Sep 13, 2017

The Charlottesville Terror Incident: Conclusive Proof That The GOP & Its Media Networks Are Really Just Nazis Re-Labeled As Something Else (Such As "Nationalists", "Conservatives" etc.)

Background:
1. Nazism Has Been Repackaged as "Conservatism" Part 3 - The Pattern Of Unquestioned Obedience To Ones Leader Is The Same For The GOP & Trump's Followers As It Was For The Nazis & Hitler!
2. Nazism Has Been Repackaged as "Conservatism" Part 4 - More Examples Of Eugenics
3. Clear Signs That Trump, The GOP And The Right Wing Media (Such As Fox News & Info-wars) Caters To White Supremacists (& Neo-Nazis) And Seeks To Promote Their Hate

The link between the GOP, Fox News and Nazis really can't be denied. The interesting part is that while the GOP publicly denounced Nazi type movements like the KKK as recompence the GOP took on the KKK's platform and clearly top KKK type leaders know this and see it as necessary to get thier politics into the mainstream (i.e. white supremacist leaders understand the GOP will publicly denounce them and privately help them and this has been going on for decades). And since the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis are share the same basic ideology with minor variations on emphasis, they tend to hang together. In other words, meet a big part of the GOP's political activist base, which, basically is just an open secret at this point. Trump, of course, sees this and openly seeks to make peace with the base that the GOP have tried so hard to pretend to avoid while working with to win elections (in other words, the fall of the "GOP establishment" is because GOP politicians sometimes try to stop SOME of the anti American society policies they seek through promote through their "economics"). This post attempts to provide an overview of what's going on on the White-Supremacist/Half-Of-GOP-Base front.

Here is Rachel Maddow providing a historical overview followed by a collection of articles and research outlining the situation;

Maddow: VIDEO: Klan's historic political ambition finds foothold with Trump Rachel Maddow looks back at how the Ku Klux Klan flexed its muscles in national American politics in the 1920s and how those same racist political ambitions are finding accommodation with Donald Trump. Duration: 16:47


Charlottesville killing was an act of domestic terrorism


(CNN)On Saturday, a 20-year-old man from Ohio allegedly rammed his car into a group of people gathered to protest a white nationalist rally, killing a 32-year old woman and injuring 19 others. If James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, indeed intended to harm the counter-protesters, then his act deserves to be branded domestic terrorism.
Political violence in the United States takes all shapes and forms and on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, we saw one of its manifestations, militant right-wing terrorism.
New America, a non-partisan think tank that tracks political violence, finds that jihadist terrorists have killed 95 people in the United States since al Qaeda's attacks on 9/11, while the attack in Charlottesville brings the number to 68 people that have been killed by far-right terrorists in the States during the same time period.
    Other forms of political violence have also emerged in the past couple of years. Black nationalist terrorists have killed 8 people in the United States since 2016, while in June a terrorist motivated by extremist anti-Trump views shot at a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, critically wounding Rep. Steve Scalise who is recovering.
    In December a man shot a weapon inside a pizzeria in Washington because he believed a conspiracy theory that the pizza joint was in fact a secret front for a child sex ring run by senior Democratic Party officials. Luckily, nobody was hurt in that attack.

    And jihadist terrorists continue to kill Americans. In January a security guard was killed in Denver by a terrorist who appears to have been motivated by jihadist beliefs.

    These terrorist attacks by right-wing, left-wing and black nationalist terrorists remind us that terrorism is not only the preserve of those who are motivated by the ideology of Osama bin Laden and ISIS.


    Maddow: VIDEO:Klan's political resurgence foreshadowed in Wilson administration Rachel Maddow looks at how a screening of "Birth of a Nation" at the Woodrow Wilson White House in 1915 foreshadowed a political resurgence by the Ku Klux Klan. Duration: 1:24


    Maddow: VIDEO: Republican Party's racism problem predates Trump Rachel Maddow looks at the genesis of the "Alternative Right" and its connections with a prominent conservative think tank that is very influential in Republican politics. Duration: 13:59

    Maddow: VIDEO: White nationalists gain path to power through Bannon Rachel Maddow notes the role of Steve Bannon and the Breitbart web site in the white nationalist "alt-right" community and the awkwardness of someone with those racial views attaining a high position in the White House. Duration: 4:07


    Maddow: VIDEO:Racists saw early opportunity in Trump presidency Rachel Maddow revisits a racist rally that took place shortly after Donald Trump's election victory at which attendees shouted, "Hail Trump!" in celebration of their expectations of the advancement of their racist cause. Duration: 7:24


    Article: A Stomach-Turning Percentage of Republicans Agree with Trump's Handling of Charlottesville A new poll indicates the GOP's rank-and-file still have the president's back.


    An overwhelming majority of Republicans think Donald Trump’s response to the horrifying events in Charlottesville is right on the money, according to a new CBS poll. The survey found that 67 percent of GOP voters say they approve of Trump’s response to the attacks, while 82 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of Independents say they disapprove. The survey was conducted during a time span stretching from Monday night to Wednesday.
    Asked specifically about Trump’s speech Tuesday in which he declared that racist neo-Nazis are as problematic as those who oppose them, most Republicans said they agreed with the president’s statements. Nearly 7 in 10 GOP voters, 68 percent, said that “Trump’s description of who’s to blame” is correct, while only 21 percent disagreed. Eighty-three percent of Democrats and 53 percent of Independents said that Trump was off the mark in suggesting “both sides” are equally culpable in the violence in Virginia this weekend.
    Note: Trump Admin's Pro-Nazi/KKK/White-Supremacist policies giving free reign to right wing terror (something media likes to avoid anyways, almost like a secret policy or maybe just hidden racism made public accidentally);


    Democracy Now: Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former Neo-Nazis Who Now Fight White Supremacy

    Heather Heyer is the latest casualty in a number of deaths at the hands of white nationalists. Foreign Policy recently published an FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin that concluded white supremacist groups were "responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016...more than any other domestic extremist movement." Despite these findings, the Trump administration recently slashed funds to organizations dedicated to fighting right-wing violence. One group, Life After Hate, which works to help white nationalists and neo-Nazis disengage from hate and violent extremism, was set to receive a grant under the DHS’s Countering Violent Extremism program, approved by the Obama administration. When Trump DHS policy adviser Katharine Gorka released the final list of grantees in June, Life After Hate had been eliminated. Gorka is the wife of Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, who has been linked to a Hungarian far-right, Nazi-allied group. We speak with Christian Picciolini, co-founder of Life After Hate and former neo-Nazi skinhead gang member.



