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Heat Street Editor and former British Conservative MP Louise Menschhas writtenan article agreeing with the establishment media and Clinton campaigns claims that Pepe the Frog is a white supremacist icon.Mensch apologized for another Heat Street article by Ian Miles Cheong, who defended the innocent green frog meme last week.

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Under the title Hillary Clinton Is Absolutely Right, Pepe Meme Is Antisemitic An Apology, Mensch apologized for Cheongs defence of the cartoon frog, claiming that the piece was inaccurate.

We apologize for publishing it, she wrote, adding an editors note on Cheongs story:This article was wrong and we should never have published it.Pepe the Frog is antisemitic.

Heat Street, backed by Rupert Murdochs News Corp, boasts in its motto: Free speech celebrated. No safe spaces.

Quoting Cheongs claims that no single group or ideology has ownership of the meme, Mensch argues: That is untrue. While Pepe, once a harmless frog meme, may have started out as a widely used meme, the frog is now a symbol of the Nazi Jew-baiting of the alt-right.

Her hyperlinked evidence of this blanket statement is a Google Drive foldertitled Pepe that contains a dozen Nazi-themed Pepe alterations. A Trump/Pepe image, with no Nazi imagery, is included. Nineof the 22 images in the folder do not feature Pepe illustrations at all.

That is the entirety of her argument: one dozen Nazi variants out of thousands of Pepes across the Web. Below I show some handful of antisemitic Pepe / Trump memes, they are everywhere, she writes, before linking to the Drive folder again. She makes no case for theimplicit suggestion that using a Pepe meme without Nazi or anti-Semitic imagery (i.e., the vast majority of Pepe memes) is automatically an embrace of Nazism and anti-Semitism.

Cheong, the managing editor of Gameranx and aprominent playerin the GamerGate controversy, has since retracted the claims of his original piece, stating that he was wrong about Pepe. Cheong reiterates Menschs claims that It has, in fact, become an anti-semitic meme.

Mensch has not yet added an editors note to another Heat Street article contradicting the far lefts white nationalism narrative. Last week, contributor William Hicks posted a piece sarcastically calling pop stars Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj white supremacists for spreading Pepes on their social media accounts.

This article was likely pushing back on the political lefts claim that Donald Trumps son is a racist for posting a Pepe on his Instagram. Mensch is now putting the full force of her editorial authority behind that left-wingnarrative.

Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his Internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike. But in recent months, Pepes been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the alt-right, wrote Elizabeth Chan on behalf of the Clinton campaign last week, in an explainer thatattempted to link the Internet meme with white supremacy.Theyve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

The explainer based its comments largely on a Daily Beast interview with notorious troll and self-proclaimed parody account, Jared Taylor Swift, who made satirical comments about reclaiming Pepe from the normies. Swift and a fellow troll, Paul Town, later told the Daily Caller that they gave the Daily Beasts Olivia Nuzzi the most ridiculous quotes they could think of and she printed them, falling entirely for the troll. With noevidence but Nuzzis discredited piece, mainstream media reporters have uncritically declared the frog to be anicon for white nationalism on air, including NBCs Katy Tur and ABCs George Stephanopoulos.

Mensch fails to state that the creator of Pepe the Frog, Matt Furie, is actually a Democrat who expressed support for Hillary Clintons campaign, after his favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders, dropped out of the race.

Its weird that people are saying hes been a longtime white supremacist meme, said Furie, who denied that his frog had anything to do with white supremacy. If anything hed be part of the Green party. Hes a frog, why would he support white supremacists? That doesnt make anysense.

But she doesnt need to analyze or even acknowledge any of that information. She has a folder with 12 Nazi Pepes in it, and that is enough for her to shut down any other interpretation.

Charlie Nash is a reporterforBreitbart Tech. You can follow himon Twitter@MrNashingtonorlike his page at Facebook.

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You had an Instagram post last week that included Pepe the Frog, which is now a well-known symbol of the whitesupremacist movement, Stephanopoulos alleged in an interview on ABCs Good Morning America.

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Trump Jr responded by saying, Ive never even heard of Pepe the Frog. I bet 90% of your viewers havent heard of Pepe the Frog. I thought it was a frog in a wig I thought it was funny, I had no idea that there was any connotation there.

He added that the accusations against Pepe werea sign that journalists cannot credibly attack his fathers policy proposals. They dont even have answers for those things. So what do they do? They have to attack me.

The row over Pepe the Frog, a popular Internet meme in use since 2008, was initiated by the Clinton campaign afterElizabeth Chan, one of Clintons senior strategists, wrote a blog post in which she claimed Pepe was a symbol associated with white supremacy.

Stephanopoulos also referencedBreitbart TecheditorMilo Yiannopoulos in the photo, though not by name. There areothers in there who have been taken off Twitter because of their racist statements, he said. Milo is theonly person in the photo to have had their Twitter account suspended.Twitter, in its justification of the lifetime ban, falsely stated that Yiannopoulos incited harassment after Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones complained directly to Jack Dorsey, the social media companys CEO.

