Bannon may not be the right guy as chief strategist in the WH

[Auld Phart]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

but....Harry Reid said he was!


and EVERYONE knows how honest Harry is

 

[SassyIrishLass]

His politics, per the organizations he promotes and started - are hardly conventional nor, until now, were those views legitimized.

Utter bullshit.

You put together a string of hate sites like the SPLC (Klan with a tan) and DailyNEWs who are renowned for their hatred of anyone right of Mao.You put up the typical leftist slander job and expect to be taken seriously.

You learned NOTHING in this election. IF you Communists EVER want to be back in power, you need to drop the hate and try dealing with people honestly. WE are sick of your bigotry and lies.

"alt-right" just means someone who DARED to not back Hillary.

The left STILL hasn't figured out why they lost and have been losing....and will continue to lose unless they change tactics. America is onto them and their game

 

[tinydancer]

During a vicious custody battle and divorce his EX <meanspirited bitch from hell >WIFE claimed he was anti Jew. BTW the girls attended that school no problemo.

The anti-semitic claims came from more than the jut the divorce (assuming SHE is the evil one....)

Tell me lefties. Considering Ivanka and Jared and their children are Jews do you really really believe Trump would have Bannon any where near them? Just when I didn't think the left could get any lower, they do it again by sliming a man just because of his politics.

the hypocrisy is...astounding.

His politics, per the organizations he promotes and started - are hardly conventional nor, until now, were those views legitimized.

What are you talking about? Seriously. And his wife was a bitch during the divorce. That's natural. And it's a moment in time. But when you call someone a white nationalist anti semite, you better back it up.

Those are serious charges.

Pfft coyote views herself as a protected class.

Dumb and a democrat.

Vs Retarded and Republican?

Totally off topic but love your avatar.

As to calling someone a white nationalist/anti-semite - look at the movements he is heavily involved in.

He's not involved in any movement. Except to be part of the campaign Team for Trump. He was simply the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News. Before that he was in finance and media. He's led no movements.

 

[Coyote]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

disprove what? your lies? why, you published for all to see. lie after lie.

Ok. So you can't disprove it. All you can do is throw out your silly one-liners.

Let's see. Has Bannon distanced himself in anyway from the his extremists....

 

[charwin95]

We have racist elect president and his right hand man is also a racist. That is just wonderful.
Congratulations White Supremacist are celebrating. At the same time facing backlash from several groups.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...itics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/index.html


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...backlash-steve-bannon-donald-trump/index.html

The Southern Poverty Law Center
"What this signals is Donald Trump bringing hatred of immigrants and Muslims, and misogyny directly into the White House," Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center told CNN on Monday. "It is a disaster."

In a broader attack Sunday, SPLC President Richard Cohen underlined Bannon's close ties to the "alt-right," a loose association of right-wing trolls and white nationalists who operate mostly online and have proliferated on Twitter, where they routinely harass women and minorities.

"In his victory speech, Trump pledged to be the president for 'all Americans' and to 'bind the wounds of division' in our country, " Cohen said. "Appointing someone like Bannon, who will have the president-elect's ear every single day, makes a mockery of that pledge."

The Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted a statement saying it was "a sad day when a man who presided over the premier website of the 'alt right' -- a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists -- is slated to be a senior staff member in the 'people's house.'"

The Council on American-Islamic Relations
The Council on American-Islamic Relations also asked that Trump reject Bannon, calling his elevation to a powerful White House role a "disturbing message that anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and White nationalist ideology will be welcome in the White House."

"We urge President-elect Trump to reconsider this ill-advised appointment if he truly seeks to unite Americans," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

People For the American Way
As the tensions escalated Monday, People For the American Way President Michael Keegan joined the chorus contesting Bannon's new role, and called on the Capitol Hill GOP to join.

"Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and 'equal partner' to Trump's Chief of Staff," he said. "This isn't about partisan politics; no one with Bannon's record should be anywhere near the White House."

IfNotNow and other liberal organizers and activists

While the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, would not weigh in, citing "a long-standing policy of not taking positions on presidential appointments," smaller Jewish groups registered their concern.

"The Bannon appointment is a signal to the Jewish community that we are not safe in a Trump administration," Yonah Lieberman, an organizer with IfNotNow told CNN. "This is a clear sign that they will not be friendly toward to the Jewish community and a direct threat to our allies, including Muslims and people of color."

IfNotUs, another progressive millennial activist group, also weighed in.
"Steve Bannon is an anti-Semite and out fascist, and his appointment to one of the most powerful positions in the White House is an incredibly dangerous indication of where is our democracy headed," organizer Max Berger told CNN. "Trump has made various extreme statements during the campaign and his appointment of a white supremacist nationalist to be his chief strategist is an indication of just how extreme he would be as president."
Rebecca Katz, a former top aide to Reid and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said Trump's pick was a "horrendous error in judgment," but also further evidence of a lowered standard for this president-elect.
"Donald Trump has a white nationalist who will be just steps away from the Oval Office," she told CNN. "And no one is asking him to apologize because no one expects him to."

