"The Borking of Bannon"

For John, BLUF:  The question was if Mr Trump could accept the election outcome.  It should have been could the Left accept the election outcome.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Borking of Bannon — or Why Trump’s Breitbart Pick Bests the New York Times’ Arthur Sulzberger

A little context.

• The Allgemeiner—"The fastest growing Jewish newspaper in America".
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (Pinch)—Publisher of The New York Times
• Steve Bannon—The Executive Chairman of Breitbart News.
• Breitbart News—An on-line publishing organization that has been dubbed, McCarthy style, an "Alt Right" news source.
• Borking—"o defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way".  (Oxford English Dictionary)
• Robert Bork—Whose nomination to the US Supreme Court was rejected, adding the term Borking to the lexicon.
• Alt-Right—An amorphous group of people who reject the Progressive agenda.
• Mccrthyism—the idea that people are smeared by alleging treason on their part.

Here is the lede for the news story:

The New York Times finds President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Stephen Bannon as counselor to the president to be so alarming that it devoted both its lead front page news article yesterday, a second front-page news article, and its lead editorial to the development, airing the worry that, as one of the news articles put it, Mr. Bannon “will bring anti-Semitic, nationalist and racist views to the West Wing.”

Not likely.

It is sad what a great newspaper has come to.

Read the article.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff