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It鈥檚 not a surprising move, considering how much Gaffney has to lose. But the controversy around him inviting on his show聽Jared Taylor, one of America鈥檚 most outspoken and well-known white nationalists,聽is not going away.

At least not anytime soon.

Following stories about the interview on Hatewatch, Media Matters, Right Wing Watch and others, Gaffney, who on the radio called Taylor鈥檚 vile and openly white nationalist website American Renaissance 鈥渨onderful," suddenly聽got cold feet.

In a statement on his Center for Security Policy (CSP) website after he took the interview down, the group聽wrote:

The host was unfamiliar with Mr. Taylor鈥檚 views on other matters and did not discuss or endorse them. Subsequently, Mr. Gaffney had a chance to examine those views and the American Renaissance website on which they appear. There is much there with which he strongly disagrees. 聽Had due diligence been done beforehand, such disagreements would have resulted in Mr. Taylor not being invited on the show, routine compliments to such guests not made and an offer to appear again not extended.鈥�

Jared Taylor didn鈥檛 buy it. In an open letter responding to such a bald attempt to聽to whitewash the incident, Taylor responded:

Removing our interview from your website does not mean it never happened. We will be posting a transcript shortly. What is much more dismaying is what removing the interview says about you. If you wanted to make a record of our disagreements, the manly thing would be to invite me back on your program and explain to me why I am wrong.聽

To your credit, you did call me personally to tell me that you were taking down the interview. I salute you for that. But your reasons made no sense. You said you were opposed to all forms for supremacy: white, black, or Hispanic. I tried to explain that wanting to live in a majority-white society is no more 鈥渟upremacist鈥� than Japanese wanting to live in a majority-Japanese society or Israelis wanting to live in a majority-Jewish society. In fact, my basic views on race should have been clear in the article 鈥�?鈥� that you admired.鈥�

Gaffney didn鈥檛 respond to Taylor鈥檚 open letter, choosing instead to sweep this story under the rug and be finished with the whole ordeal. But one puzzling fact remains: Gaffney still follows Taylor on Twitter.聽It鈥檚 unclear why.

Taylor did not return email messages from Hatewatch asking him to clarify his relationship with Gaffney. But if the interview is any indication, they appear to remain sympathetic to one another.

In the interview, Gaffney wasn鈥檛 repulsed by Taylor鈥檚 views and complimented American Renaissance. That's not surprising given Gaffney's own comments. Earlier this year, for example, at聽the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Gaffney responded to a question about聽Somalis聽working in American meat processing plants.聽鈥淚 don鈥檛 know about you, but it kind of creeps me out that they are getting jobs in the food supply of the United States,鈥� Gaffney said 鈥� a statement one would expect white nationalists like Jared Taylor making.

But open associations with white nationalists can be damning to one鈥檚 political clout, and Gaffney, a former U.S. assistant defense secretary, knows this better than anyone.

So far this year, he has hosted National Security Summits in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The majority of the GOP Presidential candidates have attended and addressed one or more of these events, demonstrating the sway Gaffney has. Later this month, he will be presenting Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions with CSP鈥檚 2015 鈥淜eeper of the Flame鈥� award in DC. The cost attending the gala? A cool $5,000.

Following Gaffney鈥檚 interview with Taylor, People for the American Way issued a press release calling for elected officials to renounce Gaffney. They seem to have not gotten the message. Just three days after Taylor was interviewed, Rep. Steven Russell (R-OK) was a guest on Gaffney鈥檚 show.

It鈥檚 high time that Gaffney聽comes clean about his extremist views and racist associations, and politicians stop giving him the mainstream credibility he truly does not deserve.聽聽