Thanks to a wonderful FReeper, I've read the article and I'm rather surprised it's published in the NYT!
Posted on 11/28/2016 8:40:45 PM PST by Seizethecarp
When his eldest child, Maureen, got into West Point, Mr. Bannon was thrilled and joked about switching his allegiance to Army from Navy. He never missed her volleyball games, and he was at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 2011 when she returned from a deployment to Iraq. “That was one of the greatest feelings I’ve had, seeing my dad when I walked off the plane,” she said.
But through his daughter’s service, he saw an inequity that fueled his anger at the privileged Americans among whom he had long worked.
At West Point, “he saw a complete, utter lack of people from the upper economic levels of American society,” said Mr. Schweizer, the conservative writer. “He thought it was appalling, especially because the elite set so many policies that sent these kids into war.”
Mr. Bannon was put off by the George W. Bush administration’s creation in 2003 of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which he saw as a blatant giveaway to the pharmaceutical companies. The financial collapse of 2008 and the bailouts that followed infuriated him, including the devastating effect of the stock market collapse on the retirement accounts of men like his father, a phone company retiree.
Mr. Bannon often spoke to friends about his father’s “honest work,” contrasting it with the paper-pushing he had seen on Wall Street. “We consider ourselves middle class, and we think the middle class has been shafted,” Mike Bannon said. “Black, Hispanic, white, everybody. The political class has given them happy talk but delivered nothing. I think that’s what Steve’s talking about.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nyti.ms ...
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Yeah, what's up with that? It's very... unNYT-like.
I liked him before, I like him even more now. Just ignore the white supremacist crap, the NYT can’t help itself.
Would love to have had the chance to work with this guy.
I’ll have to read the full article in a day or two, given that I’ve exhausted my 10 freebies.
A few snide comments in there about his appearance and such, but overall pretty good treatment from the Times, I would say.
Very fun to read he said he knew how to bring it home (the campaign), and he did.
Good guy to have on our side.
Well said he truly knew how to bring it home
This guy just might become one of my favorite Trump appointees!
The writer is a national security/intelligence reporter. At least that must him a little less likely to be a lefty socialist SJW hack.
The author is already defending himself on Twitter against lefties bashing him for not turning his Trump article into a biased hit piece.
1) Virtue-signalling by some who complain that I didn’t simply write “Bannon Nazi Racist” (like “Crooked HIllary”)! nyti.ms/2g7WC65
7 hours ago · Twitter
Listened to him at 7am everyday for a year. He calls everyone ‘brother’ all the time like Hulk Hogan did- but he means it. This guy is the champion of the American people, not the fringe ends at the bottom and the top like the dems. Business, Navy, Goldman, Hollywood and New Media combo background is so diverse he understands a wider background than a Valerie Jarret type. This is our FReeper guy, finally, whispering in the President’s ear. Hallelujah!
I LOVE BOTH of these MEN!!! So hard to find MEN anymore.
Of course the NYT had to get in their cheap digs. Mr. Bannon is actually a good-looking guy, and his mind makes him even more attractive.
Yes! Thank you, gorgeous onyx!
I read that article and was thrilled with what I read! It is so good to become better acquainted with Bannon, who turns out to be almost a heroic figure.
Seems to me God answered prayers bringing Trump through an impossible battle field, blew up the media and united two fine Americans in Bannon and TRUMP. Thanks be to God.
And, thank God for you!
“This guy is the champion of the American people, not the fringe ends at the bottom and the top like the dems. Business, Navy, Goldman, Hollywood and New Media combo background is so diverse he understands a wider background than a Valerie Jarret type.”
This NYT article presents all of these biographical details for the first time to their readers in a very sympathetic light. Really shocking to me as a long time NYT reader.
A huge portion of the US media gets their stories and “facts” entirely from the NYT, so it will be interesting to see how much of this article filters down.
Lots of print and TV media quotes the NYTimes as a source. People believe it. Yikes!
Wall Street Journal did it first, so Times is not to be outdone, lest they have to cut back on paper clip usage.
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