<a href="https://twitter.com/benjaminpenn">Ben Penn</a> of <a href="https://muckrack.com/ben-penn/bio">Bloomberg</a> is a Very Intrepid Journalist™. Ben Penn, you see, is committed to Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing. And because Ben Penn is a Very Intrepid Journalist™ committed to Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing, he decided to launch today a Very Intrepid Piece Of Journalism™ at <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-labor-aide-quits-after-anti-semitic-facebook-posts-surface">Bloomberg Law</a> that regales the reader with the courageous tale of Penn&#8217;s exhumation of a recent U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) political appointee&#8217;s three-year-old &#8220;anti-Semitic&#8221; Facebook post. The oh-so-valiant unearthing of that hitherto buried Facebook post led, you see, to the DOL appointee&#8217;s resignation after less than a month on the job. Surely, somewhere deep in the bowels of the Swamp, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn is now celebrating his day of Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing.
The careful reader — or, rather, any reader with more than one functioning brain cell — will note that the preceding paragraph utilizes a literary device commonly referred to as sarcasm. We here at The Daily Wire are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50382/walsh-i-disavow-daily-wire-matt-walsh">rather familiar</a> with that literary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47579/last-season-democracy-not-good-others-satire-andrew-klavan">device</a>. But Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn seems less familiar with the literay device of sarcasm than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">communist</a> Bernie Sanders is with the economic concept of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45542/watch-hammer-fox-friends-start-educating-american-daily-wire">supply and demand</a>.
Leif Olson, a years-long personal friend of your humble columnist and a principled conservative who had recently uprooted his family from the Lone Star State to the nation&#8217;s capital in order to humbly serve in the Trump administration, was forced to resign last Friday after Penn flagged for DOL a transparently sarcastic Facebook post of Olson&#8217;s dating back to the much-ballyhooed August 2016 Paul Ryan/Paul Nehlen Republican primary race in Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District. Let us consider Olson&#8217;s underlying satirical post, as well as the leading subsequent sardonic comment that Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn deemed sufficient grist for purposes of nabbing a cheap scalp.
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Paul Nehlen, the reader may recall, was a vile <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/paul-nehlen/551312/">alt-right anti-Semite</a> whose failed insurgent bid to supplant Paul Ryan was vociferously backed by Breitbart and other nationalist populist figures. Prior to his later being banned outright from Twitter in 2018 due to serial peddling of Jew-hatred, Nehlen became notorious for promoting on the platform a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-supremacist-paul-nehlen-loses-gop-house-primary-but-garners-11-of-vote/">list of Jewish journalistic conspiracists</a> against him. I would know because, along with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro and other prominent Jewish journalists such as CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, I personally appeared on Nehlen&#8217;s list.
Paul Ryan ended up walloping Paul Nehlen in the August 2016 GOP primary for Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District by an utterly embarrassing margin of 84% – 16%. Cue Olson, then a civilian, who took to his personal Facebook page to mock Nehlen and his buffoonish alt-right supporters in emphatically sarcastic fashion. As Philip Klein <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/shameful-trump-labor-appointee-forced-to-resign-after-bloomberg-portrays-sarcastic-facebook-post-as-anti-semitic">observes</a> today at the Washington Examiner, it ought to take a complete lack of human sentience to miss the obvious sarcasm here: &#8220;If the over-the-top language isn&#8217;t a tip off, it&#8217;s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having &#8216;suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.'&#8221; And as Yair Rosenberg <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/290615/how-the-media-turned-a-trump-appointee-who-mocked-alt-right-anti-semites-into-an-anti-semite">details</a> today at Tablet, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn &#8220;selectively cropped&#8221; out of his calumnious screed &#8220;relevant omitted portions&#8221; and &#8220;essential context&#8221; that makes it entirely clear that Olson — who I personally know to have a very dry sense of humor — was being sarcastic. In response to one Facebook commenter&#8217;s opining that the Ryan/Nehlen race was &#8220;[n]ot Breitbart&#8217;s best day,&#8221; Olson chimed in: &#8220;Not breitbart-dot-com&#8217;s best series of months, I think you mean.&#8221;