    Extracts of articles and research for the events surrounding Charlottesville;

    White nationalists cheer Trump for assigning blame to “both sides” for Charlottesville violence


    White nationalists applauded President Donald Trump for giving a press conference where he cast “blame on both sides” for an August 12 white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, VA, that culminated in a neo-Nazi plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing activist Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.
    During his August 15 remarks from Trump Tower, Trump also blamed the “alt left” for violence and defended an earlier protest held the evening of August 11 where white nationalists carried torches while shouting racist and anti-Semitic chants.
    David Duke -- a white nationalist radio host, noted anti-Semite, and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard -- wrote on Twitter, “Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa”:




    As a scholar of modern German history, I’ve been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking feeling that my book is going to need a new chapter.
    On Saturday, August 12, 2017, thousands of young Americans marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting hate-filled slogans like, “Blood and soil,” and “Jews will not replace us,” and carrying the swastika flag. They clashed with protesters and caused dozens of injuries. A car plowed into a crowd of people protesting the white supremacist demonstration, killing one person and injuring many more.
    Later that day, President Donald Trump issued a statement:
    We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. It has been going on for a long time in our country — not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America.
    The “hatred, bigotry and violence” he said, came from “many sides” (a point he apparently felt he needed to stress). He did not mention the fact that one side was carrying swastika flags, the flag of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, the flag of Nazi Germany. He did not specifically condemn those who carried that flag. They were, according to the president, all equally responsible: those who marched under the Nazi banner, and those who opposed them. All equal. Nazis and anti-Nazis. But how is that possible? How can it be that in 2017, the President of the United States, a country that fought Hitler’s Germany and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of its young men in order to ensure its ultimate defeat, could not or would not bring himself to condemn Americans who marched under the flag of the Third Reich?
    What does it mean to march under the swastika flag? What does the swastika flag symbolize? What did it mean to the people who hoisted it in Germany—the people who inspired the Americans who marched this weekend in Charlottesville?
    Those who inspired the marchers in Charlottesville marched through the streets of Germany, provoking violence, and singing “when Jewish blood spurts from the knife.”
    Those who inspired the marchers destroyed democracy and eliminated all civil liberties in Germany.
    Those who inspired the marchers demonized Jewish citizens, physically assaulted them, removed them from all aspects of public life, stripped them of their rights, their property, their very ability to survive in the only country they had ever called home.
    Those who inspired the marchers carried out the biggest pogrom in modern German history, destroying 267 synagogues, vandalizing Jewish businesses, attacking Jews in their homes, and killing hundreds, all in a single night in November 1938.
    They demonized and physically attacked political opponents, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti, the handicapped, and any others they considered outside the boundaries of the German racial community.
    They murdered more than 70,000 men, women, and children—German citizens!—who had been diagnosed with mental and physical disabilities in just two years between 1939 and 1941.
    They started the most destructive war in the history of the world, causing the deaths of tens of millions of people, mostly innocent civilians.

    Proof of my previous post that Trump basically follows right wing media such as Fox who are allowed to function unchallenged in modern media like the GOP were treated with healthcare i.e. with silence, thus allowing them maximum chances to succeed at their incendiary rhetoric and society damaging policies;

    Trump’s remarks defending neo-Nazis were full of right-wing media talking points


    Trump equated neo-Nazis and white supremacists with counter-protesters after violence in Charlottesville

    Trump doubled down on blaming violence that stemmed from a white supremacist, neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville on “both sides.” President Donald Trump held an unscheduled press conference on August 15 in which he “blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend on both sides of the conflict,” CNN reported. The violence, which broke out on August 12 when white supremacists and neo-Nazis gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, left one woman dead after a driver drove a car through a crowd of counter-protesters. [CNN.com, 8/15/17]

    Trump repeatedly parroted right-wing media post-Charlottesville talking points

    Trump called counter-protesters “the alt-left” and said they “came charging at the … alt-right"

    Trump: “What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?” When asked whether the “alt-right” was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Trump responded, “What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?” Trump added that the so-called “alt-left” protesters “came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs.” From the press conference:

    The term “alt-left” comes from right-wing media and “doesn’t actually have any subscribers”

    Wash. Post: The phrase “alt-left” comes from “right-wing websites, commentators and Fox News personalities.” The Washington Post explained that the term “alt-left” has been used “for months” by “some right-wing websites, commentators and Fox News personalities” to describe “a violent segment of left-wing activists.” The Post added that Fox host Sean Hannity “has expanded the term in recent months to include members of the news media.” And, as the Post’s Aaron Blake previously noted, “the ‘difference between alt-right and alt-left is that one of them was coined by the people who comprise the movement and whose movement is clearly ascendant; the other was coined by its opponents and doesn't actually have any subscribers.’" [The Washington Post8/15/17]


    Media likes to act like the President functions in a vacuum to fit their long standing policy of ignoring Fox News thus allowing Fox news to push lies on the level of treason with their silence (making regular media accessories to treason). But they pick on Trump, cause everyone does. the source of trumps rhetoric, such as decades of GOP policy, is ignored.

    CNN's Jake Tapper: Trump condemned Barcelona attack immediately but has yet to call Nazi attack terrorismTapper: "One might observe the very different reactions from this president"

    JAKE TAPPER (HOST): So, just to be clear, what happened today in the face of a horrific terrorist attack, where people are still finding out that loved ones have been killed or injured, President Trump just told the world to study a story that is not true. A lie. About an American general dipping bullets in pig's blood and killing insurgents. A story that by the way, does nothing to help keep our soldiers and the American people traveling the world safer. At times of crisis, the nation turns to its president for reassurance and for truth and for moral clarity and the lie about General Pershing does not provide any of those. Also, one might observe the very different reactions from this president. Today's Islamic terrorist attack which the president condemned immediately and with this inflammatory untrue story and how President Trump responded to the white supremacist terrorist attack on Saturday. Which is an attack he has yet to unequivocally call terrorism at all.


    Why the GOP Sides With the Klan and the Nazis If you can’t win on issues, you win on racism.


