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PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:14 AM Feb 2017

ABC's Good Morning America did a piece on Steve Bannon and played excerpts

from his radio show, showing Bannon making anti-Islamic slurs and portraying the world as involved in a conflict between Christianity and Islam. They showed the cartoon of Trump sitting Bannon's lap while he signs an executive order while Bannon says, "that's it! Who's a big boy now?"


https://gma.yahoo.com/video/steve-bannon-becomes-major-force-103845347.html

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ABC's Good Morning America did a piece on Steve Bannon and played excerpts (Original Post) PA Democrat Feb 2017 OP
That this white nationalist swine leftynyc Feb 2017 #1
Call him what he is: a fucking Nazi neverforget Feb 2017 #9
You merely minimize the meaning of the word leftynyc Feb 2017 #18
Right so we wait until he does all those things moda253 Feb 2017 #30
I guess we should call leftynyc Feb 2017 #33
Jeebus rusty fender Feb 2017 #49
Calling a fellow liberal leftynyc Feb 2017 #50
At least you see the irony rusty fender Feb 2017 #51
If you're attempting to make leftynyc Feb 2017 #53
Let me explain it to you: rusty fender Feb 2017 #56
Sigh leftynyc Feb 2017 #57
Those things will be coming. Stop being obtuse. GoneOffShore Feb 2017 #59
You think he wouldn't do that if he could? nt. druidity33 Feb 2017 #66
there were nazis before there were all the atrocities you mentioned. tomp Feb 2017 #69
parse and protect all you please heaven05 Feb 2017 #68
You are correct. He is a Nazi. GoneOffShore Feb 2017 #58
I seriously didn't expect calling Bannon a fucking Nazi neverforget Feb 2017 #71
that's what i do. barbtries Feb 2017 #70
that is another reason bdamomma Feb 2017 #14
Absolutely leftynyc Feb 2017 #19
The fucking racist assholes do not like political correctness. Thor_MN Feb 2017 #61
Okay leftynyc Feb 2017 #62
He is a Nazi. GoneOffShore Feb 2017 #63
Sigh leftynyc Feb 2017 #65
Well, bless your heart! GoneOffShore Feb 2017 #72
Wow Sherman A1 Feb 2017 #2
this is bold, that cartoon was brutal. We should voice our support. Hamlette Feb 2017 #52
George showed the comic of Trump on Bannon's lap... Blanks Feb 2017 #60
That's great since this may be the only "News" some folks watch all day. TrekLuver Feb 2017 #3
GMA airs right after many local news shows PA Democrat Feb 2017 #4
With Gorsuch on the court , we're heading for a Dominionist takeover. octoberlib Feb 2017 #5
I agree. Now is not the time for Democrats to roll over. PA Democrat Feb 2017 #7
Make sure you contact any Democratic senators NewJeffCT Feb 2017 #8
Wow.. and when will abc be on their shit list? Cha Feb 2017 #6
Good Morning America, no less! wildeyed Feb 2017 #17
Audacious of Good Morning America.. Pushing Back Against the Fascists! Cha Feb 2017 #22
Mahalo Cha! Cary Feb 2017 #41
Thank you! wildeyed Feb 2017 #10
This is great, actually. greymattermom Feb 2017 #11
Yeah, Twitler has got to HATE this one .. 66 dmhlt Feb 2017 #12
yea that is about right bdamomma Feb 2017 #15
Here's another for use in trolling... Snarkoleptic Feb 2017 #26
Maybe Kushner is behind a push for a Bannon end around JDC Feb 2017 #13
Bannon represents the real terrorists in this country. They're not Muslims YOHABLO Feb 2017 #16
GREAT that ABC aired this! PearliePoo2 Feb 2017 #20
He kinda reminds me of the picture of Dorian Grey. Evil seeps out of his pores. n/t woodsprite Feb 2017 #25
'Ol' Gin Blossoms' They_Live Feb 2017 #34
Otis from Andy Griffith Show DeminPennswoods Feb 2017 #38
I wouldn't leave my children alone with that one. wildeyed Feb 2017 #42
Thank you for sharing this. snacker Feb 2017 #21
He is one sick fuck. Augiedog Feb 2017 #23
Bannon is NOT a Christian. tRump is NOT a Christian groundloop Feb 2017 #24
Pretend Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #27
I wonder, just wonder if ABC and other news organizations.... machoneman Feb 2017 #28
That's one logical play that would be welcomed. The media news bureaus may be Eyeball_Kid Feb 2017 #29
THIS That would be so SWEET! PearliePoo2 Feb 2017 #40
"Spinway" Ligyron Feb 2017 #43
Yeah, two can play the Access game. Anti-Trump pundits can refuse to go on Fox. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #44
they are Christians in the same way Hitler was a Catholic. Fast Walker 52 Feb 2017 #46
Oh boy. Kellyanne and shorty spice won't like this. Kahuna7 Feb 2017 #31
WHAAAA!!! TeddyBear 1 Feb 2017 #32
Bannon is my brother in law mountain grammy Feb 2017 #35
WHAT?? Are you serious? nt. PearliePoo2 Feb 2017 #39
Metaphorically... I'm sorry. mountain grammy Feb 2017 #45
Good, roaches don't like light shined on them DeminPennswoods Feb 2017 #36
guess they will be on sh*t list now thinkingagain Feb 2017 #37
again, had the msm done their jobs during the campaign, we would not be in this mess now. niyad Feb 2017 #47
Exactly! Where were you 18 months ago? LuckyLib Feb 2017 #55
ABC confirmed what most of us knew about that neanderthal townie Feb 2017 #48
Bannon is executing Aleksander Dugin's strategy to absolute perfection. GliderGuider Feb 2017 #54
I read an article the other day about Bannon bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #64
K and R Quixote1818 Feb 2017 #67
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
1. That this white nationalist swine
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:15 AM
Feb 2017

