Bannon makes stunning threat to media: We're going to make it worse for you every day

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

So says the pissed off drunk at the end of the bar.

On Thursday during CPAC, White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon admitted Trump’s goal (Bannon’s goal)  in appointing certain people to head certain governmet agencies was to dismantle “deconstruct” those organizations altogether. You can read that Daily Kos story by Dartagnan here. 

On the same day, during a joint CPAC press conference with Reince Priebus, Bannon threatened the media with a quote that is undeniably one of the most odios and dangerous public statements made toward the free press by a  White House official, on record. Chris Cillizza with The Washington Post cites Bannon.

“It's going to get worse every day for the media,” Bannon said, insisting that the “corporatist” media would continue to see Trump pursue exactly the sort of economic nationalism that journalism allegedly despises. Then he added this call to arms: “If you think they are giving you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken.”

Cillizza say the message from Bannon was unmistakable: ‘The enemies of Donald Trump and his cronies are not really Democrats, it’s the media. He adds that presidential administrations and the press have often experienced adversarial positions.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/23/1637159/-President-Bannon-threatens-media-We-re-going-to-make-it-worse-every-day-for-you?detail=email&link_id=17&can_id=861a9125edc6ec9480b5e7910a47b2d9&source=email-bannon-admits-trumps-cabinet-nominees-were-selected-to-destroy-their-agencies&email_referrer=bannon-admits-trumps-cabinet-nominees-were-selected-to-destroy-their-agencies___172856&email_subject=donald-trumps-mystery-billion-confuses-the-air-force

[leftstreet]

1. What the FUCK is this 'give you your country back' shit?

From....?

Link to tweet

[dhill926]

13. game on, ya piece of shit...

[EarthFirst]

2. So much for walking back the statement: "The press is the enemy of the American people."

Sounds to me like they just double downed on their statement.

[WomanWhoRoars]

3. Bring it

Bring it Asshole

[niyad]

10. for WomanWhoRoars

[Johnny2X2X]

4. They will imprison journalists

That will start happening as soon as this year.

[KittyWampus]

7. No. They won't.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. They just shut CNN, and the NY and LA Times out of the White House

Yes they will imprison journalists, Trump has been hinting at that for over a year.

And this is going on during relatively non turbulent times here, wait until Trump has his war or his crisis that will allow him to start challenging people on their "Patriotism" or "Americanism." It's going to get scary in this country very soon and the FBI isn't going to be able to do a damn thing about it when he purges them and installs loyal henchmen.

[KittyWampus]

12. No. They won't.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Yeah, I'm quite positive our ever-rebellious Fourth Estate's going to take Trump down.

Even when they're DARED.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANY day now.

I'll be waiting.

[MineralMan]

6. Media Replies: Right Back Atcha Bannon!

[niyad]

8. these assholes are so certain of their power that they are not even bothering to pretend

anymore

[Martin Eden]

9. That sounds like a challenge; is the media up to it?

Our free institutions are not dead yet, and if we want to keep them that way it's up to all of us -- especially the media -- to make things worse for Bannon/Trump every day.

[JudyM]

14. Maybe, though an unfortunate set of facts is causing it, this is exactly what the media has needed.

They now have reason to become a more determined and forthright source of informing the public, as the original founders envisioned.