Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he’s standing by longtime aide Jack Hunter whom he appointed as his Media Director.
“Sen. Paul holds his staff to a standard that includes treating every individual with equal protection and respect, without exception,” spokeswoman Moira Bagley said in a statement.
Jack
Hunter has for years been a provocative talk radio host who called himself the
“Southern Avenger.” Before that, he was a member of the League of the South, a
group that advocates Southern secession.
For
years, Hunter wore a Mexican wrestling mask made out of the Confederate flag.
“The whole idea of the Southern Avenger was to be an anonymous superhero,” he
explained in a 2011 article in the Charleston City Paper, where he writes a
column. Hunter ditched the mask in 2007, when he moved from being a guest on a
local music station to talk radio.
You know
a person by their words and here are some of Hunter’s words reported in the
Washington Post:
“Americans
aren’t wrong to deplore the millions of Mexicans coming here now,” he wrote in
2007. “A non-white majority America would simply cease to be America for
reasons that are as numerous as they are obvious – whether we are supposed to
mention them or not.”
That
same year, discussing a racial disparity in school suspensions and expulsions,
he wrote, “there are probably more black youth who deserve to be expelled … who
never receive proper punishment out of fear of accusations of ‘racism.’”
In 2004,
he lamented a “racial double standard” that meant that “Not only are whites not
afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity – but anything
that is considered ‘too white’ is immediately suspect.”
Another
2004 post declares that “not only was Abraham Lincoln the worst President, but
one of the worst figures in American history” while arguing that “John Wilkes
Booth’s heart was in the right place” when he assassinated the president.
Hunter
helped Paul write a 2011 book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington.” Hunter also
worked on former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint’s 2011 book, “Now or Never:
Saving America From Economic Collapse.”
Sen. Rand Paul makes a clear statement with his support of Jack Hunter which should have an important impact should Paul decide to run for the presidency in 2016.
UPDATE: Two weeks after news broke of his history as a neo-Confederate radio host that claimed Lincoln committed genocide, Jack Hunter is out as Rand Paul's aide. Hunter resigned in an e-mail to the Daily Caller.
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