The whole operation has an amusing shoestring quality to it.
#War room steven bannon tv#
It’s still available in the far-right online ecosphere, and it’s streamable on various TV platforms, including Channel 240 of Pluto TV, but that seems like its own sad metaphor- War Room as a small, demoted planetoid, available mainly in the icier regions of the broadcast cosmos. STEPHEN K BANNON.īut since January 8, 2021, when YouTube pulled his show for spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election, viewing War Room has become harder to do. He broadcasts from the ground floor of a Washington, D.C., townhouse, and there are cameras, bright lights, a backdrop that devoted viewers know well: a fireplace mantel displaying a gold-framed picture of Jesus and a black-and-white poster saying THERE ARE NO CONSPIRACIES, BUT THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES. It is not a podcast, he is always telling me it is a TV show, with tons of visual components that listeners-only miss-the charts explaining economics, the montages of news clips that form his cold opens, the live shots of his correspondents.
#War room steven bannon skin#
One of the surest ways to get under Bannon’s skin is to call War Room a podcast. One night, as I was reading in bed, I heard the ping of my phone: Bannon had sent me a story from a Rio Grande Valley website, reporting that Republican turnout at early-voting polls was up up up. Winning elections-in France, in Hungary, in South Texas, where Hispanic voters are migrating into the R column with impressive speed. But winning is certainly an all-consuming preoccupation for Bannon, just as it is for his former boss. He sent me a picture of Lévy’s book The Empire and the Five Kings. I destroy folks except I always pull back to not be obnoxiousīernard-Henri Lévy, he meant, the famous French intellectual. (He had previously referred to her work as “brilliant,” but something she’d just said about Hunter Biden’s laptop didn’t agree with him.) Later, while reflecting on this comment, I asked him: Who’s been his most worthy intellectual sparring partner so far? One day he called my colleague Anne Applebaum a fucking KLOWN. ( Just sat in the family room for hours.) He would fret about his weight and express pleasure when a newspaper used a photo that did not, for once, make him look god-awful, like some deranged incel by way of Maurice Sendak. He would talk about missing his father, who died in January at 100, and how strange it was to be in his childhood home alone. There were times when he almost resembled a regular human. There were times when my text interactions with Bannon felt like one prolonged Turing test.
#War room steven bannon how to#
Twice he used this word, weaponize, in talking about his plan to flip Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona-adding, I can clearly see how to win. This is a huge issue that I’m about to make toxicĪnd so it went that day: The work before us is to weaponize this vote. Wasn’t your show supposed to flip her? I asked. I sent him a New York Times story on April 4 to tweak him. I tell him I’ll be interested to see if Murkowski responds. He’s talking about the Senate confirmation vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, and uncertainty about whether Lisa Murkowski, the senior Republican senator from Alaska, will vote yes. I’m taking out Murkowski today and forcing her to vote NO on judge Jackson And last of all, perhaps above all else, straight-up megalomania, which even those who profess affection for the man can see, though it appears to be a problem only for those who believe, as I do, that he’s attempting to insert a lit bomb into the mouth of American democracy. Garden-variety hypermania (with a generous assist from espressos). Also, the mania: logomania, arithmomania, monomania (he’d likely cop to all of these, especially that last one-he’s the first to say that one of the features of his show is “wash rinse repeat”). The chaos and the focus, the pugnacity and the enthusiasm, the transparency and the industrial-grade bullshit.
You can discern much of Bannon’s mad character and contradictions in these exchanges. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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