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The small-during pile of rubble formerly known as Steve Bannon has garnered a strange

new respect from a mainstream media that used to call him everything from a white supremacist

Nazi to a white supremacist Nazi. The mainstream media is not that creative. But now, because Bannon

made some completely unfounded comments about a meeting he didn't attend during a campaign

he hadn't yet joined, the same news media suddenly citing the president's former chief

strategist as an authority on meetings he wasn't at during campaigns he hadn't joined.

Bannon's new mainstream media role as a former white supremacist Nazi-turned-russian

investigation wise man follows the release of excerpts from a new book by Michael Wolfe

called Fire and Fury inside the Trump White House, which confirms every prejudice the

media has about the Trump administration. It's chaos, he's stupid, everything is out of

control, he's senile, it's chaos, he's stupid, he's insane, it's chaos, he's stupid. In

fact, the media is so excited by the book they haven't taken the 10 minutes it takes to

realize that the excerpts release so far are complete crap. You might even say the fire

and fury signifies nothing except they told me to stop making Shakespeare jokes because

no one gets them. Anyway, the book does seem to be a tale told by an idiot or at least

by a guy who doesn't do the simplest fact-checking, but that's the thing. In creating an atmosphere

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