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If only it were The Onion. But its Breitbart News.

Liberals explode with vitriol as #NotMySuperBowlChamps trends on social media is the headline atop this profound cultural revelation:

As the New England Patriots took yet another Super Bowl win, liberals from coast to coast exploded with vitriol on social media, furious that a team with tangential links to President Donald Trump came out on top Sunday. Since that final touchdown, the hashtag #NotMySuperBowlChamps and other similar tags have been trending. (Breitbart)

Huh?

The left-wing sports media has been out for blood for the better part of a year because Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and team owner Robert Kraft all came out as unapologetic fans of President Trump. And now that theyve won the Super Bowl, the left has turned apoplectic.

It even bought into one tweet whose author conceded he was joking with a faux anti-left diatribe. He later wrote, Even Breitbart thought I was being serious. I guess parody doesnt work when its so close to the loony reality. (lamknight7)

But if I had to guess, this looks like it was made up out of whole cloth by Breitbart. Shouldnt they be reporting on all the terrorist attacks you guys are ignoring? said Andrew Rudalevige, a Patriots fan whos a political scientist at Bowdoin College in Maine.

Given that the goal here is to blame anything Trump cant control like the media, like the judges for everything that goes wrong, yes, theyre serious, said Keith Olbermann, whos starring in a series of web videos called The Resistance for GQ.

As even the kind of quick perusal of the Goebbels approach that the late Andrew Breitbart and his cheesier successors wouldve made, the propaganda has to get wilder and wilder, but more importantly it has to get faster and faster, as you move forward.

Oops

For a very early print edition Sunday, The Boston Globe assumed that the giant deficit faced by the New England Patriots would stand. A Bitter End fronted that edition. (USA Today)

While the cutline reflected that the game wasnt over, it was below the fold. So, readers who got the early edition of the Globe were treated to a headline that boldly implied the Patriots lost.

Foxs O.T. bonus

Because ad sales are about managing contingencies, Fox had pre-sold a number of bonus spots on the odd chance that Super Bowl LI would require a little temporal wiggle room, and as that prospect became a reality, other brands began making inquiries of their own. (Ad Age)

We always have overtime agreements in place, and did so this year, said Fox Networks Group Exec VP-Ad Sales Bruce Lefkowitz. We were also garnering commitments in real-time. We would have liked the greatest Super Bowl in history to go on forever, and were prepared if it did.

Trump, Bannon vs. The Times

As Trump and Steve Bannon fulminate about the awful media, notably The New York Times, they might look at both a news story and an analysis by longtime Supreme Court and legal affairs writer Adam Liptak. Smart, measured, non-judgmental, fair. On the legal issues at hand on the immigration flap:

A ruling by the court on Mr. Trumps travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries could help answer some crucial legal questions: How much independent constitutional authority does the president have over immigration, and how much power has Congress given him?

The likely answer to both questions: a lot. But other parts of the Constitution may temper or defeat that power. Among them are the due process and equal protection clauses and the First Amendments ban on government establishment of religion.

Bannon would be hard-pressed to find anything remotely as strong at, lets say, Breitbart News.

Headline of the day

This White House list contradicts Trumps claim the news media ignores terror attacks (BuzzFeed) Yes, more confirmable falsehoods.

Watching the governments overseas media

This is from BBG Watch, a long-time, and at times decidedly contentious, newsletter by activists in an outside the Broadcast Board of Governors, which oversees media that includes the Voice of America:

Correction: An earlier version of this commentary had a reference to tweets and retweets allegedly posted on by a manager in the Voice of America Persian Service. We were subsequently informed that the Twitter account, which showed as having been started in March 2013 and, until it was shut down by last week, belonged to an impostor and not to any manager or staffer in the VOA Persian Service.

...How such an allegedly impostor VOA Persian Service directors Twitter account could have existed for so long and be followed by the VOA Persian Service itself, as well as VOA journalists and managers, without anybody at the VOA and the BBG alerting the public that it was a fake account, is still a mystery and a stunning admission of management failure at the Voice of America and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

The take from Cambodia

William Holland, a retired former State Department official who lives half the year in Cambodia, saw a piece here about the use of social media by the right-wing. He chimes in:

Cambodia offers an interesting example of the powerful impact of social media in expected and perhaps unexpected ways. The original view was that social media in Cambodia (use of which is surging) would help opposition parties get their message out in an environment where the government/ruling party essentially controls the media.

