Trump and Breitbart Payola

[warrprayer]

"The Trump campaign criticism on American media outlets has largely spared Breitbart News, and Breitbart rarely posts negatively about the Republican candidate. BuzzFeed reported in August 2015 that, according to multiple anonymous staffers of Breitbart News, Donald Trump paid to be featured favorably on the news site.

According to Buzzfeeds Mckay Coppins, who reported the story as part of his book covering the GOPs fight for the West Wing, reports four sources indicated that both editors and writers at Breitbart complained about the extent and focus on positive Trump coverage, and:

… a conservative communications operative who works closely with Breitbart described conversations in which “multiple writers and editors” said Trump was paying for the ability to shape coverage, and added that one staffer claimed to have seen documentation of the “pay for play.”

The charge was denied by Bannon himself."

http://heavy.com/news/2016/08/steve-stephen-bannon-breitbart-donald-trump-bio-family-kids-age/

So the head of Breitbart is now Trumps manager. Publicly now, he was likely at least partly at the helm from the beginning.

Not someone to be taken lightly, crafty and unprincipled. A dangerous operator.

[BlueStreak]

1. So much for the idea of broadening his appeal

Seems like Trump has doubled down on the "asshole effect".

That is going to alienate more voters than it attracts.

[womanofthehills]

7. "Right Wing Intolerant Mean-Spirited News"

"Right Wing Intolerant Mean-Spirited News" does not quite roll off the tongue like Breitbart News. But that's what Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol would have the conservative organization, whose top executive temporarily stepped down Wednesday to lead Donald Trump's campaign, renamed."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/kristol-new-name-breitbart-news-227104#ixzz4HbEcW8uP
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[warrprayer]

9. Great description of Breitbart

Thanks!

[BlueStreak]

10. Otherwise known as Krystol's Bro

You don't get to pick the people you associate with. When you run with pigs, you are known as a pig. People don't bother to try to differentiate between really muddy pigs and pigs that aren't quite as muddy.

[warrprayer]

13. I wish it was a pig

This is more like a crocodile.
They lay in mud too.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Breitbart wouldn't even stick up for its own reporter when she were assaulted by Trump's guy.

(Michelle Fields/Corey Lewandowski)

So of course they're in the tank for Trump. It's a no brainer. And Breitbart is an alt-right cesspool filled with white supremecists running the comment sections.

[BlueStreak]

3. And isn't it getting a bit tiresome to hear that Hillary personally created EVERY ill in the world?

I mean, really. I have not been the strongest Clinton supporter out there. But the state of the world is not 100% the result of Hillary and Obama. We can only wish that it would be so simple for 2 people to manage everything that happens in this world.

[sofa king]

4. I think we can take him pretty lightly.

Bannon is the crafty and unprincipled conductor of a fake news circus that rates somewhere just below the Drudge Report and just above the Free Republic.

Like the batshit between the horseshit and the bullshit in a triple-decker shit sandwich.

[warrprayer]

8. Lightly like Lee Atwater

Only worse.

I would take him as lightly as a rattlesnake

[sofa king]

14. When you put it that way, I've changed my mind!

[FSogol]

5. Bannon will encourage Trumpy to ignore the GOP insiders and attack more.

That's laughable advice. Trump should drop much further in the polls.

Republicans are a tiny minority in my office, but they change the subject quickly if anyone wants to talk politics these days.

Get your ready

[womanofthehills]

6. Trump's zombie speech called his best by Breitbart & "It's now a close race" - this should be good!!

from Breitbart News - Aug 16 -

Yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, Donald Trump delivered the best speech of his campaign to date. Newt Gingrich rightly called it the most important since Ronald Reagan left office.

In fact, in many ways, it was very Reaganesque. After all, long before he became president, Mr. Reagan warned that every generation faces an existential threat to freedom. Mr. Trump made clear that he recognizes the threat to freedom in our time, which he explicitly characterized as “Radical Islam” and its guiding, supremacist ideology, Sharia.

[BlueInPhilly]

11. Most dangerous man in politics

From Bloomberg News (October 2010):

(Snips)
Bannon is the executive chairman of Breitbart News, the crusading right-wing populist website that’s a lineal descendant of the Drudge Report (its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, spent years apprenticing with Matt Drudge) and a haven for people who think Fox News is too polite and restrained. He’d spent the day at CPAC among the conservative faithful, zipping back and forth between his SiriusXM booth and an unlikely pair of guests he was squiring around: Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing UKIP party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck Dynasty patriarch who was accepting a free-speech award. CPAC is a beauty contest for Republican presidential hopefuls. But Robertson, a novelty adornment invited after A&E suspended him for denouncing gays, delivered a wild rant about “beatniks” and sexually transmitted diseases that upstaged them all, to Bannon’s evident delight. “If there’s an explosion or a fire somewhere,” says Matthew Boyle, Breitbart’s Washington political editor, “Steve’s probably nearby with some matches.” Afterward, everyone piled into party buses and headed for the townhouse.

Bannon’s life is a succession of Gatsbyish reinventions that made him rich and landed him squarely in the middle of the 2016 presidential race: He’s been a naval officer, investment banker, minor Hollywood player, and political impresario. When former Disney chief Michael Ovitz’s empire was falling to pieces, Bannon sat Ovitz down in his living room and delivered the news that he was finished. When Sarah Palin was at the height of her fame, Bannon was whispering in her ear. When Donald Trump decided to blow up the Republican presidential field, Bannon encouraged his circus-like visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. John Boehner just quit as House speaker because of the mutinous frenzy Bannon and his confederates whipped up among conservatives. Today, backed by mysterious investors and a stream of Seinfeld royalties, he sits at the nexus of what Hillary Clinton once dubbed “the vast right-wing conspiracy,” where he and his network have done more than anyone else to complicate her presidential ambitions—and they plan to do more. But this “conspiracy,” at least under Bannon, has mutated into something different from what Clinton described: It’s as eager to go after establishment Republicans such as Boehner or Jeb Bush as Democrats like Clinton

As befits someone with his peripatetic background, Bannon is a kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde figure in the complicated ecosystem of the right—he's two things at once. And he’s devised a method to influence politics that marries the old-style attack journalism of Breitbart.com, which helped drive out Boehner, with a more sophisticated approach, conducted through the nonprofit Government Accountability Institute, that builds rigorous, fact-based indictments against major politicians, then partners with mainstream media outlets conservatives typically despise to disseminate those findings to the broadest audience. The biggest product of this system is the project Bannon was so excited about at CPAC: the bestselling investigative book, written by GAI’s president, Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Published in May by HarperCollins, the book dominated the political landscape for weeks and probably did more to shape public perception of Hillary Clinton than any of the barbs from her Republican detractors.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/

[warrprayer]

12. Trump is his campaign

And likely was from square one.