(2017-01-29) Cassidy Steve Bannons War On The Press

John Cassidy: Steve Bannon's War on the Press. At a cocktail party in November, 2013, he described himself as “Leninist” to the writer and historian Ronald Radosh. In a piece at the Daily Beast, Radosh recalled that Bannon had said to him, “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

To a good Leninist, the very notion of an objective press is a liberal piety. Media outlets like the Times and the Washington Post are merely the ideological arm of highly educated urban cosmopolitans, liberals, and financiers—the “donor class,” Bannon calls them—who have benefitted from globalization and large-scale immigration.

“The paper of record for our beloved Republic, the New York Times, should be absolutely ashamed and humiliated. They got it 100 per cent wrong.”

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”

“I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist. The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.”