President Trump comes under fire for saying, “In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people, and you’re being very disloyal to Israel.” Did Trump’s effort to attack Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar conjure an anti-Semitic trope and poison his efforts to win Jews to the Republican Party? How have Republicans failed to attract a group of voters who should love the party’s view of Israel?
The NY Times finds a troubled young college dropout who claims YouTube turned him from Liberal to Alt-Right radical — that he was “brainwashed” by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm which led him ever deeper into the right-wing “rabbit hole.” The Times illustrates the story with a collage of commentators, including Bill Whittle, Stefan Molyneux, Steven Crowder, and Ben Shapiro, implying they’re culpable for the brainwashing. Bill Whittle reacts to this new, libelous, effort by a Progressive flagship to shut down freedom of speech.
Is the Pledge of Allegiance a nativist, white nationalist creed? A Progressive California professor says so. He wants it banned from meetings of his college board of trustees. Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott parse the pledge line by line to discover its essence.