The Borking of Bannon: The New York Times Tries...

Instapundit: Ira Stoll: The Borking of Bannon

The effort by the Times to depict Mr. Bannon as the second coming of Adolph Hitler and David Duke initially struck me as odd. I say that primarily because when my book JFK, Conservative came out, Mr. Bannon had me on his radio show. He was gracious, friendly and supportive. He’d clearly read the book, which has plenty of material about Kennedy and Israel and the Soviet Jews, and which doesn’t exactly leave it a mystery where I am coming from on those issues. I assume he realized I was Jewish from my biography indicating past work for the Forward and the Jerusalem Post. 

In the past few days, additional testimony and information has emerged. Ben Shapiro, a critic of Breitbart‘s who left the site with some acrimony, nevertheless wrote: “I have no evidence that Bannon’s a racist or that he’s an anti-Semite; the Huffington Post’s blaring headline ‘WHITE NATIONALIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE’ is overstated, at the very least.” No mention of that in the New York Times.

Of course as DaTechGuy notes, the real reason of this coordinated attack on Bannon is obvious: Bannon helped Trump win. And Bannon is giving Trump the ability to go around the media.  

For all the media hyperventilating and bombastic rhetoric about Bannon, there is nothing said by the media about proposed DNC Chair Keith Ellison's ties to Antisemites. The partisan hypocrisy of all of this handwringing by the New York Times is pathetic.  

EBL: The Left Is Not Taking Trump's Victory Well, The Cult of Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison and DNC's Antisemitism, Keith "Frisky" Olbermann

Instapundit: Roger Kimball: The Bannon Boogeyman, So Harry Reid is giving advice to Donald Trump?, David Goldman: Why the big lie about Stephen Bannon?

Rush Limbaugh: Lighthearted stories of Liberal Hysteria, Trump's Cabinet Could Be More Conservative Than Anyone Ever Imagined, Trump Transition: Get Ready To Kick Ass

Wombat: DaTechGuy: 15 Million Reasons Why The Media are Demonizing Bannon and Mark Steyn: Advice for the loyal opposition

TOM: There are still five A's in RAAAAACIST , Feminst Tumblr Political Analysis

Legal Insurrection: Ellison's Ties To Anti Israel Groups and Bonkers over Bannon

Powerline: Ten Years on the Ellison Case

Regular Right Guy: Weeping Dems

AmPowerBlog: Coulter: Screw you

Breitbart: ADL Backs Down

Powerline: Bannon and Me

Dennis Prager: It's Libel

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