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stoner614 gglWho is Behind these Lies?
Roger Stone boasts about being the sleaziest man in politics and that his rules are "Attack, attack, attack?never defend? and ?Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.? As a young operative, Stone was involved in Watergate, causing him to be fired by Bob Dole. Stone was also forced to cut ties with New York Senate Republicans after he left a harassing message on the voicemail of Eliot Spitzer?s father. Even Republican Ed Rollins says Stone ?always had this reputation of being a guy who exaggerated things, who pretended he did things. Roger was never on Nixon?s staff, was never on the White House staff. I don?t think you?ll find anyone in the business who trusts him. Roger was always a little rat.? Stone recently said ?McCain himself should not run a slash-and-burn campaign, but a slash-and-burn campaign will have to be run by others.?
Floyd Brown, the leader of the National Campaign Fund, the Legacy Committee, Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and the Policy Issues Institute, once bragged he was part of the ?the heart and soul of the right-wing conspiracy.? has a history of surfacing every four years to make right-wing attacks against Democrats in presidential elections. Most infamously, Brown was responsible for the racist 1988 ?Willie Horton? ad against Michael Dukakis. Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton?s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election?which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim??filthy campaign tactics.? After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and David Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, make a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry.
David Bossie, who runs Citizens United, has paired with Floyd Brown for years. Bossie and Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton?s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election?which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim??filthy campaign tactics.? After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and Floyd Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, made a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry. In 1998, Bossie was fired from his job with the House Committee investigating Bill Clinton. When Bossie selectively released tapes, removing information that exonerated the Clintons, and improperly obtained phone records, even Newt Gingrich said he was ?embarrassed for the conference at the circus that went on.?

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11</a>chetwind sp producer]
Celsius 41.11 is a 2004 political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">documentary film</a> inspired by, and partially in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Moore</a>'s film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_9/11" title="Fahrenheit 9/11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Fahrenheit 9/11</a>. The title was chosen because, according to the makers of the movie, 41.11 °C is "The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die", which is the film's tag-line.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-LATimes-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>The film addresses five charges made against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> in Moore's film and criticizes 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Presidential</a> candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a>. It was released during the run-up to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election" title="2004 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2004 United States Presidential general election</a>.It took six weeks to make Celsius 41.11. The production was funded and the film distributed to a limited number of movie theaters by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United(organization)" title="Citizens United (organization)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Citizens United</a>, a conservative political organization. Celsius 41.11 performed less well at the box office than comparable left-leaning documentaries and significantly poorer than Fahrenheit 9/11. The producer attributed this to voter fatigue and to a timetabling clash with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Series</a>.The critics' response was described as "irk[ed]" by the BBC. A number of critics described the film as a campaign advertisement for George W. Bush. Several believed that the movie would appeal primarily to convinced supporters of George W. Bush and was unlikely to sway undecided voters or change the opinion of Kerry supporters. The critics felt the film shared the flaws of Fahrenheit 9/11 without sharing all of its virtues; in particular, it was criticised for a comparative lack of emotion. The reliability of some of the individuals interviewed was questioned by the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Critics frequently compared the style to that of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint" title="Microsoft PowerPoint" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PowerPoint</a> presentation with some adding that the speed with which the film had been produced was evident in the quality of the finished product. Opinions as to the quality of the arguments advanced varied with Michael Graham of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Review</a> stating that the film had done a "solid job" in answering Moore's arguments whilst <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitland_McDonagh" title="Maitland McDonagh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maitland McDonagh</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">TV Guide</a> called the film a "shrill, repetitive screed".
