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Title: Bannon plots Fox competitor, global expansion
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Axios
URL Source: https://www.axios.com/what-is-steve ... itbart-network-2474727174.html
Published: Aug 19, 2017
Author: Jonathan Swan, Mike Allen
Post Date: 2017-08-19 14:17:18 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 1185
Comments: 2
Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into "Bannon the Barbarian" mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart. Axios' Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he's going to start a network. On Day 1, Bannon declared he's taking his West Wing infighting to the outside, telling Bloomberg Businessweek's Josh Green that he's "going to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America." Why it matters: The country's national political conversation is about to get even uglier, if you can imagine. It's going to be dark, and toxic, with a fight on the right that may be more bitter and personal than hostilities between Republicans and Democrats. Around the corner: Expect Bannon to use Breitbart to engage aggressively in September's policy fights. Watch for Bannon to pressure Trump to veto any government funding bill that doesn't include money to fund the building of that big, beautiful wall he promised along the southern border with Mexico. Watch for a real fight over the debt ceiling. In other words: Buckle up. Poster Comment: Bannon would relish taking on Rupert Murdoch, someone he knows was urging Trump to fire him almost from the beginning.
The real question is whether the Mercers are really ready to back Bannon and take on the Murdochs and Fox News.
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Glenn Beck will smash the Steve Bannon Network like a bug, with his brilliant technical analysis. If Bannon can buy the Newsmax or OAN news channels, he could give Beck and O'Reilly a new home and suck a lot of viewers out of Fox News. Either of those channels have access to both Dish Network and Directv satellite networks and to a pretty large number of cable outlets. Bannon will be the new Ailes and Mercer will be his Murdoch. They don't want to just hold the line against the Left as the cowardly GOP would do. They want to roll the clock back decades on a host of policy fronts.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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