    Why is it that the president and the vast majority of Republican elected officials are refusing to refer to the white Christian neo-nazis who committed mayhem and murder and, yes, terrorism, as exactly what they are? Why the false equivalence suggesting that antifascists and peace protesters are the same as Nazis and Klan members?
    As Holly Yan of CNN summarizes on their website, ISIS has a long history of using vehicles as weapons for terror attacks. London, Stockholm, Nice, Berlin, Jerusalem, and, in North America, St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec and Columbus, Ohio.
    All these terrorists intentionally used cars or trucks to kill people and inflict maximum terror. All were condemned by Republicans and “conservative” media as “radical Islamic terrorism,” and any number of Republicans, including Trump, milked them for all they were worth.
    Yet on August 12, members of the oldest terrorist organization in the United States—the Klan—along with devotees of one of Europe’s most terrible terrorist cults—Nazis—showed up in Charlottesville, Virginia, to reprise the Nazi and Klan traditions of torchlight nighttime parades specifically to create terror. And when asked about it, Trump waffled.
    He’ll threaten North Korea with nukes, but won’t even name the terrorists who showed up in Virginia.
    And it’s very, very hard to find an elected Republican (who isn’t a presidential wannabe) who will call this what it is: White Christian Racial Terrorism.
    Why?
    The answer is really simple: If you can’t win on issues, you go for what used to be called “wedge issues.”
    The Republican Party has basically one goal and one reason for existence right now: to protect and promote the interests of the rich and powerful, be they billionaires or the big corporations that spawn them.
    But no Republican will run a TV ad saying, “If elected, I promise to destroy the social safety net and give the money to the billionaires; I promise to increase the levels of pollution and cancer-causing chemicals in our food, air, and water; I promise to block renewable energy and increase your utility bills; I promise to cut the taxes of the fat-cats and record-profitable corporations, while throwing you a bone of a few hundred bucks.”
    So what do they do? They create a “coalition.” They do, after all, need voters to put them into power (although it’s getting so tough for them that they have to rely on massive voter suppression among woke communities, and rigged voting machines and tabulators like were used against Governor Don Siegelman).
    There are a number of American constituencies that really don’t care how big a tax cuts the billionaires get, whether health care and education are savaged, or how badly our environment is poisoned, because they consider their own issues to be so Far More Important.

    Another source of GOP politics AND fake news that functions as the Nazis propaganda networks must have functioned in the 1930's with technology of that age;

    Fox News is extremely racist




    Fox & Friends is sympathetic to neo-Nazis marching but outraged over sports players kneeling





    One of Trump's advisers, till just recently, appears to be a Nazi Top-Dog/Insider;

    Report: Breitbart Editor-Turned-Trump Official Is A "Sworn Member" Of "Nazi-Allied" Hungarian Group Sebastian Gorka Has Denied The Report


    Jewish news publication The Forward reported that Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka is a “formal member” of the Vitézi Rend, a far-right nationalist Hungarian group that, according to the State Department, operated under the direction of Nazi Germany during World War II. Gorka, a top counterterrorism adviser to President Donald Trump and former national security editor for “alt right” website Breitbart.com, denied that he was a member of the group when contacted by another publication.
    The Forward spoke to two leaders of the Vitézi Rend, Gyula Soltész and Kornél Pintér, who said Gorka is a sworn member of their organization. From the March 16 article:
    Gorka, who pledged his loyalty to the United States when he took American citizenship in 2012, is himself a sworn member of the Vitézi Rend, according to both Gyula Soltész -- a high-ranking member of the Vitézi Rend’s central apparatus -- and Kornél Pintér -- a leader of the Vitézi Rend in Western Hungary who befriended Gorka’s father through their activities in the Vitézi Rend.
    Soltész, who holds a national-level leadership position at the Vitézi Rend, confirmed to the Forward in a phone conversation that Gorka is a full member of the organization.
    “Of course he was sworn in,” Pintér said, in a phone interview. “I met with him in Sopron [a city near Hungary’s border with Austria]. His father introduced him.”

    A reporter for Talking Points Memo later tweeted a statement from the Anti-Defamation League, which stated "If true, [Gorka] needs to renounce his membership immediately and disavow their exclusionary message of hate. At a time of rising anti-Semitism around the world, it is essential for Mr. Gorka to make clear that he rejects the policies of far-right and nativist organizations such as Vitézi Rend and Jobbik, which have a long history of stoking anti-Semitism and intolerance in Hungary."
    Before he was hired by the Trump administration, Gorka worked for Breitbart.com as a national security editor and was a paid adviser to the Trump campaign. In the past he has used anti-Muslim rhetoric and backed conspiracy theories. For example, after the Washington National Cathedral hosted an event with two Muslim groups in 2014, Gorka wrote an article for Breitbart.com with the headline “Muslim Brotherhood Overruns National Cathedral In DC," arguing that “if a place of worship is used by Muslims for their prayers, that territory subsequently becomes part of Dar al Islam, sacred muslim (sic) land. Forever.” Gorka also defended Trump’s false campaign claim that former President Barack Obama was the “founder of ISIS,” saying he “is absolutely right” if he meant the Obama administration “facilitated the growth of ISIS.”


    This one speaks for itself;

    Neo-Nazis called on Trump to pardon Joe Arpaio. Now Trump is “seriously considering” doing it.Infowars and fake news purveyors also pushed Trump to pardon the former sheriff


    President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, after neo-Nazi and other fringe media that have supported Trump called for him to do so.
    Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt of court on July 31 after “defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.” As The New York Times noted, the order originated from a lawsuit “charging that the sheriff’s office regularly violated the rights of Latinos, stopping people based on racial profiling, detaining them based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally, and turning them over to the immigration authorities.” Arpaio, like Trump, was one of the biggest propagators of the false claimthat former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate was fake. According to The Arizona Republic, Arpaio “says he would welcome a presidential pardon” from Trump, although he told the paper that he was “not going to ask.”
    When news of Arpaio’s conviction was revealed, fringe media outlets decried the trial and verdict, and urged Trump to pardon the former sheriff. Jerome Corsi of conspiracy theory outlet Infowars wrote that Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions “must help Sheriff Arpaio,” calling the trial a “travesty of justice” and asking whether Trump and Sessions would “continue to stand by watching.” Additionally, Infowars host David Knight, in a video titled “Pres. Trump, Pardon Sheriff Joe: ‘Guilty’ Of Defying Sanctuary Judge,” said that Arpaio “needs to be pardoned by the Trump administration or the Trump administration will be exposed to massive hypocrisy for allowing someone to go to jail for implementing the very policies that they’re talking about now.” Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi blog The Daily Stormer called Arpaio’s conviction “a blatant crucifixion of a man who stood up to the Obama agenda of ‘America for everyone from anywhere as long as they are not white'” and wrote that “Trump should pardon him.” Another neo-Nazi blog, Infostormer, claimed Arpaio had “been convicted of a crime simply because he was enforcing immigration laws,” adding “regardless of what happens, Donald Trump should pardon him.”

