Alt-Right
The media is suddenly obsessed with 'Alt-Right, as FoxNews reporter Howard Kurtz says in the article below. The term "has been wildly popular for the last 10 minutes". The Washington Post said it this way; A whole lot has been written lately about the alt-right, that insurgent, Internet-born identity movement that seems dead-set on swallowing the Republican party whole. Brietbart defines the alt-right this way. The alternative right, more commonly known as the alt-right, is an amorphous movement. Some — mostly Establishment types — insist it’s little more than a vehicle for the worst dregs of human society: anti-Semites, white supremacists, and other members of the Stormfront set. They’re wrong. Previously an obscure subculture, the alt-right burst onto the national political scene in 2015. Although initially small in number, the alt-right has a youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric that have boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore. It has already triggered a string of fearful op-eds and hit pieces from both Left and Right: Lefties dismiss it as racist, while the conservative press, always desperate to avoid charges of bigotry from the Left, has thrown these young readers and voters to the wolves as well. This shows the impact of the mainstream media in picking up on negative images and then turning them into something to be used against conservative candidate and now president -elect Trump. Are right wing fringe groups worse than left -wing fringe groups which get little or no reporting?
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Are right-wing fringe groups any worse than left-wing fringe groups?

8/29/16
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The media is suddenly obsessed with 'Alt-Right, as FoxNews reporter Howard Kurtz says in the article below. The term "has been wildly popular for the last 10 minutes". This shows the impact of the mainstream media in picking up on an attack of Hillary Clinton's, just as they do a misstep by Donald Trump, and going non-stop news cycle presentation.

What is the alt-right?

Well for sure it is nothing as bad as it is being made out to be by Hillary Clinton.

But even if it is, are right-wing fringe groups any worse than left-wing fringe groups? Bernie Sanders had 'revolutionaries', some violent extremists, who want to use his candidacy to overthrown the US government. Hillary actively agrees with her supporters who want to put people in jail who have an opinion different than their own. Does the mainstream media point any of that out? No. But, neither did the GOP, which they should have.

Fringe groups are only fringe groups unless the party or the candidate decides to pander to them. Howard Kurtz gets into this phenomenon below.

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8/29/16:

Hillary Clinton is trying to tar Donald Trump with the sins of the alt-right, a term that has been wildly popular for the last 10 minutes. But we need to be careful about holding candidates responsible for the views of their supporters, especially those on the fringes of the left as well as the right. That is a dangerous game. How, for instance, was it Trump’s fault that David Duke decided to endorse him? The media obsessed on how quickly Trump disavowed him, but he can’t be blamed for every wacko that gets behind him. By the same token, how was it Clinton’s fault that the Orlando killer’s father showed up, uninvited, at one of her events? It’s a bit different when one of the candidate’s surrogates ventures into dark territory. New Hampshire state rep Al Baldasaro, an adviser to Trump on veterans’ issues, didn’t draw a rebuke for saying Clinton should be shot. But most of the media didn’t think to ask Clinton to apologize for Cher likening Trump to Stalin, Hitler and a child-killer character--at a fundraiser with the former first lady.

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