Robert Stacy McCain

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Robert Stacy McCain speaks at a Young America's Foundation event on April 11, 2006 in Washington. The speech was later aired on C-SPAN's BookTV.

Robert Stacy McCain (born 1959) is an assistant national editor for The Washington Times and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of DONKEY CONS: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Lou Ann, and their six children.

McCain was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1983 from Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His journalism career began with the (now defunct) Cobb News-Chronicle in 1986. He then worked as a sports editor for the Marietta, Georgia-based Neighbor Newspapers, before joining the Calhoun (Ga.) Times as sports editor in September 1987. The Calhoun newspaper is a division of Rome, Georgia-based News Publishing Co., and in 1991, McCain joined the staff of the company's flagship daily newspaper, The Rome News-Tribune, working closely with special projects/editorial page editor Pierre Rene-Noth.

Frequently writing about such subjects as education and history, McCain was awarded the George Washington Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his 1995 series of columns about the National Standards for U.S. History. He joined the staff of the Washington Times in November 1997.

[edit] Criticism

A 2002 New York Press column by Michelangelo Signorile drew attention to comments posted by McCain to various conservative websites, including the following, which Signorile stated McCain posted on "Reclaiming the South"

[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion. The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us. [1]

McCain protested that there were errors in Signorile's column [2].

McCain has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC alleged he is "a member of the white supremacist hate group League of the South" and "has often inserted excerpts of material written by hate groups" into the Times. "In addition, McCain is the only national reporter to cover four conferences put on by American Renaissance. Until 2004, McCain had never mentioned its controversial nature." [3]