    After praising Trump's statement on Charlottesville, a neo-Nazi website celebrates murder of counterprotester Heather HeyerHate website The Daily Stormer says victim was "the definition of uselessness" and that "most people are glad she is dead"


    White nationalist and neo-Nazi hate website The Daily Stormer openly celebrated the murder of counterprotester Heather Heyer during the violent August 12 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, calling her a “slob” and a “burden on society” with “no value.” The website previously praised Trump’s response to the rally.
    Heyer, a 32-year-old who, according to her mother, was “determined to stand up to injustice,” was murdered when a car plowed through counterprotesters at the rally. At least 19 others were injured. According to The New York Times, the driver of the car was “charged with second-degree murder” and stood alongside white nationalist groups during the rally. One of the driver's former teachers has said that he was a Nazi sympathizer with "white supremacist views" and "a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler."
    President Donald Trump received widespread criticism for condemning “violence on many sides” in the wake of the incident rather than immediately denouncing white supremacy. An unnamed spokesperson has since issued a statement to reporters condemning “white supremacists,” though The New York Times reported that “it was not attributed directly to Mr. Trump.” The Daily Stormer, however, lauded President Trump’s comments, saying that “he didn’t attack us” and gave “no condemnation at all.” The Daily Stormer, designated a neo-Nazihate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has long been a fan of President Trump, having said that a vote for him would be a vote “for the one man who actually represents our interests” and having praised his hiring of Steve Bannon.
    In his August 13 article, Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin asserted that “most people are glad [Heyer] is dead, as she is the definition of uselessness.” He also called the victim an “overweight slob with no children” and praised the driver of the car as a “hardcore player” with a “cool demeanor” who “didn’t give a fuck.”
    i.e. this is standard in GOP/FoxNews style propaganda to divide society to win elections;

    Past example;

    The hypocrisy of the initial Republican response to Trumps Charlottsville terrorism response was mind blowing

    Trump’s “moral authority is compromised”: Republican chorus of criticism grows louder after Charlottesville Top Republican senators from the South have called for "radical change" in the White House


    But later they reduced thier hypocrisy by refusing to talk about it (they could reduce it more by admitting thier links to Nais/kkk... the media might then report on it as fact rather than igniring wahats in front of thier eyes and acting nice and negotiating with our modern nazi party

    Chris Cuomo: ​All 52 ​Senate Republicans refused to discuss Trump's Charlottesville remarks ​on ​CNN this morningCuomo: ​"​We ​contacted all 52 Republican GOP [​senators​]​, invited them on the show to​ get statements" on​ Trump's Charlottesville comments, but "they didn't want to do it"


    Echoing Fox News, Trump defends Charlottesville white supremacists, says they were not all Nazis​

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I do think there's blame on both sides. You look at both sides -- I think there's blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.​


    Van Jones: "An American citizen was assassinated in broad daylight by a Nazi ... This is not a time to talk about both sides" Jones: "People watching this show gave their lives to stop Nazism. Dr. King gave his life to stop the Klan. This is not a time to talk about both sides. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the day after tomorrow."


    VAN JONES: It’s almost painful to have to point this out. This is -- you are correct that there is a problem of extremism in this country that cuts across. But this is a day in which after an American citizen was assassinated in broad daylight by a Nazi. A Nazi, who the day before had been marching with torches down American streets saying anti-Jewish, anti-black stuff, and then an American -- this not a time to talk about both sides. Both sides are not using ISIS tactics, mowing people down with cars in the streets of America. Both sides are not trying to defend a horrific -- grandparents, great grandparents, the people watching this show gave their lives to stop Nazism. Dr. King gave his life to stop the Klan. This is not a time to talk about both sides. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the day after tomorrow. But the president of the United States needs to come out and say, "My daughter is Jewish." He could have said. If you're going to go off script, go off script and say, "My daughter's Jewish. My son-in-law is Jewish. I don't want this in my country." Go off script and say that. Don't go off script and say, "many sides, many sides." That sends a signal to people that this is all right, and it's not all right. 
    Previously:


    On MSNBC, NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Sherrilyn Ifill lists the ways Trump has emboldened white supremacists and Nazis Ifill: "I didn't know growing up in this country that there was another side to Nazis. I didn't know that there were many sides. I thought we were all on the same side in condemnation of Nazis."



    Previously:

    Charlottesville Is Just More Evidence America Was Born and Raised on Racism and Violence Racist violence is as American as apple pie.


