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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:04 PM Jan 2018

Conservative media stands by Trump over Bannon

Right-wing outlets focus on president's rejection of his one-time aide, not on Bannon's critique of the administration.

By JASON SCHWARTZ 01/03/2018 06:46 PM EST

In round one of Trump vs. Bannon on conservative media, the president is pummeling his former advisor.

From Fox News to the Drudge Report, all the way down the spectrum to far-right conspiracy sites like The Gateway Pundit and InfoWars, headlines Wednesday afternoon painted former presidential adviser Steve Bannon as unstable and self-interested, and President Donald Trump as a forceful defender of his family and administration.

The lead headline on Fox News’ website quoted the president’s incendiary response to Bannon’s criticisms, reading, “’HE LOST HIS MIND’: Trump unloads on Bannon after ex-adviser’s bombshell criticism appears in book excerpts.” And the first sentence of the story linked to the headline sneered, “It’s probably safe to say the self-professed mastermind behind President Trump’s election won’t be back in 2020.”

At Drudge Report, editor Matt Drudge, who has had an on-again, off-again feud with Bannon, featured an unflattering picture of Bannon and blared, “TRUMP DOWNLOADS ON 'PRETENDER' BANNON.”

And The Daily Caller declared, “Trump Puts Bannon In A Body Bag.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/trump-bannon-conservative-media-322620?lo=ap_a1

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Cha

(297,290 posts)
9. I'm already kinda scared and very sad for my Planet & country..
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 09:54 PM
Jan 2018

I like this drawing of melania, right off the bat, though.. 'cause I think it would piss her off. Speaking of piss.. shouldn't trump's hair be that color of yellow?



It is incredibly tragic though that they're are so many brainwashed Americans that got that idiot in.. along with the Russians and the US Mainstream Media Manipulators.

underpants

(182,826 posts)
10. They bought something the salesman didn't care if he sold
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:05 PM
Jan 2018

It was a con but it was meant to fail.

Cha

(297,290 posts)
11. Well, now the whole, sane
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:15 PM
Jan 2018

world hates DT..

jill pawn stein said trump would be better than Hillay.

Jill Stein Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Donald Trump

snip~

"And in terms of whether she blames herself for Trump’s victory, Stein argues that neither candidate was a good choice. “There are differences between Clinton and Trump, no doubt, but they’re not different enough to save your life, to save your job, to save the planet,” she says. “We deserve more than two lethal choices.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/jill-stein-is-starting-to-sound-a-lot-like-donald-trump

Turns out stein was the real lethal choice along with trump.

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
2. Ha. They are both unstable and self-interested
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:12 PM
Jan 2018

With either in charge, President Bannon or President Trump, we as a country will get deconstruction of the administrative state.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
4. I don't think Bannon is unstable....at all. He knows exactly what he's doing. Trashbag fucked
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:17 PM
Jan 2018

with the bull on this one and he also picked up that snake and brought him home.

haele

(12,660 posts)
14. Bannon wants to tear down the country and rebuild it.
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:54 PM
Jan 2018

And not in a nice way. Rip up the Constitution and re-write it. White supremacy and Monopolists - along with poor houses and work houses for the underclasses. Russia as it is now. Basically a bunch of rich "Bosses" in charge of all the resources and national assets, doling out favors and crumbs to all the others who will have to fight to survive.

He's a true disaster capitalist pig.

Haele

VOX

(22,976 posts)
12. Like Utah's vintage capital punishment choice: the noose or the firing squad?
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jan 2018

But in 2015, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill bringing back the firing squad as a method of execution. The state abandoned firing squads in 2004 but now, it has returned as the backup option — partly because of a shortage of lethal injection drugs, the state's default execution method.

Utah is now the only state in the U.S. that authorizes execution by firing squad.

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
13. Well, of course!
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:50 PM
Jan 2018

Brietbarf is their competitor. For a long while it looked like they were going to move in on Fox's territory. They know the die hard Trump supporters are going to back him no matter what and are the larger audience. After Bannon's fail in Alabama and this, they have a chance of knocking him out and taking his place.

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