<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Conception_and_production" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Conception and production</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Synopsis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Synopsis</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Participants" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Participants</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Theatrical_release" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Theatrical release</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Response" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Response</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Comparisons_to_Fahrenheit_9/11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Comparisons to Fahrenheit 9/11</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Comparison_to_FahrenHYPE_9/11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.2Comparison to FahrenHYPE 9/11</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Criticisms_of_the_production" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.3Criticisms of the production</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#Overall_response_to_the_film" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.4Overall response to the film</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conception and production[</h2>The production of Celsius 41.11 was funded by the conservative political organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United(organization)" title="Citizens United (organization)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens United</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-LATimes-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> The organization's president, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bossie" title="David Bossie" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">David Bossie</a>, was surprised at the success of Fahrenheit 9/11 both at the box office and in rallying support for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic</a> political position.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-WashPost2006-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> "After seeing Moore's impact, I wanted to counterpunch", he said to the LA Times in 2004, adding that, "Documentaries have become a weapon of the left".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-LATimes-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> Celsius 41.11 took six weeks to make<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimesSept-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> and includes a song, "John Boy", specially written and performed by the country music singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gatlin" title="Larry Gatlin" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Larry Gatlin</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimesSept-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>Celsius 41.11 was rated R by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" title="Motion Picture Association of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Motion Picture Association of America</a> because it contains a graphic image of an Iraqi torture victim and includes swearing on two occasions. The film's producers disagreed with the rating, stating that it wasn't "consistent with other films in theaters." They choose to appeal the rating<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-WashPostOct-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> but were ultimately unsuccessful.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Synopsis[]</h2><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation" style="margin: 4px 1em 4px 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); overflow: hidden; width: 238px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 1.25em;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="[icon]" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 188.5px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">
</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Celsius 41.11 defends Bush against five of the arguments advanced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and additionally criticizes John Kerry, arguing that his opposition to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vietnam War</a> and his military service in that same war are contradictory positions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Variety-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> The opening images of the film are of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on September 11.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> The film then moves to clips of the demonstrations against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">war in Iraq</a>, including an interview with an unnamed protester who says she would be happy to live under a dictatorship if the ruler provided universal health care.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> The next segment shows images of dead children.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>The film alleges that a feud between the White House and the CIA resulted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> refusing to broker the surrender of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Osama bin Laden</a> in 1997.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Milwaukee-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> It also contains a list of the terrorist attacks that have occurred since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iran hostage crisis</a> that one reviewer described as "chilling".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Milwaukee-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Speeches made by John Kerry and running mate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Edwards</a> on the danger posed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" class="mw-redirect" title="Weapons of mass destruction" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">weapons of mass destruction</a> Iraq was accused of possessing are also included.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Milwaukee-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Participants[</h2><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Thompson</a> – politician, former senator</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles Krauthammer</a> – neo-conservative columnist, political commentator</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen" title="Michael Ledeen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Ledeen</a> – foreign policy specialist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansoor_Ijaz" title="Mansoor Ijaz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mansoor Ijaz</a> – media commentator on terrorism</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barone(pundit)" title="Michael Barone (pundit)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Barone</a> – political analyst, pundit, journalist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Medved" title="Michael Medved" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Medved" title="Michael Medved" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"> Medved</a> – neo-conservative political commentator</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Barnes(journalist)" title="Fred Barnes (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Barnes</a> – neo-conservative political commentator</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik" title="Joshua Muravchik" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joshua Muravchik</a> – scholar specialising in Middle East politics, democracy and the history of socialism</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Comstock" title="Barbara Comstock" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barbara Comstock</a> – politician</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Toensing" title="Victoria Toensing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Victoria Toensing</a> – lawyer, legal commentator</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sammon" title="Bill Sammon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bill Sammon</a> – Vice-president of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Fox News</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Neill(Vietnam_veteran)" class="mw-redirect" title="John O'Neill (Vietnam veteran)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John O'Neill</a> – Vietnam War veteran, lawyer and spokesman for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth" title="Swift Vets and POWs for Truth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Swift Vets and POWs for Truth</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_S._Fisher" title="Alice S. Fisher" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alice S. Fisher</a> - lawyer</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">...</li></ul><div>...</div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Criticisms of the production[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celsius_41.11&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Criticisms of the production" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>The Boston Globe and the New York Times both questioned the reliability of some of the individuals interviewed. The Globe called the experts "occasionally dubious" saying that they "offer[ed] drive-by disses and plain untruths".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Boston-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> Manohla Dargis of the New York Times was particularly critical of the film for not detailing the extent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansoor_Ijaz" title="Mansoor Ijaz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mansoor Ijaz</a>'s investments in the Middle East or "just how intimately familiar he was with the nonsense of the Clinton White House".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> Both publications, however, spoke well of the contributions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Thompson</a> with the New York Times calling him "thoughtful"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> and the Globe adding that "with his level head and reflective words, [he] makes partisanship seem dignified."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Boston-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>Several critics felt that insufficient time had been spent on the film. Maitland McDonagh of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">TV Guide</a> said that it "bears all the hallmarks of having been thrown together in a heated rush",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-TVGuide-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> a criticism echoed by Robert Koehler of Variety who called the editing "choppy".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Variety-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe described the film as "a seemingly last-minute series of talking heads and montages".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Boston-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> A number of critics compared the style of the film to that of a PowerPoint presentation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-NYTimes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Milwaukee-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Boston-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11#cite_note-Dispatch-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></div>==<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-tumultuous-relationship-of-donald-trump-and-steve-bannon/2018/01/03/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-tumultuous-relationship-of-donald-trump-and-steve-bannon/2018/01/03/</a>...<p data-elm-loc="8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">it is possible, if not likely, that Trump and Bannon will reunite again soon — the president has a long history of making up with associates against whom he has lashed out. But for now, at least, Trump and Bannon are on the outs, following revelations in a new book by Michael Wolff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250158060/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250158060&linkId=a58b91c3bfe85b91df8aa59bfb1197bb" title="www.amazon.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,"</a> in which Bannon is quoted as saying that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016 was "treasonous."<p data-elm-loc="9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon declined to comment Wednesday.<p data-elm-loc="10" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">John Thornton — a former co-worker of Bannon's at Goldman Sachs whom Bannon has described as a "mentor" — saw Bannon work closely with Trump during the transition and the early months of the administration. He said in an interview Wednesday that he was impressed at how smoothly they got along and by how the president listened closely to Bannon's advice on issues ranging from the economy to China.<p data-elm-loc="11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"It was a very healthy, highly engaged, intimate relationship that you would expect to see between the person who had just won the presidency and the person who had run the campaign," Thornton said. "There's no question he was clearly a central figure helping the president achieve his goals."<p data-elm-loc="12" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon and Trump were introduced in 2010 by David Bossie, who rose as a hero on the right when as a congressional staffer in the 1990s he helped to investigate Bill Clinton and went on to become president of Citizens United, a conservative group whose work includes a movie pillorying Hillary Clinton. Bossie did not respond to a request for comment.