    Remember that Donald Trump froze funds that were supposed to go to groups fighting neo-Nazi violence. Remember that the Department of Justice recently announced that its civil rights division will be focusing its energies not on the precipitous rise in anti-black and anti-Muslim hate crimes that followed Trump’s election, but on “affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” Remember that the man who heads the Department of Justice was denied a federal judgeship 30 years ago for being too racist and once told a black lawyer he was totally cool with the Ku Klux Klan “until [he] found out they smoked pot.” Remember that David Duke, a former Imperial Wizard of the Klan who in 1990 won enough votes to become a Louisiana state representative, said “we voted for Donald Trump because he said he’s going to take our country back.” Remember that what happened in Charlottesville was not the unforeseen fallout from the 2016 presidential election, but exactly what Trump promised and what 63 million people voted for.
    Remember that 53 percent of white women helped elect Trump because they saw the loss of white supremacy as more of an affront than the prospect of their daughters being grabbed by the pussy. Remember that some of the polo-shirted and khaki-pantsed young neo-Nazis in Charlottesville will go on to become judges and police officers and college deans and CEOs and gatekeepers of all kinds. Remember that many of those same dudes have girlfriends and wives and sisters and aunts and mothers — some of them were there, too — who support and agree with them. Remember that white women have helped uphold white power since this country’s founding, which is why black and Latinx women had to invent their own feminisms.
    Remember that in 1955, Emmett Till was beaten to death, his eyes gouged out, a bullet lodged in his brain because he whistled at a white woman, except it turns out even that was a lie. Remember that 60 years later, right before he murdered nine black folks who had welcomed him into their church, Dylann Roof said, “You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go.” Remember that after Roof hunted down those black lives in the only safe space black people have ever had in this country, the police bought him a meal from Burger King. Remember that Eric Garner, Akai Gurley and Walter Scott’s lives were so devalued that as they lay dying, police didn’t even bother to perform CPR. Remember that a jury voted to give the family of a dog shot by cops $1.26 million, about the same amount as the settlement given to the family of Michael Brown.
    Remember that within hours of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to strike down key parts of the Voting Rights Act, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama moved forward with voter ID laws that specifically disenfranchise black and brown folks. Remember that the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, which means black people have only legally been able to vote in every part of this country for a sliver of the time we’ve been Americans. Remember that people were murdered for trying to vote, sometimes by lynching, events which were celebrated and memorialized in picture postcards. Remember that through voter suppression tactics, millions of black people are still denied voting rights, and remember who benefits from that.
    Remember that the showrunners behind "Game of Thrones" are so lacking in imagination that they are making a television series about what America would look like if the South had won the Civil War, as if racism disappeared in 1865, instead of continuing to grow and thrive, and as if we cannot just look at this country in real time and script that show ourselves. Remember America was founded on Native American genocide and black chattel slavery and that Richard Spencer is still growing rich off cotton farms and black labor. Remember that those white guys in Charlottesville who complain they are sick of hearing about slavery were there to protest the removal of a confederate statue, which is kind of funny when you think about the irony of it, though not ha ha.
    Remember all this when you hear someone respond to Charlottesville by saying racist violence is “un-American” or that it's “not who we are,” because that is a bald-faced lie. In fact, it's what this country has been about since day one; this is the U.S.A. at its most transparent. And nobody gets to pretend to be shocked anymore.

    Trump, the far right and the “fine people” of Charlottesville: Is our president a Nazi sympathizer?Donald Trump, the NRA and the white supremacist fringe have forged a terrifying coalition of "very fine people"


    After Charlottesville attack, anti-LGBTQ hate groups attack media outlets for accurately calling them hate groups


    Violent neo-Nazi and white nationalist protests in Charlottesville highlight the rise of extremism and hate groups

    White supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other far-right extremists held a violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville that led to three deaths. White nationalists and neo-Nazis held a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, on August 12 during which the attendees marched “in a torchlight procession — a symbolic gathering meant to evoke similar marches of Hitler Youth” -- while carrying guns, shields, and clubs, according to The Washington Post. The rally featured prominent white nationalist media figures such as Richard Spencer and Mike Enoch, as well as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The protest escalated into violence, which culminated in a reported Nazi sympathizer plowing his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing activist Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. Two police officers died in a helicopter crash related to the incident. [The Washington Post, 8/14/178/13/178/12/17]

    National and regional media outlets report on newly emboldened hate groups and their extremist ideologies

    Charlottesville protests catalyzed national media outlets to report on the newly emboldened white supremacists and hate groups. As a result of the violence in Charlottesville, media outlets turned their attention to report on what ABC News called the “re-emergence of white supremacy and nationalist groups in the United States.” Using statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), CNN reported on hate groups in the country. [ABC News, 8/15/17; CNN, 8/17/178/17/17]
    Regional media outlets reported on hate and extremist groups in their states. Regional media outlets across the country contextualized the extremism and violence seen in Charlottesville by reporting on local organizations that are designated as “hate groups” by SPLC. Among those were several anti-LGBTQ hate groups, including Family Research Council (FRC), Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), and Liberty Counsel. [Boston Patch, 8/15/17; Arizona’s NBC 12 News, 8/15/17; Arizona’s ABC KSAT12, 8/15/17The Arizona Republic8/14/17Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette8/15/17 (since deleted); The Daytona Beach News-Journal8/15/17 (since deleted); NC News Chief, 8/15/17 (since deleted)]

    Anti-LGBTQ hate groups are not labeled hate groups for their policy positions, and the groups have a clear history of extremism