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
That is the entire &#8220;story&#8221; here. And for this, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn managed to besmirch a good (if perhaps too sarcastic) man as an ignominious Jew-hater — something he manifestly is not. And what of the Labor Department? The cowardly apparatchiks at DOL who folded like a cheap suit and capitulated to Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn&#8217;s disgraceful attempt to claim a political appointee&#8217;s scalp ought to be brought to task and disciplined. This saga does not merely reveal Ben Penn as an opportunistic blunderbuss; it also reveals a truly shameful look for DOL. Conservatives ought to be up in arms that DOL, a prominent department of the Trump administration, is so unwilling to defend its own appointees against manufactured smear campaigns.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Related: What the heck happened at <a href="https://twitter.com/USDOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USDOL</a> to accept this resignation? Push back against such obviously disingenuous hatchet jobs from journalistic bottom-feeders and defend your political appointees.
Terrible look for the Trump administration.
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1168879269344362496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But don&#8217;t take the outrage just from me or from <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1168893306471931910">Ben</a>. Take it instead from some of the most prominent blue checkmark left-leaning commentators on Twitter:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Ryan is right about this &#8212; this is actually the rarest of things, a case where someone is unfairly fired for remarks that weren&#8217;t bigoted but interpreted as such. <a href="https://t.co/ilzlBE4ihU">https://t.co/ilzlBE4ihU</a>
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1168907822161158145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I know little about Leif Olson and probably strongly disagree with his policy goals, but it seems highly dubious to report his sarcasm as actual antisemitism—again, the context makes it overwhelmingly clear that he was ridiculing antisemites.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1168881139433398272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Trump Labor official Leif Olson has resigned due to a putatively anti-Semitic Facebook post. But if you read the post, it appears to be mocking anti-Semitic conspiracy theories: <a href="https://t.co/C9UPvhKbzz">https://t.co/C9UPvhKbzz</a>
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1168860047029538822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">It’s pretty clear based on the context that he was being sarcastic.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1168878615632629760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Anti-Semitism in America is, harrowingly, <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/430477/no-one-cares-about-attacks-against-the-orthodox-because-youve-been/">very much</a> on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">rise</a>. It is, increasingly, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46528/hammer-jews-simply-must-arm-themselves-now-josh-hammer">dangerous time</a> to be a Jew — especially a more public-facing Orthodox Jew — in these United States. As a proud Jew and Zionist, I take anti-Semitism as seriously as anyone else. But it is affirmatively harmful to the cause of raising awareness of actual, genuine rises in anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence when tendentious muckrakers like Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn embark on rogue crusades to smear innocent men as Jew-haters for the sake of claiming the scalp of a political opponent. Penn, via his Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing, has tragically undermined the cause of extirpating Jew-hatred in America. Ditto the <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-shame-of-the-anti-defamation-league/">farcical leftist leadership</a> of the Anti-Defamation League, whose spokesperson was quoted by Penn as referring to Olson&#8217;s comments as &#8220;clearly anti-Semitic&#8221; before the organization, tail between its legs, <a href="https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1168960242765484032">apparently came around to feeling contrite and expressed a willingness to retract</a> such a mendacity.
There are no actors who escape from this saga looking clean. Shame on Ben Penn. Shame on Ben Penn&#8217;s editors at Bloomberg. Shame on the U.S. Department of Labor. Shame on the Anti-Defamation League. Shame, indeed, on all those actors who are complicit in the false maligning of an upstanding man and the concomitant harm that such maligning has wrought upon the cause of hunting down and excising real, genuine Jew-hatred in America.
DOL must rehire Leif Olson — and it ought to do so as soon as humanly possible. Indeed, if anyone ought to be fired as a result of this imbroglio, it ought to be Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn.

