Posted on 12/27/2017 2:04:29 PM PST by Pinkbell
Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon has cut ties with Paul Nehlen, the far-right activist who is challenging Paul Ryan for his congressional seat and who has received extremely favorable coverage from Breitbart in the past.
"Nehlen is dead to us," said Arthur Schwartz, an adviser of Bannon's who is familiar with the former White House chief strategist's thinking.
Nehlen, who became a lightning rod for his anti-immigrant views, has escalated his rhetoric in recent days with a number of incendiary tweets.
In one tweet, Nehlen proudly revealed that he is reading "The Culture of Critique," a book about Jewish culture widely considered to be anti-semitic. In other tweets, he has used the "#ItsOkayToBeWhite" hashtag.
The inflammatory online activity has drawn fierce scrutiny from Nehlen's critics, and beckoned the question whether Breitbart, which previously published highly supportive coverage of his candidacy, still supported him.
When Nehlen challenged Ryan during the 2016 Republican primary, Breitbart dispatched Mathew Boyle, one of its top writers, to Wisconsin. Throughout the race, Boyle taunted Ryan on the campaign trail with outlandishly negative stories while simultaneously writing positive articles about Nehlen. Ryan ultimately walloped Nehlen by a margin of 84% to 16%.
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But Breitbart and Bannon, a former White House chief strategist, have recently moved to distance themselves from him.
Nehlen, who previously published material on Breitbart, has seen his author page scrubbed entirely from the far-right website. Moreover, Joel Pollak, a senior editor at Breitbart, publicly denounced Nehlen on Twitter.
"We don't support him," Pollak tweeted late Tuesday night, adding that Nehlen had "disqualified" himself. As of Wednesday afternoon, Breitbart had not denounced Nehlen on its website. A Google search returned no articles this week about Nehlen's latest tweets or statements.
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Last time I checked Soros was a Jew. Has he been reincarnated as something else?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-steve-bannon-is-finally-renouncing-the-unhinged-racist-running-against-paul-ryan
Your virtue signalling is duly noted.
I don’t believe Paul Nehlen is an anti-Semite, and I wouldn’t define the accusation as valid based on the evidence presented thus far. Maybe our definitions differ.
Soros is a Jew only in his heritage, not in his beliefs. He’s a big government socialist.
Please, don’t start with the race pimping. A thousand times a day from the old media is playing a few microns thin. Near half the population votes based on a candidate’s race. How do you think we ended up with Barack Hussein Obama for 8 grueling years, the incessant banging of his race drum.
You’re right. Tell it to Paul Nehlen. America is not a blood and soil nation. It’s a government and way of life centered on our constitution. Playing the race card was wrong for Obama and his supporters. It’s equally wrong for unelectable people like Nehlen. Support this type of fellow if you want to lose.
What on earth are you blabbering about?
Race pimping? You’re in the wrong thread.
Agree.
Really. Are we to believe what he says? How does that work?
David Duke endorsed Trump, didn’t he? In some pathetic attempt to appear relevant?
I choose to see a difference between being a racist and being steamrolled by leftists screaming racism by association.
Who is the “he” you’re speaking of? It’s nice to have a pronoun antecedent when you use one.
Is there a photo of this Nehlen guy with a Rebel Flag 200 yards in the background?
But we agree David Duke is a racist, right?
Hey relax, I had not heard of the guy until today, but I have known the lies generated by the rotten propagandists at CNN for a couple of decades. They are race hustlers at their very rotten core.
Absolutely. And a whacko.
I must have missed something in post 77.
Likely. Or at minimum, just out of frame. But you just KNOW it’s there.
Unless the quotes are wrong, Nehlen sounds like Duke, not Trump.
Apparently you did. Paul Nehlen read a book, therefore anti-semite.
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