The lying dog
The Post reports reactions to Bannon’s appointment:
The announcement has produced intense hand-wringing in Washington and sharp denunciations from political observers and strategists critical of Breitbart News’s close association with the alt-right, a fringe conservative movement saturated with racially insensitive rhetoric and elements of outright white nationalism.
That puts it a good deal too tactfully. Breitbart News is a scurrilous racist hate-mongering rag of a website.
With a white nationalist senior advisor, Trump is not just ignoring the impact of his rhetoric – he is actively terrifying the country.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) November 13, 2016
Nation exhales because white nationalist only gets second most influential job in White House
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 13, 2016
Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart editor who worked closely with Bannon, called him a “legitimately sinister figure” in an article he published on the Daily Wire after Bannon joined the Trump campaign.
“Many former employees of Breitbart News are afraid of Steve Bannon. He is a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies,” Shapiro wrote.
No wonder Pres Pussygrabber likes him. Kindred spirits.
Some of the Trump campaign’s most controversial moves in the final months of the campaign were attributed to Bannon, who is known for his combative and unfiltered style. When Trump, before the second presidential debate, invited several women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to hold a news conference, Bannon stood in the back of the room smiling broadly.
A mean bully.
Bannon’s appointment brings into focus many of the uncomfortable racial tensions surrounding Trump’s campaign, stemming from Trump’s staunch anti-immigrant rhetoric. Throughout the election, Trump’s critics accused him of using such language and the politics of racial grievance to motivate his supporters, charges that he has denied and dismissed. In an interview with CBS’s “60 minutes” that aired Sunday, he expressed surprise when asked about racial slurs that were being used against African Americans and other minority groups since his election.
“I am very surprised to hear that. I hate to hear that, I mean, I hate to hear that,” Trump said in the interview, which was taped Friday. “I would say don’t do it, that’s terrible, because I’m going to bring this country together.”
The lying dog. He spent two years inciting it. He just said the Central Park 5 were guilty, years after DNA evidence clearly demonstrated that they weren’t. He doesn’t “hate to hear that” in the slightest.
Because if you are accused of sexual misconduct, the way to prove it isn’t true is to find someone else who was accused of sexual misconduct? Or is that just to show it’s okay?
No, stranger than that. Because if a man is accused of sexual misconduct, we can blame his wife for his behavior, and that means you shouldn’t elect her president, you should elect the man who has even more allegations of sexual misconduct wracked up.
I’m sure Trump’s misconduct was the fault of Ivana…and Marla….and Melania….and whoever comes next, when Melania is too old to interest this 70-year old man any longer.
He may actually hate hearing it. It’s very common for people to revile something in others that are perfectly ok with in themselves. It is possible to justify in yourself what you don’t accept in others. Most people are blind to this behavior. having said that, when you are in the position to cause or allow others to have bad behavior, it no longer matters how you feel about it. The private has been made public and others are affected by it. It does no good to say i didn’t mean to kill, the dead are just as dead and it does no good to say you don’t like hearing that people are racist when you’ve just spent over a year fostering and validating every form of racism possible and are in the position to institutionalize it.
@1: I heard Charlie Pickering describe that stuff (smearing Bill Clinton that way) as a deliberate strategy to neutralize Bill’s power as a surrogate. “Imagine if Bill Clinton” (the thinking goes) “had been deployed to Rust Belt states—where he can talk the talk—in the weeks before the election.”
Yes, Ben, but Trump was using it deliberately against Clinton herself, as were a number of others. She was “an enabler”. She was too “cold” (as if that is carte blanche for her husband to do anything he wants to anyone he wants). She wasn’t “nice” to his mistresses (I did see some people actually accuse her of dragging them through the mud, which would be a more reasonable claim in terms of being questionable behavior) as though a woman is supposed to greet her husband’s mistresses as sisters and friends.
I never read much about Bill being a surrogate. Everything I read about it seemed to be more about Hillary being a bad wife.