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HAMMER: DISGRACEFUL: Reporter Files Ridiculous Hit Piece Against Trump Department Of Labor Appointee. Administration Dumps Him.

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In a bizarre email that went out to his remaining supporter(s), former Congressional candidate and noted anti-Semite Paul Nehlan urged Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart to &#8216;disavow&#8217; Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro and Daily Wire reporter Kassy Dillon.
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Paul Nehlen email: &#8220;In an article written for <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenShapiro</a>&#8217;s publication, <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyDillon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KassyDillon</a> further ingratiates herself as Ben&#8217;s philosemetic flying monkey, attacking the GOP frontrunner in Virginia, <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyStewartVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoreyStewartVA</a>, for supporting my run against globalist NeverTrumper <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerRyan</a>.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CCTJLiAFNi">pic.twitter.com/CCTJLiAFNi</a>
&#8212; Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1004818321462751232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
The email, sent from Nehlan&#8217;s candidate account, calls Dillon &#8220;Ben&#8217;s philosemetic flying monkey&#8221; for &#8220;attacking the GOP front-runner in Virginia, Corey Stewart for supporting my run against globalist NeverTrumper Paul Ryan.&#8221;
Indeed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31393/watch-va-senate-candidate-corey-stewart-calls-anti-kassy-dillon">Dillon revealed Monday</a> that Stewart is on record calling Nehlan, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26536/former-ryan-challenger-paul-nehlen-goes-full-anti-ben-shapiro">published lists of Jews in the media</a> (which he calls an &#8220;enemies list,&#8221; and which always includes Shapiro), an inspiration and a &#8220;personal hero.&#8221;
&#8220;One of my personal heroes, not from Virginia, but from the great state of Wisconsin, there is Paul Nehlen, who had a lot of courage and took on Speaker Ryan,&#8221; Stewart says on the tape, posted to his candidate account in 2017 and never removed, even when Nehlan was revealed to be an ardent white supremacist. &#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you how much I was inspired by you.&#8221;
Since that fateful day, <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/paul-ryans-primary-opponent-paul-nehlen-retweeted-alt-right-celebrations-of-charlottesville-rallies-embraced-pizzagate/article/2631612">Nehlan has tweeted out photos</a> of anti-Semitic literature, made anti-Semitic threats against Commentary magazine&#8217;s John Podhortz, has spoken approvingly of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended with the death of a counter-protester, and was banned from Twitter for tweeting racist caricatures of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle. He&#8217;s since also been removed from Facebook, and Gab.ai, a Twitter alternative used by members of the so-called &#8220;alt-right,&#8221; for doxing his &#8220;enemies.&#8221;
On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/corey-stewart-paul-nehlen-payment-fundraising-list/index.html">CNN revealed</a> that Stewart paid Nehlan a premium for the use of Nehlan&#8217;s email list.
Stewart responded to the video and report by saying his endorsement happened &#8220;before [Nehlan] went nuts and started spewing a bunch of stupid stuff. When he started saying all that crazy stuff, I wanted nothing to do with him after that.&#8221;
Nehlan was, apparently, unhappy with the distance, and urged, in his email, for Corey Stewart to &#8220;take note&#8221; of Ben Shapiro&#8217;s &#8220;overt anti-White-ism&#8221; (sic), and &#8220;his petulant IsraelFirst-ism&#8221; (sic). He goes on to quote the New Testament&#8217;s Book of Romans and the apostle John, in an effort to accuse Ben Shapiro of being among those masterminding the persecution of &#8220;Christians in Christian lands&#8221; by defending Israel&#8217;s right to exist.
The letter only gets stranger from there.
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Nehlan closes out his letter with the truncated biography of an obviously stable individual, in which he credits himself for single-handedly battling the forces of evil that attack &#8220;America&#8217;s security&#8221; and &#8220;American&#8217;s (sic) free speech.&#8221;
The letter is listed as being &#8220;paid for by volunteers of Nehlan.&#8221;

Anti-Semite Paul Nehlan Urges Corey Stewart To ‘Disavow’ Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro And Kassy Dillon In Bizarre Email

