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American Media Misses the Headline for the Soap Opera Shiny Object -Again

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The American media that is supposedly is so biased against Trump, totally missed the headline. Instead of talking about the unbelievable decision to drop the Joint Chiefs from most NSC meetings, the American media talked about Steve Bannon getting a seat on it.

The BBC, the Independent, and the Guardian all got it right.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38787241

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  1. Adding Bannon was bad enough – the dropping is actually the more significant.

    I cannot see any positive outcome of the President (the office) pissing off both the military and intelligence folks so regularly.

    • … unless extremist Bannon is already trying to tick off the adults in the room, Mattis and Kelly, so that he can get rid of them as soon as possible.

      This would hardly be surprising, since it appears that both Trump and Bannon may have been caught off guard when they chose “Mad-Dog” Mattis, thinking they were getting a mad dog, but instead found to their chagrin that they got a brilliant scholar warrior strategist.

      The mindset of the authoritarian leader leaves no room for any kind of team of rivals nor independent thought

  2. “The Republicans say the Earth is flat. The Democrats say its spherical. We say… you decide.”

    There’s a pronounced difference between neutral and objective.

    Fred Rich laRiccia

  3. Peter Theil:

    ‘Oh he won’t do a Muslim ban’

    Newt:

    “Bannon won’t have any power”

    Well, he is now being placed in the upper echelons of the American security state along with Mike Flynn, neither with any Congressional authorization to be there.

    Michael Hayden, former CIA director, said today on NPR that he had never encountered such a political decision with the NSC in either the Obama or Bush administrations. Rove and Axelrod would sit on some meetings, but they didn’t talk and they couldn’t vote. Dunford being removed is a major signal that unprecedented power will be concentrated in the West Wing. Neither Mattis nor Kelly were consulted about the Executive Order-which they both opposed in their confirmation hearings.

    It will now be chaired by someone without any extensive military or intelligence experience, who has a dangerous vision of a pan-Christian alliance of majority Orthodox and Catholic states against Islam.

    He laid out this vision in a speech to a group of traditionalist lay Catholics*. This is how they see the world. White vs. non-white. Christian vs. non Christian. Cultural conservatives vs. the decadent left in all it’s forms. It’s a global alt-right ideology that warps the good aspects of traditional conservatism (skepticism to markets, embrace of the commons, a restrained foreign policy) into a twisted zero sum game. We cannot let our country become poisoned by this dogma of darkness.

    • I was never in the “wait and see” camp, but I thought that Bannon’s initial appointment, which I believe was the first announcement Trump made, should have been enough to end the “wait and see” approach. And now we’re seeing how bad this could/will get.

      I thought that my new Congressman’s (Welch) statement was fitting.

      Steve Bannon should not be permitted to pass through the White House gates let alone serve as a permanent member of the National Security Council. His appointment to the NSC is dangerous, unprecedented and misguided. David Axelrod and Karl Rove were banned from regularly participating in NSC meetings by Presidents Obama and Bush. There should be no seat at the national security table for partisan politics, especially the brand promoted by Bannon in his previous job — fringe conspiracy theories, the alt-right movement, anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia.

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