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For Seder, the decision boils down to a few questions he can only speculate on the answers to: Does MSNBC really think viewers would take Cernovich’s attack at face value? Why would the network not be willing to go up cheap womens jordans for sale against Cernovich when he so clearly misrepresented the tweet? And why would cheap air jordans online MSNBC act on this when Cernovich’s campaign had gained so little traction?
The only high profile figures to share Cernovich’s findings were Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump cheap air force 1 aide Sebastian Gorka. When cheap jordans $35 the news broke of his firing, even far right sites InfoWars and Red State came to Seder’s defense. The only person he could find celebrating his firing aside from Cernovich, he said, was ex Klan leader David Duke.
cheap air jordan “I don’t know what it is about our politics that makes it more reasonable to listen to someone who is a public rape apologist, who has shown, at the very least, white supremacist sympathies, who’s a known smear artist,” Seder said of Cernovich. cheap air jordan
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