They have had in fact some success in this, but as the attached article argues, clever leaders can also use social media to great effect as well at worse as another tool of authoritarian power. The author may overstate the danger in the US, but worldwide this is a fascinating phenomenon to watch. (East Asia Forum)

Real reason tech firms fighting Trump immigration move

Its not that tech firms get much talent from any of the seven countries. But, According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 24 percent of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce in computer-related occupations is foreign-born, compared with 16.7 percent of the general U.S. workforce. Thats only possible because the U.S. is so strong in the international competition for tech talent. (Bloomberg)

Now a court says Google must fork over emails

Just south of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals district, a Pennsylvania (3rd Circuit) federal judge has come to (nearly) the opposite conclusion on law enforcements access to emails stored overseas. The first case deals with Microsoft, this with Google, in particular two FBI SCA (Stored Communications Act) warrants seeking emails that Google says arent stored in the United States. (TechDirt)

Google, however, also says the sought emails could be at any of its data storage sites which would include those in the US. It all depends on when its asked to retrieve the communications.

Alas, this new decision part company with the appeals decision, which concluded that emails in an Irish data center are not subject of warrants issued by U.S. law enforcement. The court explains Googles process for handling user data, which is built for efficiency, rather than whats central to the FBIs demands: efficiency of retrieval in response to law enforcement requests. Heres the latest ruling.

Trying to keep sane

Outside of work, I dont speak very much about my job reporting on crime and violence in my hometown of Chicago anymore, writes The Chicago Tribunes William Lee. Im sure this is a relief to my weary friends and family. (Lee)

The truth is that I stopped talking shop outside of work for the same reason chefs dont discuss the unsavory things they witness in their work kitchens some topics just arent very appetizing, and few things are less enticing than the citys much discussed violence.

And, as a result, As a result, my home is a news-free zone on my off days; Ill only scan a newspaper, allow for short visits to chicagotribune.com and avoid TV news broadcasts altogether. Im not alone, knowing plenty of other journalists who cover crime and some cops who avoid news on their own time.

Now, my mind is an endless log of murder victims names, faces and intersections where the shootings occurred. I can feel the pain of family and friends like I couldnt as a young man.

White House rattled by Melissa McCarthys Sean Spicer

As they should be, White House rattled by McCarthys spoof of Spicer. (Politico) You did see the SNL segment, did you not?

More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicers portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the presidents eyes, according to sources close to him.

And the unflattering send-up by a female comedian was not considered helpful for Spicers longevity in the grueling, high-profile job, where he has struggled to strike the right balance between representing an administration that considers the media the opposition party, and developing a functional relationship with the press.

Does Gorsuchs claim of assisting criminal defendants matter?

There was a very thoughtful pushback on a pushback on a pushback on a pushback on Rachel Maddows MSNBC show last evening. It involved her clear sympathy for a Wall Street Journal story, mentioned here yesterday (with skepticism), that made a lot (too much) out of Neil Gorsuchs claim of having done volunteer criminal justice work while at Harvard Law School.

Dahlia Lithwick, a fine legal affairs reporter for Slate, said this question was ultimately irrelevant to considering him. This is a referendum on norms, a referendum on a stolen seat, Lithwick said, and I always think these questions of Are you a good person? as represented by these handful of behaviors never goes well. Ive learned to call it sort of the cardiologic model of confirmation hearings.

Maddow came back at her friend to say she felt it is in no small measure a matter of White House and Gorsuch biographical integrity. But, on this matter, Lithwick seemed far closer to getting it right during what remained an insightful exchange.

I hope this is not the main event at a confirmation hearing that might be the last best chance to talk about an independent judiciary and Donald Trump. Plus, the guys record on prisoner rights is good, she noted, so shift the focus in any interrogation to what he thinks of Trump calling somebody a so-called judge and on his view of an independent judiciary, not his volunteer work 25 years ago.

