OMB, libs see racism everywhere. Our American culture of equal values for all, religious liberty, free speech, assimilation, our Bill of Rights (that form much of our culture), etc. If someone wishes to believe we are a hopelessly racist country, they will see racism in everything they do and see. Sadly Gregory, admittedly an idiot, once held a place of great honor in the media and is's scary that he held such a position. But Gregory was not alone, the other idiots on this panel were even more hyperbolic with zero evidence.
Take Sweden for example, a country often touted as having a great culture. Did you know if you say something that someone deems offensive, you could be subject to government investigation? I never knew that until the riots that occurred there recently. I hate to tell libs this, but we are the greatest country on the planet. We are exceptional. We have an exceptional form of government and a Constitution that guarantees individual rights like none other. We selflessly give. We sacrifice our soldiers lives to protect other countries. We saved the world, not once, not twice but three times.
White House Political Adviser Steve Bannon appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday where he discussed the importance of American culture, among other things. But that didn’t sit well with some of CNN’s political analysts; particularly with David Gregory, who condemned Bannon on Anderson Cooper 360 claiming that “The language of the uniqueness of American culture is this kind of white nationalist language to me that harkens back to the kind of language we've heard before.”
Gregory asserted that it was a question Bannon needed to answer, while he immediately tried to distance himself from his fresh smear by stating, “I don't know him. I don't know what's in his heart.” But that didn’t preclude him from making some pretty heavy assumptions about Bannon’s “worldview:”
There is a worldview there that I think will trouble a lot of Trump opponents about the uniqueness of America somehow being separated from our -- the history of being such a multicultural society. A welcoming society and a society that assimilates outsiders really well. Assimilates immigrants really, really well there is a comparison to the vulnerability of Europe that somehow we are the same. And I think immigrants assimilate into America both economically, socially, and culturally much better than other countries as part of the greatness of this country.
Those comments by Gregory came after a fellow panelist continued to push the tired claims that Bannon himself was a white supremacist.
“The same person that has fostered, like, stoked these divisions this very extremist language when it comes to people of color, women, Jewish people, Muslims,” said Symone Sanders the former National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign, “So, I think what Steve Bannon was getting to was his nationalist populism…”
“I still believe that we have put white supremacy in the White House with Steve Bannon. So it looked temperate on that stage today but –,” Sanders continued before being cut off by moderator Anderson Cooper, who pressed her on the veracity of her claims of white supremacy.
“When you say, that is that based solely on the one line that Steve Bannon said in an interview about Breitbart being the platform for the alt-right,” Cooper asked, “Because I mean in terms of his actual language, is there anything you can actually point to that says he is white supremacist?”
Sander’s response was a quick quip, “Alt-right is nothing but white supremacy dressed up in khakis in my opinion.” She went on to rant about Bannon’s time at Breitbart and falsely argued the news site was his “child” and “baby.” When, in fact, it was the brainchild of its namesake, Andrew Breitbart.
Take Sweden for example, a country often touted as having a great culture. Did you know if you say something that someone deems offensive, you could be subject to government investigation? I never knew that until the riots that occurred there recently. I hate to tell libs this, but we are the greatest country on the planet. We are exceptional. We have an exceptional form of government and a Constitution that guarantees individual rights like none other. We selflessly give. We sacrifice our soldiers lives to protect other countries. We saved the world, not once, not twice but three times.
White House Political Adviser Steve Bannon appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday where he discussed the importance of American culture, among other things. But that didn’t sit well with some of CNN’s political analysts; particularly with David Gregory, who condemned Bannon on Anderson Cooper 360 claiming that “The language of the uniqueness of American culture is this kind of white nationalist language to me that harkens back to the kind of language we've heard before.”
Gregory asserted that it was a question Bannon needed to answer, while he immediately tried to distance himself from his fresh smear by stating, “I don't know him. I don't know what's in his heart.” But that didn’t preclude him from making some pretty heavy assumptions about Bannon’s “worldview:”
There is a worldview there that I think will trouble a lot of Trump opponents about the uniqueness of America somehow being separated from our -- the history of being such a multicultural society. A welcoming society and a society that assimilates outsiders really well. Assimilates immigrants really, really well there is a comparison to the vulnerability of Europe that somehow we are the same. And I think immigrants assimilate into America both economically, socially, and culturally much better than other countries as part of the greatness of this country.
Those comments by Gregory came after a fellow panelist continued to push the tired claims that Bannon himself was a white supremacist.
“The same person that has fostered, like, stoked these divisions this very extremist language when it comes to people of color, women, Jewish people, Muslims,” said Symone Sanders the former National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign, “So, I think what Steve Bannon was getting to was his nationalist populism…”
“I still believe that we have put white supremacy in the White House with Steve Bannon. So it looked temperate on that stage today but –,” Sanders continued before being cut off by moderator Anderson Cooper, who pressed her on the veracity of her claims of white supremacy.
“When you say, that is that based solely on the one line that Steve Bannon said in an interview about Breitbart being the platform for the alt-right,” Cooper asked, “Because I mean in terms of his actual language, is there anything you can actually point to that says he is white supremacist?”
Sander’s response was a quick quip, “Alt-right is nothing but white supremacy dressed up in khakis in my opinion.” She went on to rant about Bannon’s time at Breitbart and falsely argued the news site was his “child” and “baby.” When, in fact, it was the brainchild of its namesake, Andrew Breitbart.