Posted on 11/23/2016 10:37:01 AM PST by AZLiberty
Recenty uncovered audio from a radio interview conducted in 2011 reveals Stephen K. “Steve” Bannon — who was named by President Elect Donald Trump on Sunday to be “chief strategist” in the Trump administration — using a derogatory term for lesbian women to refer to all women with liberal political beliefs.
Audio here.
Bannon, 62, was promoting his film Fire From the Heartland: the Awakening of the Conservative Woman. In the interview, he discussed how right-wing women such as Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin “cut to the heart of the progressive narrative.”
“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement,” Bannon says in the audio recording. “That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”
Bannon has a history of outrageous statements, including one in which the man who will now work just steps away from the Oval Office said that his real desire is to “destroy the state.”
“Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment,” he said in a 2014 interview.
Before taking over the Trump campaign as its CEO in August, Bannon ran the “alt-right” political site Breitbart News, which was known for its over-the-top headlines attacking women and minorities.
Seven Sisters Presidents Post Open Letter to Stephen Bannon
Presidents of seven historically women’s colleges, jointly referred to as the Seven Sisters, posted on Monday an open letter to Stephen Bannon, the former executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network and a recently appointed senior counselor to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration.
The letter makes reference to a comment Mr. Bannon made in a 2011 interview in which, the letter says, he “disparaged lesbians, feminists, and alumnae of the historic Seven Sisters Colleges” using a crude slang word for lesbians.
Once we actually listened to the interview excerpt, she realized how awful the purported "open letter" was. Bannon's remark was completely taken out of context. What Bannon had to say was all true, even the bit about "dykes from Seven Sisters colleges" hating women who are conservative.
Rosie reference?
This is the political correctness that is now off the table.
Oooooo!
Femi-nazi’s
Reading the actual quote, you discover that he called no one a “bunch of dykes”.
They think that after surviving his own attempted takedown by candid audio, Trump is gonna fire Bannon over THIS?
Well if he was talking about Ellen or Rosie then what’s wrong with that? What about Bruce Jenner???
What do you call an attractive girl at Wellesley College? “Visitor.”
No, he did not call “women” anything. He called a particular subset of “women” what they in fact are. In fact, some of them march down Main Street under that very banner in every Pride Parade.
I think Dykes utter the phrase a hundred times a year and it’s not really derogatory. Is trailer-trash even derogatory anymore?
If the ahem, device, fits . . .
No. Bannon is not only safe, he is directing much of this. :)
It’s a beautiful thing to watch.
-—Before taking over the Trump campaign as its CEO in August, Bannon ran the “alt-right” political site Breitbart News, which was known for its over-the-top headlines attacking women and minorities.-—
Wow...a complete bold face lie...
I’ve got no problems with that.
Ok, let’s play the same game. Anybody who has ever uttered something derogatory about any female is a sexist chauvinist pig. Including all Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin critics. Everyone on SNL I am afraid. All liberal politicians likely. Essentially everyone.
Good thing the Left has never engaged in hyperbole to make a point.
At least they’re not “deplorable” dykes.
If they really are Lesbians, he’s just telling it like it is.
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