The Republican party is currently trying to reform itself as minority friendly with the election of Michael Steel as chairman. (Whether that is a good or bad thing is a another column). But as I have mentioned before, there is still a troubling hard-core racist element in the party. You have the high-profile bigots like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck, but these media figures would not succeed unless there was support from them in the party.
Left-wing writer Max Blumenthal tells a disturbing story about Hal Turner, a Neo-Nazi radio show host, who was on the FBI payroll as an informer. Turner, a former member of the New Jersey Republican party, has a disturbing past, which includes close ties to Sean Hannity. Turner used to be a regular caller to Hannity's radio show, because he had been given him a special call in number. When Hannity made it to prime time on FOX News, he tried to distance himself from Turner. Turner also worked for Pat Buchanan when he ran for president in 1992.
Blumenthal says that Turner has made death threats to Democratic candidates and left-wing writers (including himself,) which is really disturbing since the FBI was paying him about $100,000 a year. Turner's federal trial was declared a mistrial, but he is facing charges in Brooklyn and Connecticut for inciting violence against state lawmakers.
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