By Patrick J. Buchanan
With reports circulating of its imminent demise, The New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight.
Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent ofthe sinking Times and was investing $250 million in notes carrying 14percent interest, was Carlos Slim. Reputedly the richest man in theworld, taking the title from Bill Gates in 2007, Carlos is not sohighly regarded in his own country.
In Mexico, according to Forbes, “the media and the masses long haveheld a sneaking suspicion that there is something shady about Slim. Heis described as a rapacious monopolist who built his empire on cozyties to Mexican presidents … .”
For this column, however, the issue is not how Carlos bought up theMexican telephone monopoly, but whether this Big Enchilada has boughtup Andrew Rosenthal’s editorial page.
For, two weeks after Carlos’ bailout cash arrived, Rosenthal’s pagelaunched a hysterical attack on the patriots’ movement that seeks tohalt the invasion of the United States from Mexico.
Targets: my sister Bay; our American Cause foundation and itsexecutive director, Marcus Epstein; Peter Brimelow, the author of aseminal work on U.S. immigration, “Alien Nation”; Jim Pinkerton of FoxNews, a White House aide to Bush I; Fox’s Bill O’Reilly; and thiswriter.
In the Times’ editorial, “Return of the Nativists,” Brimelow is said to run an “extremist Website” (VDARE.com)where he and I post “musings about racial dilution and the perilsfacing white people.” Pinkerton was behind the “racist Willie Hortonads.” Epstein holds “white-supremacist” views. And we all are into“racialist extremism” and “Latino-bashing,” which calls to mind “thedays of the Know-Nothings and the Klan.”