Showing posts with label Stephen Bannon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Bannon. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2016

So what is going on with Donald Trump and Mitt Romney and this Secretary of State Nomination?


The most obvious explanation is an influence struggle between Vice President Elect Mike Pence (who is reported to favor Romney) and Stephen Bannon and Kellyanne Conway (who don't). President Elect Trump respects both opinions. There were reports Rudy Giuliani was a lock for the job. And then again talk of Petraeus (and a Trump Tower visit but another Petraeus investigation(?)). While an insider struggle like this is not unusual, it seems odd (and a bit disconcerting) that this debate would be so public.  


Update: 
Heat Street: Row over Romney Exposes Cracks  Interesting article, if true. Heat Street is saying that Bannon and Reince are upset with Kellyanne. YMMV.  




Hmmm (yes Rebekah Mercer does look like Tina Fey)


Hot Air: Hmmm & Soon
Legal Insurrection: Hmmm
DaTechGuy/JD Rucker: Hmmm
RedState: It's a theory, but seems clouded by #NeverTrumperism but then again there is this



ZeroHedge: Trump Reportedly "Furious" Over Kellyanne Conway's "Rogue" Comments About Mitt Romney

Instapundit: Scott Adams: Trump Talent Stack, It's A Trap, Cabinet of Rivals?, Scott Adams (reprograming the anti-Trumper): Trump is not a racist (and you should read this article)

Bloomberg: Trump to Meet Petraeus as Secretary of State Fight Continues

Wombat: JustOneMinute: An Unexpectedly Positive Appraisal of Stephen Bannon

Thursday, November 17, 2016

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


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 WellThe Cult of Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison and DNC's AntisemitismKeith "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

Hollywood Reporter