Bannon Ready for #War With a Long List of Targets<br />Before Mr. Bannon’s ouster, Breitbart — surprise, surprise — had been fiercely attacking Mr. Bannon’s West Wing rivals like Mr. McMaster (“Endangering U. S. National Security,” said one recent Breitbart headline)<br />and Mr. Cohn (“Spotted Partying with Wall Street Elite at Hamptons ‘Pink Party,’” said another)<br />But some of them — most of all Mr. Kushner — have had powerful defenders in other parts of the conservative media.<br />“He needs talk radio, Drudge, Fox News, to act as megaphones.”<br />Breitbart did go to war with Fox News last year, attacking when it thought Fox hosts — like Megyn Kelly — were being too hard on Mr. Trump.<br />“While I respect Stephen Bannon as being a voice for the conservative movement, I don’t think he represents it,<br />and Newsmax has always had a policy and an approach of being a big tent.” Therefore, Mr. Ruddy said, “It wouldn’t really be a good fit for us.”<br />Then again, on the CNN program “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, Mr. Bannon’s biographer, Joshua Green of Bloomberg News, noted, “Bannon has always said<br />that ‘TV is not where it’s at,’” noting that “the rising generation of populist conservatives were more web-focused.”<br />Online is where Breitbart derives its power.<br />And, given that Breitbart became its most aggressive self — with an appeal to at least some who consider<br />themselves white nationalists — under Mr. Bannon, the rest of us may be in for an even wilder ride.
