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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

One Or The Other

Here are two names in the news:  Steve Bannon and Keith Ellison.  Bannon was just named senior adviser to the president.  Ellison is becoming the leading choice of Democrats to become chair of the Democrat National Committee.  If you've followed the news on these two, then you have no doubt heard that one of them is whispered (or actually shouted) to be a racist and an anti-Semite.  So what's the truth?

According to the media, Bannon is a racist and an anti-Semite because he ran the Breitbart organization.  That news site ran some articles that supposedly talked about protecting "white identity" and which were neo-Nazi.  The funny thing about that argument is not just that it is untrue, but more importantly it is ridiculous.  Is Marc Zuckerberg racist because of the things that get posted on Facebook?  No.  Is the head of the Associated Press anti-Semitic because of some of the clearly erroneous articles about Israel that get published by the AP?  No.  Is the publisher of the New York Times responsible for every op-ed that the paper contains?  No.  So, let's forget whether or not articles advocating the protection of white identity ever ran on Breitbart, the basic point that someone who neither wrote nor edited those articles is responsible for their content is nothing but a joke.

That takes us to Ellison.  There is no outcry in the mainstream media that Ellison is a racist or an anti-Semite.  In the case of Ellison, however, there is ample basis for such a charge.  Years ago, Ellison got involved with the Nation of Islam.  That is an organization that is often called the Black Muslims.  It was begun by Ellijah Muhammed.  He preached that all whites were "devils".  The organization was totally racist and extremely anti-Semitic.  It still is.  After Ellijah Muhammed passed away, he was replaced at the helm of the organization by Louis Farrakhan.  Anyone who has paid attention knows that Farrakhan and his followers are extraordinarily racist and anti-Semitic.  Ellison was associated with the organization for more than a decade.  So where's the outcry about Ellison?  There is only silence.  The "tolerant" Democrats are selecting a racist and anti-Semitic leader, but we hear nothing.

It would have been nice to hope that after the election, the media might decide to opt for truth.  It did not happen.  We still get all pro-Democrat lies all the time.

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