Congressional Democrats

The office of Minority Leader Harry Reid, the outgoing Nevada Senator, said Trump's choice of Bannon to serve as a co-equal to Priebus indicated that "White Supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump's White House."

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi echoed Reid, saying in a statement that the hire was a sign that Trump had no plans to divert from the "hateful and divisive vision that defined his campaign."

"There must be no sugarcoating the reality that a white nationalist has been named chief strategist for the Trump administration," she said.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, also called on Trump to pull back Bannon's appointment.

"After running a campaign built on inciting divisions and hate, Donald Trump has claimed he wants to unite America," he said in a statement. "Yet he has done nothing meaningful to stop the wave of hate crimes and hate speech he has unleashed, and now has brought that strategy right into the Oval Office."

 

[Auld Phart]

The one thing that can be said about Trumps campaign is that it legitimized and gave a platform to a group that has been largely despised and marginalized. They saw something in Trump that resonated.

However....it's one thing to grant that legitimacy in a campaign and quite another to install it officially in your White House. In a very unusual move, Bannon is being given equal authority to WH Chief of Staff Pribus.

Stephen Bannon, leader of the "alt-right" movement, will now give that fringe group even greater national legitimacy then it had during the campaign.

How does this fit with traditional Republican conservatives...? Not very easily.

This was from August, from a former Brietbart writer:

The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP

Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.​

From: Stephen Bannon's appointment met with criticism

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, released a statement on Twitter congratulating Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus' appointment to White House chief of staff, but also denouncing Bannons' appointment.

"It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premiere website of the 'alt right' — a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists — is slated to be a senior staff member in the 'people's house,'" Greenblatt said in the statement. "We call on President-elect Trump to appoint and nominate Americans committed to the well-being of all our country's people and who exemplify the values of pluralism and tolerance that make our country great."

Other organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the Southern Poverty Law Center, made similar comments.​

Bannon inexorably bound with alt-right, this is not some ideology from his past coming back to bite him, this is his present and this is his present relationship with Trump.

So who is Bannon?
Well, he doesn't like Muslims: He was a big promoter of anti-Muslim extremists, hosing a radio show that show cased their views. He was instrumental in creating an online haven for the propagation of white supremacist wish lists including the legitimization of all kinds of anti-muslim conspiracy theories.

Nor does he much like Jews:
Trump campaign CEO Bannon complained of Jews at daughters' school

(but according to Gingrich that can't possibly be true because he's worked with Goldman Sachs and Hollywood....)

Well, he doesn't think much of blacks. He tries to differentiate himself from the average skinhead by claiming that the alt-right represents a SMARTER, MORE EDUCATED group of people...ok, so he's Smarter-Than-The-Average-Racist. Whatever that means.

And Bannon has made no attempt to distance himself from his creations in any way shape or form.

This is who will have EQUAL power to the Chief of Staff. How long do you think Pribus will stay?

we're sorry, was trump supposed to pass every one of his choices through you?

Are you saying we aren't allowed an opinion? hmmm....guess that's going to be the new world order according to the Trumpettes

Seemed to be a large number on the left that didn't want those on the right to have opinions the last 8 years.

dont' like payback?

 

[jc456]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

disprove what? your lies? why, you published for all to see. lie after lie.

Ok. So you can't disprove it. All you can do is throw out your silly one-liners.

Let's see. Has Bannon distanced himself in anyway from the his extremists....

why does he need to, cause you say so?

 

[g5000]

As the head of the Alt Right, he embodies the white supremacism that infuses the movement.

He is also anti-Mormon to the bone, and I suspect he is generally anti-Christian as well.

"Mormon friends, the Trump White House's new chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, in addition to championing the "alt-right" (white nationalists) also seems to be an anti-Mormon. He attacked Mitt Romney's sons for serving missions and his website, Breitbart, published an attack on the Church because of its stance on religious freedom and advocacy for humane approaches to immigration reform.

This guy is likely bad news for us and is definitely bad news for America.



Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon

Trump's new chief White House strategist, Stephen Bannon, was the executive…"

WASHINGTONPOST.COM|BY JOSE A. DELREAL

All we hear is that he is "alt right" from the standard players, with little to back it up other than "well we say he is, neener neener"

Wrong. Bannon himself said he was alt-right.

