The first 100 days of Trump: Tomi loses her show, Milo's book is cancelled, O’Reilly is off the air and Alex Jones apologizes for Pizzagate.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2017
Also, the IRS stripped Richard Spencer's non-profit of its tax-exempt status.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2017
So it’s not all bad news for the good guys. More much-deserved tsuris for Spencer’s buttboys, from the Washington Post [warning: original article starts with extremely graphic descriptive language]:
… “Overnight, my life was stolen from me,” said Gersh, a Jewish resident of Whitefish, Mont., in an interview with The Washington Post. Now she is suing Andrew Anglin, the man who she says is responsible for the “coordinated, repulsive, threatening campaign of anti-Semitic harassment” that targeted her family. Anglin runs the Daily Stormer, a well-known neo-Nazi website.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, details many of the more than 700 harassing messages the Gersh family received since mid-December. That’s when the Daily Stormer, published the first of about two dozen articles under Anglin’s byline mentioning Gersh, encouraging the site’s readers to participate in a “troll storm” against her. The Washington Post was provided a draft of the complaint in advance.
The harassment aimed at Gersh has to do with a dispute between residents of Whitefish and Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist who once considered himself a part-time resident of the town. The Daily Stormer posts cited in the complaint attempt to justify the “troll storm” by accusing Gersh of “trying to extort” Spencer’s mother Sherry. Sherry Spencer owned property in Whitefish, including one mixed-use building that was listed as the principal address for Spencer’s white nationalist National Policy Institute. While Sherry Spencer’s family was under pressure to condemn her son’s beliefs in the wake of his increased national profile, Gersh told us the accusation of an attempt at extortion was false, an incorrect interpretation of their contact with each other…
Richard Cohen, the president of the SPLC and one of Gersh’s attorneys, said in an interview with Gersh on Monday that the case was an adaptation of the organization’s legal strategy to “hold hate leaders responsible for the actions of their followers.” This time, however, the case is mostly about digital harassment.
“I think it’s an incredibly important lawsuit,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in online privacy. Digital harassment is a relatively untested area for lawsuits like this, and would-be plaintiffs often face two challenges: It’s expensive to bring a case, and online harassment isn’t always taken as seriously as physical harassment by individual judges or jury members, “especially of a certain generation,” Citron said…
What makes Citron optimistic about Gersh’s case, she said, was the “sheer volume” of harassment detailed in the complaint itself. “I think it’s that volume that’s going to be persuasive,” she said. Citron, who reviewed the complaint in advance, said she was consulted by the SPLC in the early stages of the organization’s involvement.Anglin did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. In previous posts on the Daily Stormer under his byline, he has said that he was “not calling for threats or harassment or anything else.” In another post, Anglin wrote: “I did not ever threaten anyone with anything — if I did, I would be in jail or at least facing criminal prosecution. They just lie, because they are filthy lying Jews.”…
BREAKING: SPLC sues neo-Nazi leader who targeted Jewish woman in anti-Semitic harassment campaign https://t.co/3EB3Hc3DLR
— SPLC (@splcenter) April 18, 2017
(As always, the self-styled flower of Aryan manhood looks like someone with whom you wouldn’t want to share an elevator…)
A fews years ago, I'd get 50 or a 100 threats off of a Twitchy hit. I think Trump has thrown the whole outrage industry out of whack.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 20, 2017
Major Major Major Major
I’m sure this is just because of all the recent media coverage of the worst dreck in America, but I’m starting to wonder if there are any attractive white men outside of Hollywood (and my mirror ??).
ThresherK
I had to look up Tomi but one is known by the company they keep. She belongs in that list of deplorable.
Curious wonderment: How.many times did NPR book a National Policy Institute guest before.they found out who they were?
And after they found out, for baaaaalaaaannce with the SPLC? Or Cato?
Some Dude
@Major Major Major Major: Fourteen hours a day in front of a keyboard does that to them. If they did some cardio, counted calories, and maybe got a stylist for some grooming tips, they could raise their Charisma from a dump stat to something near normal (7, maybe 8).
lowtechcyclist
Whitefish, Montana? How dare those neo-Nazi bastards defile one of my favorite small towns! Since at this point, flying out there to punch that little ‘supremacist’ – har, har, look at him! – in his weak face would be counterproductive, I’ll have to settle for an additional contribution to SPLC.
(JFTR, Whitefish is a great place to stay if you’re visiting Glacier NP. I recommend the Buffalo Cafe for its ginormous breakfasts, and Truby’s for the best pizza I’ve ever had. Seriously, if you’re ever in Whitefish and don’t have pizza at Truby’s, then what the hell were you thinking? It’s that good.)