...Outwardly, the two did not seem to have much in common — one making his fame and fortune in front of the cameras, the other building a power base behind them.<p data-elm-loc="15" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Trump cared deeply about his looks, his clothing and his hair, and he promoted himself in his reality television show, "The Apprentice." He had toyed with the idea of running for the presidency since 1987, but had always backed down when he concluded he had no chance of winning.<p data-elm-loc="16" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon had a wild-looking demeanor, often dressed shabbily, uncombed and unkempt, despite his background in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannons-navy-service-during-the-iran-hostage-crisis-shaped-his-views/2017/02/09/99f1e58a-e991-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.10584c8f2453" title="www.washingtonpost.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">Navy</a>, Harvard Business School and Goldman Sachs. He made millions of dollars working in Hollywood for his boutique firm, Bannon & Co., on a variety of investments, as well as the sale of television properties that wound up giving Bannon a payoff from Seinfeld reruns. He made deals around the world, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/stephen-k-bannon-architect-of-antiglobalist-policies-got-rich-as-a-global-capitalist/2017/03/31/47382082-0a8b-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html?utm_term=.be11ffdc0b01" title="www.washingtonpost.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">profiting </a>from the globalism he later demonized. He produced films that criticized Wall Street, the political establishment and "Islamic fascism," and he gave speeches around the country promoting the tea party agenda.<p data-elm-loc="17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The two men bonded over their rare ability to be members of the coastal elite while representing themselves as champions of the downtrodden working class — as well as over a shared anger at the Republican establishment.<p data-elm-loc="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">That bond gelled shortly after Mitt Romney lost the presidential race in 2012. Trump began tweeting that Republicans had been robbed: "This election is a total sham and travesty. We can't let this happen. The world is laughing at us." Foreshadowing his campaign, Trump also tweeted: "We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided."<p data-elm-loc="19" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">During that same year, Bannon became executive chairman of Breitbart News and reshaped the website into one promoting more-nationalistic views, later declaring that it was "the platform for the alt-right." Bannon's Breitbart attracted white nationalists, although Bannon denied accusations that he was fomenting racist views.<p data-elm-loc="20" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">It was after the 2012 election, as Trump went through his quadrennial exercise of pondering a bid for the presidency, that he began talking to Bannon on the phone more regularly. By 2015, their conversations became public, as Trump took turns as a guest on a radio broadcast called the Breitbart News Daily. Bannon has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered-and-coaxed-trump-on-policies-key-to-the-alt-right/2016/11/15/53c66362-ab69-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html?utm_term=.faaf92c48e21" title="www.washingtonpost.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">said </a>that he was "mocked and ridiculed" for talking about a Trump candidacy on the show but that he realized that Trump had an uncanny ability to attract support.<p data-elm-loc="21" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">During the radio interviews, Bannon sometimes seemed to be tutoring Trump about how to frame issues. For instance, in one interview, Trump said he wanted to build a border wall but allow some immigrants who graduated from U.S. universities to stay in the country.<p data-elm-loc="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"I still want people to come in. But I want them to go through the process," Trump said.<p data-elm-loc="23" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon responded, "You got to remember, we're Breitbart. We're the know-nothing vulgarians. So we've always got to be to the right of you on this."<p data-elm-loc="24" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"Oh, that's okay," Trump said.<p data-elm-loc="25" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">As Trump's presidential campaign unfolded, Bannon regularly advised Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, while also pushing the candidacy on the Breitbart website. Then, as the campaign seemed headed for defeat, Trump in August 2016 hired Bannon as the campaign's chief executive, which gave him significant control over message and strategy. Just as he had on his radio show, Bannon pushed Trump to go further to the right and to hammer Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton mercilessly.<p data-elm-loc="26" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The strategy worked, and Trump rewarded Bannon by making him the White House chief strategist, a powerful role that put him in conflict with Kushner, who was named Trump's senior adviser. Bannon had worked well with Kushner during the campaign but often was at odds with him in the White House, as Bannon pushed policies such as pulling out of a global-warming treaty, which Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, reportedly had supported.<p data-elm-loc="27" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon announced his arrival at the White House with an attack on the media.<p data-elm-loc="28" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while," Bannon said in an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html" title="www.nytimes.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">the New York Times. "I want you to quote this: the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States."