Fox News is reporting that Jared Loughner was influenced by a organization called the American Renaissance.

“A DHS memo obtained by Fox News suggested strong suspicion linking Jared Loughner, the man accused in the Tucson shooting on Saturday, to what it called an “anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government) and anti-semitic” group known as American Renaissance.

In an effort to counter those charges, the head of the organization responded directly to Fox News’ James Rosen on Sunday.

Jared Taylor called DHS’ views “scurrilous” and took especial issue with the reference to his group being “anti-ZOG.”

“That is complete nonsense,” he said. “I have absolutely no idea what DHS is talking about. We have never used the term ‘ZOG.’ We have never thought in those terms. If this is the level of research we are getting from DHS, then Heaven help us.”

Taylor, who earned a BA in philosophy from Yale in 1973 and a master’s degree in international economics from the prestigious Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (“Paris Institute of Political Studies,” in English) in 1978, says he had never heard of Loughner until yesterday. Taylor says he checked his organization’s records going back twenty years and Loughner never subscribed to AmRen’s publications.

Taylor says he also has no indication that Loughner ever attended any of AmRen’s events, all of which have been held on the East Coast.”

From the Wiki, on Samuel Jared Taylor.

“Samuel Jared Taylor (born 1951) of Oakton, Virginia, is an American journalist and an advocate of what he describes as racial realist explanations for the sociological and economic problems associated with non-whites, particularly blacks, in Western countries. Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance, a journal that describes itself as “America’s premiere publication of racial-realist thought”. He is the president of the parent organization, New Century Foundation, and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Georgia-based think tank. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly. Taylor’s views have drawn accusations of racism from some activist organizations and opinion columnists”

Sounds almost like a racial supremacist, anti-semetic? I don’t know much about the group, but clicking on Taylor’s Wiki, brings up this picture with – Jessie “Hymietown” Jackson, Shaking hands?