Darling of Conservative Talkshows & Blogs Unmasked as a Reviled Holocaust Denier (Representatives, regular)

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The Guardian is reporting that David Stein and his organization, Republican Party Animals, "drew hundreds to regular events in and around Los Angeles, making him a darling of conservative blogs and talkshows. That he made respected documentaries on the Holocaust added intellectual cachet and Jewish support to Stein's cocktail of politics, irreverence, and rock and roll."

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As it turns out, the transformation was not genuine. He still holds virulently anti-Semitic views.

The conservatives he consorted with in the last fifteen years didn't seem to know of his past. The disturbing element of their behavior, however, was their attempt to cover up this guy's prior positions.

They can be excused for not knowing who this guy was really, but haven't they learned the cover up is always more damaging?
http:david-stein-cole-holocaust-revisionist

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Cole did not go to university – "I wanted to begin working" – but by the 1980s he had become fascinated by political ideology, especially the work of fringe scholars known then as Holocaust revisionists, subsequently renamed denialists.
He became convinced that on some points they were right and that as a Jew, he would undertake a quixotic quest to "correct" the historical record, arguing that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp in the manner of Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzac and Chelmno – which he acknowledged were part of a genocidal programme against Polish Jews; that the Holocaust ended in 1943, when the Nazis realised they needed Jewish slave labour for factories; and that there was no overarching, genocidal plan, but an evolving, morphing policy which claimed perhaps 4 million, rather than 6 million, Jewish lives.
The young Cole became a notorious celebrity, the turncoat Jew, ferried from studio to studio, gleefully clashing with historians and Jewish representatives. However he grew uneasy when white supremacists and Islamic radicals appropriated his "work", he said, and he halted public appearances after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Another factor was a death threat from the Jewish Defense League, a militant, violent group. In January 1998, wanting to start anew, Cole wrote a letter to the JDL, recanting his views.
The threat was lifted. Cole, his credibility shredded on all sides, adopted the name Stein, chosen because it was simple and short, he said. Only a few close friends knew the secret.

Doesn't sound like all that sinister a character to me, no more than dozens of other minor media types who have made names for themselves with their unconventional views of history and society.