What do y'all think Bannon is up to with this interview?

[nolabear]

I’m asking that this not end up being a “fuck them all” thread. I’m curious as to what people think. Ari Melber couldn’t pass up a big get I’m sure, and it is a big get. But they’re teasing that Bannon is now setting up a pro-45 organization to somehow rally the right. In photos he looks cleaned up (though apparently still wearing two shirts) and that weirdo Nunberg is with him in the organization.

I’d think Bannon and 45’s people would hate one another. Certainly the WH staff must despise him. Is he trying to get back in? Is he pulling strings from underneath w/o most realizing it?

Any real speculation about what help or harm this genuinely creepy guy is up to?

[snowybirdie]

1. He has a movie

coming out soon. He'll even go on MSNBC to make a buck.

https://brokeassstuart.com/2018/08/16/steve-bannon...

[nolabear]

4. OFFS. I hadn't seen that. I made it halfway through the trailer.

If it’s that simple I’m not worried. But if it’s the propaganda arm of an actual attempt to incite violence that is a problem.

If Melber is smart he was well prepared and pointed out all the propaganda tricks that seem designed to cause actual violence.

Ick.

[NCTraveler]

2. Bannon Theory is that the Federal Government is so out of control...

That it must be destroyed and then built back up.

Doesn’t matter what Trump has called him.

Doesn’t matter if they share ideology.

Trump is a tool for destabilization which plays to Bannon Theory.

His kind thinks of themselves as revolutionaries.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. That's his theory but it doesn't explain why he wants to do an interview

with Ari Melber on MSNBC. Is he trying to reach a more liberal audience (good luck with that)? Does he just want the air time and nobody else will interview him?

[NCTraveler]

7. Selling himself or movie.

His main crew would also find it to be “tough”. Their man going into the lions den. It’s not to trash Trump. Bannon’s support also supports Trump and Bannon knows how easily their feelings get hurt.

[gratuitous]

5. Bannon desperately trying to reclaim relevance?

I'm not sure why anyone with a cable show would consider Steve Bannon a "get." Even if the show is having him on in a "point and laugh, children" kind of way, giving this odious individual any air at all is a blunder. There are plenty of unheard voices out there with far more interesting things to say. Just for starters, Rev. Barber of North Carolina.

What is Bannon up to? For a brief time he was Trump's Brain, and he was wheeling and dealing directly out of the White House. That's pretty heady stuff. Since he got shown the door, I'm sure Bannon hasn't had anything near to that sweet, uncut mainline attention drug, and he'd really like to get back in the limelight for more. The more he's ignored, the better off everyone will be.

[Deb]

14. Spot on!

[TomSlick]

32. Bingo!

[dameatball]

6. Bannon got a taste of the limelight and he will now never stop.

He doesn't want the wheels to fall off of just this country, it is more than that. Think Newt Gingrich with even less moral compass. White nationalist seeking shelter and a voice wherever he can find it. This fool, is dangerous and underestimating him....let alone giving him a nationwide stage to spout his sh*t is stupid.

[smirkymonkey]

8. He's desperate to be relevant again.

And he craves the attention. I'm amazed he's still alive considering the way he puts away the hooch.

I think he fancies himself as some kind of under-appreciated, revolutionary, right-wing savior who just hasn't found his groove yet. He's a buffoon, but a dangerous one. He's evil, and his ideas are hateful - like Trump's - but he's not stupid. It's a good thing that he's a drunk, otherwise I think he'd be a lot further along than he is already.

[nolabear]

9. That does seem to be the consensus here.

I honestly don’t know whether to take him seriously. Did you see the movie trailer? Good GOD.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Yes, I saw it. And it made me physically ill.

He also fancies himself as the Leni Riefenstahl of the modern fascist movement. He couldn't cut it in Hollywood, so he's looking for a new audience. He is a bitter, pathetic little man.

However we would be foolish to underestimate him. He is determined and driven. He can not be allowed to succeed. I just hope he drinks himself to death before he gets anywhere.

[nolabear]

11. I just saw Melber's tease with bits of it.

I am thoroughly creeped out. I get that “he’s playing to an audience of one” feeling. I only hope him coming out of the shadows will pull his teeth. And that 45 will hate him for even assuming he has any influence.

