"Journalist" attempst to compare my books to the Turner Diaries

Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | April 13, 2012 | Matt Bracken

[Travis McGee]

He's a journ-o-lister for sure, card-carrying or not.

Did he really think I was that stupid? Some drooling goober hick that the city slicker “journalist” would quickly subdue and tie in little knots?

The funny part is his trying to pass himself off as a “terrorism expert.” He's all about climbing the MSM ladder to face time on ABCNNBCBS. His website verifies this in many obvious and not obvious ways. The most cute is how he describes himself as an “all-platform journalist.” He's almost begging, “Please, please put me on TV!”

The Daily Beast byline would no doubt appeal to the hipper TV “news” crowd, more so than stuff in the Dry Boring Terrorism Review where most of his unread crap is posted, to no notice.

[wardaddy]

I never read Turner Diaries, and don't plan to do so.

actually you should...as far fetched as some of Pierce's stuff seemed back then...

compare to what is actually happening today is frightening...truly...I woulda never believed it possible

I have read all manner of stuff I disagreed with from Mien Kampf to Das Kapital to Leviathan and Neitzche and Fromme and Sartre and so forth

Holder's DOJ is eerily similar to that described in Turner Diaries 30 something years ago

one can recognize that truth without agreeing with the cure

we are now living in a very poorly managed post racial culture in which whites are the blame and minorities are treated like pets...and thrown every manner of bone and given all the white leg to chew on they can manage

Matt's work has plenty of minority folks on the right side...not so with Pierce or Peter's screeds

doesn't matter though...they will attack it anyhow...they attacked UIC too as I recall

[aragorn]

I got quite a chuckle at the way you ended that exchange! Thanks for the laugh!

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, I slogged through a copy of the Turner Diaries, back when McVeigh was mentioned as a 'reader'.

I wondered about the obscure book the MSM kept harping on, and I guess I wanted to see what made the guy tick, though I never succeeded in that, nor did I see how TTD related to the bombing at OKC. I did my best to ignore the racist crap, much like tuning the MF word out of rap music. The TTD story line wasn't that bad, as TEOTWAWKI stories go (keep in mind my first two years of High School experience was two years of race riots.), but it was too heavily splattered with racist crap to be worth reading.

By contrast, you wrote clean novels, realistic projections of a possible future in the US, without racism, and I really have problems comparing the two unless it would be to contrast the two.

After recent events, anyone who doesn't think some battle lines, in extremis, in some areas, would be drawn crudely along racial lines isn't paying attention.

That isn't racism, it's reality, a reality people have been recently slapped in the face with.

I'd be suspicious as hell of anyone in the media who even brought up TTD in the same sentence as your books.

Good job ending the 'interview'.

I also noticed the 202 (Washington D.C.) area code, and that would have made me cautious as well.

[stephenjohnbanker]

It took awhile, but you nailed it.

[Travis McGee]

Great catch! His libtard creds are well established there, in his own words.

[who knows what evil?]

This put a BIG smile on my face...well done! AMF indeed! Love it!

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. Good response. Please ping us again when this journolista writes the review. This guy is full of the occupation race baiting meme. I wonder who and when he got his orders, or if he is just one of those “true believers” to the cause. Good work.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks. I just hope he doesn’t give up on the Beast piece.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The “liberal bias” of the media is the greatest achievement of conservative politics. It’s a lie so successful that the media has begun censoring itself in order to “refute” it. “

First paragraph.... : )

[Travis McGee]

“4) Do you feel that the Patriot movement has historically had a racist component? Do you think it needs to change in this respect? If so, why?”

I know, and this from an "all-platform journalist" and "terrorism expert."

What a freaking dork.

That question was where "when did you stop beating your wife" came to mind.

[dynachrome]

If he knows you are on FR, maybe this thread will make it into the article. Suitably edited to make FR look bad, of course.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, it was inevitable. As soon as my books began to get really wide traction, they would be used as a vehicle to tar constitutional conservatism.

Good luck with that, in four novels that feature heroes and villains in every category, racial and otherwise. Shoot, there are even Arab, Jewish, black and Hispanic heroes.

And villains.

(Unlike in his PC-fairyland, where only white Christian men can be evil villains, and it's a hate crime to have an evil person from outside that designated scapegoat group.)

It's not so different from the last National Socialists--today's liberals are all about racial identity. They just like and dislike different races today.

[Bernard Marx]

I think everyone posting to this thread should read Berger's little bio-piece that follows. This guy has a leftist agenda as big as the planet Jupiter. To say he doesn't "get" what our side is saying is incorrect. His very use of the term "Patriot movement" in regard to your work shows he's not just ignorant but totally lacks basic intellectual honesty. You were about to become part of his new book on extremism, home grown right wing terrorism and on-line extremism. Watch out for those FBI folk!

ABOUT J.M. BERGER

[Travis McGee]

I looked for the Patriot Movement, but I don't think they have a website yet.

Maybe we can start it off?

Hate to disappoint an “all-platform journalist” and “terrorism expert” like JM Berger.

[Travis McGee]

I’d be happy to take Mr. Berger on a tour of Memphis.

I'm sure his ideological cocoon is impenetrable by reality.

But it would be interesting.

[DaxtonBrown]

I write books too and have run up against similar. Thanks for reminding me to be vigilant.

Up till now, my main problem has been being blackballed by gerbalists, who would not report my finding that Harry Reid took money from pimp Joe Conforte of the Mustang Ranch in early campaigns. www.futurnamics.com/reid.php

I had an incredible exchange with Vegas gerbalist Jon Ralston I’ll have to post again.

[King Moonracer]

Is it this

J.M. Berger is editor of INTELWIRE.com and author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, available in hardcover and on Kindle.

http://blogsofwar.com/2011/10/31/american-suicide/

[Noumenon]

These people are blinded by their own smug, self-congratulatory assurance that they’re ever so much more clever and sophisticated than the rest of us. By their lights, we’re all knuckle-draggers, by turns dangerous, contemptible and amusing. Our values and all we hold dear are sniggering punch lines to their cocktail party jokes.

They only live because of our self-restraint. Which today, has worn exceeding thin.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, Jeff. A good bit of intel is that he referred in his emails to #EFAD, meaning the Kindle free promotion deal I called Operation #EFAD on Twitter. So I probably came to his awareness then, around the first of March. Then he had to wade through three long novels, (1,700 pages, 3/4 of a million words), to find a few pages he could, out of context, compare to TTD.

On the other hand, the subject of defending the Constitution, the theme of all three novels, never even came up from him. He could care less. 750K words on the Constitution (as in "enemies foreign and domestic") meant zip to him. Finding some unPC descriptions of racial conflict, oh boy, and he is off to the Daily Beast with a project submission!