Its Breitbarts White House now: House organ of the alt-right builds

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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/its-breitbarts-white-house-now-house-organ-of-the-alt-right-builds-a-power-base-in-the-west-wing/

By Gary Legumes at Salon

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Media Matters has a rundown on some of Gorka’s greatest hits. The Fox News contributor has what sane people have long considered fringe views in the mode of noted Islamophobe Frank Gaffney. Among other things, Gorka has pushed the idea that former president Barack Obama was “sympathetic to Islamic terrorists” and blamed incidents like last year’s Orlando nightclub massacre on the “political correctness” that Gorka thinks blinded the last administration to threats from radical Muslims.

Hahn, meanwhile, has spent much of her time at Breitbart chasing House Speaker Paul Ryan and any other Republican who has not shown sufficient fealty to the ravings published by the site’s stable of paranoid and terrified right-wing nationalists, in service to policies like cracking down on immigration and banning Muslims from entering the country. In doing so, she has used the usual buzzwords to viciously denigrate more mainstream Republicans (Eric Cantor is a “discredited globalist”) and once blatantly misstated math from a study to attack Ryan’s position on immigrant quotas. When challenged on her calculations by New York’s Ed Kilgore, she accused him of being an “apologist for female genital mutilation.”

All together now: She sounds nice.

With Bannon in the West Wing, it was inevitable that the administration would bring in a few of the propagators of the racist, isolationist, nativist swill that over the last few years has made Breitbart the go-to “news” site for the sort of white people who berate Mexican restaurants for printing their menus in Spanish. But even recognizing the likelihood that Bannon would poach some of his former employees was not enough preparation for the head-spinning ugliness we will likely hear on a daily basis from a fully Breitbart-ized White House.

And it’s not just Breitbart that is being brought into the White House fold. Similar fringe sites that push conspiracy theories are also gaining a place in the White House press room and being accorded the attention of new press secretary Sean Spicer. At Tuesday’s briefing, the first question went to Laura Ingraham’s crackpot site Lifezette, which had just finished scrubbing a video implying that Bill and Hillary Clinton might have had several close associates murdered. Last week it was announced that the Gateway Pundit, another right-wing funhouse full of race-baiting hysteria and conspiracy theories, will have a correspondent among the White House press corps for the first time.



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[OKNancy]

1. exactly - They are Rasputin to the dim-witted tsar...I mean Trump

Trump is a dumbass, egotist who is being flattered by the Breitbart crew, just like Rasputin
Trumpy loves some woo-woo and conspiracy. Bannon feeds that crap to him.