</a><p data-elm-loc="29" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">That pleased Trump. But then Bannon appeared on the cover of Time magazine, with the headline, "The Great Manipulator," a portrayal of him as the brains behind the president. Trump famously collects magazine covers of himself on the wall of his office at Trump Tower, and he takes offense when others take credit for his accomplishments. The Time cover prompted Bannon's enemies in the White House to attack him. Kushner privately joined in the criticism, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.<p data-elm-loc="30" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Thornton said that while the relationship between Trump and Bannon may baffle some, there is a "larger picture" that makes sense to Bannon.<p data-elm-loc="31" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"Bannon sees himself as the head of a movement, and he sees Trump as the beneficiary of that movement at this point in time," Thornton said. "Bannon sees himself as helping Trump stay true to that movement. If Trump or his administration deviates from the movement, Bannon will go on the offense. If Trump stays true, Bannon is all in."<p data-elm-loc="32" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Another associate of both men, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that "no matter what the president says now, Steve during the transition and rolling forward was critically important. He was a very consistent voice of the far right . . . when others wanted to fade or fold."<p data-elm-loc="33" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The relationship seemed to have fallen apart in August, shortly after Bannon was quoted in an <a href="http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant" title="prospect.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">interview </a>with the American Prospect saying "there's no military solution" to North Korea's nuclear capability, "they got us." Trump fired him, although Bannon said he resigned. In any case, Bannon later <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355" title="www.weeklystandard.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">told </a>the Weekly Standard, "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over."<p data-elm-loc="34" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bannon then returned to running Breitbart News and, in effect, began laying the groundwork for the next phase of his war against the Republican establishment, of which he now viewed Trump as a captive. Still, the two remained in touch and had talked on the telephone at least five times since Bannon's departure, according to the White House. Bannon persuaded Trump to endorse Roy Moore, the failed U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama who was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl when he was in his early 30s.<p data-elm-loc="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Then came the news Wednesday of Wolff's book, and the president, having played a crucial role in making Bannon one of the best-known political figures of the day, said that his former chief strategist had "lost his mind" and that he was done with him.<a href="https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/david-bossie-trump-war-room-russia/">https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/david-bossie-trump-war-room-russia/</a>

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president Trump's dismissive description Wednesday of Stephen K. Bannon as "a staffer" who had "very little to do with our historic victory" marked his latest effort to cast his onetime confidant as a bit player who never had any real influence on the president's politics or policies.<p data-elm-loc="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">It was the kind of story-shaping statement that, not so long ago, Trump and Bannon might have written together.<p data-elm-loc="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">In reality, Bannon has been a guiding figure for Trump for years as the New York developer began seriously to consider running for president, according to associates of both men.<p data-elm-loc="4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sam Nunberg, who said he arranged numerous telephone calls between Bannon and Trump dating to 2013, said it did not take long for the two to become ideological soul mates. At a time when Trump was widely dismissed as a credible candidate, Nunberg said, Bannon took him seriously and publicized him on the Breitbart News website, which Bannon oversaw.<p data-elm-loc="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">From those earliest days, Bannon encouraged Trump to run for the White House, and then, in the race's final months, he effectively took over a campaign that appeared to have almost no chance of succeeding.<p data-elm-loc="6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">"The only candidate who could have won this past election on the message of populism and conservative nationalism is Donald J. Trump," said Nunberg, who worked for Trump as a political and public affairs adviser before he was fired in 2015. "However, at the time Steve took a formal role, the campaign was in dire straits, and I don't believe the president would have been able to pull off that upset at the end without Steve Bannon.no lnx
[pix] is possible, if not likely, that Trump and Bannon will reunite again soon — the president has a long history of making up with associates against whom he has lashed out. But for now, at least, Trump and Bannon are on the outs, following revelations in a new book by Michael Wolff, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," in which Bannon is quoted as saying that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016 was "treasonous."
Bannon declined to comment Wednesday.
John Thornton — a former co-worker of Bannon's at Goldman Sachs whom Bannon has described as a "mentor" — saw Bannon work closely with Trump during the transition and the early months of the administration. He said in an interview Wednesday that he was impressed at how smoothly they got along and by how the president listened closely to Bannon's advice on issues ranging from the economy to China.
"It was a very healthy, highly engaged, intimate relationship that you would expect to see between the person who had just won the presidency and the person who had run the campaign," Thornton said. "There's no question he was clearly a central figure helping the president achieve his goals."
