Because, you see, they both perceive a “clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.”
So Hitler and Churchill must have been essentially the same as well, as far as USA Today is concerned, because they both perceived a clash between Britain and Germany.
There is that little matter of al-Baghdadi running a jihad terror state responsible for countless massacres and ruined lives, and Bannon being a political strategist who has never murdered or enslaved anyone, or approved of anyone else doing so, but such niceties are unimportant for USA Today.
Can the establishment propaganda media get any more shrill, hysterical and dishonest in its quest to discredit Bannon, and through him, President Trump?
“USA TODAY Equates Steve Bannon with Terrorist Islamic State Leader,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, February 6, 2017:
Monday’s editorial in USA Today likens White House Chief Strategist and former Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS, or ISIL) terrorist “caliphate.”
The editorial argues that Bannon is like al-Baghdadi because both perceive a “clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.”
(The term “clash of civilizations” arises from a 1992 lecture by Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington.)
USA Today argues:
Each man spins a narrative for his followers of sprawling conflict between believers of Prophet Mohammed and followers of Jesus Christ. “There is a major war brewing, a war that’s already global,” Bannon warned an audience at the Vatican in 2014. A year later, Baghdadi said: “Oh Muslims … this war is only against you and against your religion.” Each man proselytizes for this vision of war. A decade ago, according to The Washington Post, Bannon outlined a movie proposal based on the fear that radical Muslims will overrun the U.S., turning it into the “Islamic States of America.”
Bannon and the ISIS leader, USA Today argues, are also similar because Bannon is a “populist” who “seeks to upend the establishment and thrives on chaos.” The editorial argues that the only way to hold Bannon in check is through “President Donald Trump’s out-of-control vanity,” which “could become a welcome force for peace” if he feels upstaged by Bannon and reduces his influence.
USA Today printed a short opposing view, written by Paul Miller of the Haym Salomon Center. He points out that USA Today itself conducted an “exhaustive” investigation of Bannon’s past radio broadcasts “only to find nothing” — none of the racism and antisemitism that the mainstream media had falsely concocted over the past several months….
What a surprise!

Champ says
The oldest political trick in the book: demonize the good guys. For shame.
Westman says
Mr. Pollak just became quite dishonorable.
To Mr. Pollak and the fakes among the feminists: WHAT PART OF BAGHDADI’S RAPING OF OUR KAYLA MUELLER AND HER SUBSEQUENT DEATH DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND???
To compare this beast to our POTUS shows just how scummy “journalism” and YOU have become.
Westman says
“POTUS and his counselor”
Terry says
Possibly a bit off. RE: THE FEMINISTS AND THEIR PROTEST IN PALM BEACH ON SUNDAY.
One of the protestors, ( for women’s rights) was the famous (or infamous) (MOTHER OF THE YEAR- SARC) from Orlando, FL. Casey Anthony.
Seems any female body is good enough.
(Casey Anthony is thought to have murdered her child, but the prosecutor botched the case; her child went missing-her version-( and she went out partying and drinking and -probably screwing anything that was male-my guess).
Several jurors, after the case was decided, said that they believed that she did it- (killed her child) but the State Attorney in the area did such a botched job-could not convict ” beyond a reasonable doubt”.
moeped says
Slander. Fuck off, useless idiots.
Shan Lim says
USA TODAY is bent on abetting and aiding the sworn enemy of USA to destroy America and the western civilization from within and without. The people running the press are traitors of this nation and the western civilization. They need to be called out without ceasing.
mccode says
Islam is at war with ALL the world’s civilizations and societies that are not of the Dar-al-Islam, and will remain so forever.
The sooner the remainder of the world wakes up and realizes this immutable fact, the better.
jihad3tracker says
HERE IS A SUPERB FACTUAL ASSESSMENT OF WHAT HAPPENS AS ISLAM BECOMES AN INCREASING PERCENTAGE OF CITIZENS IN COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD:
https://i.redd.it/xbhsa27cwwdy.jpg (Use your mouse to bring it up to readable size.)
Please take a few minutes in your busy schedule to email this to FEDERAL & STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS, as well as local mayors, councilmembers, TV station executives, your faith leader, clueless relatives & friends, school board members.
Note — For the federal senators and representatives, choose A DISTRICT OFFICE in your state — NOT HYPER BUSY WASHINGTON DC.
jihad3tracker says
Usually I would say “Do not bother with email to hopeless privilege-guilt Democrats” — but the item I link to above is SO COMPREHENSIVE AND LUCID that you should send it along to EVERY leftist moonbat,
Especially at the state level, targeting those who publicly weep and rend their clothes at how mean Trump is to innocent un-vettable “refugees”. But, to actually get your email opened and read, use a subject line that is NOT incendiary, but neutral.
Something like “Important findings on religious demographics in transnational population faith shifts”, and you can assume the identity of a concerned surprised worried constituent. INSIST ON A REPLY —- WITH THE OFFICIAL’S REMARKS REGARDING THIS MATTER..
Voytek Gagalka says
Aha, “Calif” Bannon! What a moronic comparison! Only “USA Today” could fall for such delusional idea thinking that their readers will buy that nonsense. Perhaps most of them will…
DJ says
Not Calif. I prefer to think of him as ‘The Virginian’.
If it’s not true, don’t say it
If it’s not yours, don’t take it
If it’s not right, don’t do it.
