Why I Created the Steve Bannon Wiki Page Three Years Ago and What It Means Now
Talk radio was the Breitbart.com, the Tea Party, the Trump Train before any of that existed. That's why I focused on it for many years, including hosting a radio program dedicated to exposing the kind of reality-reversing lies, conspiracy theory and white supremacist polemic that is now set to reach the White House.
Stephen Bannon and his running of the Breitbart fake news hatesite appeared on my radar while researching the background of Ben Shapiro, then a Breitbart mainstay, after he had a guest spot on a national talk radio program. That's when I started the Wikipedia Bannon page three years ago.
It had slipped from my mind until a few days after the 2016 election, when I started getting email notifications that the Wiki page was undergoing a flurry of link activity after Bannon was named Trump’s chief advisor, his Karl Rove, his John Podesta.
About the time I created the page, it was becoming obvious that Internet sites like Breitbart were vying with talk radio in terms of effective hate-propaganda and fake news, though I think talk radio is still a major factor and arguably still the dominant one. It’s like the gateway drug. People regularly become exposed to and hooked on it when stuck in their daily commute; afterwards they seek out Breitbart and the other right wing fake news media. (Ur-nationalist and arch-misogynist Rush Limbaugh is still beamed at the captive audience of Armed Forces radio, paid by tax dollars.)
But hatesites had become ubiquitous and
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