The second most powerful editor at The Washington Times is a white supremacist racist who says blacks are "born genetically 15 to 20 IQ points lower than a white person" and that abortion is necessary "to keep the black and minority population down in this country."His wife, Marian, confirmed this, on the record, in an interview with reporter Max Blumenthal for the Oct. 9 issue of The Nation magazine. Francis B. Coombs Jr., the managing editor of The Washington Times, a major media ally of the Bush administration, is described by multiple newsroom sources in Blumenthal's piece as an unreconstructed "racial nationalist" and a hater of blacks and Jews.
Following Blumenthal's cover story in The Nation (posted Sept. 20 on the magazine's Web site), Coombs wrote a letter denouncing the supposed "mendacity" of the piece and categorically labeled its serious allegations as false without explanation.
The serious problem with Coombs' line of defense is that his wife, Marian Kester Coombs, confirmed his racist white supremacist worldview in her own on-the-record interview with Blumenthal.
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[UPDATE: I wish I'd never started looking in to this. Apparently, the Washington Times is a hotbed of sexual harassment and pedophelia. I'm completely astounded. The Korean Unification Church which own the Washinton Times is appalled: "the Times has literally become a bordello". Think of how big the circulation of that paper is. It turns my stomach to think these people are influencing elections. More on Fran Coombs.
While I never expected anything good out of the Washington Times, I never expected anything like this.
BTW this paper was the outlet for Gerald Atkinson's softer material.