Fox News recently put an infamous Canadian neo-nazi on one of their shows touting him as a free speech advocate.
He claims in Canadian media to be a free speech advocate, although that claim is cited as his, and his alone.

While the subject of Mark Steyn and his rights is worth discussing, flagging Paul Fromm a free speech advocate because Paul Fromm says so, is a leap the average person is not prepared to take.

Canadians know him as an extremist; an anti-Semite, Holocaust denier and white supremacist, who in his long history has managed to get himself barred from The House of Commons. His appearance on Fox occurred August 4th.

Fromm’s been a source to news reporters before — but not the type who most American news operations would want to brag about. In 2005, Fromm told the Iranian Mehr News Agency that Hollywood is “controlled by Zionists,” discussed “the story of the ‘Holocaust’ … [that] has allowed the Jews to acquire many billions of dollars,” and described the Nazi genocide as “a religion created by the Jews for non-Jews.”

Fromm, whose Canadian teaching certificate was yanked in 2007 because of his racist views and activities, is a stalwart of the American white supremacist and anti-Semitic scene. He has attended dozens of white supremacist events, including one held to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s death.

Besides running his own extremist group in Canada — the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee — Fromm is a national director of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that believes in “racial integrity” and views blacks as a “retrograde species of humanity.” Fromm is also a signatory to a 2004 hate group protocol calling for an alliance between various racist and anti-Semitic groups, including David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization and the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

A US news outlet using a neo-nazi to defend Mark Steyn does no one any favours.