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Has Bannon turned? I know The Guardian is rabidly antiTrump, but more reputable news outlets (including Washington Times and NY Post) are treating the story seriously.
1 posted on 01/03/2018 6:33:59 AM PST by be-baw
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To: be-baw

The man is a self glorified idiot.


2 posted on 01/03/2018 6:35:51 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: be-baw

We’ll see. But, personally, I was never that enamored of Steve Bannon; just me. And, of course, The Guardian absolutely lies about all things American.


3 posted on 01/03/2018 6:36:52 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: be-baw

What is Bannons problem?


4 posted on 01/03/2018 6:37:24 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: be-baw

Here’s an interesting slide show from Axios:

https://news.google.com/news/video/00U5YDHiWG8/d5dyFuJfIQnC13MA11PiPXsu30CRM?hl=en&gl=US&ned=us


5 posted on 01/03/2018 6:37:38 AM PST by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: be-baw

Fake news.


6 posted on 01/03/2018 6:37:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: be-baw

I cannot take Bannon seriously. Originally liked his ideas but looking like a disheveled drunk all the time and spouting nonsense like this is the end for me.


7 posted on 01/03/2018 6:37:54 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: be-baw

Wanna bet the Trumps sue?

I will put good money on it.


8 posted on 01/03/2018 6:38:20 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: be-baw

Somebody’s book says Bannon said something.


9 posted on 01/03/2018 6:38:26 AM PST by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: be-baw

Can Trump trust anyone?


10 posted on 01/03/2018 6:38:33 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: be-baw

And the DNC paying for the Trump dossier by a foreign agent isn’t treason?


11 posted on 01/03/2018 6:38:47 AM PST by EBH ( May God Save the Republic)
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Glad the prick got fired.


13 posted on 01/03/2018 6:39:38 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Junior cracks like an egg but senior is golden. He invites the Revolutionary back to mastermind the re-elect.


15 posted on 01/03/2018 6:40:43 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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Seems like he likes to make things up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_%28journalist%29#Criticism

In its review of Wolff’s book Burn Rate, Brill’s Content criticized Wolff for “apparent factual errors” and said that more than a dozen of the subjects he mentioned complained that Wolff had “invented or changed quotes” that he attributed to them.[20]

In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, Michelle Cottle wrote that Wolff was “uninterested in the working press,” preferring to focus on “the power players—the moguls” and was “fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money.” She also noted that “the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created—springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events.” Calling his writing “a whirlwind of flourishes and tangents and asides that often stray so far from the central point that you begin to wonder whether there is a central point”, she quoted one daily New York columnist as saying “I find it nearly impossible to read his columns. They’re flabby. I don’t know what the fuck he’s trying to say.” One journalist who knew Wolff told Cottle, “He can’t write. He doesn’t report.”[21] Cottle subsequently called Wolff “possibly the bitchiest media big foot writing today.”[22]

“Wolff’s prose is difficult to hack through,” wrote Erik Wemple in The Washington Post, adding that Wolff “is the Foxconn of the pointless, comma-laden aside.” [23]

The Columbia Journalism Review criticized Wolff in 2010 when he suggested that The New York Times was aggressively covering the breaking News International phone hacking scandal as a way of attacking News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch. CJR called Wolff’s analysis “pathetic”, “disgusting”, “twisted”, and based on “zero evidence”.[24]

His former employer, New York Magazine, has called him an “angry man for pay” and a “media provocateur”.[25] Howard Kurtz once said, “Michael is rarely impressed by anyone other than himself.” [26]

In November 2016, Wolff evoked criticism for stating that journalists should serve as “stenographers.” [27] Charlie Pierce called Wolff’s comment “an incredible pile of bullshit.”[27]


17 posted on 01/03/2018 6:41:20 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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To: be-baw

Wolff wrote the book. Considering that, and the publisher, I’m not inclined to take a word of it seriously.


18 posted on 01/03/2018 6:41:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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Money laundering. I really don’t think Trump needs money all that badly. He never seems to be behind on his car payments.


19 posted on 01/03/2018 6:41:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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If true, sounds like Bannon overplayed his hand while at the White House, was forced out, became very bitter, was rebuffed trying to exercise influence and power in Alabama and now sadly is behaving like many people who have blown their big once in a lifetime chance.


20 posted on 01/03/2018 6:42:28 AM PST by allendale (.)
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Michael Wolff is not known for his honesty and attention to details.

He has been accused of altering or making up quotes before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist)


21 posted on 01/03/2018 6:42:32 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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“Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.”

Sounds like it’s not just going to be Bannon. Probably a good chance the ‘author’s’ suffering from TDS and if his book’s full of lies, hope he gets sued for it.


24 posted on 01/03/2018 6:45:50 AM PST by Cats1
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looks like alabama was intentional.


27 posted on 01/03/2018 6:49:10 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: be-baw

1. Since when have we been at war with Russia???

2. After all, wasn’t it Hillary who sent them the “Reset” button (known by an AMERICAN t.v. commercial), which made U.S./Russian relations all better???

So then,
3. What made the eeeeevil Russians such a wicked enemy that NOBODY who has EVER known Donald Trump can have ANY contact with ANY person with Russian DNA without it being Treason on the part of DJT???


30 posted on 01/03/2018 6:54:33 AM PST by joethedrummer
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