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Steve Bannon: The media should be embarrassed & humiliated; and keep mouth shut
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:19 pm
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WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.
“I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
The scathing assessment — delivered by one of Mr. Trump’s most trusted and influential advisers, in the first days of his presidency — comes at a moment of high tension between the news media and the administration, with skirmishes over the size of Mr. Trump’s inaugural crowd and the president’s false claims that millions of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants swayed the popular vote against him.
Mr. Bannon, who rarely grants interviews to journalists outside of Breitbart News, the provocative right-wing website he ran until last August, was echoing comments by Mr. Trump this weekend, when the president said he was in “a running war” with the media and called journalists “among the most dishonest people on earth.”
During a call to discuss Sean M. Spicer, the president’s press secretary, Mr. Bannon ratcheted up the criticism, offering a broad indictment of the news media as biased against Mr. Trump and out of touch with the American public. That’s an argument familiar to readers of Breitbart and followers of Trump-friendly personalities like Sean Hannity.
“The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong,” Mr. Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”
“The mainstream media has not fired or terminated anyone associated with following our campaign,” Mr. Bannon said. “Look at the Twitter feeds of those people: they were outright activists of the Clinton campaign.” (He did not name specific reporters or editors.)
“That’s why you have no power,” Mr. Bannon added. “You were humiliated.”
Of all of Mr. Trump’s advisers in the White House, Mr. Bannon is the one tasked with implementing the nationalist vision that Mr. Trump channeled during the later months of the campaign, one that stemmed from Mr. Bannon himself. And in many ways Mr. Trump’s first week has put into action that vision — from the description of “American Carnage’’ Mr. Trump laid out in his inauguration speech, to a series of executive actions outlining policy on trade agreements, immigration, the building of a border wall and the demands that Mexico pay for it.
On the telephone, Mr. Bannon spoke in blunt but calm tones, peppered with a dose of profanities, and humorously referred to himself at one point as “Darth Vader.” He said, with ironic relish, that Mr. Trump was elected by a surge of support from “the working class hobbits and deplorables.”
The conversation was initiated by Mr. Bannon to offer praise for Mr. Spicer, who has been criticized this week for making false claims at the White House podium about the attendance of Mr. Trump’s inaugural crowd; for calling reporters dishonest and lecturing them about what stories to write; and for failing to disavow Mr. Trump’s lie about widespread voter fraud in the election.
Asked if he was concerned that Mr. Spicer had lost credibility with the press, Mr. Bannon chortled. “Are you kidding me?” he said. “We think that’s a badge of honor. ‘Questioning his integrity’ — are you kidding me? The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.”
“You’re the opposition party,” Mr. Bannon said. “Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.”
This post was edited on 1/26/17 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:20 pm to Contra
Who the frick is Steve Gannon?
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:22 pm to jamboybarry
Auto correct for some reason
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:23 pm to Contra
quote:
The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.
Left out a pretty important part of his quote.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:29 pm to Contra
More red meat for you suckers to eat up.
Meanwhile Trump gave an exclusive interview to ABC News last night that was nationally aired.
Meanwhile Trump gave an exclusive interview to ABC News last night that was nationally aired.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:30 pm to Contra
What a hypocritical pussy.
Exploited his right to free speech with Brietbart but now wants everyone to shut up.
Borderline fascist stuff right here.
/melt
Exploited his right to free speech with Brietbart but now wants everyone to shut up.
Borderline fascist stuff right here.
/melt
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:31 pm to TJGator1215
you sound mad. tell us more of your melt
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:31 pm to Contra
Steve Bannon. Breitbart.
This is rich.
This is rich.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:32 pm to Contra
I don't think people are aware of just how influential Steve Bannon is in the White House. He's the cerebral presence to Trump's backbone. He's the ideological driving force of the Trump administration. He's an absolute genius that wants nothing but the best for America. We are lucky to have him constantly in President Trump's ear.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:34 pm to Contra
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The media should be embarrassed & humiliated; and keep mouth shut
Sounds like a policy straight out of Putin's Russia
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:34 pm to Contra
DP
This post was edited on 1/26/17 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:35 pm to Contra
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“The media here is the opposition party
This is the key quote. I've been saying this for 40 years. I would respect the media if they would be honest and say "We are for promoting democrats and destroying republicans."
Rush has done that for the GOP. He's honest. You might say "Well, it's not the same because Rush is a partisan political advocate."
So is the Media.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:38 pm to The Spleen
quote:
More red meat for you suckers to eat up.
Meanwhile Trump gave an exclusive interview to ABC News last night that was nationally aired.
In which they ran an add for one of their shows in which there was an assassination attempt on the president...
Go back to your hole you crawled out of
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:42 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
No, I believe he is calling out the MSM for being so one-sided, petty and antagonistic.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:43 pm to Contra
Maybe if he stamped his feet a little longer the press might listen to him.
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