Posted on 09/14/2016 3:18:30 PM PDT by oblomov
The Clinton campaign is so desperate to associate the Trump campaign with white supremacists at the very fringes of the Alt-Right that it published a blog post on its website dedicated entirely to attacking a harmless internet meme — Pepe the frog — and allowed itself to be fooled by a fake twitter account in the process.
The helpful “explainer” by one Elizabeth Chan is titled, “Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists” and warns that the “cartoon frog is more sinister than you might realize.”
Chan asserts that the white supremacists “decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-Semitism and white supremacy.”
The only problem with her stunningly insightful analysis is that her evidence rests on an old Daily Beast article which was based entirely around an interview with the manager of a satirical troll Twitter account.
“‘We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association,’ one prominent white supremacist told The Daily Beast,” Chan writes.
The “prominent white supremacist” was the owner of the Jared Taylor Swift Twitter account, and his very online identity should have been enough to clue the geniuses at the Daily Beast and the Clinton campaign to the fact that it’s a fake troll account.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
Are there really people out their publicly claiming to be a part of the “alt right”?
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