    Anti-LGBTQ hate groups are designated as such when they knowingly spread “demonizing lies about the LGBT community,” engage in “baseless, incendiary name-calling,” or actively work to criminalize LGBTQ people.” Anti-LGBTQ hate groups have been surprisingly successful in pushing the myth that SPLC bases its hate group designations on conservative or religious beliefs about sexuality and marriage. But SPLC has clearly stated multiple times that it designates organizations as “hate groups” when they engage in inflammatory, hateful name-calling, spread malicious lies and misinformation, or support the criminalization of LGBTQ people -- not because of biblical or conservative beliefs. In 2010, when it first began listing anti-LGBTQ hate groups, SPLC stated that “viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups.” But despite SPLC’s clear explanations of its criteria, mainstream media outlets have long allowed anti-LGBTQ hate groups to defend themselves with that very myth. [Media Matters2/16/17]
    ADF “specializes in supporting the recriminalization of homosexuality abroad, ending same-sex marriage, and generally making life as difficult as possible for LGBT communities in the U.S. and internationally.” ADF is the largest anti-LGBTQ hate group in the nation, and, according to SPLC, it “specializes in supporting the recriminalization of homosexuality abroad, ending same-sex marriage, and generally making life as difficult as possible for LGBT communities in the U.S. and internationally.” ADF operates on $48 million-plus annual budget and has what it refers to as a “powerful global network” of over 3,100 ADF-trained “allied attorneys.” SPLC designated ADF a hate group because ADF’s leaders and its affiliated lawyers have “regularly demonized LGBT people, falsely linking them to pedophilia, calling them ‘evil’ and a threat to children and society, and blaming them for the ‘persecution of devout Christians.’” ADF’s influence is widespread. It has played a role in dozens of Supreme Court cases about abortion, religion, tuition tax credits, and LGBTQ issues, among others; it has special advisory status at the United Nations; it has at least 55 affiliated lawyers serving in influential government positions at the state and federal levels; and it has infiltrated local school boards across the country. ADF formally supported the criminalization of sodomy in the U.S. in 2003 when it filed an amicus brief in Lawrence v. Texas defending state sodomy laws which called “same-sex sodomy … a distinct public health problem.” ADF has also worked to criminalize gay sex abroad, including in Jamaica, Belize, and India, and is leading the national campaign for “bathroom bills” in an attempt to stop transgender youth from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. [Media Matters7/24/17]
    FRC “often makes false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science” in order to “denigrate LGBT people.” FRC is an anti-LGBTQ hate group with significant influence on the Trump administration. The group has an annual budget of tens of millions of dollars and promotes the idea “that people can and should try to change their sexual orientation” or “just not act on it.” According to SPLC’s “extremist file,” FRC “often makes false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science” in order to “denigrate LGBT people.” FRC’s official position is that “homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large” and “is by definition unnatural.” Former FRC Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder accused gay youth of joining the Boy Scouts of America “for predatory purposes,” and various FRC representatives and publications have repeatedly compared homosexuality to pedophilia. Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at FRC, asserted that LGBTQ youth suicide rates would drop if the teenagers were “discourage[d] from self-identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual” and urged others “not to create a positive social environment for the affirmation of homosexuality.” In a 2010 appearance on MSNBC, Sprigg also said that the United States should “outlaw gay behavior.” In 2011, the FRC called for its supporters to pray for countries that had laws criminalizing sodomy and were being pressured by the U.S. to remove them, and it suggested that homosexuality “has had a devastating impact upon Africans,” citing the AIDS crisis as an example. [Media Matters7/24/17]
    Liberty Counsel representatives have compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles and called them “immoral, unnatural, and self-destructive.” Liberty Counsel is an anti-LGBTQ hate group founded by Mat Staver, former dean of Liberty University School of Law, that “shares a close affiliation with Liberty University,” according to SPLC. Staver has called LGBTQ History Month a "sexual assault on our children," repeatedly warned that the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage would trigger a revolution and civil war, and claimed nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people will result in the "death of some individuals." Liberty Counsel also famously represented Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis in litigation after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same and opposite-sex couples in 2015; Talking Points Memo reported that Staver “compared Davis’ plight to that of Jews in Nazi Germany” during a radio interview. Staver has also compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles, once saying that allowing gay youth and adults in the Boy Scouts will cause “all kinds of sexual molestation” and create a “playground for pedophiles to go and have all these boys as objects of their lust.” Liberty Counsel has called gay sex “harmful sexual behavior” and pushed the myth that LGBTQ people “can change.” Former Liberty Counsel attorney Matt Barber said that LGBTQ people “know intuitively that what they are doing is immoral, unnatural, and self-destructive,” adding that they have “tied their whole identity up in this sexual perversion.” Barber has also called “disease, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide … consequences” of being gay. [Media Matters7/24/17]

    Right-wing media outlets amplify anti-LGBTQ hate groups’ attack on the media and SPLC
    Tucker Carlson hosted hate group leader Tony Perkins to attack CNN and SPLC, lamented that “actual hate groups” aren’t “narrowed to neo-Nazis and violent anarchists.” On the August 18 edition of his show, Fox’s Tucker Carlson hosted anti-LGBTQ extremist and FRC President Tony Perkins to attack CNN’s reporting on hate groups and SPLC’s hate group designation. Carlson lamented that “actual hate groups” weren’t limited “to neo-Nazis and violent anarchists” and characterized anti-LGBTQ hate groups as “regular conservative organizations.” Carlson went on to call the list “too large and grossly biased” and said CNN’s headline was “absurdly irresponsible.” From Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight:
    TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Yesterday, CNN published a story with the headline “Here are all the active hate groups where you live.” This wasn’t a list narrowed to neo-Nazis and violent anarchists, actual hate groups. Instead, the list was full of regular conservative organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and others. In other words, the list was too large and grossly biased, and that’s because CNN wasn’t listing real hate groups, they were just listing hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a totally irresponsible left-wing organization that casually throws around the term “hate group” in order to raise money. And it’s raised a lot of money doing that: terrifying people. CNN eventually scaled back its absurdly irresponsible headline, changing it to “The Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups.” Better, but still bad. Why is CNN doing the bidding of the Southern Poverty Law Center? They’re not coming on to tell us why. We asked someone from the Southern Poverty Law Center to come on to explain their side, but they just decline like they always do because they are cowards. So instead, we are joined by Tony Perkins. He is president of the Family Research Council, one of the groups slandered by CNN and the SPLC. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight8/18/17; Southern Poverty Law Center, 8/21/17]
    Daily Caller: “5 Groups Included On ‘Hate Group’ List Published By CNN Are Not Hate Groups.” An August 18 opinion column in right-wing outlet The Daily Caller purported that CNN had erroneously included five hate groups on its list that weren’t actually hate groups, citing ADF, FRC, and anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim hate groups. The author accused CNN of “continuing a trend by a sympathetic establishment media to parrot the organization [SPLC] without proper due diligence or scrutiny.” [The Daily Caller, 8/17/17]
    Wash. Examiner: CNN is “repeating a mistake made by many major media outlets.” Right-wing outlet Washington Examiner attacked CNN for its hate group article, accusing it of “repeating a mistake made by many major media outlets before it.” The article said SPLC was “a fraud” and “an irresponsible advocacy group” and lamented what it called “conservative advocacy groups” being included with “legitimate hate organizations” such as “neo-Nazis and the KKK.” From the August 18 article:
    Repeating a mistake made by many major media outlets before it, CNN on Thursday published a map of registered hate groups sourced entirely from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an irresponsible advocacy group that purports to operate as an objective assessor of hate. Just one day earlier, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company was set to make a $1 million donation to the SPLC as well.
    But the SPLC's claim to objectivity is nothing less than fraudulent, a reality that informed observers of its practices from both the Left and Right accept. The routine of debunking their supposedly objective classifications occurs like clockwork each time a major outlet makes the mistake of turning to them when reporting on the many conservative thinkers and nonprofits the group absurdly designates as hateful.
    So here we go again.
    The SPLC routinely lumps conservative advocacy groups in with legitimate hate organizations, putting proponents of traditional family values in the same category as neo-Nazis and the KKK. In a July note to supporters, the Family Research Council, a conservative nonprofit the SPLC has attacked, referred to the center as "a left wing smear group who has become exactly what they set out to fight, spreading hate and putting targets on people's backs." [Washington Examiner8/18/17]
    Townhall: “CNN Publishes Fake Hate List -- Targeting Well-Known Christian Groups.” In an August 18 article for Townhall, Todd Starnes attacked CNN’s report, called it “bogus,” and lamented the inclusion of hate groups including FRC, ADF, and Liberty Counsel. Starnes highlighted quotes from various leaders of the groups and also called on CNN to “retract the entire story and publicly vow to never again use Southern Poverty Law Center’s inflammatory propaganda.” [Townhall, 8/18/17]
    Anti-LGBTQ hate groups and right-wing media have previously coordinated to attack the credibility of “hate group” label. In July, news broke that ADF was hosting Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a closed-door speech at an ADF event. Both ABC News and NBC News accurately noted in their reporting that SPLC had designated ADF as an “anti-LGBT hate group.” Right-wing media outlets and anti-LGBTQ hate groups from various backgrounds joined together to attack those media outlets and cast doubt on the “hate group” designation. [Media Matters, 7/18/177/24/17]

