“White nationalist” Richard Spencer was intentionally and erroneously tied to Donald Trump in 2016, so when someone at MSNBC had to find a picture to include for a segment on AM Joy, that person must have salivated when one was found.

However, that Richard Spencer was NOT the Spencer whose picture was needed for the segment: the recently fired Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer.

Obviously, a proper frame of reference guided by experience would have negated such an obvious mistake, but as professional journalism is populated by those who have limited experience and are apparently guided by the narcissistic notion that nothing really important happened before they were self-aware, appropriate research is seldom done because the topics at hand could never be relative to something that may have happened before.

Joy Reid and MSNBC were the perfect vehicles for tying race into an issue where it wasn’t pertinent. The production crew may have wanted to believe the worst of anyone associated with the Trump Administration and being able to tie a bonafide racist to the narrative was a twofer, right or (in this case) very wrong.

Race has long been an unsettling undercurrent of the 2016 presidential race. But this week, the two major candidates forced that debate into the open with Hillary Clinton’s speech linking Donald Trump to the “alt-right” movement, and Trump’s new charge that the former secretary of state is “a bigot” who has pandered to minorities with feckless policies as part of a calculated quest for votes.
— CNN, 8/26/16

Racism’s been a consistent club used to bash Trump, especially after Breitbart’s Steve Bannon was picked to be an advisor within his administration. Breitbart.com is no more a white supremacist website than is any liberal media site, but Democrats are never hesitant to slander anyone or anything they deem a threat.

The “alt-right” narrative was explored during a group interview on the BBC, and the following is an excerpt of that discussion.

If a film or video is created and presents a particular point of view, the producer’s accuracy and motivations are appropriately scrutinized. However, when a film or video is self-labeled a “documentary”, it’s enjoys the immediate assumption of being an absolute truth which is why they permeate grade schools, colleges and are delivered to online platforms aimed at the impressionable.

Yoni Appelbaum, Washington Bureau Chief at The Atlantic, got all butt-hurt when Bob dared challenge their “journalism” and accused The Atlantic of selective editing in their so-called “documentary” clip of The National Policy Institute’s Richard Spencer speech. While Applebaum said the entire video is “available online”, The Atlantic has provided no link to their original post to this day.

The full radio segment, America’s ‘Alt-right’, can be found on the BBC’s website.