Cheddar inks another partnership

You do have to check Cheddar, the very good sort-of CNBC for a younger crowd, especially strong on the tech sector. Its smart and fun and airs live for several hours from the New York Stock Exchange floor and Smart Flatiron Building in Manhattan. Now it will be on 60 percent of smart TVs in the U.S. as it launches on XUMO, the live and video-on-demand over-the-top digital service.

Its the first network on XUMO to boast live daily shows on XUMO. Says founder Jon Steinberg, I want people to open up their TVs, connect to the Internet, and get a taste of Cheddar. With Xumo, we achieve that for 60 percent of the new smart TVs sold in the United States. Now everyone can get the free hours we provide on Facebook right on their TV.

Tiger Woods tanking

What is the deal, at least to journalists who cover golf? After a long layoff, Woods returned and has been both miserable and, now, hes injured again.

Says Ed Sherman, a long-time golf writer who co-hosts a golf talk radio show on WSCR in Chicago:

The history of golf is full of great players who said they would stop playing when they were no longer competitive, and they continued to play. I would think Tiger Woods would be the same way, assuming his health allows. It might be his health wont let him play anymore. The guy hasnt played a full season since 2013. There is a lot of scar tissue. Plus, the Golf Channels Brandel Chamblee said he looked like the oldest 41-year old golfer hes ever seen.

Adds Sherman, who also writes for Poynter, Yet having said that, Woods is going to find inspiration from Darren Clarke, who won the 2011 British Open at age 42 when he was supposedly toast. Hes going to look at Davis Love III winning the 2015 Wyndham Championship at age 51 after suffering through years of injury problems. He has to be thinking if they can do, I can do it.

The morning babble

We get all these calls from people off the press, pushing this Bannon story, said Joe Scarborough on MSNBCs Morning Joe, pooh-poohing notion that Steve Bannon is running the show. Still, Donny Deutsch, the ad executive-turned-bloviator, claims that Bannon is in the business of promoting Steve Bannon and is a leaker par excellence, a greater self-promoter than Trump. Witness his mug on the current Time magazine profile.

Fox & Friends went after a California state politician who said half of my family would be eligible of deportation under the executive order. As co-host Brian Kilmeade said, Because they dont belong here, they should be eligible for mass deportation (though they doesnt think theyll be targeted initially). Steve Doocy jumped from that claim to suggest validity to Trumps claim of million of illegal voters, though, We dont know the numbers.

CNN took us to the Senate floor, where Democrats had been blabbing all night themselves to delay a confirmation vote on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. As underscored, it was a Hail Mary pass to find a Republican to break a 50-450 tie.

Well, this made it imperative to check out C-SPAN2 where Sen. Chuck Schumer was talking to a virtually empty chamber shortly before 6:30 a.m. Eastern. He was talking about Vladimir Putin and his inclination to go to any lengths to silence political dissidents, including murder.

Its relevance to, say, charter schools was unclear but thankfully he gave way to solid, sober Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who is languorous even in the midday sun. He informed that Rhode Islanders dont think billionaire DeVos understands working people.

As he spoke, The Washington Post was offering a Dana Milbank column arguing that Democrats in the long run may thank the majority Republicans for confirming DeVos. In the fight against President Trumps agenda, the new administrations incompetence is their friend. The droning went on at C-Span2.

Back at Fox & Friends, there was one of its quintessential B-list debates, on media coverage of Trump, with journalist and author Cathy Areu defending the press and The Federalists Bre Payton telling Doocy what he wanted to hear. Yes, yes, the press were lapdogs to president Obama and now the reverse is true as it serves media elites and audiences. All very pedestrian.

Lets hope tonights CNN 9 p.m. health care debate between Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz is rather more engaging.

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How Breitbart Turned Tom Brady Into an Alt-Right Hero | Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair

The Associated Press is the best kind of a self-correcting news agency. But its not infallible. Because its a distributed news organization - more precisely, many news organizations that have come together in an association - it can police many of its own members errors.

And thats why its important to talk about the APs representation of the alt-right. The phrase has become very, very important lately, with the ascension of Steve Bannon (of Breitbart News) to White House adviser, and even closer to home, with the appearance last week of some fliers around town allegedly touting an alt- right groups ideology.