Bannon and Trump were introduced in 2010 by David Bossie, who rose as a hero on the right when as a congressional staffer in the 1990s he helped to investigate Bill Clinton and went on to become president of Citizens United, a conservative group whose work includes a movie pillorying Hillary Clinton. Bossie did not respond to a request for comment.Outwardly, the two did not seem to have much in common — one making his fame and fortune in front of the cameras, the other building a power base behind them.Trump cared deeply about his looks, his clothing and his hair, and he promoted himself in his reality television show, "The Apprentice." He had toyed with the idea of running for the presidency since 1987, but had always backed down when he concluded he had no chance of winning.Bannon had a wild-looking demeanor, often dressed shabbily, uncombed and unkempt, despite his background in the Navy, Harvard Business School and Goldman Sachs. He made millions of dollars working in Hollywood for his boutique firm, Bannon & Co., on a variety of investments, as well as the sale of television properties that wound up giving Bannon a payoff from Seinfeld reruns. He made deals around the world, profiting from the globalism he later demonized. He produced films that criticized Wall Street, the political establishment and "Islamic fascism," and he gave speeches around the country promoting the tea party agenda.
The two men bonded over their rare ability to be members of the coastal elite while representing themselves as champions of the downtrodden working class — as well as over a shared anger at the Republican establishment.
That bond gelled shortly after Mitt Romney lost the presidential race in 2012. Trump began tweeting that Republicans had been robbed: "This election is a total sham and travesty. We can't let this happen. The world is laughing at us." Foreshadowing his campaign, Trump also tweeted: "We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided."
During that same year, Bannon became executive chairman of Breitbart News and reshaped the website into one promoting more-nationalistic views, later declaring that it was "the platform for the alt-right." Bannon's Breitbart attracted white nationalists, although Bannon denied accusations that he was fomenting racist views.
It was after the 2012 election, as Trump went through his quadrennial exercise of pondering a bid for the presidency, that he began talking to Bannon on the phone more regularly. By 2015, their conversations became public, as Trump took turns as a guest on a radio broadcast called the Breitbart News Daily. Bannon has said that he was "mocked and ridiculed" for talking about a Trump candidacy on the show but that he realized that Trump had an uncanny ability to attract support.
During the radio interviews, Bannon sometimes seemed to be tutoring Trump about how to frame issues. For instance, in one interview, Trump said he wanted to build a border wall but allow some immigrants who graduated from U.S. universities to stay in the country.
"I still want people to come in. But I want them to go through the process," Trump said.
Bannon responded, "You got to remember, we're Breitbart. We're the know-nothing vulgarians. So we've always got to be to the right of you on this."
"Oh, that's okay," Trump said.
As Trump's presidential campaign unfolded, Bannon regularly advised Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, while also pushing the candidacy on the Breitbart website. Then, as the campaign seemed headed for defeat, Trump in August 2016 hired Bannon as the campaign's chief executive, which gave him significant control over message and strategy. Just as he had on his radio show, Bannon pushed Trump to go further to the right and to hammer Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton mercilessly.
The strategy worked, and Trump rewarded Bannon by making him the White House chief strategist, a powerful role that put him in conflict with Kushner, who was named Trump's senior adviser. Bannon had worked well with Kushner during the campaign but often was at odds with him in the White House, as Bannon pushed policies such as pulling out of a global-warming treaty, which Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, reportedly had supported.
Bannon announced his arrival at the White House with an attack on the media."The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while," Bannon said in an interview with the New York Times. "I want you to quote this: the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States."
That pleased Trump. But then Bannon appeared on the cover of Time magazine, with the headline, "The Great Manipulator," a portrayal of him as the brains behind the president. Trump famously collects magazine covers of himself on the wall of his office at Trump Tower, and he takes offense when others take credit for his accomplishments. The Time cover prompted Bannon's enemies in the White House to attack him. Kushner privately joined in the criticism, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.
Thornton said that while the relationship between Trump and Bannon may baffle some, there is a "larger picture" that makes sense to Bannon.
"Bannon sees himself as the head of a movement, and he sees Trump as the beneficiary of that movement at this point in time," Thornton said. "Bannon sees himself as helping Trump stay true to that movement. If Trump or his administration deviates from the movement, Bannon will go on the offense. If Trump stays true, Bannon is all in."
Another associate of both men, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that "no matter what the president says now, Steve during the transition and rolling forward was critically important. He was a very consistent voice of the far right .?.?. when others wanted to fade or fold."
The relationship seemed to have fallen apart in August, shortly after Bannon was quoted in an interview with the American Prospect saying "there's no military solution" to North Korea's nuclear capability, "they got us." Trump fired him, although Bannon said he resigned. In any case, Bannon later told the Weekly Standard, "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over."
Bannon then returned to running Breitbart News and, in effect, began laying the groundwork for the next phase of his war against the Republican establishment, of which he now viewed Trump as a captive. Still, the two remained in touch and had talked on the telephone at least five times since Bannon's departure, according to the White House. Bannon persuaded Trump to endorse Roy Moore, the failed U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama who was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl when he was in his early 30s.