 

[g5000]

"We're the platform for the alt-right," Bannon told me proudly when I interviewed him at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July. Though disavowed by every other major conservative news outlet, the alt-right has been Bannon's target audience ever since he took over Breitbart News from its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, four years ago. Under Bannon's leadership, the site has plunged into the fever swamps of conservatism, cheering white nationalist groups as an "eclectic mix of renegades," accusing President Barack Obama of importing "more hating Muslims," and waging an incessant war against the purveyors of "political correctness."

How Donald Trump's campaign chief created an online haven for white nationalists

 

[tinydancer]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

disprove what? your lies? why, you published for all to see. lie after lie.

Ok. So you can't disprove it. All you can do is throw out your silly one-liners.

Let's see. Has Bannon distanced himself in anyway from the his extremists....

Coyote. Bannon is not part of Alternative Right. He has no extremists to back away from. And apart from a wife who in the middle of a divorce and custody battle decided to turn him into an anti Semite all of a sudden there is no evidence whatsoever that he's an anti Semite.

These charges are false.

 

[paulitician]

Another Clinton Bootlicker who didn't get the memo. They still think their opinions are relevant. This OP hates Trump and supported the corrupt witch and her rapist husband.

Yet, he or she actually believes their opinions on such things matter. They still haven't accepted the fact they aren't calling the shots anymore. Hussein and Hitlery are done. It's over. It's our turn to be above the law. And that's that.

 

[Coyote]

The one thing that can be said about Trumps campaign is that it legitimized and gave a platform to a group that has been largely despised and marginalized. They saw something in Trump that resonated.

However....it's one thing to grant that legitimacy in a campaign and quite another to install it officially in your White House. In a very unusual move, Bannon is being given equal authority to WH Chief of Staff Pribus.

Stephen Bannon, leader of the "alt-right" movement, will now give that fringe group even greater national legitimacy then it had during the campaign.

How does this fit with traditional Republican conservatives...? Not very easily.

This was from August, from a former Brietbart writer:

The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP

Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.​

From: Stephen Bannon's appointment met with criticism

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, released a statement on Twitter congratulating Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus' appointment to White House chief of staff, but also denouncing Bannons' appointment.

"It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premiere website of the 'alt right' — a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists — is slated to be a senior staff member in the 'people's house,'" Greenblatt said in the statement. "We call on President-elect Trump to appoint and nominate Americans committed to the well-being of all our country's people and who exemplify the values of pluralism and tolerance that make our country great."

Other organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the Southern Poverty Law Center, made similar comments.​

Bannon inexorably bound with alt-right, this is not some ideology from his past coming back to bite him, this is his present and this is his present relationship with Trump.

So who is Bannon?
Well, he doesn't like Muslims: He was a big promoter of anti-Muslim extremists, hosing a radio show that show cased their views. He was instrumental in creating an online haven for the propagation of white supremacist wish lists including the legitimization of all kinds of anti-muslim conspiracy theories.

Nor does he much like Jews:
Trump campaign CEO Bannon complained of Jews at daughters' school

(but according to Gingrich that can't possibly be true because he's worked with Goldman Sachs and Hollywood....)

Well, he doesn't think much of blacks. He tries to differentiate himself from the average skinhead by claiming that the alt-right represents a SMARTER, MORE EDUCATED group of people...ok, so he's Smarter-Than-The-Average-Racist. Whatever that means.

And Bannon has made no attempt to distance himself from his creations in any way shape or form.

This is who will have EQUAL power to the Chief of Staff. How long do you think Pribus will stay?

we're sorry, was trump supposed to pass every one of his choices through you?

Are you saying we aren't allowed an opinion? hmmm....guess that's going to be the new world order according to the Trumpettes

Seemed to be a large number on the left that didn't want those on the right to have opinions the last 8 years.

dont' like payback?

Oh really? Pardon me if I can't recall just when I told someone they had no right to pass an opinion on an Obama appointment.

In the meantime, I'll enjoy watching your side trash this country with appointments like Bannon. Except I won't enjoy it. There are certainly plenty of decent picks out there (not sure why you feel it necessary to defend everyone of them to the death) - Bannon is pure crap. And that isn't just a partisan opinion. Even Glenn Beck, one of your long time icons is saying the same thing.

 

[Avatar4321]

By the way Richard Spencer and Colin Lidell will be shocked to know they are no longer founders and leaders of Alt right. Man oh man.

I'm confused is the alt right fictional or are these the real leaders of it?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

disprove what? your lies? why, you published for all to see. lie after lie.

Ok. So you can't disprove it. All you can do is throw out your silly one-liners.

Let's see. Has Bannon distanced himself in anyway from the his extremists....

Coyote. Bannon is not part of Alternative Right. He has no extremists to back away from. And apart from a wife who in the middle of a divorce and custody battle decided to turn him into an anti Semite all of a sudden there is no evidence whatsoever that he's an anti Semite.

