Breitbart isnt just a publication. Its a pestilence.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

To President-elect Donald Trump, Breitbart News — the racist, sexist and all-around offensive website once overseen by his campaign chairman and designated White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon — is “just a publication.”

Breitbart’s editors and writers, Trump told the New York Times, “cover stories like you cover stories.” Granted, Trump said, “they are certainly a much more conservative paper, to put it mildly, than the New York Times. But Breitbart really is a news organization that’s become quite successful, and it’s got readers and it does cover subjects that are on the right, but it covers subjects on the left also. I mean it’s a pretty big, it’s a pretty big thing. And he [Bannon] helped build it into a pretty successful news organization.”

Referring to Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Trump observed, “I mean, I could say that Arthur is alt-right because they covered an alt-right story.”

No, no, no. The notion that Breitbart is “just a publication,” like the Times but just several notches to the right, is untrue and unacceptable. There are any number of conservative publications and websites that would fit that description.

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So, Breitbart is racist. Two weeks after white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine African Americans at a Charleston, S.C., church — after Trump’s choice for U.N. ambassador, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, called for the Confederate battle flag’s removal from the statehouse grounds — Breitbart ran an article under the headline, “Hoist it high and proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage.” The Confederacy, the article argued, “was not a callous conspiracy to enforce slavery, but a patriotic and idealistic cause for which 490,000 men were killed, wounded or taken captive.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/breitbart-isnt-just-a-publication-its-a-pestilence/2016/11/23/949618d2-b1b9-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html?utm_term=.fdc497acf7e1&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments

[superpatriotman]

1. My wife is reading the Times interview aloud

While I'm making dinner.

It is hilarious. You can editorialize practically at the end of every incoherent, babbling sentence.

[cannabis_flower]

2. Yes, agreed

It's not much different than what happened in Rwanda before the genocide. There was a radio station that was spewing hate on highly entertaining shows the racist propaganda.

"Widely listened to by the general population, it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded by many Rwandan citizens (a view also shared and expressed by the UN war crimes tribunal) as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur. A study by a Harvard University researcher estimates that 9.9% of the participation in the genocidal violence was due to the broadcasts. The estimate of the study suggests that approximately 51,000 deaths were caused by the station's broadcasts.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines

[Initech]

3. First they came for the press.