From Liberal Oasis, Bill Scher posts items worthy of considerable questioning…

“Today, McCain is in Selma in a high-profile attempt to reach out to African-American voters and show that he rejects the racism that has been prevalent in the Republican Party — as he did earlier when he apologized for previously opposing a Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.

Yet one of his long-time “senior political consultants” is Richard Quinn, long-time head of the racist Southern Partisan Quarterly Review. That’s a far closer tie than what Obama has to Ayers.

According to the blog Anti-Neo-Confederate, Quinn was still listed as the owner of the magazine as recently as 2005.

McCain’s employment of Quinn was raised in his 2000 presidential campaign. Quinn was editor-in-chief of Southern Partisan at that point, though he tried to downplay his role. From the NY Times in 2000:

”I am not the working day-to-day editor of Southern Partisan,” he said. ”My title as editor in chief is purely honorary. Frankly, I do not personally read the articles before they are printed, and I certainly disagree with many of the opinions expressed by others on the pages of the magazine.”

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A look at some of the articles in Southern Partisan shows why it has become the nation’s leading journal of the so-called neo-confederacy movement, publishing scholarly treatises, political interviews and commentary that glorify the Southern traditions underlying the secession movement.

In issue after issue, writers in Southern Partisan vilify Abraham Lincoln and other Union leaders, and venerate the rebel soldiers who fought to secede from the United States. . . .”

McCain’s Dubious Associates