Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’ - Polidicks

[IMG]https://cdn1.nyt.com/images/2017/01/27/business/27BANNON/27BANNON-articleLarge.jpg[/IMG] [Quote] WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration. “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call. “I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.” The scathing assessment — delivered by one of Mr. Trump’s most trusted and influential advisers, in the first days of his presidency — comes at a moment of high tension between the news media and the administration, with skirmishes over the size of Mr. Trump’s inaugural crowd and the president’s false claims that millions of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants swayed the popular vote against him. Mr. Bannon, who rarely grants interviews to journalists outside of Breitbart News, the provocative right-wing website he ran until last August, was echoing comments by Mr. Trump this weekend, when the president said he was in “a running war” with the media and called journalists “among the most dishonest people on earth.” [/Quote] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html"]The New York Times[/URL] From reddit: [Quote] This hits on another item in the "Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism" list. (6): Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. [/Quote]

Go back to the fuckin racist, nazi supremacist hole you crawled out of Bannon.

"stop reporting on the things we do"

this war on the media is a losing game, I cant see how they can't see this

Who needs the Media. The government supplies you with all the truth you need.

[QUOTE]“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call. “I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.” [/QUOTE] Its sad but the same could be said about you guys

You know, I'm willing to bet that the weekly publishing of a list of crimes by immigrants was Bannon's idea.

[QUOTE]keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile[/QUOTE] Strange you cut half of his quote off for some odd reason

[QUOTE]The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States[/QUOTE] Oh hey look. It's that "them vs. us" mentality. The other side is always wrong and to blame while we are perfect in every way.

This is kind of a deeply unsettling statement and is not doing much to dissuade my worries that we're going to see moves for censorship against the media directly in the coming days

[QUOTE]"I want you to quote this," Mr. Bannon added. "The media here is the opposition party."[/QUOTE] This is [B]McCarthyism[/B]. Shame this man. Fuck this administration and their antifacts. Impeach the lot.

[QUOTE=-nesto-;51731227]Strange you cut half of his quote off for some odd reason[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]"I want you to quote this," Mr. Bannon added. "The media here is the opposition party." [/QUOTE]

[quote]Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, [highlight]and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.[/highlight][/quote] [quote][highlight]“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,”[/highlight] Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.[/quote] [quote]“I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. [highlight]“The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”[/highlight][/quote] [quote]Mr. Bannon, who rarely grants interviews to journalists outside of Breitbart News, the provocative right-wing website he ran until last August, was echoing comments by Mr. Trump this weekend, when [highlight]the president said he was in “a running war” with the media and called journalists “among the most dishonest people on earth.”[/highlight][/quote] [quote][highlight]“The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong,” Mr. Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”[/highlight][/quote] [quote][highlight]“The mainstream media has not fired or terminated anyone associated with following our campaign,”[/highlight] Mr. Bannon said. “Look at the Twitter feeds of those people: they were outright activists of the Clinton campaign.” (He did not name specific reporters or editors.)[/quote] [quote][highlight]On the telephone, Mr. Bannon spoke in blunt but calm tones, peppered with a dose of profanities, and humorously referred to himself at one point as “Darth Vader.”[/highlight][/quote] [quote]Asked if he was concerned that Mr. Spicer had lost credibility with the news media, Mr. Bannon chortled. “Are you kidding me?” he said. “We think that’s a badge of honor. ‘Questioning his integrity’ — are you kidding me? [highlight]The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.[/highlight]”[/quote] [quote][highlight]“You’re the opposition party,” Mr. Bannon said. “Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.”[/highlight][/quote] Congratulations Trump supporters.

This is absolutely insane. How can this man be press secretary? He's a media man himself - surely he knows he's helping to destroy the presidency he's a part of?

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51731282]This is absolutely insane. How can this man be press secretary? He's a media man himself - surely he knows he's helping to destroy the presidency he's a part of?[/QUOTE] 8-dimensional volleyball dressed as chess!!!!

