You know, we don’t have videotape of “talented” rightwing super ninja aid Marcus Epstein “karate chopping” an African American woman after calling her “nigger,” but maybe that’s for the best. Even if it helps upend another slab of the ugly underbelly of the racist right, I don’t want to see that—and the unfortunate victim of Epstein’s attack shouldn’t have to relive it for all YouTubean eternity.

But I am a tad disappointed the world can’t see blushing bigot Bay Buchanan defend Epstein in a way that not only tries to make excuses for his behavior, not only incriminates Big Bad Bay herself because she admits to knowing about the assault and keeping Epstein, but uses language that paints Buchanan as every bit the insensitive racist as her little protégé. No, no video—just (as TPM’s Brian Beutler reports) the course of Human Events:

Bay Buchanan has once again responded to critics of her karate chopping employee Marcus Epstein. This time, though, she’s taken it to the website of the conservative magazine Human Events.

In the piece she acknowledges both that she knew all along about Epstein’s crime and that she nonetheless kept him on staff at both of the anti-immigrant organizations which she chairs–facts which she more or less conceded when I interviewed her earlier this week.

She also writes this: "What happened next was a modern day lynching by a faceless, angry, ignorant mob who reveled in the collective assault on their victim."

Now, this would all be just a few strokes off par for the conservative course, except for a couple of things: as alluded to above, Epstein still works as executive director of American Cause, an anti-immigrant group headed by Bay and her brother, MSNBC perennial Pat Buchanan, and Epstein is also executive director of Team America (f*ck, yeah!), the PAC run by onetime US Representative and former Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo. Tancredo, as noted last week, has been all over the jumping box calling Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, a racist, and comparing the National Council of La Raza to the KKK.

And Buchanan dares—pointedly no doubt—to call attacks on her pal Marcus a “lynching.”

What does it mean when such overt racists start calling a Latina a racist? “It takes one to know one,” somehow seems too tame a retort.

And one more thing—as the video above reminds us—Bay is not only a hater, she is a liar. Per Bay:

Marcus is going off to law school [at the University of Virginia] at the end of the month. Who cares [about the assault]? This is something that happened two years ago.

Sadly for BB, and perhaps more sadly for Mr. Epstein (but happily for the current student body of UVA law), that just ain’t so. As Rachel tells us, the Windy checked with the university: Epstein is not currently enrolled and is not expected to enroll in that law school.

Instead, Marcus Epstein is perhaps headed for another prestigious institution: prison. Epstein has pled guilty to a charge of assault.

Epstein is but a minor Elephant, I will admit, but the prestigious pachyderms that play with him sure do make their political watering hole look like a cesspool. Who else has been drinking there this week?

(H/Ts to Toby & Karl)