Bay Bay’s Kidding, Right? Defense of Marcus Epstein Falls Flat

If going after Marcus Epstein because he attacked a black woman after calling her the n-word while in a drunken stupor amounts to a “lynching” to Bay Buchanan, what in all hell do they think she, her brother, and their cohort Tom Tancredo is doing to Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor? It is this kind of hypocrisy that has served the Buchanans well for so many decades, not to mention Tom Tancredo while he was in Congress, but it is not working for them this time. We can understand why Bay thought it would. After all, conservatives will always deflect the racism charge when it is leveled at whites. But again, not this time. And it doesn’t help matters much that Epstein has been in trouble with the law before this. While a 2004 college shoplifting incident wasn’t the hate crime he is about to be sentenced for on July 8, he still earned himself 14 days in jail for it.You can find the court documents for that after this latest story, and both should serve as our rebuttal to Ms. Buchanan’s little crybaby routine. Bottom line: People like her always cry about being called racist. Well it’s going to get worse because we have stepped it up a bit. Now they are going to be treated like they are.

One People’s Project

Bay Buchanan, who heads the paleoconservative group that employs troubled activist Marcus Epstein as its Executive Director, fired off an opinion piece Friday defending Epstein in the wake of the revelation that he has pled guilty to a hate crime, while attacking his detractors as engaging in an “internet lynching”.

“With respect to the incident I have been asked not to comment by Marcus’ attorney since the case is still pending,” wrote Buchanan, who is President of the American Cause, a group founded by her and her brother Pat Buchanan, who serves as chairman. “But putting the incident aside, the stories about Marcus were for the most part inaccurate and incomplete. Yet, the left wing bloggers ran with this little factoid because the assailant worked for organizations associated with Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo.”

Epstein, 26, who also worked as a speechwriter for ex-Rep. Tancredo and is also the Executive Director for Tancredo Team America PAC, was arrested two years ago for attacking an African American woman in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. It was a hate crime because Epstein, who was drunk, called her a racial slur. Pleading guilty in January, 2008, he is scheduled to appear in court on July 8 for sentencing. Meanwhile, the University of Virginia Law School, where Epstein said he was going to attend in the fall, has said he will not be a student there.

“I have known him since he came to me as a college grad and asked to be an intern for The American Cause,” Buchanan wrote. “That was three years ago. I knew of the assault the day it happened and was with Marcus the following day. I write this story not as an excuse for Marcus’ actions. There is no excuse. Marcus would be the first to admit this, and he has, many times.”

This was not the first time Epstein has been in trouble with the law, however. In 2004, Epstein was convicted of petty theft, assault, trespassing and public intoxication in Williamsburg, VA after he stole candy and cookies at a local WaWa convenience store, shoved the female store clerk who approached him and fled from the police to a sorority at William and Mary College where he was a student. Court records show he served 14 days in jail and community service for the incident.

Buchanan’s appeal has been met with an overwhelmingly unfavorable response not only among the left leaning blogs, but even on the right wing websites such as Free Republic and Human Events, where the op-ed piece was first published. “Bay, I suffer from depression,” one poster wrote. “It can be a very dark hole that is void of any bottom. But I have never, NEVER, called anyone a n—-r and certainly haven’t become violent. I suggest you heed your ideology’s advice and tell the young man to take …what’s that phrase again…personal responsibility.”