The AP has some guidelines that are misleading about the alt-right.

Whenever alt-right is used in a story, be sure to include a definition: an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism, or, more simply, a white nationalist movement, the AP says.

But thats inaccurate.

As we are sure the AP would agree, words mean things. And conservatism has a clear meaning. Its an ideology with tenets that include limited government, personal freedom, free markets and the rule of law.

The alt-right holds to none of those things. The AP is more accurate when it goes into a more lengthy description of the movement.

The movement has been described as a mix of racism, white nationalism and populism, the AP reports.

How, then, is it an offshoot of conservatism? Its not. One of the best analyses of the alt-right movement comes from Robert Tracinski in The Federalist.

This alt-right agenda is not really part of the right because it is thoroughly collectivist in a vile and personal way, Tracinski explains. It says that your most personal, individual, deeply meaningful decisions - such as whom you marry and have children with - should be determined by some larger social program based on group identity. Thats why they are openly opposed to free markets in favor of economic nationalism: this is an anti-freedom, anti-individualist movement.

Nor is the alt-right movement a defense of Western civilization, as it sometimes claims.

The central theme of the Western intellectual tradition is about rising above tribalism to arrive at universal values, Tracinski writes. Thats a common theme that connects both secular and Christian traditions in the West. It was the whole distinctive idea behind the Ancient Greek revolution in thought. Philosophers like Socrates launched the Western tradition by asking probing questions that were meant to sort out which ideas and practices are based merely on historical accident and social convention, versus those that are based on universal laws of human nature.

The alt-right movement isnt alone in its errors, of course.

As Tracinski points out, Yes, of course the left does it, too. They have their own racist theories dressed up under the heading of identity politics. So what? Your mom told you the answer to this when you were 5: two wrongs dont make a right.

The Associated Press must be more careful. The alt-right movement is in no way an offshoot of conservatism. Just ask conservatives - who are its frequent targets.

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Editorial: 'Alt-right' movement isn't conservatism - Tyler Morning Telegraph

Two weeks ago, a man wearing a swastika armband showed up twice on our university campus. Citing his First Amendment right to freedom of speech, Michael Dewitz, 34, questioned the Holocaust and extolled the Nazi party, seemingly well aware that authorities could legally do nothing to obstruct him.

Coincidentally or not, his unwelcome visits happened to fall during the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day the United Nations designated to commemorate the victims of the genocide that resulted in the murder of over six million Jews, along with homosexuals, disabled people, and other groups the Nazis deemed undesirable.

Alan Alvarez / The Independent Florida Alligator

That same day, President Trump provoked anger within the Jewish community when he signed an executive order banning Syrian refugees from entering the United States, evoking memories of Jewish refugees turned away from U.S. shores during World War II, and then proceeded to issue a statement regarding Holocaust Remembrance Day which failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism at alla move later endorsed by white supremacist Richard Spencer.

Last week, the latest in a series of ongoing bomb threats were called in to Jewish Community Centers in Albany, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; West Orange, N.J.; Milwaukee, Wis.; San Diego, Calif.; and Salt Lake City, UT. The centers were evacuated, and though the threats were deemed not to be credible after the fact, that did not quench the feelings of intense vulnerability and uneasiness that lingered.

Over the weekend, Chicago authorities released a surveillance video of a man smashing the front window of a synagogue and placing swastika stickers on the front door. In Houston, Rice University campus police launched an investigation after a swastika was drawn on the base of a school statue. In Manhattan, passengers on a subway car witnessed anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and the phrases Jews belong in the oven and Destroy Israel, Heil Hitler, scribbled with Sharpie over advertisements and windows. As passengers sat in uncomfortable silence, one brave man announced that the alcohol in hand sanitizer could remove Sharpie. Promptly, passengers searched their pockets for sanitizer and tissues, and proceeded to scrub away the hate-filled messages.

Photo by Gregory Locke

These instances are only the most recent in a long list of hate crimes that have been targeting the Jewish community. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that of the 1,402 victims of anti-religious hate crimes reported in the United States in 2015, 52.1 percent were victims of crimes motivated by anti-Jewish bias. Based on the dramatic spike in hate crimes following the recent presidential election, there is reason to suspect the 2016 figures will be even higher.

