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lindysalsagal

(20,695 posts)
3. It wasn't Ari's s how: He was subbing
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 08:23 AM
Aug 2018

I turned it off. Bannon's got a book but he's not an insider. He's irrelevant now.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
5. I know, I'm just questioning the rationale behind giving Bannon a platform on MSNBC
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 08:31 AM
Aug 2018

I can't even pretend to understand how this was seen as a good idea.

lindysalsagal

(20,695 posts)
6. They knew if they didn't another station would, and it's all about possible bombshells and $$
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 08:34 AM
Aug 2018

MSNBC was complicit in electing trump: they kept cutting to his inane speeches as if there was substance there.

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
7. Bannon is tainting a potential jury pool against him with a charm offensive
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 08:47 AM
Aug 2018

If he is tied up in this mess in any way, he is doing what the rest of the lot has done so far: go out on a media blitz to pooh-pooh the idea of any wrong doing and try to make himself look like credible. Then when the news comes out that he is a target or is complicit, he will hopefully be ahead of it.

I suspect a crisis manager prompted him to do this.

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