He's not entirely wrong. A major news network was feeding shit to Clinton, did some awkward shit regarding Wikileaks(you cant view this its illegal!!!), and gave platforms to false sexual assault accusers. Sounds like opposition to me.

I mean they really should. With such biased tactics as: Sticking a camera in front of Trump when he talks or acts.

[QUOTE]“The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong,” Mr. Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”[/QUOTE] For the love of christ, this "anti-elite" bollocks needs to stop. You're the establishment now Steve, I think that counts as "elite".

[QUOTE=-nesto-;51731287]He's not entirely wrong. A major news network was feeding shit to Clinton, did some awkward shit regarding Wikileaks(you cant view this its illegal!!!), and gave platforms to false sexual assault accusers. Sounds like opposition to me.[/QUOTE] Got any proof those allegations are false? The stuff you're accusing CNN of is stuff that Conservative media like Fox and Breitbart have been doing for years. Bannon's a filthy hypocrite.

On the contrary this presidency is a goldmine for ~the media~ Trump is going to be one of the most controversial presidents ever because he's just [i] so bad[/i]. Every dumb statement, every childish tweet, every fucking terrible policy, every failure to do what's right and successful exercise in going backwards, is going to be a story that they can sell. Why should they be afraid of him when everything that comes out of his dumb mouth is money in their pocket?

[QUOTE=-nesto-;51731287]He's not entirely wrong. A major news network was feeding shit to Clinton, did some awkward shit regarding Wikileaks(you cant view this its illegal!!!), and gave platforms to false sexual assault accusers. Sounds like opposition to me.[/QUOTE] a) this was all before the election b) as far as I know the wikileaks stuff was just one network c) as far as I know there was good reason to air those people coming from d) NONE OF THAT JUSTIFIES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TREATING THE MEDIA LIKE GARBAGE BECAUSE IT'S CRITICISING HIS ADMINISTRATION.

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51731282]This is absolutely insane. How can this man be press secretary? He's a media man himself - surely he knows he's helping to destroy the presidency he's a part of?[/QUOTE] Not press secretary, you're thinking of Sean Spicer.

[QUOTE=Gamerman12;51731320]Not press secretary, you're thinking of Sean Spicer.[/QUOTE] Ah, ops. I forgot his position, my apologies. Still. How can he be a part of this administration?

A "corrupt media" is just an "alternate fact"

[QUOTE=-nesto-;51731287]He's not entirely wrong. A major news network was feeding shit to Clinton, did some awkward shit regarding Wikileaks(you cant view this its illegal!!!), and gave platforms to false sexual assault accusers. Sounds like opposition to me.[/QUOTE] Do you understand how wildly dangerous it is that one of Trump's closest dudes is declaring the media as "the enemy" during the [I]first week[/I] of his administration?

Fuck off, Bannon.

[QUOTE=Judas;51731215]this war on the media is a losing game, I cant see how they can't see this[/QUOTE] sadly its not, look at how people distrust cnn, npr, and anything fact related because of supposed liberal biases. it fucking irritates me to no end that everyone in my family watches fox news and listens to limbaugh and other rightwing muppets

Honestly I wouldn't put it past the Trump administration, including Trump himself, to [I]make[/I] the media shut up, if they could. If the way they're censoring government organizations tells me anything, it's that they're not big fans of the first amendment.

I bet he expects people to Goebbel this up

[QUOTE=-nesto-;51731287]He's not entirely wrong. A major news network was feeding shit to Clinton, did some awkward shit regarding Wikileaks(you cant view this its illegal!!!), and gave platforms to false sexual assault accusers. Sounds like opposition to me.[/QUOTE] It's absolutely true that there's been some flatly embarrassing conduct on the part of the media lately but that is no excuse for the embarrassing conduct of the administration they're currently reporting on What exactly would you have them do? Just ignore what Trump and his cronies are up to? Like censoring information sources on climate change, undercutting women's rights, and undermining foreign relations and directly putting the economy at risk with wildly irresponsible things like a multi-billion dollar money sink of a wall and piss poor treatment of long time trading partners?