Some people find these statistics hard to swallow for several reasons. Just as there are still those who think racism is a specter of the past because America elected a black president, some look to Jewish individuals who have risen to positions of prominence and influence and conclude that anti-Semitism died with Hitler. Moreover, there is often a conflation of race with ethnicity, nationality, and religion when it comes to defining Jewish identity, which is complex and far from monolithic. Some inaccurately assume that all Jews are of Eastern European descent and neatly fit into the paradigm of whiteness. In reality, Jews are predominantly an ethnoreligious people, and we can be found across a wide and diverse racial and ethnic spectrum. We are proud members of Black, Asian, and Latinx communities. In Israel, where a majority of Jews hail from across the Middle East and Northern Africa, Jews of color are the norm.

However, in the United States, where a majority of Jews are of Eastern European ancestry and tend to be fairer in complexion, it is sometimes difficult for some to comprehend the legacy of fiery hatred and discrimination that these white Jews have themselves faced at the hands of white supremacist groups. To truly understand anti-Semitism, one cannot look through the lens of race-based discrimination alone. This insidious form of bigotry goes beyond racism and colorism, affecting Jews of all races and hues. Even light-skinned Jews with blonde hair and blue eyes were targeted for extermination by Hitler and his mass-murdering Nazi regime. Of the Jewish refugees aboard the S.S. St. Louis who were cast away from the shores of the United States and sent back to their untimely deaths in Europe, the majority were from Germany and other predominantly white European countries.

Associated Press

Anti-Semitism at its core is based on conceptions of ethnoreligious, cultural and nationalistic otherness. Thus, we have historically seen such prejudice manifested through the depiction of Jews as Christ-killers; as greedy, swindling shysters; as all-powerful, sinister puppet masters of media and politics; as inherently disloyal citizens incapable of true assimilation.

We often hear chants of Never Again from within the Jewish community. Our generation has grown up hearing first-hand the personal accounts of Holocaust survivors, and we are all too aware that we will likely be the last. Some of us within the community are descendants of Holocaust survivors, carrying the anguish of those who came before us in our genes, allowing them to live their lives through us. As survivors are dying out, we have promised to pass on their stories. We have taken the words of Elie Wiesel to heart: When you listen to a witness, you become a witness. But now, less than one hundred years after the Holocaust, we see warning signs that Never Again is already happening. In Europe, anti-Semitism is once again thriving. Moreover, Rwanda, Darfur, Bosnia, and Kosovo stand as shameful stains on the hands of history, attesting to the fact that the possibility of genocide is ever-present.

Despite isolated incidents, the United States has more or less been a haven for our people since the end of World War II. For many American Jews, this has been the only home we have known. Thus, these increasing incidents of unfounded hatred are profoundly disconcerting.

For decades, American Jews have stood alongside other marginalized groups as allies. In the 1960s, we marched in the Civil Rights Movement. Today, we stand alongside our brothers and sisters proclaiming Black Lives Matter. We position ourselves on the ground among those at Standing Rock. We advocate for LGBTQ rights, womens rights, and Muslim rights. Many Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, originally constructed with the purpose of fighting anti-Semitism following World War II, have since expanded their mission to encompass all forms of bigotry. Perhaps due to our own collective trauma, social justice runs through our veins, heeding us to stand up to injustice anywhere as a threat to justice everywhere. Otherwise, Never Again will be nothing more than a hollow slogan.

Photo by Wilson Dizard (SOURCE: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/hundreds-lives-matter)

Now as anti-Semitism again rears its ugly head, we reach out to those with whom we have stood, and with whom we continue to stand, asking you to stand also with us, to show up on our behalf, to not be silent or indifferent to our struggle. Just as non-Jewish residents of Billings, Mont., placed menorahs in their windowsills during Hanukkah in 1993 to demonstrate their solidarity with the Jewish community following waves of anti-Semitism, we need allies today who will rise up, who will refuse to let their citiesor even their subwaysbe overrun by hatred, who will place figurative menorahs in their windowsills, allowing the collective light to drive away the darkness of discrimination. Most importantly, we need our generation to know that the Holocaust and its symbols, far from being mere relics of the past, continue to bear witness today, serving as reminders of what can happen to any minority group subjected to bigotry. The hatred fueling the fires that consumed so many of our ancestors was never fully extinguished.

