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m$nbc is playing snippets of the bannon interview this morning... WHY? (Original Post) spanone Aug 2018 OP
Got me right over to CNN, even though I like Ari. MoonRiver Aug 2018 #1
Ari has been disappointing to me lately. triron Aug 2018 #11
Probably trying to attract more viewers, but it's backfiring. MoonRiver Aug 2018 #15
Complete with a Barbie doll spokesperson... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #2
don't get it. spanone Aug 2018 #3
I didn't watch it last night and switch when they show it malaise Aug 2018 #4
I didn't watch all of it, but it was an infomercial for trump...bannon is no 'get' for an interview spanone Aug 2018 #5
Because the interview took place on their network. milestogo Aug 2018 #6
guess they're just educating their viewers as to steve bannon's wisdom spanone Aug 2018 #7
I, for one, need to be aware of what my enemies are hatching up. lunatica Aug 2018 #8
nothing new from bannon. same old shit. spanone Aug 2018 #9
Remember he is always talking to Trump's base lunatica Aug 2018 #13
His end plan is to END western liberal democracy. Hortensis Aug 2018 #21
But that's not quite true, Spanone. He's now telling the right Hortensis Aug 2018 #20
NSNBC trying to appear FAIR and BALANCED Backwoodsrider Aug 2018 #10
I'm not afraid to hear the opposition. tableturner Aug 2018 #12
to call bannon the opposition is to normalize white supremacy spanone Aug 2018 #16
Okay, I'm not afraid to hear a vile white supremacist. tableturner Aug 2018 #17
They think it's a big get. Will be shown tomorrow and Monday too. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #14
Why Do They Have NunBerg On Me. Aug 2018 #18
Why I only watch Rachel & Joy on that hack channel. InAbLuEsTaTe Aug 2018 #19
Maybe so that the ones that can only watch TV on the weekends can see it? GemDigger Aug 2018 #22

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
1. Got me right over to CNN, even though I like Ari.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:46 AM
Aug 2018

I'm not putting up with blatant propaganda from Nazis.

triron

(22,007 posts)
11. Ari has been disappointing to me lately.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:02 AM
Aug 2018

He tries to be "fair" as he calls it. No,it's false equivalency.

malaise

(269,093 posts)
4. I didn't watch it last night and switch when they show it
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:49 AM
Aug 2018

I will not watch them normalizing fascism.

spanone

(135,854 posts)
5. I didn't watch all of it, but it was an infomercial for trump...bannon is no 'get' for an interview
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:51 AM
Aug 2018

fuck him

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. I, for one, need to be aware of what my enemies are hatching up.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:57 AM
Aug 2018

Not taking them seriously is what they want because they work best in the shadows. I am disgusted by them, but I’m not foolish anymore. We must keep an eye on them and we must pay attention to what they say because they are deadly serious.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
13. Remember he is always talking to Trump's base
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:03 AM
Aug 2018

We must always remember that. They don’t give a damn about us. They’ve found a way of addressing their base right under our noses.

Bannon is reassertion his power now. What we should be doing is figuring out why and what his end plan is. But even if it comes to nothing we need to be alert.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. His end plan is to END western liberal democracy.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 11:20 AM
Aug 2018

He's working to destroy ours right now by whatever means it takes.

He claims democratic republics have failed entirely and that we need to destroy and replace them with white nationalist, Christian (useful for holy wars), authoritarian states. Though he uses more and longer words to describe it, basically fascist states. They presumably arise during and out of the ashes of western civilization after the apocalyptic events he visualizes that would be expected to kill off most of us. (He doesn't talk about that.)

His immediate plan, however, is to reinstall himself in the center of power in our government by re-ingratiating himself with Trump and keeping congressional power under increasingly authoritarian Republican control.

His stances on "deconstruction of the administrative state," righteous religious wars, massive anti-immigrant and anti-Islam bigotry, and pro-Trumpism make him useful to all the right wing power groups. Very much including the Kremlin, of course.

An ambitious little creep pushing the usual nasty archconservative agenda, but dressed up in the long, dense prose of the Nazi-fascist "philosophers" he admires. I wouldn't bet a nickle on Trump living a day past the takeover people like this plot.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
20. But that's not quite true, Spanone. He's now telling the right
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:46 AM
Aug 2018

that the midterms are a referendum on Trump himself, not congress. "Save Trump!" Stop the evil left from taking down their lawfully elected president out of partisan malice. He's been pushing this message to the right all summer from what I've noticed and it's gaining steam.

Sure, it's scary and we don't want MSM reporting it now, but that's because it might work. I think we should expect our own right-wing propaganda machines and Russia to be multiplying this message into every home.

Bannon's newest agitprop documentary, Trump @ War, is to be aired on September 9, the anniversary of Hillary's "deplorable" statement at a "Deplorables Conference," but the trailer's on Axios now. It's designed as usual to whip the right up into a righteous, self-protective frenzy of fear and hate against the left. Classic froth-at-the-mouth authoritarian populist GOTV stuff, but it works on those people.

It reportedly ends with the Charlottesville white supremacist chant, "We're fighting a war." "No Trump, no wall, no U.S.A. at all."

"If you're a deplorable, you'll literally [be] standing on your chair with your pitchfork saying: 'I've got to get people out to vote," ~ Steve Bannon

Backwoodsrider

(764 posts)
10. NSNBC trying to appear FAIR and BALANCED
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:00 AM
Aug 2018

With Rachel she had progressive Brennan on at 6 so of course they had to show the other side at 7 with Bannon. Now they are repeating to make sure the farright see's they are not in the tank for the Democrats, as Trumps says.

Every major media is fair and balanced and has no agenda... <sarcasm off/

tableturner

(1,683 posts)
17. Okay, I'm not afraid to hear a vile white supremacist.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:18 AM
Aug 2018

They simply expose themselves as the vile people they are. Plus, I want to hear what our opponents advocate. And any legitimate news operation should show an interview of Bannon or any other Trump supporter. It is worth hearing.

I say put them all on and let the truth shine out! They only hurt themselves.

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