Posted on 11/15/2016 12:45:40 PM PST by pissant
The elevation of the former Breitbart CEO to the Trump administration is cause for concern.
Lets start with some sense: Steve Bannon is not Josef Goebbels. That is how Bannon was described recently by French cable news network La Chaîne Info (The Info Channel), and American media have taken up the comparison, particularly in light of Bannons appointment as the president-elects chief strategist and senior counselor.
The Huffington Post wailed representatively: A White Nationalist Is the New White House Chief Strategist. About Bannons personal attitudes, this is hyperbole. Julia Jones, Bannons screenwriting partner in Hollywood for nearly two decades, told the Daily Beast in August, I never knew the racist Steve thats being reported now. I never heard him make any racist jokes, and his best friend was an African-American who went to [college] with him. . . . I never saw even a hint of racism.
Others have reported the same. Ben Shapiro, who worked under Bannon at his website, Breitbart, until departing earlier this year, wrote on his own site, I have no evidence that Bannons a racist or that hes an anti-Semite.
But under Bannons aegis, something ugly has taken hold of the Right.
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Who is they? Show me the articles on Breitbart where they are touting the centrality of being white.
Do they push back on the “privileged whit male” PC claptrap? Sure. That has nothing to do with being a racist.
I’ve been reading Breitbart for a long time. I don’t recall any racist propaganda.
If you think Beck is not a retard, then we’ll never see eye to eye. No need to respond.
I still go through moments of self-flagellation over live-blogging Beck’s Fox show.
He is out in BFE to me now. The sun has addled the remains of his post-alcoholic brain. And he’s outing himself as a Leftist, open-borders loon.
He fired someone once for bringing him the WRONG PEN.
OK, so why are you supporting the anti-Trump GOPe RINOS at NR? I quit them years ago.
” Those were wonderful days at National Review. It was like being on the 1927 Yankees , with the Babe and Lou Gehrig, or the 1961 team, with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
Look at the lineup that started with Bill Buckley: James Burnham, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, Ernest van den Haag, William Rickenbacker, Chilton Williamson, John Simon, Nika Hazelton, Joe Sobran, Rich Brookhiser, Linda Bridges, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, John Leonard, Tom Wolfe, and on down the line. “
GREAT writers. Burnham was my favorite.
I found NR at the public library when I was 14 (1968). I was hooked right away. My fellow classmates were revolting against everything, and trying to score dope. I saw even at that tender age that the country was going mad, and I wanted no part of it. I wanted the truth, and NR provided it , on many levels. Now of course, it is less than worthless.
“The early anti-trump articles on NRO would get 200-700 comments. Now, they are lucky to get 70. Same at HotAir, btw. While Breitbart gets hundreds or thousands for their pro-Trump and anti-GOPe screeds.”
Am I ever glad to hear this!
Seriously? RINOs at National Review? Check out their writings on policy and principles. If that’s what you consider being a RINO, then I am not sure you understand the definition of the term.
Simply put, it’s not about any one person or party — it’s about conservative principles. We diverge on this or that issue, we sometimes diverge in our choice of candidates. that’s fine. That does not make one or the other a RINO.
What it’s about is conservative principles, ideas, and policies. And our movement is a broad one bound by a general set of principles. Those principles sometimes lead us to see paarticular people and issues differently.
Besides, as I read their stuff, I believe most of the people at NR wound up supporting Trump. Lowry clearly did.
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