What is a nationalist?

On Wednesday, a publicist named Maria Sliwa sent out two emails to reporters offering interviews with positive character witnesses for Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart News chairman and incoming senior adviser to Donald Trump.

Bannon's appointment has been met with disappointment and disgust, given his ties to white nationalism and accusations of anti-Semitism, and so an attempt at a public makeover makes sense. But "it is unusual for publicists to refuse to say who they work for," says Tim Molloy at The Wrap, and Sliwa refused to answer when he asked, saying only, "I'm not working for Bannon" but "I have a client who is."

The two sources that Sliwa proffered were a retired U.S. Navy Seal who could speak to Bannon's time in the U.S. Navy and a Breitbart News employee.

Sliwa has promoted Breitbart News, a graphic novel version of the anti-Clinton book Clinton Cash, and the work of the Government Accountability Institute, an organization founded by that book's author, Peter Schweitzer, and Bannon. When Malloy pointed out that she had done some work for Breitbart, he says, Sliwa replied "Oh God, please no," and hung up.

Perhaps you will get a reprieve from the media and Trump will do his best to apply Putin like tactics to discourage the media from operating in a free press. Americans did not vote for him, the electoral college did. He got lucky, too many people on the left decided to sit out this election.

Perhaps you will get a reprieve from the media and Trump will do his best to apply Putin like tactics to discourage the media from operating in a free press. Americans did not vote for him, the electoral college did. He got lucky, too many people on the left decided to sit out this election.

Uh yeah... that may be politically correct but I don't insist people refer to me as an Italian person I have no problem being referred to as just an Italian.

When a black person calls another black person, who even slightly sympathizes with white people, an Oreo or an Uncle Tom that person is never decried as a racist. However if a Jew or anyone else calls out another Jew who is not pro-israel, they are anti-semites. And in this case who's the one calling them anti-semites at Breitbart? The left media. Feeding those people on the wacko fringe right to flock to Breitbart to voice their anti-semite beliefs about all Jews... See how nicely that works so now the mainstream media can claim that Steve Bannon is antisemitic.

giujohn wrote:

Uh yeah... that may be politically correct but I don't insist people refer to me as an Italian person I have no problem being referred to as just an Italian.

Why should you? "Italian" was never used as an epithet, and you know the epithets that were used pejoratively for Italians.

Decent people are beyond using epithets. However, others may still find a reason to have superficial friendships with those outside their respective group. You can exclude those organizations that afford a degree of camaraderie transcending usual identities, such as the military, law enforcement, academia, etc., etc.