Major Major Major Major
@Some Dude: my dump stat was constitution.
Millard Filmore
@Major Major Major Major: Hi Major, somewhere in the lower reaches of the accretion layers of my life I have a nice magazine with a travel section for those that wander off to the far corners of the world. Today this article would be packaged up as a small “Foreign Travel for Dummies”. I wish I could have shown this to you before your trip to the Far East.
Here are 2 text samples:
“The passage will set records for foul weather, the man in the upper berth will die after a terrible coughing fit, and the paranoid will have difficulty discouraging the man in the lower berth, who will fancy him.”
“The customs officer will point out that his picture in his passport does not in the least resemble him.”
And some pictures:
Front Cover:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/01/aa/d6/01aad6f13516a495a9178084293a20b8.jpg
Sample events:
http://dwineberg.homestead.com/files/helsinki/Wilson6.jpg
http://dwineberg.homestead.com/files/tallinn/wilson4.jpg
All glory to Google, I even found a PDF of the whole magazine, but it is likely a copyright violation to pass it along here.
I hope you have collected a treasure of good memories.
Major Major Major Major
@Millard Filmore: oh man, yeah, bathrooms and crossing the street, am I right? Lol. Lampoon was funny sometimes.
Major Major Major Major
Sanders in the news today standing up for the common man.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/330076-sanders-denounces-threats-against-ann-coulter
satby
@Major Major Major Major: and the victims of the fear and violence Coulter calls for? What supportive words did Wilmer have for those folks?
mapaghimagsik
@Major Major Major Major: I’m pretty sure Bernie will say anything to stay in the press, and media outlets will print it for the same reason. I’m sure Ann Coulter would defend his right to speak as well.
Shalimar
@Major Major Major Major: My statement on Ann Coulter death threats is better: “Please do not kill Ann Coulter. You will just give her more of the attention she craves, and her life isn’t worth as much as the part of yours you will give up in prison.”
Major Major Major Major
@satby: @mapaghimagsik: @Shalimar: Yeah, I mean, he’s not wrong. But really? This? Now? Not using his airtime for, I don’t know, his signature cause or something? The one he accuses us all of ignoring?
Even when Bernie’s right, I’m reminded of The Big Lebowski: “You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.”
Shalimar
@Major Major Major Major: Or, to put it another way, “you can’t find a single thing the Trump administration did wrong today to focus your ire on? It has to be other liberals?”
I am still something of a Bernie fan on actual issues, but I gave up defending him after he switched back to Independent after hijacking the Democratic party for his presidential ambitions.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Major Major Major Major:
First they shouted down neonazis to make them afraid to say their hateful shit in public, and I was like, “aw hell yeah, fuck those guys”.
And we all lived happily ever after.
efgoldman
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
No hole deep enough
No fire hot enough
No shackles tempered enough
No ground hard enough
For Spencer and his buddies
Fuckem
Oh, and while I’m typing, will Ellison or somebody please duct tape Wilmer’s mouth>
Tokyokie
That photo of the paragon of Aryan masculinity reminds of when I used to listen to Larry King’s radio show, long before he joined CNN. During the open phones hour, he’d frequently get calls from shitheads who’d be called alt-right today, and they’d be whinging about being discriminated against. And King, invariably, would reply with something along the lines of: “Sir, you’re not being discriminated against because you’re white. You’re being discriminated against because you’re stupid.” (And thus, I’ve never been able to completely dismiss Larry King.)
WaterGirl
@satby: Bernie has lost the plot.
Villago Delenda Est
@WaterGirl: I’m sure if this were 1930’s Germany, Wilmer would be defending the right of Julius Streicher to publish what he published in Der Stürmer, too.
Shakti
@Major Major Major Major: I don’t why someone whose uncles and aunts died in concentration camps is wasting air defending Ann Coulter or any anti-Semitic white supremacists. Who knows what he’s thinking?
She deserves nothing and if the College Republicans are thirsty enough to want to listen to her they can attend Kellyanne’s next mani-pedi. She’s a horrible person and I hope all of what she says rebounds on her threefold.
Major Major Major Major
@Shakti:
He’s thinking he would like to be on the teevee.
J R in WV
@satby: Silence, I suspect, is all we will hear about those oppressed by the Aryan Supremacists from Sanders. As long as they leave HIM alone, they’re all good!
neldob
@Major Major Major Major: Maybe somebody asked him what he thought on the subject.