Posted on 11/22/2016 11:01:09 AM PST by SJackson
Blurb quoting white supremacist leader was poor judgment and we very much regret it and apologize
CNN apologized for a banner flashed onscreen during a segment on white supremacist groups which read, Alt-right founder questions whether Jews are people.
The segment was aired Monday on The Lead, which was being guest-hosted by Jim Sciutto.
On Tuesday, CNN said in a statement concerning the banner, known as a chyron: It was poor judgment and we very much regret it and apologize.
The Monday segment concerned statements made over the weekend by Richard Spencer at an event of his white supremacist think tank National Policy Institute. Spencer suggested that the news media had been critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump in order to protect Jewish interests. One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem, Spencer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
The Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the alt-
Right, whcih as youo noted was published by Breitbart, cited Spencer as “the leading thinker” of the alt-right. Spencer is the one who leads this bunch of malcontents doing the Nazi salute.
Bannon told Mother Jones that he had made Breitbart into “the platform for the alt-right.”
A movement led by Spencer, and which counts among its leaders the likes of Jared Taylor. people who lead movements and websites that can’t be cited here at FR, and who espouse attitudes that are banned here at FR.
Oh so now they’re calling antisemitism HATRED a mistake again, due the guy drinking coffee looking into the camera not half awake way saying ,”NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN,”
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