Posted on 08/17/2016 7:58:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump's hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon is a signal that nothing is off-limits between now and November 8.
Bannon, a former Navy officer and Goldman Sachs investment banker, has been a conservative media executive for years. Now, suddenly, he is the Trump campaign's CEO, making him one of Trump's top advisers. The appointment formalizes what has been an informal and beneficial relationship between Breitbart.com and the campaign.
The far-right Breitbart website, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, publishes a dash of news with a heavy dose of conservative opinion. It has been an unapologetic booster of Trump, critic of Republican establishment figures like Paul Ryan, and attack dog against Hillary Clinton.
Breitbart has celebrated moments when Trump's rhetoric has hewed closely to the site's editorial position.
"Trump Echoes Breitbart: Battle with Islam 'Like The Cold War,'" read one headline earlier this week.
It has also advocated for Trump's populist, nationalist policy positions. Last month the site started selling "Breitbart Border Wall Construction Co." T-shirts.
Breitbart has also touted conspiracy theories about Clinton's health and published dozens of stories about Bill Clinton's alleged treatment of women, with headlines like "The Secret Sex Abuse Victims of Bill Clinton."
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His harnessing of media megaphones led Bloomberg to call him "the most dangerous political operative in America" in a profile last year.
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The Hillary! campaign is spending money on TV ads like drunken sailors on shore leave!
In New York and California of all places.
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In NY and Cali?
WHY?!
>Doesn’t Breitbart have one of the mega GOP donors behind it? Not Adelson.
All conservative media besides FR has mega donor behind them. Even a guy like Ace of Spades is on Mercer’s payroll. Politics isn’t popular enough to make a living from ad revenue.
Yeah but it’s fine I think, GS was early in Bannon’s career, he learned a lot and made a lot of money but he has moved in very different directions for the past 20+ years. Bannon is in no way any “Wall Street” guy now, though he is independently wealthy. But his ideas are populist, conservative, and Main Street rather than Wall Street.
Rick Wilson is the clown, he is Uniparty evil to the core. He is fighting viciously and desperately because his influence evaporates if/when the Trump Train takes over the Republican Party. Wilson is scum.
Rick Wilson is backing Evan McWhatever!!!!! LOSER, and he was VICIOUS on Hugh Hewitt’s show.
Good question....................
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