 Robert Locke, a friend of Auster and fellow columnist at "FrontPage Magazine", defended Auster against the charges of the SPLC.Auster was an occasional contributor to "FrontPage Magazine" until 2007 when the publication cut its ties with Auster over an article he wrote in which he complained that "each story of black on white rape is reported in isolation, not presented as part of a larger pattern" and that "white women in this country are being targeted by black rapists".Responding to his exclusion from "FrontPage Magazine", Auster claimed that editor David Horowitz had "behaved in the most outrageously politically correct manner I've ever seen in my life."