Then came the news Wednesday of Wolff's book, and the president, having played a crucial role in making Bannon one of the best-known political figures of the day, said that his former chief strategist had "lost his mind" and that he was done with him.
===lobby of Trump Tower was busy Friday as many of the real estate mogul's campaign staff and key advisers made their way in and out of the president-elect's Manhattan office, including former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Kushner, Anthony Scaramucci, Rudy Giuliani, digital director Brad Parscale, senior communications adviser Jason Miller, senior adviser Stephen Miller and campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks.The transition team’s formal staff, announced Friday, is a who’s who of the campaign, from Kellyanne Conway and David Bossie, Trump’s campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, respectively, to Trump originals Dan Scavino and Hicks.There was one notable addition, though: Katie Walsh, who has served as chief of staff to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.Christie will remain one of several vice-chairs of the transition, including Dr. Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich, retired Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani and Sessions. A source close to Trump said Christie “will still be around”— hardly a ringing endorsement.Trump also named a 16-person executive committee to oversee the transition. It included three of his children: Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric Trump.The president-elect issued a brief statement on Friday announcing the changes, saying, “Together this outstanding group of advisors, led by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, will build on the initial work done under the leadership of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie [got bounced?]to help prepare a transformative government ready to lead from day one.”

=chls piercehttps://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15529/david-bossie-interview-12119019/ref digbyaug 2012
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-right: 5px; float: left;"><div class="embed embed-image embed-image-left embed-image-medium" data-align="left" data-size="medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 0px;"><div class="embed-inner crop-original" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: relative;"><div class="embed-image-wrap aspect-ratio-original" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); padding-bottom: 0px;"><picture class="zoomable lazyimage lazyloaded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; overflow: hidden; image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.4s linear 0s; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); touch-action: auto; -webkit-user-drag: auto;"><img alt="image" title="image" class="lazyimage lazyloaded" data-src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/05/54ccdfc779169-esq-david-bossie-082712-lg.jpg?resize=480:" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/05/54ccdfc779169-esq-david-bossie-082712-lg.jpg?resize=480:" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.4s linear 0s; display: block; width: 0px; min-height: 0.0625rem; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /></picture></div></div></div></div>TAMPA, Fla. — The most important man at this convention was doing some serious basking here on the convention floor. Dressed like a casino floorwalker, a dead ringer for Bob Hoskins, he bathed himself in the adoring attention of the conservative media, which considers him something of a cross between John Peter Zenger and Vito Corleone. There is no more important person at this convention — nay, in this entire election — than David Bossie, the chairman of Citizens United media, the winner in one of the most transformative Supreme Court cases since Dred Scott v. Sandford, and a <a class="body-link" href="http://www.salon.com/2004/07/20/david_bossie/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">career practitioner of the fine art of political ratfking</a>, in its fullest Segrettian definition, who has had his life's work blessed through the incredible naivete of Justice Anthony Kennedy by the highest court in this land. He is sanctified by it. His entire career has been made pure. And that was some pretty heavy lifting by the Court, let me tell you."I think your career has different chapters," Bossie told The Politics Blog. "Before the Supreme Court was a chapter. Just leading Citizens United. Post-the Supreme Court decision is a different chapter. My time on Capitol Hill as an investigator was a chapter. My time as a fireman living in a firehouse was a chapter. So, you know, everybody has a chapters in their lives."Like the Heritage Foundation inside the conservative movement is known for and became the policy arm. They each do their things and they have niches that they have figured out over time. Not... They didn't start that way necessarily. And so today, you know, Citizens United — in 2004 figured out that the making of documentary films can be powerful and the advertisements can be powerful."In 2010, the Supreme Court decided Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court essentially blew up almost a century's worth of campaign finance-reform legislation, opening the floodgates to what we have experienced this year. The decision legitimized corporations as having individual rights, and it legitimized the concept of money as speech, and it was written tightly enough to make any remedy short of a constitutional amendment almost impossible. Central to it was Justice Kennedy's remarkable assertion that the distorting effect of a flood of corporate money on political speech would be obviated by disclosure requirements that were made easier "in the age of the Internet." Instead, of course, the money went flooding into various phony charitable entities that don't have to report their donors, and we were off to the races."Oh, of course," Bossie said. "Look, for a year and a half or two years, Barack Obama ridiculed super-PACs and said they were a threat to democracy, if I'm not mistaken. He said they're the worst thing for our country and for democracy and it was the skyyyy is falling."