In defense of Steve Bannon and Breitbart.com

Before the election and after, Steve Bannon, the former chief executive officer of Breitbart.com and the newly named chief strategist and senior counselor for President-elect Donald Trump, has been under fire from both the media and political establishments he has battled so effectively and vociferously.

He's been called a racist, a hate-monger and an anti-Semite in some of the most vicious and groundless attacks I've ever witnessed.

As an old friend and colleague of the late Andrew Breitbart and a new media pioneer myself, I am more than a little familiar with such coordinated offensives.

That's why I can't sit on the sidelines and watch as the real racists, the real purveyors of hate speech and the real anti-Semites have their way with courageous, independent voices – even if they have been, in some sense of the term, "competitors."

The next wave of assaults, I predict, will come not just from the euphemistically monikered "mainstream media" and the cultural and political elite. It will come from the self-consciously, politically correct corporate establishment that seeks to elevate itself by tearing down Bannon and Breitbart.com with hateful lies.

For example, a company called AppNexus, which bills itself as a leading advertising technology firm, says it has banned Breitbart.com from using its ad tools. Why? "We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line, using either coded or overt language," said AppNexus spokesman Joshua Zeitz. He goes on to say: "We would ban this as quickly as a site that has pornography and violence."

Note that AppNexus doesn't cite a single pornography or violence purveyor it has banned from using its technology.

Fine.

In America, thank God, we all have the inalienable right of free association.

You want to slop with the pigs, be my guest.

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But, if you stand opposed to free speech, you won't get my business either. Therefore, I'll save AppNexus the trouble of blacklisting me and WND by proactively dissociating our company from any interest in its technology.

If you falsely label and smear freedom fighters like Bannon and Breitbart.com as advocates of hate, who needs you?

If you side with those who want to constrict liberty and open debate, you are an enemy of both.

I strongly encourage all others who feel like I do to follow suit. To the best of your ability, shop wisely and work only with businesses that affirm life, liberty, truth and justice.

That's not to say I agree with Bannon or Breitbart.com on everything. Just the opposite. WND.com has a different approach, different standards and practices, even a different mission.

But if anti-establishment media pioneers don't hang together, we will most assuredly hang separately, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.

By the way, Breitbart.com and WND.com are doing just fine without AppNexus and will continue to do so without the help of fascist, groupthink, corporate lackeys like them. Bretibart.com is, without question, one of the leaders in traffic in the alternative media, and WND.com has been around for an unprecedented 20 years – right there with the DrudgeReport, another indispensable resource for truth-seekers.

As for Bannon, expect the attacks to continue on him as he steps into a new role in the Trump administration. So be it. It comes with the territory. If Trump had named some establishment figure to "drain the swamp," he wouldn't have been serious about that campaign promise.

Maybe it's time to take the fight to corporate America and the culture at large.

If we want to save freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America, the Stalinesque lies of political correctness need to be exposed, attacked and defeated at every turn.

The very future of a free America depends on it.

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