In the good old days, Salon, which established its niche being "liberal" because it published *defenses of Bill Clinton*, was desperate not to be marginalized as a "liberal" publication, so it published unhinged racist stuff from David Horowitz.
Crazy Davey participated in the forums a bit, and was even more unhinged (likely drunk) there.
Salon would respond to reader complaints with the usual nonsense about publishing a broad range of ideas.