(He sang this part.)"But please. One day he just stands up and says, 'Well, great, but give money to my super-PAC.' It's similar to Bill Maher, basically a left-wing guy who has a TV show — he ridicules Citizens United on every show. I don't think he misses an opportunity, which is kind of fun. Look, he's a funny guy, but, you know, The Daily Show's funny, those guys are very funny. Unfortunately, they don't know what they're talking about most of the time."So Bill Maher ridicules, attacks, you know, lies about Citizens United and the ruling and then takes full advantage of it by giving one million dollars to Barack Obama's super-PAC. So it's all good and fine. But have the intellectual honesty to tell everybody, 'Hey, I really don't know what the hell I'm talking about.' But they can't do that, because they love to be know-it-alls. That's their job, really, is to be a know-it-all."And it all came about because Bossie made a film about Hillary Clinton that was pretty much as spurious as most of the work he'd done in his entire career, and a court ruled that the advertising for the film violated existing campaign laws about "electioneering" within 30 days of a primary. In 2004, Bossie and Citizens United had sued on precisely those grounds, arguing that ads for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 violated the same laws. He had lost that case. In the interim, he recast his organization as a legitimate filmmaking operation and so, when a lower court ruled against him, he was ready with the argument that convinced Kennedy and four of his brethren.All the work he did in the past was merely prologue. Citizens United was launched by a guy named Floyd Brown in 1988 to race-bait Michael Dukakis with the face of Willie Horton. Bossie signed on in 1992, just in time for the rise of Bill Clinton He prospered — and truly made his bones — in the fragrant anti-Clinton underworld of the 1990's. It was Bossie who pursued the mother of one alleged Clinton paramour into a hospital where the woman was visiting her sick husband. He got fat on the corpse of Vince Foster, hiring on as an investigator to crackpot conspirator Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana, the guy who shot a melon in his backyard in an attempt to prove that Foster could not have committed suicide. (Bossie lost that gig for peddling doctored audiotapes of jailed Clinton lawyer Webster Hubble in an attempt to frame Hillary Clinton.) However, when his organization put together a documentary about Hillary Clinton that seemed to be such an obvious dirty trick that television stations refused to air it, Bossie saw his main chance.Bossie, of course, sees the new political order brought into being by the decision in his case to be only a matter of "leveling the playing field" against the forces arrayed against him, which include, by his lights, George Soros, Moveon.org, and "the unions.""First, they're very angry," he told me. "Then, they're dishonest. They're angry because for years — decades — they've had a monopoly over the unions and then the creation of MoveOn.org and that whole 527 group that came on the scene. So you had George Soros spending tens of millions of dollars on these groups doing the ground game and all of that. Well, guess what? They're angry because this Supreme Court case leveled the playing field. It created opportunities that didn't previously exist for conservatives to do the same thing. It's not that only conservatives can do it. Clearly, the Romney people have super-PACs, and lots of Democrats have super-PACs across the country. They're angry because that's something they didn't want us to be able to have."[logic?]This, of course, elides the fact that those groups rose in response to the superstructure of corporate-funded institutions that were the birthplace of the conservative movement that has made Bossie rich, to which liberal politics spent almost 20 years catching up, and never really quite got there. (Move On, for example, was a response to the Clinton impeachment kabuki, and it originally got its name from the notion of "Censure and move on.") Asked about the collateral damage his ratfking did to any number of people in Arkansas who got in the way of his pursuit of the Clintons, Bossie is utterly unapologetic."I think the people of Arkansas benefitted from our work."Perpetual victimhood has been the engine of David Bossie's entire career. Big clanging brass ones have been his stock in trade, and the Supreme Court shined them up for him, and now he's the star of the show here because of what he won. We may never know how much the rest of us lost. And, somewhere in the great beyond, Donald Segretti and Howard Hunt curse themselves for their lack of ambition.ref digby
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Seth Masket is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. He writes on <a href="http://mysite.du.edu/_{smasket/Masket_CO_Sen}_&_Gov.pdf" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Colorado politics</a>, the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0w0o3eh7u0mq5u/Theory_of_Parties.pdf" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">role of interest groups</a> in developing partisan agendas, and the <a href="http://mysite.du.edu/_{smasket/field_offices.pdf}" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">impact of campaign field offices on electoral results</a>, among other things. And, if you watch a film released by Citizens United, the conservative group behind the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZO.html" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Supreme Court decision</a> that tore down many of the limits on big money in politics in 2010, you will probably leave with the misleading impression that Professor Masket thinks that Latino immigrants are streaming across the Mexican border in order to help steal elections for Democrats.As Masket explains at the Monkey Cage, this came about because he was approached by a filmmaker who claimed that he was “doing a documentary on Colorado politics and wanted to ask me some questions on campaign spending and demographic shifts in the state.” During Masket’s interview with the filmmaker, the professor <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/20/how-i-ended-up-starring-in-a-citizens-united-film/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">made two uncontroversial claims about Latino voters</a> — “Latinos have not only been increasing in their potential to vote, but they’ve been voting increasingly Democratic over the last 10 years in Colorado.”Unbeknownst to Masket, however, the filmmaker was working on a film called “Rocky Mountain