Newest Newspeak

Hate is love ... peace through violence ... suppressing free speech is Constitutional ... being attacked is incitement ... denouncing the KKK is racist ... rioting is peace-loving ... castigating neo-Nazi is anti-Semitic ... killing cops is justified payback ... enforcing immigration law is xenophobic ... embracing Afro-American leaders is racism ... refuting fake media news is anti-American ... black-masked fascism is patriotic ... fighting terrorism is Islamophobic ... telling it like it is, is lying -- some of the newest Newspeak

Liberal Logical Leap

Conservative = Nationalist = White Separatist = Racist =  Anti-Semite = neo-Nazi

The Antifas

Antifas at Berkeley

David Duke, the KKK, neo-Nazis, and generic white nationalist organizations have been denounced and disavowed over and over again by Trump. In fact the liberal media can't seem to hear such repudiations enough times. Even the briefest hiatus in these incessant denunciations means to the fake news media that Trump has suddenly become of those who he had previously castigated.

In the recent Charlottesville confrontation there was serious evidence of mayhem on both sides (later, including an act of domestic terrorism.) One side, the alt-right ... supposedly the real white-nationalist daemons, were some KKKers, some neo-Nazis and a smattering of other conservative groups. Opposed to them were the alt-left, made up of Antifas (short for anti-fascists), Black Lives Matter, other (Soros-funded?) groups and some local protesters.

In a strange twist, Jason Kessler, the organizer of the alt-right side of these demonstration had also been involved in the Occupy Wall Street uprisings ... see: Breitbart Story.

Pictured above are the Antifas in their black outfits, some body armor and black face masks. In this case, they supposedly were also wearing some helmets and carrying bats and 2x4s. One account of this confrontation had the alt-righties protesting ... with a permit ... the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in his memorial park. Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe chose then to revoke their permit and commanded them to disperse. Three sides of this park had been enclosed by the police and the only exit was through the fourth side where the alt-left thugs were waiting. The alt-right were forced to run this gauntlet where many of the injuries occurred. Even a NY Times reporter verified this mayhem in a tweet ... before retracting it ... see: Daily Wire Story

 Tuesday night Charles Krauthammer said that Trump's press conference remarks earlier that day were "morally repugnant" ... despite the fact that they were pretty much accurate. I guess I must also be a pariah because all I heard Trump saying was the truth as I understood it ... and I have always thought the the truth was the moral high ground. Is the president always to bend the the established media narrative? Even when that narrative is slanted and designed to smear the president and his party? Trump will not buy this judgment ... even when a sometimes ally as Krauthammer thinks otherwise.

Bottom line: We should condemn and decry the Left's Gestapo tactics with the same vigor that we do so for the Right. President Trump's mistake is that he appears to be backing off his condemnation of the alt-right because of the media's gentle treatment of the alt-left. I don't think he is, but this is the media's narrative.

Nasty Nazi?

The media is working up a sweat trying to brand Donald Trump's new Chief Strategic Adviser, Steve Bannon, as a racist, anti-semite and white supremacist (neo-Nazi if you will).  And if you didn't know much about this man, before he became the head of Breitbart.com, he produced and/or directed 18 mostly documentary movies often centering on conservative subjects. So a story in Politico by Adam Wren who binge-watched all of Bannon's movies and wrote about his experience caught my attention ... see: Politico Article.

You can read this hop scotch, highly-hip and overly written analysis if you wish, but there is one passage that captured my attention. I can save your slogging through the entire rest of this word safari by just reproducing this revelation below:

But one thing I was sure of was that the Bannon that emerges in his documentaries is occasionally a contradiction from the Bannon we’ve come to know in recent months. For as much gnashing of teeth as there’s been about Bannon’s white nationalist ties, his documentaries largely steer clear of racial themes, though most of his subjects and talking heads are white Christians. There was Shelby Steele, the Hoover Institution fellow who calls himself a “black conservative.” In “Generation Zero,” Steele wonders how “white guilt” contributed to the financial crisis. “Since the 60s, white Americans have been in a place where they constantly have to prove that they are not racist,” he says. “It is that phenomenon of white guilt that presses people in the government to say things like ‘Everybody has a right to a house.’ Unfortunately, capitalism doesn’t work like that.”

Now would Bannon give such a film spotlight to this black thinker, Shelby Steele, if he were a white supremacist?