Was Holocaust Museum Shooter James Van Brunn Really "Right-Wing"?

Politico reports that "FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address. A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail... The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a 'right-wing extremist,' but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification. The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked 'JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY,' and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe."

Further, WTTG/MyFoxDC reports that they were told by law enforcement sources "that during a search of a car that is believed to belong von Brunn, investigators found a notebook with information about six to nine locations in the D.C. area, including the National Holocaust Museum. Other locations on the list included the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Washington Post, and a FOX News location."

Ben Johnson has an interesting piece on this subject in Front Page Magazine entitled "Holocaust Museum Shooter: Christian-Hating Socialist." Visit http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35192 to read the full article.
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