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?

"We condemn ... this ... display of hatred, bigotry and violence, ... on many sides ..."

8/12/17
from The Gray Area:
8/12/17; updated 8/13/17:

Two groups of idiots got together in Charlottesville, Va last night and today to demonstrate their stupidity. Violence erupted, people were hurt and at least 1 killed. Apparently their objectives were achieved.

If either group had demonstrated alone, there would have been no violence. The fact that when either group decides to demonstrate, it is an invitation for counter protestors from the other side to participate. We have seen this all year long.

President Trump made two appropriate statements today about this event.

First, of course, a tweet:

The second at a press conference

The mainstream media condemned Trump for not specifically condemning only the right wing extremists. They in turn would not condemn the left wing extremists who also participated in the violence. Virginia Gov. McAuliffe went even farther by condemning free speech of only one side - a consistent leftist message.

They forgot to mention that Ivanka Trump denounces white supremacy, neo-Nazis after Charlottesville.

President Trump had the only correct statement made yesterday. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides," Trump said during a short statement. "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."



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