^ "Navigating the left; Horowitz Web site connects dots of political network.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA: Q&A - DAVID HOROWITZ)". The Washington Times. March 1, 2005. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200503/ai_n19547871.[dead link]
- ^ `Old-Timer' Peter Jennings Sees a Cultural Divide in U.S by Robert Stacy Mccain
- ^ http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/shalit.html
- ^ http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/radosh.html
- ^ "Hot on Clinton's heels; American Spectator editor details the 'Crack-Up' of the former president.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)". The Washington Times. March 1, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200703/ai_n20952689.[dead link]
- ^ http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/bruce.html
- ^ http://video1.washingtontimes.com/culture/2007/05/breitbart_interview_part_i_1.html
- ^ Defending U.S. history; Bennett sees plenty to feel good about. | Goliath Business News
- ^ "Feminist sees new threat; Author accuses left of idealizing 'Islamic fascism'.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)". The Washington Times. August 1, 2003. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200308/ai_n20794438.[dead link]
- ^ "Crusader for colorblindness; Connerly raps GOP timidity on 'diversity' quotas.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)". The Washington Times. March 1, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200703/ai_n20952750.[dead link]
- ^ http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/savage.html
- ^ Story has been removed - Washington Times
- ^ "Keeping the press honest; Watchdog Media Research Center marks 20 years.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)". The Washington Times. March 1, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200703/ai_n20949940.[dead link]
- ^ ''Axis of evil'' writer leaves Bush''s staff. | Goliath Business News
- ^ "Coulter ignites the right; Pejorative defended as 'theater'.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)". The Washington Times. March 1, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200703/ai_n19667628.[dead link]
- ^ Invasion USA; Author sounds immigration alarm. | Goliath Business News
- ^ Meeting in the MIDDLE - Washington Times
- ^ "Ronald Reagan; As president, he made us proud again.(NATION)(RONALD REAGAN: 1911 -2004)". The Washington Times. June 1, 2004. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200406/ai_n19580402.[dead link]
- ^ Donkey Cons, blog
- ^ http://www.spectator.org/dsp_author.asp?author_id=490
- ^ Contributors : Robert Stacy McCain - Reason Magazine
- ^ The American Conservative
- ^ Final GMA for Ripon
- ^ MONKEYS IN THE CLASSROOM: September 2006 : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
- ^ http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/29667.html
- ^ American Thinker: Magazine Madness
- ^ McCain Says Farewell - FishbowlDC
- ^ Stacy McCain (February 15, 2009). "How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year". http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-million-hits-on-your-blog-in.html.
- ^ Cousin John Suddenly Decides to Get in Touch With His Inner Tom Tancredo : The Other McCain
- ^ a b c d e "Interview with RS McCain of The Other McCain". Jumping in Pools (a group blog). March 30, 2010. http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2010/03/interview-with-rs-mccain-of-other.html.
- ^ McCain, Robert Stacy (August 9, 2010). "VIDEO: John McCain Admits What Everybody Always Knew: He's a Liar". The Other McCain. http://theothermccain.com/2010/08/09/video-john-mccain-admits-what-everybody-always-knew-hes-a-liar/. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ^ http://www.splcenter.org/center/splcreport/article.jsp?aid=133
- ^ League of the South - Statement on "Racism" via the Internet Archive
- ^ The Other McCain: Charles Johnson's Quantum Physics
- ^ The Other McCain: Praying for Conor Friedersdorf
- ^ Stacy Mcain (May 6, 2011). "Dept. of Not Getting It". TheOtherMcCain.com. http://theothermccain.com/2011/05/06/dept-of-not-getting-it/.
External links
- The Other McCain McCain's blog
- "Who is Robert Stacy McCain" Autobiographical blog post
- Selected Essays By Robert Stacy McCain
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