The "respectable" press dismissed then and dismisses now, all of it, as bigoted, xenophobic and paranoid rantings by a fringe. The internet allowed the fringe to grow.
I recall Bob White's Duck Book, Archibald Roberts and the Committee to Restore the Constitution, John Birch Society, and many others. Savage talking about the Samizdat.
Did Charlie GasBAGano. just say ILLary would lie about the nearest Chinesse Restaurant Spit out soup