Is Breitbart the media "platform for the alt-right" ?

[ProudModerate2]

Stephen Bannon, chairman of Breitbart Media and one of trump's new high-in-command leaders for his campaign, told Mother Jones "We're the platform for the alt-right," when interviewed at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July.
Link: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news

Question : Do you believe that Breitbart News (website) is a major media "platform for the alt-right" movement ?

Vote and discuss.

[Beezer]

I think they prefer the Daily Stormer.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

I think they prefer the Daily Stormer.

Not to be confused with Der Stürmer.

[Hnv1]

I thought The Right Stuff is their haven

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Yes.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

[Devout Centrist]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

Hypocrites.

I've read Breitbart. It's pure, unadulterated crap served on a bun. At least Huffpo has an aggregate poll average, which is useful. Breitbart is so smug, it makes smug liberals look downright humble.

[Clark Kent]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

That's because there is a huge difference between Breitbart the man and Breitbart the newspaper. Andrew Breitbart would be rolling in his grave right now.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

Hypocrites.

I've read Breitbart. It's pure, unadulterated crap served on a bun. At least Huffpo has an aggregate poll average, which is useful. Breitbart is so smug, it makes smug liberals look downright humble.

Breitbart didn't become trash until after Andrew Breitbart died.

[TJ in Oregon]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

Hypocrites.

I've read Breitbart. It's pure, unadulterated crap served on a bun. At least Huffpo has an aggregate poll average, which is useful. Breitbart is so smug, it makes smug liberals look downright humble.

Breitbart didn't become trash until after Andrew Breitbart died.

Well, it was always a little loony, but it didn't completely lose the last touches with reality until this past year. Once Andrew Breitbart died then it became a Trumpian Pravda tabloid and never looked back.

[Vosem]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

We probably still would love Breitbart if, you know, Breitbart was actually still the guy in charge of it.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

That's because there is a huge difference between Breitbart the man and Breitbart the newspaper. Andrew Breitbart would be rolling in his grave right now.

The same Andrew Breitbart who called Occupy protesters "rapist scumbag freaks?" Andrew Breitbart had and would today have no right to oppose Trump considering his own beliefs and his own personal rhetorical style. Breitbart and company are the exact archetype of the Republicans who fostered the conditions that Trump ultimately exploited. It has nothing to do with Trump's personal or political disagreements. These Breitbart/Ted Cruz/Marco Rubio "True Conservatives" are in fact nothing more than a giant Potemkin village for the party establishment that quite literally almost destroyed this country during Dubya's presidency.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Literally, all the #NeverTrump Republicans loved Breitbart until this year. I can remember many of the #NeverTrump folks I know from my personal experiences in politics memorializing him profusely when Breitbart himself died.

That's because there is a huge difference between Breitbart the man and Breitbart the newspaper. Andrew Breitbart would be rolling in his grave right now.

Andrew Breitbart was scum, just like Bannon and friends, so I doubt it.

But he was their kind of scum.

[Maxwell]

Andrew Breitbart would not be "rolling in his grave". He'd be over-joyed he found such a revenue stream and more of a platform to be gross and disgusting.

[DavidB.]

Nah. 4chan is. But yeah, Breitbart's gone off the deep end - ClarkKent, Vosem and TJ are right on about that.

[they don't love you like i love you]

The thing about Breitbart which is why I would've considered him a joke even if I was a conservative, is that he never really cared about policy, I don't recall him ever talking about reducing the rates in tax brackets or anything. He seemed to think that just being an obnoxious offensive jackass in an effort to undermine "cultural Marxism" (which by the way is not just something he intended to be a hyperbolic slur, Breitbart really did believe that there was a Marxist conspiracy to take over America, and that a big portion of that was undermining it via feminism and political correctness and liberal values...seriously) was the most important cause of our times. Which made it a perfect fit.

Milo is pretty much the same thing on steroids, which is why I'm pretty sure anyone who actually likes him is a real life bully (as I've accused Classic Conservative of), to anyone who believes that he's simply a "strong conservative voice" or whatever please point me to any time he wrote a long well thought out and sourced attack on Obamacare or liberal tax policy or environmental policies or something. No he doesn't, he just declares his birthday "Patriarchy Day" and then openly calls to sexually harass women on it because OMG THAT IS SO F[INKS]ING HILARIOUS.

[Green Line]

Didn't Breitbart have something to do with the Anthony Weiner scandal, or am I misremembering?  I thank him for bringing us that entertainment.  He was never my favorite, and I do consider him a precursor to the alt-right, but I imagine he's rolling in his grave over what they've done to his name.

[Badger]

Andrew Breitbart would not be "rolling in his grave". He'd be over-joyed he found such a revenue stream and more of a platform to be gross and disgusting.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Didn't Breitbart have something to do with the Anthony Weiner scandal, or am I misremembering?  I thank him for bringing us that entertainment.  He was never my favorite, and I do consider him a precursor to the alt-right, but I imagine he's rolling in his grave over what they've done to his name.

Ironic timing!

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Isn't /pol/?