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Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
NY Times ^ | 1/26/17

Posted on 01/27/2017 2:23:26 AM PST by Altura Ct.

Edited on 01/27/2017 4:41:43 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Altura Ct.

Strangely believe it, considering the source is the Old Gray Whore, the article conveys what is pretty much truth.


41 posted on 01/27/2017 5:39:27 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Helicondelta

Don’t forget Trump was endorsed by the KKK (how many are actually left? 2000?) But that was also another late game desperatiom attempt. But hey BO says you’d better not vote for Trump because a decaying Democratic fringe group likes him.


42 posted on 01/27/2017 5:46:46 AM PST by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

““We are part of an essential function in any democracy.””

They are, when they don’t take sides. The minute they pick a side, they are no longer journalists. They become party apparachniks.


43 posted on 01/27/2017 5:47:34 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, Trump read your book!")
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To: CAluvdubya

“For a fun party trick, ask your most liberal friends if they think the Federal government should have a say in whether a woman gets an abortion or not. “

It’s not a fun party trick because they do want the government to have a say and then they will quote Roe V Wade. Now if you want to have a neat party trick, ask them what they are complaining about since they already have the constitutional right to kill their unborn? And Trump supports that right.

Now watch their heads explode. But since I am never satisfied with their heads exploding, I ask them if they are pro-choice. When they say “of course” I tell them I am also pro-choice, but I choose life. What do you choose? Now watch the lips quiver, the eyes glaze over and if you have done this correctly, be prepared to be called a racist.


44 posted on 01/27/2017 5:52:02 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, Trump read your book!")
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To: Dog
The media will absolutely freak...can this get any better

Yes, if we have more popcorn it will be more fun

45 posted on 01/27/2017 6:17:07 AM PST by Rapscallion ( Equal justice is an American principle)
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To: Altura Ct.

Honey badger don’t give care. Honey badger don’t give a shit.


46 posted on 01/27/2017 6:22:30 AM PST by JenB987 (#NeverHillary)
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To: CAluvdubya

Most of leftist America doesn’t understand.

My brother is a foaming-mouth liberal and he sent me a text last night saying, “Is this really what you voted for?”

Yes. It is actually. Try and keep up.


47 posted on 01/27/2017 6:25:14 AM PST by JenB987 (#NeverHillary)
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To: Dog

That’s what another article was saying as well.

I don’t think Trump is trying to do anything other than work and get things done. The media is creating chaos all by themselves. Average age of a reporter is 27 years old. Obama was prez for 8. They’ve been coddled and pumped up for way too long They are learning they can not make someone do something thru ridicule, manipulation, or bullying.


48 posted on 01/27/2017 6:28:17 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Altura Ct.

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”

That’ll be the day.

Their only reason for existence, in their own eyes, is to be the propaganda arm of the Left. The Left’s attack dog.


49 posted on 01/27/2017 6:30:25 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: LS

I don’t think I’ve had so much fun watching the news in at least 30 years. The last week has been unbelievable.


50 posted on 01/27/2017 6:33:10 AM PST by Cap Huff (1776 - Washington fought on our side. 2016 Washington fought against us . . . and lost!)
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To: LS

51 posted on 01/27/2017 6:36:31 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Center your self in the moment, fear is for the weak. Focus, this is really happening.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The purpose of the press, is not to keep its mouth shut.
It is to tell the _truth_ all the _truth_ and nothing but the _truth_.


52 posted on 01/27/2017 6:37:34 AM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam)
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To: CAluvdubya

Maybe this is one of Adams’ persuasion secrets. Take the form of agreement, while shifting the underlying assumptions to snap the other person’s mindset. Might cause a little light to get into an otherwise dark corner.


53 posted on 01/27/2017 6:39:32 AM PST by Cap Huff (1776 - Washington fought on our side. 2016 Washington fought against us . . . and lost!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

The non-profits pay in the low to mid six figures. Just make sure to keep the donors happy.


54 posted on 01/27/2017 6:50:39 AM PST by PAR35
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Or ask them if they think Margret Sanger was right. If they say yes, say, “Especially that part about exterminating inferior races, right?”


55 posted on 01/27/2017 6:53:43 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Cap Huff

“I think this is part of an outrage dilution strategy.”

yes, this was on purpose, since Bannon hasn’t said squat to the media prior to this.

same thing with some of President Trump’s off-the-subject, apparently outrageous tweets prior to signing batches of EOs the next day. Outrage dilution and red herrings. They’re diverting AND diluting the media attacks.

The Trump administration had to know the enemedia would go to war and never let up and are now trying to turn the war to their advantage by prodding the enemedia to self-destruct. By the time 2018 rolls around almost no one will be paying any attention to their agitprop and no one will give then a whit of credibility.

And the thing is that the enemedia attacks don’t diminish President Trump’s effectiveness. Both he and the GOP know that he was responsible for their great victories in 2016 and that if they’ll carry through on his promises, including revitalizing our economy, they’ll essentially by bulletproof, especially since they also know that the Democrat party is nearly moribund and without a message, which means Steve Bannon is correct: the enemedia is now the true opposition party


56 posted on 01/27/2017 7:22:52 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Helicondelta
They can all be retrained to work in the coal mines that Trump will reopen

Lol. It would truly be a world-view changing experience for them.

If they didn't die.

57 posted on 01/27/2017 7:31:00 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Altura Ct.

Listening would be a good start for journalism.


58 posted on 01/27/2017 8:01:00 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
"Why work for for a ^non-profit^ organization? I assume Engleberg does not receive a paycheck...because, well, non-profit?"

Engelberg got the call because the NYeT did not want to put an allegedly working journalist on the record responding to what they know is bait. ProPublica is one of those duplicate duplicitous org orgs where past-due has-beens and never-was take refuge.

59 posted on 01/27/2017 8:13:28 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: jdsteel
"...“We are part of an essential function in any democracy.”..."

What that leftist assclown traitor does not comprehend is that we are not a democracy. The mob does not rule here. Our Founding Fathers saw to that, and I thank them.

60 posted on 01/27/2017 8:22:05 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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