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    How Sean Hannity's Charlottesville propaganda works



    It’s been a bad few days for President Donald Trump. His approval ratings hit new lows yesterday in the wake of his widely criticized failure over the weekend to specifically denounce a violent rally of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, VA. Perhaps because many of his supporters are white racists, the president instead blamed bigotry “on many sides”; while those supporters appreciated it, journalists and pundits from all stripes pointed out this was wildly insufficient, forcing the White House to send Trump out again yesterday afternoon to issue a subdued, paltry, but specific declaration that such groups are bad. Grasping for a familiar foe to blame for his own failures, the president tweeted Monday evening that he had learned a valuable lesson from the fracas: the “Fake News Media will never be satisfied” because journalists are “truly bad people!”
    For Trump, the “fake news media” constitutes any journalist who isn’t willing to say nice things about the president regardless of the circumstances. And so the president likely enjoyed last night’s performance from leading lickspittle Sean Hannity, whose Fox News program was largely devoted to explaining that the “destroy Trump establishment media” had unfairly attacked the blameless president. This combination of staunch defense of Trump, no matter what, with a willingness to lash out at the president’s foes characterizes the propagandistic tenor of Hannity’s broadcasts. Like any good propaganda, Hannity’s show has its heroes (Trump and the Republicans who support him) and its villains (Democrats and the media who smear them).
    Here’s his 16-minute opening monologue from last night’s show:
    Hannity kicked off by denouncing the “disgusting,” “despicable” actions of those with “hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views,” declaring that “there's no place in this country for these neo-Nazi, fascist, white supremacists.” But for Hannity, the white supremacists aren’t the real villain of the story -- or at least, they aren’t worthy of significant attention. They are a player to condemn so you can say you did and then move on to the real point.
    And the real point, for Hannity, is that Trump had always condemned white supremacists, and media who say otherwise just want to tear the president down.
    Hannity read Trump’s tweets and aired his comment on Saturday, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides -- on many sides.” It’s obvious that Trump had deliberately avoided saying who he had criticized -- certainly, the white supremacists noticed that. But here’s Hannity’s explanation of what happened:
    Now, all weekend long, I, like many of you, watched the media going insane, acting like they didn't know what the president was talking about. They ran with a false narrative all weekend. Oh, big story, he didn't mention the groups by name.
    Well, it couldn't be more obvious, more transparent who the president was talking about. He was standing for equal justice under the law, against racism. And the press, what did they do? They used a high-profile act of violence to bludgeon the president and conservatives politically. So predictable.
    Now, it was crystal clear what the president was talking about. But the press, they went after him anyway. And the destroy Trump establishment media -- they didn't care about the violence, seemingly, or the racial tensions they're creating or the civil unrest as much as they cared about using this tragedy as an opportunity to attack people they disagree with, and in particular, the president, to try and inflict as much damage politically as possible. You know what? Just like they have done since November 8th! That's a simple truth.
    Hannity is making his audience a propaganda sandwich: Attack the press, make excuses for Trump, attack the press again. He primes viewers by drawing a connection to them, suggesting they shared the collective experience of being betrayed by the press. Then he makes an obviously false statement to the benefit of the president: “It couldn't be more obvious, more transparent who the president was talking about.” Then he explains that the media is only doing this because they are trying to destroy the president like they have since the election.
    Hannity supports this viewpoint with lies of omission and commission.
    He carefully avoids explaining the fervent white nationalist support for President Trump; that some rally attendees were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats; that these groups expressed love for Trump administration members like chief strategist Steve Bannon; the disturbing interactions the Trump campaign had with white nationalists. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who attended the protest, said that the Charlottesville protests were an indication that “we are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump.”
    Instead of mentioning any of that, Hannity suggests that the president has been a fervent opponent of that movement. “This is Donald Trump over the years, something the destroy Trump media will never show you, condemning Duke, white supremacists,” Hannity said, before airing a series of interview clips of Trump criticizing Duke. Three clips are from 2016 and one is from 2000, suggesting that Trump had been a consistent Duke foe.
    What’s missing, of course, is the reason why reporters were asking Trump about Duke in 2016:  Trump created an uproar last February because he repeatedly refused to disavow Duke for supporting his campaign.
    Having purportedly demonstrated to his audience that “President Trump and the people that voted for him and that support his agenda ... don't like racists,” Hannity went on the attack. First, he suggested that Democrats are the ones who “divide Americans by playing the race card every single election.” And then he ran through the greatest hits of conservative racial attacks on President Barack Obama -- his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, purported ties to Louis Farrakhan, his criticism of the Cambridge police officer who arrested a college professor on his own doorstep, and his support for Black Lives Matter. From there, he was off to the races, lashing out at a panoply of liberals who had made improper comments about Trump, from Mickey Rourke to Kathy Griffin to Snoop Dogg. All the while, he criticized the media for their purported double standard in not giving sufficient coverage to these supposed atrocities.
    Here’s how Hannity closed out his monologue, which began with a condemnation of white supremacists who support President Trump:
    Every two to four years, Democrats divide the country. They play identity politics. It's been a part of this playbook the Democrats used for generations.
    So it's time for the destroy Trump establishment media to start recognizing how they have a massive double standard, that they have an agenda and ideology because just like, sadly, white supremacists in Charlottesville, hatred of any kind should not be tolerated or ever given a free pass, period, whoever is involved in the hatred, like the heat we saw this weekend.
    Hannity talking to himself is not significantly different from talking to his guests. The remainder of the show featured a host of conservative pundits agreeing that Trump did nothing wrong and the real problems are caused by Democrats and the “destroy Trump establishment media.” By my count of the transcript, the show featured 15 mentions of white supremacists (many of which were declarations that Trump is not one and in fact condemns them). There were 41 mentions of the media or the press over the course of the 44-minute broadcast.
    This is what Sean Hannity’s Fox News show is like on a daily basis. It’s pure propaganda, an effort to support the president at every turn, while castigating his enemies -- particularly the press. His viewers are living in an alternate reality -- one that he’s carefully crafted to benefit Trump.


