So we’ve been told to “wait” and give the new President-elect a “chance.” What people saying this haven’t yet explained is exactly when do we get to determine that our new xenophobe-in-chief has completely totally blown it?
They way I see it, less than a week after the election, he’s more than halfway to blown-city already starting with his selection of Steve Bannon for White House Adviser, co-equal to Chief of Staff Reince Preibus. So of course the plethora of sycophants surrogates attempting to play “These are not the deplorables you’ve been looking for….” are sadly and pathetically out in full force trying to reshape reality into a mobius strip of endless fraktitude.
Thanks to Donald Trump and his marvelous temperament and judgement we have hours and hours of this to look forward too. Wherein Kayleigh McEnany yet again tries to Trumpsplain away the obvious.
Jones added the importance of discussing the seriousness of having an “anti-Jewish bigot being put in the inner circle of the president?”
He continued, “It doesn’t make any sense. We’ve got to continue to have a serious debate about the direction of our country and that includes talking about who’s put in the inner circle of the President of the United States.”
That’s when Trump surrogate Kayleigh McEnany chimed in, telling Jones, sure the country can ask questions, “but there is a line between asking a question and labeling someone a racist, which is what Jonathan just did.”
Hey Kayleigh, y’know what’s much worse than “labeling someone a racist”? That someone being a fracking racist and also a close trusted advisor to the President in the White House.
CNN commentator Jonathan Tasini said, “Bannon is a racist and an anti-Semite. He’s at the head of an alt-right movement that is completely anti-American, frankly.”
He added, “You should be ashamed of yourself that you’re justifying what he’s about.” McEnany shot back with a smile, “I’m very proud of this campaign.”
“I know you’re proud and that’s a disgrace,” Tasini shot back.
Yes, it is a disgrace, but not much of a surprise.
Let’s review the facts. Here’s Steve Bannon on Women:
Court documents, also obtained by The New York Post, detailed accusations that Bannon attacked his ex-wife. Divorce paperwork from 1996 states that the media mogul grabbed then-wife Mary Louise Piccard “by the throat and arm,” and threatened “to take the girls [the couple’s twin daughters] and leave.” The case was eventually dismissed because the “victim/witness” was unable to be located, The Cut reported.
Also during the 1990s, Bannon was accused of sexual harassment. The suit related to Bannon's time as director of Biosphere 2, a research facility in Oracle, Arizona. The company’s former director, Margret Augustine, claimed that a financial backer, Edward Bass, had alienated her from a project she was working on. She also claimed, within the same suit, that Bannon and a fellow banker, Martin Bowen had made “sexually suggestive remarks and lewd remarks toward her, and had disparaged female employees of the research facility,” Buzzfeed News reported
Bannon and Breitbart News on the Alt-Right via the SPLC.
Breitbart recently published a lengthy defense of the Alt-Right, claiming the white nationalists such as Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor who created the ideology “have been accused of racism,” choosing to ignore the well-documented openly-racist views.
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Over the past year the media outlet has been openly promoting the core issues of the Alt-Right, introducing these racist ideas to its readership – much to the delight of many in the white nationalist world who could never dream of reaching such a vast number of people.
Breitbart has always given a platform to parts of the radical right, most notably elements of the organized anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant movements. Breitbart has also organized conferences featuring nativist speakers and published op-eds and interviews with movement leaders. But since 2015, Breitbart began publishing more overtly racist diatribes about Muslims and immigrants.
And then there’s “Creeping Sharia” and attacking Pope Francis.
A month earlier, Breitbart published an article resembling a white nationalist screed by longtime anti-immigrant politician Tom Tancredo titled, “Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture.” In it, Tancredo warned about an “epidemic” of rape across Europe and concluded with, “The Muslim rape culture is not a ‘dirty little secret — it is widely recognized as integral to Islam as taught in the Koran and the Hadith. Like honor killings and other parts of Sharia, it will not be wished away. And like honor killings, with massive Muslim immigration on the horizon, it could be coming to a town near you all too soon.”
In September 2015, a piece on the Breitbart website attacked Pope Francis for his comments about the United States welcoming more refugees by invoking the racist novel Camp of the Saints – a popular book in Alt-Right circles.
The book depicts an invasion of France and the white Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees, characterized as horrific and uncivilized "monsters" who will stop at nothing to greedily and violently seize what rightfully belongs to the white man. The Breitbart piece lauded the book and quoted white nationalist Pat Buchanan. Just a month after the Breitbart piece was published, white nationalist Derek Turner published a similar piece titled, “The Camp of the Saints: Where Literature and Life Collide” for Radix, one of the most prominent Alt-Right websites, run by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
But now that Bannon has been named as a senior advisor to President-Elect Pepe, the right and conservatives have had to jin up a ton of excuses and dodges for this obviously problematic situation. They are attempting to make you not believe your lying eyes when they tell you this man is a bigot and a racist.
First there’s the claim that because Bannon was not one of the writers, and was just merely the CEO who hires and pays all the writers, he isn’t in any way responsible for what they wrote. Yeah, really.
Reince Priebus, who seems to be under the impression that his influence on the President will be equal to Bannon’s (in fact, as New York Times reported, the Trump team put Bannon’s name above Priebus’s in the official statement) defended the pick on NBC’s “Today” show, arguing that since Bannon’s name wasn’t on the offending material, he’s not responsible for the stories.