He literally blamed Roy Moore’s defeat on Ryan and McConnell not standing up for him.

[emulatorloo]

12. Decent Axios article on that movie and Bannon's "thinking" (lol) behind it

https://www.axios.com/trump-at-war-steve-bannon-2018-midterm-elections-43ab32b3-3944-4f52-8bf7-ceaf18a15c4e.html

[blueseas]

31. I tend to agree with that

Everything I have read thinks he needs to redo this country - a revolutionary. And yes he is EVIL. There was an article about his ex-wife and the home they shared.
:

[librechik]

13. "charm offensive" is almost too perfect a name for what Jabba the Bannon is doing.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Pushing White supremacy.

[ooky]

16. It would be more interesting if Lawrence O'Donnell shows up instead.

[nolabear]

17. Or Rachel. But he won't get anywhere near her.

I don’t know who I’d like to see interview him, honestly.

[bdamomma]

18. why give this scum

any play at all he's a Leninist who wants to see the demise of the US. He hates liberals and what we stand for.

[UTUSN]

19. Ari won't let him get away with B.S. Better Ari/MSNBC than other venues. I'll be watching.

[nolabear]

21. I agree but that's one reason I'm curious.

Is CNN too “out”? Fox too “in”? Do they think they can claim bias better with MSNBC?

Bannon appears to be a manipulator and I can’t imagine him doing anything without that end in mind. Like you, I’m very curious. And it being on Friday the usual lineup won’t talk about it for days.

[UTUSN]

23. I thought that BANNON was non grata anywhere. So ratings for Ari, BANNON gets air, win win?!1

[superpatriotman]

20. Befouling the public airwaves

But he IS a phony.

Unqualified.
Unreliable.
Un-everything.

His muck-covered bones should be ground and fed to the right.

[Blaukraut]

22. Trying to put a flea in Trump's ear that he can be the savior of the House this November

Bannon thinks he's smarter than everyone else and that Republicans who have written off the house this upcoming election are risking Trump's agenda. (meaning Bannon's agenda)

[nolabear]

24. Now it's underway I'm glad the panel is injecting some truth into the bullshit.

So pedophelia-fine! Tax cut bait and switch-sure but that’s cool. MeToo? I’ve got daughters!

Uh-huh.

[rockfordfile]

25. Yeah he got free time from MSNBC

Doing the same for him as they did for Trumpf.

[Me.]

26. Why Oh Why Does Nunberg Keep Popping Up

now he's teaming with Bannon?

[Still In Wisconsin]

27. Someone get Nunberg a drink...

we all know what happens next.

[Tucker08087]

28. I really don't care. P

I’m sorry, and this may come off as rude, but Bannon has OPINIONS. Hell, the guy two doors down has opinions and I wouldn’t put him on TV. We have legal scholars. We have Presidential scholars, we have constitutional scholars, and even impeachment scholars. SCHOLARS. People who have devoted their entire lives to understanding the law. Then we have a bloated, puss-crusted, white-supremacity CUCK trying to make a difference in our thought processes. Don’t let him. He talks a great game. He knows NOTHING. He is a scholar of NOTHING. His credo: Burn it all down. That’s his philosophy. Let him light the match and be indicted for firestarting in an extremely fire prone area. If not that, don’t cover him. He brought us to this hell. His 15 minutes ended about 45 minutes ago. All he has is BS rhetoric with no truths or polls or even history to back him. Shun him. Send him back to his hole. He is lucky he’s not in jail.

[nolabear]

34. No, I think you're spot on.

As I listened to him I kept thinking “Okay. You’re just talking. That’s all you’ve ever done.” He’s got no power either directly or, I suspect, indirectly.

He can go crawl back now. He’s done.

[highplainsdem]

29. Rehabilitating his image. Promoting himself.

[Hekate]

33. GMTA. Bingo.

[Kajun Gal]

30. Donors. To fill his pockets.

[katmondoo]

35. I hope this is the last of Bannon on MSNBC

[backtoblue]

36. Pure propaganda.

He's pushing for our government to be taken over by corporations. Didnt he own part of Cambridge Analytica? Yes, he's still using psychological warfare by means of propaganda.