These charges are false.

I find it interesting many on the left are whining because he's "supposedly" an anti Semite....while the left is notoriously anti Semite

 

[Auld Phart]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

Disprove gossip and innuendo?

Wouldn't it be better if you could actually prove it, with facts, not word of mouth?

 

[tinydancer]

Would Ivanka or Jared work with an anti Semite? Really lefties give your heads a shake here. Would Trump with a Jewish daughter and son in law hire an anti Semite?

 

[Coyote]

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

disprove what? your lies? why, you published for all to see. lie after lie.

Ok. So you can't disprove it. All you can do is throw out your silly one-liners.

Let's see. Has Bannon distanced himself in anyway from the his extremists....

Coyote. Bannon is not part of Alternative Right. He has no extremists to back away from. And apart from a wife who in the middle of a divorce and custody battle decided to turn him into an anti Semite all of a sudden there is no evidence whatsoever that he's an anti Semite.

These charges are false.

Bannon is closely associated with alt-right and white supremicists. He's hosted them on his radio show, and given them an online haven. Many Jews are highly uncomfortable with him, as are many blacks and Muslims, and those feelings seems to run across the political spectrum.

 

[Coyote]

Oh stop with the bullshit that Bannon is a white nationalist and an anti semite. It's a lie.

How so?

something that isn't fact. called a lie.

Cool. Disprove then.

Disprove gossip and innuendo?

Wouldn't it be better if you could actually prove it, with facts, not word of mouth?

It's in my OP. Not sure why I should offer more evidence then you guys typically offer ups as proof.

 

[paulitician]

Ha, more butt-hurt gibberish. Memo to Clinton Bootlicker wankers... You ain't calling the shots anymore. Your opinions are irrelevant. Trump will do what he wants, when he wants. It's his turn to be above the law. You have no say. Deal with it.

 

[jc456]

The one thing that can be said about Trumps campaign is that it legitimized and gave a platform to a group that has been largely despised and marginalized. They saw something in Trump that resonated.

However....it's one thing to grant that legitimacy in a campaign and quite another to install it officially in your White House. In a very unusual move, Bannon is being given equal authority to WH Chief of Staff Pribus.

Stephen Bannon, leader of the "alt-right" movement, will now give that fringe group even greater national legitimacy then it had during the campaign.

How does this fit with traditional Republican conservatives...? Not very easily.

This was from August, from a former Brietbart writer:

The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP

Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.​

From: Stephen Bannon's appointment met with criticism

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, released a statement on Twitter congratulating Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus' appointment to White House chief of staff, but also denouncing Bannons' appointment.

"It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premiere website of the 'alt right' — a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists — is slated to be a senior staff member in the 'people's house,'" Greenblatt said in the statement. "We call on President-elect Trump to appoint and nominate Americans committed to the well-being of all our country's people and who exemplify the values of pluralism and tolerance that make our country great."

Other organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the Southern Poverty Law Center, made similar comments.​

Bannon inexorably bound with alt-right, this is not some ideology from his past coming back to bite him, this is his present and this is his present relationship with Trump.

So who is Bannon?
Well, he doesn't like Muslims: He was a big promoter of anti-Muslim extremists, hosing a radio show that show cased their views. He was instrumental in creating an online haven for the propagation of white supremacist wish lists including the legitimization of all kinds of anti-muslim conspiracy theories.

Nor does he much like Jews:
Trump campaign CEO Bannon complained of Jews at daughters' school

(but according to Gingrich that can't possibly be true because he's worked with Goldman Sachs and Hollywood....)

Well, he doesn't think much of blacks. He tries to differentiate himself from the average skinhead by claiming that the alt-right represents a SMARTER, MORE EDUCATED group of people...ok, so he's Smarter-Than-The-Average-Racist. Whatever that means.

And Bannon has made no attempt to distance himself from his creations in any way shape or form.

This is who will have EQUAL power to the Chief of Staff. How long do you think Pribus will stay?

we're sorry, was trump supposed to pass every one of his choices through you?

Are you saying we aren't allowed an opinion? hmmm....guess that's going to be the new world order according to the Trumpettes

Seemed to be a large number on the left that didn't want those on the right to have opinions the last 8 years.

dont' like payback?

Oh really? Pardon me if I can't recall just when I told someone they had no right to pass an opinion on an Obama appointment.

In the meantime, I'll enjoy watching your side trash this country with appointments like Bannon. Except I won't enjoy it. There are certainly plenty of decent picks out there (not sure why you feel it necessary to defend everyone of them to the death) - Bannon is pure crap. And that isn't just a partisan opinion. Even Glenn Beck, one of your long time icons is saying the same thing.

so just curious, did obamacare get passed in open chambers or behind closed doors? your answer is important here.