Um, uh, Bullshit. Particularly when these are some of those stories he didn’t write himself, but just paid for.
Bill Kristol: Republican spoiler, renegade Jew
Lesbian bridezillas bully bridal shop owner over religious beliefs
Teenage boys with tits: Here’s my problem with Ghostbusters
Hoist it high and proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage
There’s no hiring bias against women in tech, they just suck at interviews
Pamela Geller’s Muhammad cartoon contest is no different from Selma
Sympathy for the devils: The plot against Roger Ailes
Gabby Giffords: The gun control movement’s human shield
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy
Roger Stone: Clinton aide Huma Abedin ‘most likely a Saudi spy’
The solution to online ‘harassment’ is simple: Women should log off
The article lambasting Bill Kristol's opposition to Donald Trump because of his temperment argues that Don can't really be all that bad because — Mike Tyson.
This would be fairly damning if the facts were as black and white as Kristol presents them. But as anyone familiar with the sports world would know, Mike Tyson had a dramatic change of heart following his release from prison — rejected the life he had led, repented his past, and committed himself to a course of humility and service to others.
Here is an online news summary of the transformation: “Former boxing champ Mike Tyson has dedicated the rest of his life to caring for others – because he considers himself a ‘pig’ who has ‘wasted’ so many years of his life.”
So, uh, when did Donald Trump have his big moment of repentance exactly? Was it somewhere between saying Judge Curiel was biased because of his Mexican Heritage, “I grab them by the pussy” or “Such a Nasty Woman”?
And of course the article can’t be anti-semetic since the author — one of Bannon’s partners at Brietbart — is also a Jew. Kinda, or so he says.
I am a Jew who has never been to Israel and has never been a Zionist in the sense of believing that Jews can rid themselves of Jew hatred by having their own nation state. But half of world Jewry now lives in Israel, and the enemies whom Obama and Hillary have empowered — Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Hamas — have openly sworn to exterminate the Jews. I am also an American (and an American first), whose country is threatened with destruction by the same enemies. To weaken the only party that stands between the Jews and their annihilation, and between America and the forces intent on destroying her, is a political miscalculation so great and a betrayal so profound as to not be easily forgiven.
Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah,Hamas and ISIS predecessor al Qaeda all predate Obama. Actually so does ISIS since they were formed at Camp Bucca in 2004. The idea that only Republicans seriously oppose them and any Jew who dares to criticize Republicans is a “Renegade” is just fucking disgusting, also stupid, even coming from another Jew.
Unless you’re a Trumpologist thet is.
And then there’s the argument that Bannon couldn’t possibly be like or agree with all the people he employs because he went to Harvard.
“The guy I know is a guy sitting in an office all day yesterday, talking about hiring and in the last few months, this is a guy who has exhibited none of those qualities. Here’s a guy who’s Harvard Business School, he was a 10-year naval officer, London School of Economics, I believe,” the RNC chair told the “Today” show. He is a guy who is very, very smart, very temperate.”
Hey Reince, since you aren’t black, Muslim or a woman — why exactly would he display any of those qualities to you? What makes you think someone who is racist — or more appropriately is a racial bomb-thrower more than willing to deliberately foment Islamophobic hatred and pander to racists for profit (which is frankly WORSE than just being a racist) — is going to go around wearing a “Bigot” sign on his forehead? Real bigots are experts at hiding themselves to avoid civil liability, they very rarely advertise themselves.
Also the (Real) President went to Harvard too, but that didn’t stop people from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh from repeatedly saying he was a racist, because they did.
And still they argue Bannon couldn’t be a racist because he used to work for that noble pillar of honor and decency, Goldman Sachs.
People should look at the full resume,” Conway told reporters at Trump tower, according to Politico. “He has got a Harvard business degree. He’s a naval officer. He has success in entertainment. I don’t know if you’re aware of that. And he certainly was a Goldman Sachs managing partner. Brilliant tactician.”
No one is saying he’s not smart. They’re saying he’s very likely a bigoted asshole.
An asshole whose who clearly can’t be racist or anti-semitic because he’s worked with a “Jew.”
“He’s in partnership over there at Breitbart, the guy he has a partnership with, he’s a Jew. He’s been all Trump, pretty much, even though they pretended for Cruz, but he’s been all Trump, and Trump’s son-in-law’s an Orthodox Jew. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism” ran a post about Levin’s comments on Breitbart.com in defense of their former boss.
“Now, it is true that this alt-right crowd, which I find repulsive, repulsive, has white supremacist leanings and white supremacists in it. I am unaware that Bannon and the rest are part of that movement. It’s not the same thing as the populist movement.
So since he works with Jews, even if they are somewhat Jew-hating Jews as shown above, it’s alright as long as he has never himself done or said anything anti-Semitic. Except for the sworn statement by the ex-wife he brutalized that is.
Stephen Bannon, on leave from his post as head of the alt-right Breitbart News, made anti-Semitic remarks in reference to the student population of a private school his daughters were touring, according to a sworn deposition from his ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, in a 2007 court case. Bannon also faced domestic violence charges in 1996 against the same woman but the charges were later dropped.
Well obviously she was scorned, and had an axe to grind so she casually committed perjury. Some women just do that after you choke and threaten them. They’re funny like that.
Jews and women and Muslims and LGBT and blacks, be unafraid.
Move along, nothing to see here. Kayleigh said so, so it must be true.