is anywhere near the White House, let alone a key figure in it, could be the worst part of having this degenerate in the oval office.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
18. You merely minimize the meaning of the word
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:59 AM
Feb 2017

by using it in this context. The nazis banned Jews from owning businesses, they couldn't teach, doctors couldn't treat them, forced them to wear yellow stars on their clothing. This was a decade before they started mass murdering them. He's white nationalist swine.

 

moda253

(615 posts)
30. Right so we wait until he does all those things
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:07 AM
Feb 2017

Right so we wait until he does all those things before we start calling him a Nazi. He was perfectly fine with accepting support from them and has publicly said things that are in line with their bullshit.

It's a duck!

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
33. I guess we should call
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:34 AM
Feb 2017

armed robbers murderers while we're at it. I mean, they've already proved to be violent criminals, right? Words mean things. Please don't minimize them or they lose all meaning.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
50. Calling a fellow liberal
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 02:53 PM
Feb 2017

a nazi isn't really helping make your point. I had an opinion and politely gave it. If you have a problem with that, tough.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
53. If you're attempting to make
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:12 PM
Feb 2017

zero sense whatsoever, you're succeeding brilliantly. That you don't think words matter and that juvenile emoticons are a substitute for anything is really not my problem.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
56. Let me explain it to you:
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:29 PM
Feb 2017

A poster called a real-life nazi, Steve Bannon, a nazi, and you ragged on the poster for doing so. If you don't see the irony in that, then you are irony deficient', and that makes me pity you

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
57. Sigh
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:32 PM
Feb 2017

Where are the rules that anyone has to wear specific signs on their clothes, where are the LAWS that forbid anyone from owning land, seeing a doctor. Where are the work camps? You're just another who is making that word mean nothing at all. Is that your intention? Cheapening the word so it loses all meaning? Because that's ALL you're doing. We're done here.

GoneOffShore

(17,342 posts)
59. Those things will be coming. Stop being obtuse.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 04:04 PM
Feb 2017

I had this discussion with a Facebook friend a year ago.