When hatemongers like Michael Dewitz and Richard Spencer like to hide behind the free speech protections of the First Amendment, they ought to be reminded that the First Amendment does not protect them from private actors exercising their free speech rights to call them outloudlyon their bullshit. When Dewitz arrived on our campus for the second time two weeks ago, we were encouraged to see the outpouring of students and faculty members rallying against him in protest.

Over the next four years, as the political climate grows more hostile, as hate groups are emboldened, as civil rights activists and lawyers launch the fight of their lives to uphold liberty and justice for all, we pray that these words from our tradition guide us together along the way:

Standing on the parted shores, we still believe what we were taught before ever we stood at Sinais foot; that wherever we go, it is eternally Egypt; that there is a better place, a promised land; that the winding way to that promise passes through the wilderness. That there is no way to get from here to there except by joining hands, marching together.

Lauren Levy, 3L, and Yuval Manor, 1L, are law students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Lauren is the current President of the UF Jewish Law Students Association. Yuval Manor, an Israeli-American, is a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors.

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Responding To Anti-Semitism In The Age Of The 'Alt-Right' - Huffington Post

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Letter to the editor 10:03 a.m. CT Feb. 6, 2017

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GREEN BAY - It is difficult to read a newspaper today without seeing a reference to the alt-right; an expression most of us had never heard a year ago. New words are developed all the time; helicopter parent and frenemy are prime examples. Most new words simply make it easier to express ourselves, but there is something much more sinister about the usage of alt-right.

White nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term alt-right in 2010, it first came into common usage through its use by Breitbart News chair Steve Bannon, now White House chief strategist for Donald Trump.

The term alt-right is used to refer to groups that formerly were called white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, KKK, or racists. On the evening news we see rallies with people giving the Nazi salute, chanting Sieg Heil and Hail Trump, and they are referred to as alt-right rather than neo-Nazis.

In some cases the press intentionally uses the expression to sanitize racist behavior, but many times I think the expression is used because it is just too horrifying to fathom that our president could not have been elected without the support of the most extreme racist groups, and that Trump has a white supremacist, Steve Bannon, as his chief strategist.

I dont know whether Trump is a racist, but he did everything possible to woo the racist vote; from Obama-birther, Mexican rapists, to radical Islamic terrorists.

I am calling on the press to reject the words alt-right; they misrepresent something that is truly evil.

Charles Frisk

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By almost all accounts, Lady Gagas halftime Super Bowl performance was astounding, the singers stage antics wowing all those watching.

However, before the match started, infamous alt-right spokesperson and InfoWars founder Alex Jones took to Facebook to warn followers not to watch Gagas show because shes the spawn of Satan and part of the New World Order.

After claiming Gaga does rituals and pointing out she once wore a meat suit, Jones said the Super Bowl organisers are deciding to defile America and break our will by having us bow down to this.

They say shes going to stand on top of the stadium, ruling over everyone with drones everywhere, surveilling everyone in a big swarm, he said. To just condition them to say I am the Godess of Satan ruling over them with the rise of the robots in a ritual of lesser magic.

He continues to rant about the New World Order, how Trump has ruined Gagas Satanic plan to dominate the world, and slapping himself on the back for being a free thinker.

Comments underneath the Facebook post echoed Jones's sentiment, while some also brought up the illuminati.

To be fair, there were a lot of triangles during Gagas performance. Illuminati confirmed? Probably. Meanwhile, in an even more suspicious occurrence, The Simpsons seemingly predicted Gagas Super Bowl performance. Will the New World Order ever stop messing with us?

The alt-right movement, a loose group of people with far right ideologies who reject mainstream Conservatism, has been associated with white supremacism, Islamophobia, antifeminism and anti-Semitism. It was little known until lastyear, when it endorsedTrumps election campaign and he appeared to endorse the movement back. Alex Joneshas been labelled 'alt-right'on numerous occasions.

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The alt-right thinks Lady Gaga's Super Bowl 51 performance was a satanic ritual - The Independent