Ben Shapiro

On Tuesday, failed Congressional candidate, former Breitbart favorite, and all-around anti-Semitic dirtbag Paul Nehlen took to Twitter to explain his recent troubles at the hands of the Juden. According to Nehlen, his popularity has only nose-dived because of the nefarious Jewish conspiracy. He tweeted:
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13/ Because Twitter forced me to delete 8-12 of this thread (contrary to the assertions of Sarah Rumpf, a mentally challenged woman who writes for RedState, I did not delete them voluntarily), screenshots are available here: <a href="https://t.co/0GRbdmviVy">https://t.co/0GRbdmviVy</a>
&#8212; Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/958403536521519106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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14/ I&#8217;ve compiled a list of &#8220;verified&#8221; Twitter users who have attacked me *in just the last month alone* for my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaFirst?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaFirst</a> positions. Of those 81 people, 74 are Jews, while only 7 are non-Jews. Here is the list: <a href="https://t.co/2pQlEp0RjU">pic.twitter.com/2pQlEp0RjU</a>
&#8212; Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/958404521952194561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Making lists of Jews is definitely a good way to avoid being labeled anti-Semitic,&#8221; said no one ever.
Nehlen&#8217;s capacity for hate is rivalled only by his incapacity to do basic research. As it turns out, a huge number of the &#8220;Jews&#8221; on the list aren&#8217;t Jewish: Yashar Ali, Kassy Dillon, Jim Swift, Harry Khachatrian, Tiana Lowe, among others. But no matter: according to Nehlen, those who oppose him must be Jews. Because Jews. You know, THE JOOOOOOOOOOS.
Herein lies the stupidity of identity politics. Nehlen&#8217;s district is overwhelmingly Christian. He was defeated by a whopping 68% in his primary race against Paul Ryan. That&#8217;s because most people think he&#8217;s a nut. And his response to most people believing him a nut is to retreat into a group identity &#8211; an identity in a group, by the way, where most people believe he&#8217;s a dolt.
But the good news is that now I have my Channukah gift list all compiled.

Former Ryan Challenger Paul Nehlen Goes Full Anti-Semite, Compiles List Of Jewish Enemies

A disgraced Republican candidate who challenged House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin took a swipe at Steve Bannon on Wednesday in response to controversial quotes made by Bannon in a new book.
Breitbart and Bannon recently denounced Paul Nehlen, who had a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25173/breitbart-and-bannon-anti-semite-nehlen-dead-us-ben-shapiro">penchant for tweeting out blatant anti-Semitic tropes</a>,&#8221; when Bannon advisor Arthur Schwartz declared that &#8220;Nehlen is dead to us.&#8221;
Nehlen saw an opportunity to take a jab at Bannon on Wednesday after the former Trump campaign chairman said special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation would &#8220;crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,&#8221; adding that he thought Trump Jr.&#8217;s meeting with the Russian lawyer was &#8220;treasonous,&#8221; &#8220;unpatriotic,&#8221; and &#8220;bad s***.&#8221;
In an absolutely absurd <a href="https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/948646455505498112">statement</a>, Nehlen wrote:
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As you know, Steve Bannon and Breitbart recently announced I was &#8220;dead to them.&#8221; President Trump has now just made it clear that *they* are dead to *him*. Good thing I had already been disavowed by Bannon and Breitbart, or I might be in an embarrassing position!
I had long considered Bannon and Breitbart a liability to me, my campaign, and the America First agenda. President Trump&#8217;s statement today confirms two points I have been making: First, that Bannon and Breitbart are unwilling to stand for a true America First agenda, and second, that because of this, they are nothing more than &#8220;controlled opposition&#8221; with no intention of winning the battle we have been tirelessly waging to Make America Great Again.
That brand of deception ends now.
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Nehlen lost to Ryan in the 2016 Republican primary by 68 points, and that was with Breitbart actively promoting his campaign in a bid to unseat the incumbent. Without Breitbart&#8217;s backing, Nehlen has even less of a chance of achieving success, and his statement attacking his former allies reeks of someone who is in denial about reality and is desperately trying to save face.

