Larry Kudlow says he 'didn't know' party guest was publisher of white nationalist commentary

ABC News ^ | 08/21/2018 | By DEVIN DWYER and TARA PALMERI

[SeekAndFind]

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, the top economic adviser to President Trump, confirms a Washington Post report that he hosted at his home last weekend a controversial publisher linked to white nationalist commentary.

Peter Brimelow, the publisher, founded the anti-immigration website Vdare.com. The site has become a forum for hard-line conservative views on race and immigration.

"I don't regard us as a 'white nationalist' site although we certainly publish a few writers I would regard as 'white nationalist' in that they stand up for whites just as Zionists, Black Nationalists do for Jews, Blacks etc," Brimelow told the Harvard Crimson in 2016. "We're certainly politically incorrect," he added.

Kudlow denies to ABC that he had any familiarity with Brimelow's views.

"I’ve known Peter Brimelow as a financial journalist," Kudlow told ABC. "That’s how I knew him. He wouldn’t tell me [about his views], because I’m the wrong guy. I’m a Jack Kemp guy, my history is opposite of that. It’s crazy."

Brimelow began his career as a financial writer for Dow Jones and later the National Review, according to the Post.

"If I had known I wouldn’t have invited him. I was very sad and troubled to learn he has gone in that direction," Kudlow added. "It was a large party, who could know. I couldn’t know. It was too bad."

[Pelham]

Kudlow started life as an SDS Leftist- and if you don’t remember the ‘60s that’s hard left.

Like his pal Michael Medved, another refugee from the left, Kudlow is as politically correct on race and immigration as Obama is.

[montag813]

Peter Brimelow is an Englishman, has a Stanford MBA, and was once Editor-in-Chief of both Forbes and National Review. He is anti-illegal immigration, and supports reductions in legal immigration — both MAJORITY views of Americans. Preposterous slander by the MSM, and wimpy statement from Kudlow.

[unlearner]

“White nationalism” is basically a media invented narrative.

It is designed to confuse nationalism with racism, and defensiveness against reverse racism (against whites) with racism and hatred for other so-called races, including blacks.

The correct answer is “I reject the label.”

We must reject the premise of questions like these and challenge the fraud-centered assumptions of the left.

We must not allow nut cases to speak for us.

We must expose left-wing agitators who pose as conservatives and provide the media a means to promote their anti-conservative agenda.

[Pelham]

Kudlow is an open borders, amnesty loving fool. Always has been. I was surprised when Trump picked him, but then Kudlow doesn’t have anything to do with setting immigration policy.

[cynwoody]

wimpy statement from Kudlow

Perhaps Larry is spooked by recent events.

The other day, the White House fired speech writer Darren Beattie for having given a speech at a 2016 conference at which Peter Brimelow also spoke. At the time Beattie was a visiting professor of political science at Duke University. He had just recently earned a PhD in political science at Duke. He was also one of just 136 academics who signed a letter supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy for president.

The conference was the Ninth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference, November 4-5, 2016. Apparently, Beattie was the TBA speaker on the panel discussion titled "The Right and Its Enemies". Beattie's talk was titled “The Right and the Intelligentsia”. The other two panelists were Brimelow and Ilana Mercer. Brimelow's talk was titled “The Right and American Conservatism”, and Mercer's was “Libertarians and the Right”.

All in all, pretty tame stuff. But enough to trigger the SPLC.

[wardaddy]

It is to many a stupid freeper

I’ve watcjed them bray over racism for nearly two decades

“He’s a bigger racist”

“No he is”

Meanwhile they are so drunk on self virtue they have no clue what’s going on right now.

We are losing 1000s of years of civilization right in front of our eyes in an instant

And here we are with totally off the charts dumbassed freepers and Larry Kudlow worried more about racism

This is why we lost....explain that to your grandchildren one day....rhetorically ..

[albie]

This too shall pass

[Psalm 144]

So what if he was? Or is? The neopuritan witch hunts are really getting old.

[oblomov]

Someone went through all of the attendee lists at Kudlow’s birthday parties over the years to see if anyone “objectionable” attended.

It seems ridiculous to even give this a response. Obama was not called upon to explain his associations with murderers and other criminals.

[sauropod]

I remember.

Brimelow is an intellectual with a lot to say.

“White Nationalist?” Too rich by half.

[sauropod]

True dat.

[Travis McGee]

Our great grandchildren will curse our generation's cowardice.

It's so easy to silence people through PC. It's why 100s of thousands of English girls were gang-raped and trafficked while the UK elites looked away. They were more afraid of being called "islamophobic" than they were willing to stand up for their own daughters.

It's why two of our best destroyers were run down by slow tankers. It was too hard for admirals to stand against PC, which considers putting "diverse" morons on the bridge more important than demanding traditionally high standards of seamanship.

And we are just in the early innings of this civilizational collapse.

PC teaches evolution, except when it comes to the brain. Does anybody really think that importing millions of low-IQ barbarians who literally believe in magic will not have a consequence? Does anybody really believe that our "magic dirt" will turn idiot savages into defenders of European/Western civilization?

[dljordan]

Funny, this used to be a white nation before the traitor Kennedy got paid to pass the immigration bill that opened the flood gates.

[CodeToad]

Idiocracy was a documentary, not to mention a well done movie.

It hit pop culture so hard in the breadbasket that the pop culture powers had it removed from theaters two weeks after it was released.

It was an A-list movie, but it picked on the idiocy of
society and how dumb we are getting, and the corporatism we have slide into.

It starred Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, David Herman, Danny Cochran, Greg Pitts, Scarface, Patrick Fischler, Thomas Church, Andrew Wilson, and many others.