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06-12-2017, 10:10 AM
Interesting article about Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and how the propaganda outlet is operating these days.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/7/15758376/kurt-bardella-breitbart-bannon-trump
Controversy has once again enveloped Breitbart when one of their writers, Katie McHugh, tweeted (https://twitter.com/k_mcq/status/871138163728809984), “There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there. #LondonBridge” in response to the London terror attacks. Within 24 hours, she was fired (http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html).
To most observers, this was a commonsense move. You cannot defend the indefensible, so the only appropriate course of action was to terminate the employee.
But as a former Breitbart employee, I shook my head in confusion — this is the same employee who has tweeted a litany (http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html) of racist, anti-immigrant, and other hateful things in the past.
What Katie tweeted is very much consistent with a worldview she has espoused publicly for quite some time. So why was this the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back? What's so different now that this was Breitbart's response?
From 2013 to 2016, I worked as a media consultant for Breitbart News. Before that, I worked on Capitol Hill as a spokesperson for various Republican members of the House, the Senate, and the House Oversight Committee. Nowadays, you can catch me on MSNBC (http://bit.ly/TrumpLoyalty) and CNN (http://bit.ly/TrumpLondon) talking about the political news of the day.
I left Breitbart because I did not want to work for the Trump propaganda outfit that Breitbart had morphed into in the 2016 election. I’m on the outside now, but looking at what Breitbart has become, I believe Katie McHugh’s firing had to do with the very reason I wanted to quit: protecting the political ambitions of Steve Bannon.
Continue Reading (https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/7/15758376/kurt-bardella-breitbart-bannon-trump)
Details on the fired writer:
Katie McHugh, the Breitbart writer who tweeted a number of incendiary remarks in the immediate aftermath of the London terror attack, is no longer with the right-wing news site, four sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow announced McHugh's departure internally Monday morning. After this article was initially published, McHugh herself confirmed she was out, tweeting (https://twitter.com/k_mcq/status/871770296667299841), "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration" and posting a link to a fundraising page started to support her on the fringe right website WeSearchr. McHugh had ignited controversy on Saturday night when she wrote on Twitter that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there." "You're a real moron," actor Pej Vahdat replied. "You're an Indian," shot back McHugh, incorrectly identifying the ethnicity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.
McHugh's comments prompted outrage from a number of her own colleagues. Breitbart employees who spoke to CNN Sunday characterized McHugh's remarks as "appalling," "terrible," and "dumb." McHugh has a history of posting racially tinged remarks on social media. She once tweeted, "Mexicans wrecked Mexico & think invading the USA will magically cure them them of their retarded dysfunction. LOL." In other tweets, she was disparaging of other cultures and said, for example, "another Crusade would do a lot of good. It was not clear if Ryan Saavedra, a Breitbart writer who called for the return of the crusades after the London terror attack, was also still with the company. Neither McHugh nor a Breitbart spokesperson immediately responded to a request for comment.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/7/15758376/kurt-bardella-breitbart-bannon-trump
Controversy has once again enveloped Breitbart when one of their writers, Katie McHugh, tweeted (https://twitter.com/k_mcq/status/871138163728809984), “There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there. #LondonBridge” in response to the London terror attacks. Within 24 hours, she was fired (http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html).
To most observers, this was a commonsense move. You cannot defend the indefensible, so the only appropriate course of action was to terminate the employee.
But as a former Breitbart employee, I shook my head in confusion — this is the same employee who has tweeted a litany (http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html) of racist, anti-immigrant, and other hateful things in the past.
What Katie tweeted is very much consistent with a worldview she has espoused publicly for quite some time. So why was this the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back? What's so different now that this was Breitbart's response?
From 2013 to 2016, I worked as a media consultant for Breitbart News. Before that, I worked on Capitol Hill as a spokesperson for various Republican members of the House, the Senate, and the House Oversight Committee. Nowadays, you can catch me on MSNBC (http://bit.ly/TrumpLoyalty) and CNN (http://bit.ly/TrumpLondon) talking about the political news of the day.
I left Breitbart because I did not want to work for the Trump propaganda outfit that Breitbart had morphed into in the 2016 election. I’m on the outside now, but looking at what Breitbart has become, I believe Katie McHugh’s firing had to do with the very reason I wanted to quit: protecting the political ambitions of Steve Bannon.
Continue Reading (https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/7/15758376/kurt-bardella-breitbart-bannon-trump)
Details on the fired writer:
Katie McHugh, the Breitbart writer who tweeted a number of incendiary remarks in the immediate aftermath of the London terror attack, is no longer with the right-wing news site, four sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow announced McHugh's departure internally Monday morning. After this article was initially published, McHugh herself confirmed she was out, tweeting (https://twitter.com/k_mcq/status/871770296667299841), "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration" and posting a link to a fundraising page started to support her on the fringe right website WeSearchr. McHugh had ignited controversy on Saturday night when she wrote on Twitter that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there." "You're a real moron," actor Pej Vahdat replied. "You're an Indian," shot back McHugh, incorrectly identifying the ethnicity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.
McHugh's comments prompted outrage from a number of her own colleagues. Breitbart employees who spoke to CNN Sunday characterized McHugh's remarks as "appalling," "terrible," and "dumb." McHugh has a history of posting racially tinged remarks on social media. She once tweeted, "Mexicans wrecked Mexico & think invading the USA will magically cure them them of their retarded dysfunction. LOL." In other tweets, she was disparaging of other cultures and said, for example, "another Crusade would do a lot of good. It was not clear if Ryan Saavedra, a Breitbart writer who called for the return of the crusades after the London terror attack, was also still with the company. Neither McHugh nor a Breitbart spokesperson immediately responded to a request for comment.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/media/breitbart-katie-mchugh/index.html