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bounty44 -> RE: And yet another area with Stave Bannon with which I agree (1/6/2018 7:42:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Bannon is doing damage control this morning on SiriusXM.
Legal action is imminent according to a cease and desist letter.
The shit is hitting the fan today
elsewhere on the interwebs on comments sections, trumpers are imploding everywhere, its hilarious.
On Fox & Friends, they are bashing Bannon and Wolff. I think that will be the strategy moving forward.
gee, cant imagine why!
"As Media Torches Supposed Bombshell Book On Trump, Author Says Parts Of It Could Be Totally Wrong"
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Mark Berman
✔ @markberman
Spotted in the new Michael Wolff book about Trump: A Four Seasons breakfast featuring "Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman"
(I have never had breakfast at the Four Seasons, never actually been there) (but now I wonder if I can use this to go eat there and expense it?)
5:31 PM - Jan 5, 2018
Melissa Quinn @MelissaQuinn97
This excerpt also identifies Wilbur Ross as the nominee for labor secretary, which he was not. https://twitter.com/markberman/status/949407967966834688 …
5:37 PM - Jan 5, 2018
Mark Berman
✔ @markberman
Replying to @markberman
We're up to a third thing: Hilary Rosen's name is misspelled https://twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/949411387293433858 …
5:45 PM - Jan 5, 2018
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...As liberals lick their lips over the juicy details, let’s not forget that it isn’t just the Trump White House that’s slamming this book.
Former members of the Obama administration, other members of the news media, and even CNN have warned that this book is shoddy at parts. Even the author, Michael Wolff, who has described himself as a “famous bloviator,” admits that parts of his book could be untrue, even with tapes of conversations between Steve Bannon and other top Trump officials, though other interviews were off the record. Wolff even makes a note of it in his book, which Business Insider dissected. They concluded that for some portions of the book, it’s pretty much impossible to discern things, like how someone felt...
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman said Wolff got basic details wrong (via Washington Examiner):
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"I believe parts of it and then there are other parts that are factually wrong," she said on CNN. "I can see several places in the book that are wrong. So for instance, he inaccurately describes a report in the New York Times. He inaccurately characterizes a couple of incidents that took place early on in the administration. He gets basic details wrong."
Haberman said Wolff's "style" is to create a broad narrative in a story, but gets many of the details wrong.
"He creates a narrative that is notionally true, conceptually true, the details are often wrong," she said.
Haberman said Trump is also incorrect when he says he never met with Wolff, but she also said that Wolff is "overstating the access he had to the president" to write the book.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota warned viewers that this book isn’t journalism, citing his prologue (via The Hill):
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"We should mention that it sounds like Michael Wolff's modus operandi was to let the people he interviewed spin yarns," the "New Day" co-host said, said regarding "Fire and Fury."
"And then he didn't necessarily fact-check them. He didn't necessarily need two sources," the former "Fox & Friends" host continued.
"This isn't really journalism. This is a very interesting read but in terms of the way he processed them, he admits in the author's note that he let people tell their own stories and he printed them," she concluded.
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Steven Rattner
✔ @SteveRattner
Bannon may well have said all that stuff but let's remember that Wolff is an unprincipled writer of fiction. http://wapo.st/2CBJZg3?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.6b0a6bae1c36 …
Axios’ Mike Allen and Jim Vanehei wrote, “There are definitely parts of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" that are wrong, sloppy, or betray off-the-record confidence.” Steve Rattner, who headed President Obama’s task force for the auto bailout, called Wolff a “total sleaze bag” and an “unprincipled fiction writer.” Left wing Salon also admitted that the book is not “super reliable,” though they added it’s too juicy to pass up. In all, it’ll probably add the self-righteousness and insufferable smugness that veteran reporters Woodward and Bernstein mentioned this week. In the meantime, if you want to buy it, go for it—just know that there’s some fake news mixed in it.
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Mollie
✔ @MZHemingway
"Too good to check" is the motto for covering Trump...
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