Daily Caller News Foundation reporter cancels scheduled appearance at influential white nationalist gathering
After the 澳彩开奖 contacted Neil Patel, co-founder with Tucker Carlson of the right-wing tabloid the聽Daily Caller, a Daily Caller News Foundation reporter will no longer be attending the upcoming conference of an 澳彩开奖-designated white nationalist hate group known as the H.L. Mencken Club.
鈥淲e have a policy that all staff receive approval before accepting invitations to speak,鈥� Patel said. 鈥淭hat policy was not followed in this case, and Richard [Pollock] will not be attending the H.L. Mencken Club's event.鈥� Pollock is a senior investigative reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation and was billed as an 鈥渙ld hand in observing the Deep State and its war against American freedoms鈥� on the H.L. Mencken website before it was scrubbed.
Last month, Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for President Donald Trump, was after CNN revealed he spoke at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference.
Pollock attended the gathering last November, which the 澳彩开奖 highlighted in its report 鈥�The Daily Caller Has A White Nationalist Problem.鈥� When asked if Pollock requested permission to attend in 2017, Patel said the Daily Caller didn鈥檛 institute its policy until this year.
The H.L. Mencken club was founded by paleoconservative intellectual Paul Gottfried and the now infamous white nationalist Richard Spencer from William H. Regnery II, who served as the club鈥檚 original treasurer. Regnery is also the founder of two other white nationalist hate groups in the Spencer-run National Policy Institute and the Charles Martel Society.
For ten years the club has catered to the suit-and-tie crowd of racist writers and activists who have long detested establishment conservatism for its embrace of neoconservative ideas and its failure to more explicitly court and advocate for the white voter.
础迟听迟丑别 inaugural convening in 2008 鈥� where American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray, white nationalists Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow, and two writers who would later be fired for racist commentary from the National Review John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg spoke 鈥斅燬pencer gave a title to Gottfried鈥檚 talk 鈥溾�� and聽the name of a movement that would evolve into the racist 鈥�alt-right鈥� made its debut.
But Pollock鈥檚 attendance at the H.L. Mencken Club was not the publication鈥檚 only brush with alt-right institutions and ideas.
Last week, The Atlantic that former Daily Caller editor and columnist Scott Greer contributed to Spencer's racist journal Radix under a pseudonym while employed at the right-wing tabloid. 鈥淸T]he Jewish role in promoting the root causes of this problem through their support of mass immigration, multiculturalism, and hate speech laws that only go after Whites,鈥� Greer wrote under the pseudonym Michael McGregor. 聽
The 澳彩开奖 first highlighted Greer鈥檚 ties to young white nationalists last year. The report featuring Greer was published days after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville last August following the Daily Caller鈥檚 decision to delete the contributions of Jason Kessler. Kessler, who organized the rally that left one dead and more than 30 injured, wrote several articles for the Daily Caller, including .
In May, the Daily Caller was also exposed for publishing a prolific antisemite under the pseudonym Moses Apostaticus.
