Posted on 08/17/2016 4:32:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Trump campaign’s relationship with the mainstream media is likely to get worse.
Despite assurances from Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, that they were going to reasses the campaign's blacklist of reporters, the official hiring of Breitbart Chairman Stephen K. Bannon as CEO of the Trump campaign is a sign that the campaign is unlikely to change its combative way with the media.
"If you thought that the relationship with Trump and the media was combative before this, pull any headline Breitbart has ever written about the media and you’ll get an idea of what tone and tenor you can likely expect from a Steve Bannon–led campaign,” said Kurt Bardella, a former spokesperson for Breitbart who ended his relationship with the site earlier this spring.
Case in point: Last week, The Associated Press’ Lisa Lerer wrote a piece trying to debunk reports that Hillary Clinton has health problems, having some sort of involuntary head movements when Lerer was once asking her a question. Breitbart followed up with a tweet focusing on Lerer’s headlines and a zoom-in photo of a grimace Lerer made, writing, "Get you a reporter who can do both."
"Steve Bannon operated as the dictator of Breitbart,” Bardella added. “He is someone who is prone to a lot of tirades and acts as a bully. If anyone thought Corey Lewandowski was challenging that way, wait till someone gets a curse-laden phone call from Steve at any hour."
Bannon will temporarily step down from his role at Breitbart and reportedly will not be paid by the Trump campaign (Bannon is independently wealthy from his work as an investment banker and from his stake in shows such as "Seinfeld").
“Steve is a huge piece of manpower and we know he will perform brilliantly in his new role...
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The Politico piggies remind me of schoolyard bullies who run to the teacher when you hit them back.
Ping
Remember BREITBART!
The MSM an go #### itself.
I can’t wait to see their faces on election night.
I’m shocked 2/3 get their info from them still.
Haven’t watched TV besides debate and football in a year and a half.
In Steve Bannon Trump is getting a world class media guy. This election is about a media war and you need someone who knows this world. This was an excellent move.
I could only listen to about 30 seconds of Leaven tonight, but I did manage to gather that he despises Bannon.
Leaven and Beck are peas in a pod. Only Beck might be a little more sane than Leaven.
I was bouncing between Levin and Beck, whose shows both play in the afternoon in Los Angeles. Plenty of squealing from those two #neverTrump piggies. As did little Ben Shapiro in the morning.
Who needs the Left when you can hear the same stuff from these clowns?
Why?
What was their main point of contention?
Was it even coherent? Remotely rational?
Do the have any idea of how awful a Hillary presidency would be for the country???
This is war against the weakest most flawed candidate in history, Hillary Clinton and it will be ugly. The team is putting on Helmets and Pads.
I couldn’t take much of Levin, but I think that he insanely jealous of Bannon, and maybe the success that he has had with Breitbart radio.
Called him the “executive producer, or whatever” of “Trumpbart”. My radio remote said ‘click’.
Or perhaps the team is loading its weapons with armor piercing bullets and preparing to launch a strategic assault.
Trump, like all military students is a follower of Sun Tzu.
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Hillary is an opportunity ripe environment.
Notice that Trump hired a hit man to strike and a woman who can clean up any problems that might arise by attacking a woman (if one can call the Giant Lesbo Hillary a woman).
With Levin it ran along the lines of “Steve Bannon is an agent of Goldman Sachs”. Shades of Heidi Cruz you understand. Mark’s butthurt over Cruz losing to Trump is still fierce.
With Beck it was “Trump has hired the Most Dangerous Man in Politics”, Steve Bannon, whom it appeared that Beck was comparing to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi references being so eminently useful.
With little Ben Shapiro it was a rant on Trump having no morality, the proof being that he hired Steve Bannon. Of course, Steve Bannon essentially fired little Ben over his joining galpal Michelle Fields, that icon of honesty, in the Corey Lewandowski fraud.
It is a war against the Democrat Party, Islamists, the GOPe, statists everywhere, Democrat plantation slaves who are still marching in step.
Hillary is just a figurehead. And a wobbly one at that.
Cut off the head of the snake and the body dies. I have done that many times with diamond back rattlers.
But I don't think Hillary is the head of the snake.
Hillary is just a propped up window dressing for the snake.
Not even sure Soros is the head of the snake.
There is a snake, but I don't think we have seen its face...yet.
Trump is calling it out. It is getting angry.
It will soon rear its ugly head.
The head is SATAN!!!
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