After the events of the past week she agrees with my original assessment of 'that man', that he was employing the same tactics and rhetoric as Hitler.

You would seem to be whistling past the graveyard.

 

tomp

(9,512 posts)
69. there were nazis before there were all the atrocities you mentioned.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 08:56 PM
Feb 2017

fascism is an attitude. first come the nazis, then come the atrocities.

Perhaps you missed this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028573770

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
68. parse and protect all you please
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 08:55 PM
Feb 2017

this current Administration are the 21st century equivalent to adolph's nazi crew. Bannon is an anti-semite racist swine who is a white nationalist supremacist. You know about them right. White is right, black better hide along with many other folks and religions. Only white males and their followers count, everyone else is shit to them literally and figuratively. No putting lipstick on these pigs that are running this country.....THEY ARE NAZI SWINE

GoneOffShore

(17,342 posts)
58. You are correct. He is a Nazi.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 04:01 PM
Feb 2017

Though he has declared himself a leninist, he's a Nazi.

To say otherwise is to minimize what he intends.

I'm still not getting why anyone is not alright with calling him what he is.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
61. The fucking racist assholes do not like political correctness.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 05:16 PM
Feb 2017

"White nationalist" is a PC term for fucking racist asshole. Do them the favor of calling them by their preferred name.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
65. Sigh
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 05:48 PM
Feb 2017

And another who seems determined to cheapen the definition of words. And I'm determined to ignore each and every one of you.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. Wow
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:15 AM
Feb 2017

that is getting pretty bold for corporate media.

I like it, but it I am sure their management will change the direction soon.

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
52. this is bold, that cartoon was brutal. We should voice our support.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:09 PM
Feb 2017

comment on the site linked in op.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
60. George showed the comic of Trump on Bannon's lap...
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 04:54 PM
Feb 2017

I think this is what you get when your press secretary and special counsel get up on the podium, or stand out on the lawn and threaten the press with "We'll have to look at our relationship".

They tore into his (Bannon) ass. They had Cokie Roberts and Jon Karl discussing the influence Bannon has and his history. I think this is the media striking back when the guests from the administration come on the show and doesn't answer their questions.

Fine, we won't talk to them, we'll talk about them. IMHO

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
3. That's great since this may be the only "News" some folks watch all day.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:15 AM
Feb 2017

EXPOSE, EXPOSE, EXPOSE...REPEAT.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
4. GMA airs right after many local news shows
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:18 AM
Feb 2017

so many people tune in to get local weather, sports and other local news, and then keep watching ABC to hear the beginning of GMA.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
5. With Gorsuch on the court , we're heading for a Dominionist takeover.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:34 AM
Feb 2017

Some of Gorsuch's rulings show he doesn't uphold the separation of church and state.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
8. Make sure you contact any Democratic senators
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:40 AM
Feb 2017

to let them know to filibuster Gorusch or expect to be primaried.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
17. Good Morning America, no less!
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:59 AM
Feb 2017

Side of alcoholic racist demagogue with your cornflakes, anyone

I LOVE that they put the cartoon at the end Trump HATES that cartoon so don't re-tweet!


greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
11. This is great, actually.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:54 AM
Feb 2017

If they all get on his shit list, maybe only Fox will occasionally cover his fake events. He craves publicity more than anything, and MSM has the power to take that away from him. It will hurt him more than them. There are plenty of other things to talk about.

JDC

(10,135 posts)
13. Maybe Kushner is behind a push for a Bannon end around
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:56 AM
Feb 2017

I think he is smart enough to work the media against Bannon's counter media attacks. If the stories are true that he is feeling marginalized - because of his Jewish Faith AND with Bannon's Neo-Nazi leadership and following, he could make a counter play. He also is capable of carrying a grudge: case in point Chris Christie. I wouldn't underestimate his intelligence or his abilities to manipulate his father in-law if I were Bannon.