Disgraced GOP Candidate Takes Swipe At Bannon In Biggest Loser Battle

Andrew Breitbart

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On Wednesday evening, CNN reported that Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon had finally disassociated from their onetime chosen candidate to dethrone Paul Ryan in his Congressional seat, Paul Nehlen. According to Arthur Schwartz, a Bannon advisor, &#8220;Nehlen is dead to us.&#8221;
It took long enough. And it came after Bannon spoke at a rally for credibly accused child molester Roy Moore in Alabama just two weeks ago. Breitbart News has yet to write an article about Nehlen&#8217;s recent penchant for tweeting out blatant anti-Semitic tropes. Nehlen responded to Breitbart&#8217;s disassociation by essentially calling them globalists, a rich reward for the site that popularized the term:
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Putting America First above all other nations, such as being pro-wall and for freedom of lawful speech, has brought a coordinated attack by globalists from both parties; nevertheless I will continue to stand strong against anti-American sentiment, however it manifests.
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Here&#8217;s the problem: Nehlen&#8217;s been painting in various hues of unhinged nuttery for months now, as Lachlan Markay of The Daily Beast traced on December 7. In early December, Nehlen retweeted someone calling Muslims &#8220;towel heads.&#8221; He also labeled a Muslim &#8220;Achmed&#8221; and a black man &#8220;Tyrone.&#8221; He suggested that God should punish California with a massive earthquake for its status as &#8220;Sodom and Gomorrah.&#8221; He stated that Gabby Giffords should have outdrawn her shooter.
Nothing from Breitbart.
In recent days, Nehlen has begun tweeting out pictures of an anti-Semitic book he&#8217;s reading, as well as tropes about American foreign policy putting Israel first. He&#8217;s retweeted &#8220;anuddah shoah&#8221; jokes, favorites among the anti-Semitic alt-right, and he&#8217;s told Commentary magazine editor John Podhoretz to &#8220;eat a bullet.&#8221;
And <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/paul-ryans-primary-opponent-paul-nehlen-retweeted-alt-right-celebrations-of-charlottesville-rallies-embraced-pizzagate/article/2631612">back in August</a>, he retweeted a series of images from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. For good measure, he celebrated the unsupported Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Nothing from Breitbart.
Finally, when CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper began pushing Breitbart, they backed down:
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Book blaming Jews for anti-Semitism, written by the Neo-Nazi movement&#8217;s fave &#8220;academic,&#8221; being pushed by Breitbart favorite Paul Nehlen. <a href="https://t.co/TbGJRq1Bnj">https://t.co/TbGJRq1Bnj</a>
&#8212; Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/946001133981577218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Then Breitbart ran a piece <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/27/fake-tapper-very-fake-news-anchor-leads-re-ignition-of-cnn-scandal/">smacking Tapper</a>. Of course.
This isn&#8217;t anything new for Breitbart. This is the same outlet whose leader, Bannon, declared Milo Yiannopoulos, another <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/08/08/paul-ryans-alt-conservatism/">Nehlen fan</a>, &#8220;dead to me&#8221; last year &#8212; after boosting him with cash and publicity for months following Yiannopoulos&#8217; open embrace of the alt-right. Bannon himself called Breitbart &#8220;the platform for the alt-right.&#8221;
The connection doesn&#8217;t stop there. Yiannopoulos wrote a piece glorifying the anti-Semitic alt-right and deliberately championing Nehlen as one of their emissaries last year:
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Ryan is also frightened of the alt-right because he knows they can&#8217;t be contained. His primary opponent, Paul Nehlen, shares many of their positions&#8212; <a href="https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/761174034541314053" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">just read through Nehlen&#8217;s 39-tweet barrage for a better idea of what he represents.</a> And he&#8217;s likely just the first of a new generation of insurgent candidates with alt-right tendencies.
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So, should we take Breitbart&#8217;s newfound horror at Nehlen particularly seriously? Let&#8217;s take a look at the evidence. These are the same people whose moral scruples led them to send reporters <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/media/breitbart-alex-marlow-roy-moore/index.html">down to Alabama</a> in an attempt to discredit Roy Moore&#8217;s accusers &#8212; and even Breitbart&#8217;s editor-in-chief Alex Marlow now admits that he believes that the woman who accused Moore of molesting her when she was 14 &#8220;had a lot of credibility.&#8221; These are the same folks who use globes around particular names, leading their own editor-at-large, Joel Pollak, to admit that he&#8217;s not fond of the term &#8220;globalist&#8221; because &#8220;it&#8217;s similar to the kind of thing that people have said in the past when they want to target minorities&#8230;Yeah, I don&#8217;t like the globe.&#8221;
Breitbart News isn&#8217;t an anti-Semitic outlet. But they&#8217;re certainly willing to hobnob with anti-Semites and societal dregs whom Steve Bannon believes can benefit him. And that&#8217;s not going to stop just because they got caught with their pants around their ankles with Paul Nehlen. Andrew Breitbart would be ashamed of what the publication bearing his name has become.