    A defense of Trump’s unforgivable statements on Charlottesville may be airing on your local news Sinclair stations are airing pro-Trump propaganda


    Former aide to President Donald Trump and current administration media shill Boris Epshteyn is now using local television news spots across the country to back Trump in his disgraceful “both sides” treatment of violent neo-Nazism and white supremacy in Charlottesville, VA.
    Epshteyn is the chief political analyst of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative local TV giant that currently owns and operates 173 stations in 33 states and the District of Columbia. He produces several 90-second commentary videos each week, which Sinclair dictates must be aired on all its stations nationwide. There is apparently no required disclosure Epshteyn must make in the segments he produces to inform viewers across the country that they’re hearing commentary from a former Trump staffer, even as his defenses of Trump’s most indefensible moments grow increasingly embarrassing.
    Epshteyn may have reached a new low last night with his take on Trump’s chilling defenses of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville last weekend.
    On August 11, a white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally kicked off with a tiki torch-wielding mob chanting"Jews will not replace us" on the University of Virginia campus in defense of a Confederate statue. The next day, the large gathering turned violent, when a neo-Nazi drove a car into the crowd of ralliers and counter-protesters, murdering anti-racism activist Heather Heyer. On Saturday, Trump issued a short statement refusing to specifically call out the white supremacists and neo-Nazis behind the rally, instead pointing to blame "on many sides." Following two days of intense criticism, Trump issued a low-energy statementMonday nominally condemning the KKK and white supremacists, then completely undermined that statementin an unhinged Tuesday press conference where he returned to pinning blame on "both sides," and claimed that there were "very fine people" included among the white supremacists.
    And yet, Epshteyn’s segment begins, “The sky is blue. Does the president have to repeat that fact day-in and day-out for us to believe it? No, he does not.”
    The “Bottom Line with Boris” segment completely ignores Trump’s statements on Charlottesville aside from his Teleprompter-dependent, hostage video from the White House on Monday afternoon in which he finally specifically condemned neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. Epshteyn did not acknowledge Trump’s initial comments about the rally, in which he referred to violence “on many sides,” nor did he acknowledge Trump’s Tuesday press conference in which he gave “white supremacists an unequivocal boost.”  
    Epshteyn ends the segment with a personal note, explaining that he is Jewish and thus knows that Trump is not anti-Semitic. This analysis, however, does not account for years of Trump’s public footsie with prominent white nationalists and anti-Semites, including former KKK grand wizard David Duke.
    Sinclair’s other two right-wing “must-run” commentary segments -- “Behind the Headlines” with Mark Hyman and the “Terrorism Alert Desk” -- have yet to address the terror in Charlottesville. (Here are the “Terrorism Alert Desk” segments that ran on MondayTuesday, and Wednesday on Sinclair-owned Virginia station WSET.)  
    Local TV news viewers from Maine to Utah -- including some in Charlottesville’s backyard -- may have seen this segment last night or this morning as they turned to their local station for the news of the day. Folks in other cities and states across the country are also watching, waiting to hear if Sinclair will soon own their local TV station and extend the reach of its Trump apologism to Chicago or New Orleans, too.


    Clearly we have a home grown Nazi movement that calls itself "conservative" but on comparing "conservatives" to Nazis we find that they are essentially the same in policy but with rhetoric that is somewhat "subdued", as prescribed by a white supremacist, but still Nazism.

    BREAKING: Nazism Has Been Repackaged as "Conservatism"



    And it operates out in the open!...


    Professor of German History: Why Trump's Response to Charlottesville Is Frightening on Historical Levels In 2017, we are frighteningly close to the horrors of 1939.



    As a scholar of modern German history, I’ve been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking feeling that my book is going to need a new chapter.
    On Saturday, August 12, 2017, thousands of young Americans marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting hate-filled slogans like, “Blood and soil,” and “Jews will not replace us,” and carrying the swastika flag. They clashed with protesters and caused dozens of injuries. A car plowed into a crowd of people protesting the white supremacist demonstration, killing one person and injuring many more.
    Later that day, President Donald Trump issued a statement:
    We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. It has been going on for a long time in our country — not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America.
    The “hatred, bigotry and violence” he said, came from “many sides” (a point he apparently felt he needed to stress). He did not mention the fact that one side was carrying swastika flags, the flag of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, the flag of Nazi Germany. He did not specifically condemn those who carried that flag. They were, according to the president, all equally responsible: those who marched under the Nazi banner, and those who opposed them. All equal. Nazis and anti-Nazis. But how is that possible? How can it be that in 2017, the President of the United States, a country that fought Hitler’s Germany and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of its young men in order to ensure its ultimate defeat, could not or would not bring himself to condemn Americans who marched under the flag of the Third Reich?
    What does it mean to march under the swastika flag? What does the swastika flag symbolize? What did it mean to the people who hoisted it in Germany—the people who inspired the Americans who marched this weekend in Charlottesville?
    Those who inspired the marchers in Charlottesville marched through the streets of Germany, provoking violence, and singing “when Jewish blood spurts from the knife.”
    Those who inspired the marchers destroyed democracy and eliminated all civil liberties in Germany.
    Those who inspired the marchers demonized Jewish citizens, physically assaulted them, removed them from all aspects of public life, stripped them of their rights, their property, their very ability to survive in the only country they had ever called home.
    Those who inspired the marchers carried out the biggest pogrom in modern German history, destroying 267 synagogues, vandalizing Jewish businesses, attacking Jews in their homes, and killing hundreds, all in a single night in November 1938.
    They demonized and physically attacked political opponents, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti, the handicapped, and any others they considered outside the boundaries of the German racial community.
    They murdered more than 70,000 men, women, and children—German citizens!—who had been diagnosed with mental and physical disabilities in just two years between 1939 and 1941.
    They started the most destructive war in the history of the world, causing the deaths of tens of millions of people, mostly innocent civilians.

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