James Drury.
gravenimage says
DJ, the reference was not to California, but to the leader of a Caliphate.
Angemon says
They can, but they’d only be heard by moths, bats and maybe the occasional sharp-eared dog.
Wellington says
Fallacious equivalency thinking is arguably the most potentially destructive thinking of all——-as exampled by this article.
Zammana says
The only time I read USA Today is when I get it free at some hotel. Worth every penny I spent.
myworld2 says
Follow the money ..- find out who is talking against who in this awful mess and you will find out why they are saying and doing …follow the money …. – and of course there is always “the guilty” that knows where the bodies are buried so must follow orders to keep from being exposed …. and to say ‘here comes da judge ” doesn’t work ant more, does it? cause well , follow the money …..LIKE SOROS …is Soros paying for Obama’s DOJ move to Calif.? is this DOJ the mover and shaker for a lot of the legal eagles in this game ? . TRUMP IS OUR PRES.. and our country will go down if we give in to these renegades – and I’m talking Washington Elitists …vote them out ! Washington state and Oregon and California must be changed…Bannon will help ………..
Terry says
USA Today, some years ago, was regarded as a newspaper for the intellectually challenged, and cannot comprehend a newspaper that did not have colorful pictures.
I forgot where I read that, and who wrote it- but I have read the paper a few times- and that (in my view) is the case.
geared for the lowest possible denominator.
I doubt is even 1/2 their readers know who either of these two men are.
Or, if there are no color pictures in the editorial-will even read it.
Lesley says
I’m so tired of these juvenile attempts to make the barbarism of Islam equivalent to any institution or established figure of the West.
Offending sensibilities and the disappointment of not getting your way is not the same as beheading, murder, rape and enslavement.
In a society where illiteracy is rare, how do we have such histrionic idiocy?
gravenimage says
Willful ignorance. All too many don’t want to know that Islam is a threat.
SAKOVKT says
I hope that Steve Bannon is as good a player as Al-Baghdadi.
Know your enemy, as yourself.
Last thing we need is Ferret Face McConnell at the helm.
BTW : Hitler and Churchill understood each other as no one else of the era did.
That’s why they were such bitter enemies.
Both understood the war as no quarters asked, none given, one survivor.
But they actually did have more in common than one might think.
That is actually why they did understand things about each other that eluded most.
Both were warriors.
Their political causes is what made the difference.
(If nothing else, they were both stubborn as hell, to the point of a mutually self-destructive Total War.)
That is something Obama-Bush-Clinton never had and why they did nothing but muff it.
Mohammed was a warrior and a pretty successful one.
That’s why we need a warrior, in the best sense of it.
Because in war, winning is all of it.
Sam says
Liberals have no shame calling good evil and evil good. Sick, really sick and evil people and they turn around and call us conservatives evil. Sick, sick , sick brainwashed people.
underbed cat says
A good question, and I agree. The barbarism and roots of terror should be no secret, but has been effectively silenced by the same doctrine that the terrorist quote. Curiosity otherwise known as fact base knowledge from authentic sources and independent thought vs money influence from foreign sources to legitimize the lie. The comparison to Abu Bagdadi and Bannon leaves one speechless….I am sure the democrats are eating this up…they will look like morons.
Stan Lee says
WTH cares what a corrupt rag such as USA Today puts out? It should be well known throughout the public what one can expect if stupid enough to buy that leftist, lying, propaganda paper.
If the target wasn’t Steve Bannon, it would be someone else the fake news creeps would be seeking to pin their lies on. USA Today, NY Times, Washington Post…all of the same “fake news” breed. The Leftists have determined such lies are profitable, because there are a large number of people who will believe anything put in front of them and never know the truth.
gravenimage says
USA Today likens Steve Bannon to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Because, you see, they both perceive a “clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.”
…………………….
What insanity–as though apprehending a threat is the same thing as posing it.
Oliver says
If I am not mistaken USA Today is published by a chain of papers. Garrett or similiar name
And like NYT and Wash. post. Hemorrhaging readers and money.
So using this
My guess. To get suckers to buy the paper.
Sam says
Well it is true. I saw Brannon cutting muslim children and eating them very many times. I am also a liberal.
Troybeam says
The left has its pants in a wad due to the fact that the majority of Americans really like what President Trump is doing, what’s he doing you say: he’s wiping out the PC agenda, putting America first and one thing is for sure, he’ll never bow before another nation like Obama who became submissive especially to Islam,
Yep, the liberal agenda is being destroyed piece by piece and I cannot wait for 2018 when more democrats lose their seats and sanity returns to our government.
Nut job says
It’s the WHOOPI effect, as in Goldbergs Trump and Taliban comparison.
The left liberals can’t make it extreme enough, they won’t reform, they’ll just get more extreme.
common sense says
As opposed to Obama running narratives that Muslims are victims and ISIS is not actually Islam, proving that Obama is more like Al-B than Bannon or Trump could ever be.
Example- ISIS sends in jihadists among refugees telegraphs it, our security forces confirm it as an authentic threat, Barry lectures us about the JV team not being an “existential threat”. San Bernadino, Orlando, Ohio state, Fort Lauderdale. I think that is 60 murdered, honestly I cant keep up with memory ppwer alone.
BHO- enabling ISIS, hating on Isreal, funding terror groups, sanctioning nuclear power to a terror state and hosting terrorists at the whie house. Al- B must love Barry.
Someone should really do a hit piece on that f*%ker.