Breitbart and Bannon: Anti-Semite Nehlen ‘Dead To Us.’ Here’s Why Nobody Should Take Their Disavowal Seriously.

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Exhibiting delusions of grandeur, Paul Nehlen, who was championed by Donald Trump and Breitbart.com as a challenger they hoped would unseat Paul Ryan in the Wisconsin GOP primary and then was decimated, announced he plans to challenge Ryan as Speaker of the House.
That is a truly hilarious prospect, since Nehlen was creamed by Ryan in the primary, 85%-15%.
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NEW: Paul Ryan&#8217;s former primary opponent Paul Nehlen announces plan to challenge Ryan as Speaker of the House. <a href="https://t.co/eqfYGCpx53">pic.twitter.com/eqfYGCpx53</a>
&#8212; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/791390538209628160">October 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Breitbart.com pushed Nehen hard, as seen <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/25/nehlen-stands-angel-moms/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/06/ann-coulter-lights-wisconsin-fire-paul-nehlen-paul-ryan-last-chance-save-america/">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/08/09/paul-nehlen-paul-ryan-soulless-globalist-snake-smoked-snake-hole/">here</a>, and infamously <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/04/no-debates-no-open-press-events-declining-fox-news-paul-ryan-running-scared-final-days-ahead-primary-election/">printed</a> that Ryan was &#8220;running scared&#8221; of Nehlen; Sarah Palin <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/palin-favorite-paul-nehlen-is-challenging-paul-ryan-in-ridiculous-fashion-maybe-we-can-arm-wrestle/">pushed for him</a>; Trump <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-ryan-paul-nehlen-election-2016/">championed his candidacy</a> as well, but finally endorsed Ryan when it became clear he would win a crushing victory and embarrass Trump for siding with Nehlen,
As The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/8140/ryans-revenge-crushing-trumps-choice-wisconsin-hank-berrien%5D">noted</a> in early August:
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Nehlen has also claimed to be a small business owner of a company called Blue Skies Global LLC, but the claim has been disputed by WISN, which <a href="http://newstalk1130.iheart.com/onair/common-sense-central-37717/is-paul-ryans-primary-opponent-really-14832665/?platform=hootsuite">investigated the issue</a> and concluded, &#8220;Blue Skies Global LLC appears to be nothing more than Nehlen giving business advice to his friends. It is a small business with no employees, no revenue, no tax filings, and no clients that the Nehlen campaign wished to identify.&#8221;
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&#8220;Paul Ryan is a man who is openly working to undermine Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to win back the White House for Republicans.&#8221;
Paul Nehlen, who lost to Ryan 85%-15% in the GOP primary
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Nehlen also provided some hilarity by making a video in which he posed on a motorcycle while spouting tough-guy style, &#8220;Mr. Speaker, you championed this trade deal. Why don&#8217;t you come back to Wisconsin and debate me man-to-man, face-to-face, on the realities of PPP. If you don&#8217;t want to debate me, maybe we can arm wrestle.&#8221;