Wall Street
Journal: Only the Elite Are Entitled to Opinions
by Breitbart News 9 Aug 2017
The Wall Street Journal slammed conservative
media Wednesday for criticizing the views and associations of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, in the wake of his firing
of several pro-Israel Iran hawks and Trump supporters from the National Security Council.
“The NSC adviser is the latest target of Steve Bannon’s
media friends,” the Journal opined,
adding:
Somehow the Bannon brigades outside the White House
decided to assail the general as insufficiently pro-Israel and not hostile
enough to Islamic State, among other calumnies. The latter is especially
preposterous since then Colonel McMaster developed the counter-insurgency
strategy in Tal Afar that was the prototype for the 2007 “surge” that won the
Iraq War.
Note that the second sentence has nothing to do with the
first. The so-called Islamic State arose long after the “surge,” after
President Barack Obama’s overly hasty withdrawal from Iraq.
No one has questioned McMaster’s military credentials.
Rather, what Breitbart News has uncovered, and highlighted, are his past
links to the left-wing Middle East policy orthodoxies that many Trump
voters thought they had rejected with their votes in November.
These are policies that the Journal editors
reject themselves. But they cannot tolerate it when the same views are
expressed by the plebians — the grass-roots conservatives whom the Journal
once infamously derided
as “hobbits.”
Unlike the Journal, Breitbart News does not
publish staff editorials, and rarely even publishes op-eds. Our coverage of
McMaster has largely consisted of reporting previously unknown or ignored
aspects of his background.
He did not have to face Senate confirmation: he was
appointed hastily, and under pressure from anti-Trump voices in the media and
the Republican establishment. Like Obama, he was never properly vetted.
Trump supporters were more or less happy to trust the
choices of the commander-in-chief, even if McMaster was known to have rejected
the term “radical Islamic terror,” on the same spurious grounds that Obama
embraced. But McMaster’s recent actions have raised new cause for concern.
That is the context in which Breitbart News has been revisiting the man and his
record.
For the editors of the Wall Street Journal,
apparently, facts do not count as much as status, and only the elite media
are entitled to opinions.
They seem not to have received the message voters sent in
November, which was as much a rebellion against the media establishment as it
was against the progressive policies with which McMaster, at times, aligned
himself.
Wall Street Journal
Frederick Kempe
was an assistant managing editor for the Wall
Street Journal, and is the president & CEO for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a director emeritus for Refugees International, Jonathan Soros’s father, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Refugees International, New
America Foundation (think tank), and ProPublica.
Kenneth H. Bacon
was the president of Refugees
International, and a reporter for the Wall
Street Journal.
David B. Brooks is
a director at the New America Foundation
(think tank), and was an op-ed editor for the Wall Street Journal.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation
(think tank), and George Soros’s
son.
Joe
Mathews was a director at the New
America Foundation (think tank), and a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
Paul E. Steiger is
the chairman for ProPublica, and was
a managing editor for the Wall Street
Journal.
Jill Abramson is
an advisory board member for ProPublica,
and was a deputy Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.
Frederick Kempe
was an assistant managing editor for the Wall
Street Journal, and is the president & CEO for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Paul
Gigot is an editorial page editor & VP for the Wall Street Journal, and was a Bradley Prize recipient from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
Lynde
and Harry Bradley Foundation was a funder for the Hoover Institution (think tank).
H.R. McMaster was
a research fellow for the Hoover
Institution (think tank), is a principals' committee member for the National Security Council, and the national
security adviser for the Donald Trump
administration.
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