Alternatively, maybe the media is actually doing it's job and possibly standing in solidarity with CNN's lock-out. After all, if it can happen to one, it can happen to all. I think the former dark theory is more likely unfortunately and it is pulled out of my rear admittedly.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
20. GREAT that ABC aired this!
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 10:05 AM
Feb 2017

Bannon is a disheveled, unkempt, ugly (inside and out) EVIL bastard.
He also looks REALLY, REALLY sick and diseased.
I have NO doubt this fucker is a major substance abuser who's not long for this world.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
38. Otis from Andy Griffith Show
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:48 AM
Feb 2017

I was scrolling through the bannonroast hashtag on twitter and came across that one. Someone posted side-by-side pictures and the resemblence is pretty good.

groundloop

(11,527 posts)
24. Bannon is NOT a Christian. tRump is NOT a Christian
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 10:23 AM
Feb 2017

As far as I can tell the only reason they try favoring 'Christian' nations over Islamic nations is their deep seated hatred. If either one of them were truly Christian they'd be coming out with far different regulations instead of the ones we've seen that are doing real harm to people who we should be helping right now.


machoneman

(4,014 posts)
28. I wonder, just wonder if ABC and other news organizations....
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 10:46 AM
Feb 2017

are playing the game to both support CNN, just kicked out of the Trumpian advisor loop, and get themselves banned from having his lying spoxs on their shows as well?

I'd love to see, one by one, each outlet get banned AFTER they humiliate Trump even more so. Then, he's only have Fox and Breitbart in the press room.

Man, the other networks, media, etc. could go nuts with anti-Trump stories by the score, we'd get to never see KellySkank Spinway again (thank you, Lord!) and that blithering idiot Spicer would be talking to 2-3 people in an otherwise empty room. Oh, the joy!

Eyeball_Kid

(7,434 posts)
29. That's one logical play that would be welcomed. The media news bureaus may be
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:03 AM
Feb 2017

coalescing into opposition, and it isn't because Bannon called them the opposition. It's because Bannon and Trump are BEHAVING that way.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)
44. Yeah, two can play the Access game. Anti-Trump pundits can refuse to go on Fox.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 12:47 PM
Feb 2017

Then Fox would start to feel the pinch and their whole "fair and balanced" scam would be even more exposed as a sham.

The other networks could let it be known that they would only interview tRump, Pence, Preibus, and Bannon; nobody else. Intially the tRump regime would laugh and refuse, but over time, they would start to whine about "free speech" and demanding access to ABC/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/PBS/etc.

thinkingagain

(906 posts)
37. guess they will be on sh*t list now
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:47 AM
Feb 2017

no more Kellyanne saying to them things like
"not you guys , you guys are always fair and report fairly"

"now they will be
"fake news"
"you only report the alternative facts"
etc

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
54. Bannon is executing Aleksander Dugin's strategy to absolute perfection.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:14 PM
Feb 2017

The trail of evidence leads from Bannon straight back to the work of Russian fascist philosopher Aleksander Dugin, whose strategy Bannon is currently executing to perfection. In his 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin wrote:

In the United States:

Russia should use its special forces within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

Look around you. what's happening?

Note Dugin's use of the phrase "special forces". IMO this encompasses the entire nest of vipers in the WH with Bannon at the wheel, along with a portion of the senior GOP, some members of the FBI, as well as Russian agents in place throughout the country.

This is not politics gone horribly awry. This is enemy action, with the aim of bringing about the American Apocalypse. The sooner we recognize that fact, the sooner we will be able to take realistic measures to stop it. We are virtually out of time.

Bannon has to be removed, and he will not go voluntarily. I don't think there is any way to make Trump fire him. Trump will also protect him against legal action. So that basically leaves only the physical option.
 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
64. I read an article the other day about Bannon
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 05:47 PM
Feb 2017

being part of the Biosphere project-- Is this true? Doesn't sound like something he would be involved with.

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