Bannon Ready for #War With a Long List of Targets
Before Mr. Bannon’s ouster, Breitbart — surprise, surprise — had been fiercely attacking Mr. Bannon’s West Wing rivals like Mr. McMaster (“Endangering U. S. National Security,” said one recent Breitbart headline)
and Mr. Cohn (“Spotted Partying with Wall Street Elite at Hamptons ‘Pink Party,’” said another)
But some of them — most of all Mr. Kushner — have had powerful defenders in other parts of the conservative media.
“He needs talk radio, Drudge, Fox News, to act as megaphones.”
Breitbart did go to war with Fox News last year, attacking when it thought Fox hosts — like Megyn Kelly — were being too hard on Mr. Trump.
“While I respect Stephen Bannon as being a voice for the conservative movement, I don’t think he represents it,
and Newsmax has always had a policy and an approach of being a big tent.” Therefore, Mr. Ruddy said, “It wouldn’t really be a good fit for us.”
Then again, on the CNN program “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, Mr. Bannon’s biographer, Joshua Green of Bloomberg News, noted, “Bannon has always said
that ‘TV is not where it’s at,’” noting that “the rising generation of populist conservatives were more web-focused.”
Online is where Breitbart derives its power.
And, given that Breitbart became its most aggressive self — with an appeal to at least some who consider
themselves white nationalists — under Mr. Bannon, the rest of us may be in for an even wilder ride.
