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Lena Dunham Begs Paul Ryan: Please! No Bannon!

Actress Lena Dunham sent Speaker of the House Paul Ryan a voicemail message Monday expressing how “disappointed” she is about President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counsel.

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Levin: Anti-Semitism Charges Against Bannon ‘Absolutely Outrageous’

Monday, on his radio show, Mark Levin argued that allegations of anti-Semitism against newly-appointed White House Chief Strategist & Senior Counselor Stephen K. Bannon are “absolutely ridiculous.” Levin said that while he “strong disagreements” with Bannon’s support of the “nationalist/populist

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CNN: Breitbart TV Would Bring in Trump Base

CNN’s Brian Stelter speculates that the Trump campaign’s use of a Facebook livestream to broadcast coverage before and after Wednesday night’s presidential debate “looked like a no-frills version of a cable news channel” and could presage a future news channel aimed at Trump’s populist center-right supporters.

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‘Torchbearer’ Movie an Urgent Wake-Up Call for American Christians

“A human civilization’s best chance of survival is to anchor itself in the God of creation,” Christian evangelist and reality star Phil Robertson declared in “Torchbearer,” an epic documentary launching in select theaters on Oct. 7 as a clarion call for Christians and people of faith in America to engage their culture before it’s too late.

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Politico: Glenn Beck’s ‘Bad Bet on Cruz’ a Crushing Blow to His Media Empire

Kenneth Vogel and Hadas Gold write in Politico about the latest trouble to strike Glenn Beck’s media empire, as Beck and one of his advertisers sue each other over unpaid bills and claims that the radio talker’s endorsement of Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign and increasingly shrill denunciations of Donald Trump alienated his audience. Politico notes that Beck’s diminished relevance is juxtaposed by the rising influence of Breitbart News, which — along with Matt Drudge, Sarah Palin, and Sean Hannity — Beck has repeatedly attacked during this election cycle.

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Politico: Conservative Media Like Breitbart Built the Conservative Movement

Nicole Hemmer, the Assistant Professor of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, provided Politico an excerpt of her new book, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.” As Hemmer explains in her preface, conservative media outlets like Breitbart have historically provided the backbone of the conservative movement in America.

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New York Times: ‘Breitbart News Has Arrived’

Breitbart News has arrived. The opinion and news site, once a curiosity of the fringe right wing, is now an increasingly powerful voice, and virtual rallying spot, for millions of disaffected conservatives who propelled Donald J. Trump to the Republican nomination for president.

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Hillary to Bannon: Leave Paul Ryan Alone!

In the course of her tin-foily attempt to deflect from her foundation’s pay-to-play scandals by smearing Donald Trump’s supporters as racist Klan members in thrall to Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton defended Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan from the alleged anti-Catholicism of Donald Trump’s campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon.

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Two Words Explain Hillary’s ‘Racist’ Rant Against 31 Million Breitbart Readers: ‘Clinton Cash’

The book-turned-film that has inflicted the most lasting and politically lethal damage to Hillary Clinton and her campaign, “Clinton Cash,” came from the investigative pen of Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer. Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin hails Clinton Cash as “the Right’s greatest success story.” And that is why Hillary Clinton’s campaign has decided to throw a race-baiting temper tantrum aimed at lashing out at the news organization behind the “Clinton Cash” juggernaut, one that has coalesced into media outlets across the political spectrum calling for the Clinton Foundation’s immediate closure.

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Military Times: Stephen K. Bannon ‘a Man of Solid Character’ Whose ‘Conservative Roots Were Always Apparent’

Mark D. Faram of Military Times writes a profile of Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, who has taken a temporary leave from Breitbart to lead Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign. Faram details how Bannon, a former surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, was a “model sailor and driven thinker” and a Reagan conservative from the beginning.

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