Earlier in the interview, Trump pushed back against accusations that he made a Holocaust joke about the gas chamber method of capital punishment. He cited his relationship with his sister, a convert to Orthodox Judaism, and several close friends, then recalled how he made the same joke but said electric chair just weeks ago.

Trump said this controversy illustrated why a recent Gallup poll showed that the American publics trust of journalists has reached a record low. If youre a conservative, you dont even get a fair shot, he said. They dont even give you the benefit of the doubt Its why less than a third of Americans even trust the media anymore.

Stephanopoulos did not disclose during this interview, and does not disclose during coverage of the 2016 election, that heworked in the White House as Senior Adviser to the President during Bill Clintons first term. ABC News has designated Stephanopoulos the lead anchor in its 2016 election coverage.

You can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew,oremail him at ben@yiannopoulos.net

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After Donald Trumps inauguration on Friday, alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face while being interviewed on-camera.

Spencer was punched while talking to a reporter about the significance of Pepe the frog a cartoon character that white nationalists haveco-opted as their own symbol.

Pepe the Frogcreator Matt Furie has commented on the incident on Tumblr.

Tumblr userpatchesthegreatasked Furie, How do you feel knowing Richard Spencer got decked mid-sentence describing Pepe? Furie responded as such:

The brilliantly succinct response is currently going viral on Twitter and has over 4,000 notes on Tumblr.

In October of last year, Furie had teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League in an attempt to return Pepe to his former glory as a simple, chill frog. The effort launched #SavePepe across social media platforms, so as to overshadow Pepes more profane alter egos.

Despite the punch during his Pepe talk, Spencer still has a frog emoji in his Twitter name. So, its probably worthwhile to say this again: #SavePepe.

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Pepe Creator's Brilliantly Succinct Response To Alt-Right Leader Getting Punched - Huffington Post

Ahead of the release of his upcoming album Pure Comedy, 2016 BRIT nominee Father John Misty (you may remember him as the guy who was captured nonchalantly checking his phone at the BRITs after losing out to Justin Bieber as Best International Male) has released a fiercely satirical critique of mankind and the new leader of the free world, President Donald Trump.

Featuring bizarre illustrations, random home videos, news clips and shots of Donald Trump and Pepe the Frog (dressed as the new President), Father John Misty mocks what he sees as humanitys many contradictions and flaws.

He addresses politics, the recent US election and the inauguration of Donald Trump, pairing clips of the new President with biting social commentary: Where did they find these goons they elected to rule them? // What makes these clowns they idolize so remarkable?.

One things for sure, the American singer/songwriter isnt pulling any punches and it certainly makes for thought provoking material!

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Richard Spencer has said he is worried the video of him being punched in the face after the inauguration of Donald Trump will become the meme to end all memes.

Spencer, a white supremacist, was punched in the face in downtown Washington while being interviewed by a journalist at the anti-Trump protest. Prior to the punch, onlookershad started asking him questions such as: "Did he like black people and was he a member of the KKK?"

The "alt-right" leaderwas explaining the meaning of his Pepe the Frog badge, a cartoon character who has become a symbol for white nationalism, when he was punched by a man dressed in black.

The video of Spencer, who is credited with coining the term "alt-right", immediately prompted a torrent of jokes, memes and remixed videos on social media.

Im afraid this is going to become the meme to end all memes, Spencer said in a periscope video. That Im going to hate watching this.

In the video titled The assault on me, he said he was left with a black eye on Saturday and was going to have to start considering operational security. He told viewers he was recording the video from what he called a safe space.

I was planning to go out tomorrow during the Womens March to do some journalism but I cant do that anymore, Spencer told viewers. I have reached a stage of being a public figure where I am going to be recognised and then be attacked."

The footage of Spencer being punched has been remixed to everything from Thin Lizzys The boys are back in town to Bruce Springsteens Born in the USA.

Jon Fareau, a former speech-writer for Barack Obama, tweeted: I don't care how many different songs you set Richard Spencer being punched to, I'll laugh at every one.

Spencer is a leader and spokesperson for the so-called alt-right movement a political movement which has been accused of racism, antisemitism and misogyny and of sharing an ideology with far-right parties such as the French National Front.

Spencer, who is president of the far-right National Policy Institute, has previously said he rejects the label of white supremacist and instead calls himself an identitarian. He supports a white homeland for a dispossessed white race and calls for peaceful ethnic cleansing to put a stop to the deconstruction of European culture.

On Saturday, Spencer told the New York Times he was not a Nazi but was simply a member of the "alt-right" which he refers to as identity politics for white Americans and for Europeans around the world".

He said Nazism was a historical term which was not able to "resonate today.

German National Socialism is a historic movement of the past. It arose at a very particular time and had particular motives and ideas and policies and styles, and those arent mine, he said.

Spencer sparked outrage when he made a number ofallusions to Nazi ideology during aspeech at a conference in Washington in November.

Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory! he declared, prompting audience members to leap to their feet in applause, with several appearing to make drawn-out Hitler salutes.

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Alt-right leader Richard Spencer worries getting punched will become 'meme to end all memes' - The Independent