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(60,536 posts) Mon Sep 11, 2017, 06:41 PM Sep 2017

Panicked Bannon reached out to SNL to find out how he'd be portrayed after watching McCarthy...

Panicked Bannon reached out to SNL to find out how he’d be portrayed after watching McCarthy destroy Spicer

ELIZABETH PREZA
11 SEP 2017 AT 17:59 ET

For all of his claims that he doesn’t “need the affirmation of the mainstream media,” former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon cared so much about how “Saturday Night Live” portrayed him that he called cast member Darrell Hammond “to see what the writers were planning,” Wall Street Journal contributor Eli Stokols reports.

In a wide-ranging interview with CBS’ Charlie Rose, which aired Sunday on “60 Minutes,” Bannon insisted he doesn’t “care” about the media’s portrayal of him.

“I don’t need the affirmation of the mainstream media. I don’t care what they say,” Bannon said. “They can call me an anti-Semite. They can call me racist. They call me nativist. They can call me anything you want, okay? As long as we’re driving this agenda for the working men and women of this country, I’m happy.”

“This reminds me of a story I’ve had in my notes. File under: ‘Bannon doth protest too much,’” Stokols wrote on Twitter Monday, before throwing cold water on the Brietbart chairman’s claim. “In short, Bannon did care very much about how SNL would portray him, because he knew [Donald] Trump would see and care about it. He saw Sean Spicer’s stock drop with Trump after he was portrayed by a woman and was concerned SNL might give him similar treatment.”