Heist,” which is <a href="http://rockymountainheist.com/index.php/about/credits/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">co-written and hosted by conservative pundit Michelle Malkin</a>. The film’s <a href="http://rockymountainheist.com/index.php/about/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">central argument</a> is that “a secretive group of leftist millionaires and billionaires” transformed the once conservative state of Colorado into a place where “homeless vagrants smoke pot in public parks, war is waged on the state’s energy industry and gun ownership is under assault.”According to Masket, his quote about Latino voters is sandwiched between “an insinuation by Tom Tancredo that the Obama administration is essentially recruiting Democratic voters via undocumented Mexican immigration, and a paean by Michelle Malkin to her Filipino parents who ‘immigrated here legally. It wasn’t easy. They learned English, they learned our history, they followed our rules.’” All of a sudden, Masket’s innocuous and objectively true statement about the partisan preferences of a particular demographic becomes corroborating evidence supporting Tancredo’s conspiracy theory.Ironically, Masket says that he did not even learn that his quote had been used in this way until he testified as an expert witness against Citizens United in a case involving this very film. During cross-examination, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who represents Citizens United, asked Masket if he was aware that he was in the film. Masket adds that he would have “declined the initial interview if I’d known it would result in this kind of film.”Trump just hired an ardent foe of campaign finance regulation: David Bossie, the man who helped open the floodgates for unlimited corporate political spending as the president of Citizens United.As PFAW vice president Marge Baker said in our press statement:This is just the latest addition to the mountain of evidence that as president Donald Trump would give free reign to special interests and appoint Supreme Court justices who will protect the privileges of the wealthy and powerful, but not the rights of ordinary people.It's also more evidence that not only is the influence of big money i<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_N.Bossie">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_N.Bossie </a>David N. Bossie, the president of Citizens United and president and manager of The Presidential Coalition, "earned a reputation as a relentless sleuth -- or right-wing hit man, depending on one's political persuasion -- during his years as a high-profile Republican congressional investigator and conservative activist."[1] Contents  [hide] 1 Swiftboating Hillary2 Hillary: The Movie3 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission4 Obsessed with the Clintons5 More controversy6 "accidental filmmaker"7 Books8 Resources and articles8.1 Related SourceWatch articles8.2 References8.3 Profiles8.4 Books about David Bossie8.5 Articles by David Bossie8.6 2008Swiftboating HillaryHillary Clinton is "ahead in the polls and on course to become the Democrats' presidential candidate for 2008. So it is no surprise that a right-wing smear campaign is gathering speed to derail Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House," Paul Harris wrote June 17, 2007, for the UK's The Observer. "Conservative groups and political figures are planning a film, books and a concerted media campaign to demonise Clinton, who is already one of the most polarising figures in American politics."Top of the list of projects is a planned movie, being filmed by veteran Republican operator David Bossie.[2] Bossie is raising money for the film through his conservative group Citizens United, which is appealing for video footage, stories about Clinton and money. It plans a release by the end of the year, just as the first primary elections are held in New Hampshire. Bossie is being helped in the project by Dick Morris, a former top Clinton aide who has become a leading Clinton critic," Harris wrote.[3]"Citizens United and other Republican groups are set to model their anti-Clinton operation on the notorious Swift Boat campaign that derailed John Kerry's 2004 bid for the White House. That aggressive smear campaign focused on Kerry's Vietnam war record and was seen as critical in President George W Bush's election victory. 'The Swift Boat campaign is going to be a direct model. They have openly come out and said that,' said Terry Krepel, editor of Conwebwatch, a website that monitors the output of conservative news media," Harris wrote.Hillary: The Movie Bossie's film Hillary: The Movie became a subject of controversy during the 2008 presidential election when Bossie was barred from advertising it. A federal court ruled that "Citizens United could not run ads for its negative film on Hillary Rodham Clinton without disclosing the ad’s donors. The group wants to release and promote 'Hillary: The Movie' to coincide with the dates when many states will hold primary elections, but the court found that in order for the ads to adhere to current campaign finance law, Citizens United would have to disclose who paid for the ads."[4] The group has appealed this case all the way to the Supreme Court. For more information about the legal arguments in that case and its implications for individual rights in a democracy as compared with corporate rights, see Portal:Corporate_RightsCitizens United v. Federal Election CommissionIn January 2010, the case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in a divided 5-4 vote, held that section 441b of the 2002 McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance law (Bipartisan Campaign Reform) was unconstitutional. The law prohibited corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for "electioneering communication," or for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate.The ruling effectively protected corporate speech the same as individual speech. The majority’s ruling about corporate electioneering marked a dramatic break from the past. In doing so, the Court rejected a century of previous court decisions that ruled corporate donations can, and should be regulated. In its ruling, the court never explained why corporate identity demands the same treatment as individual identity.[5]Obsessed with the Clintons"Through the 1990s, Bossie spent much of his time assembling caches of documents to push his admittedly ideological agenda. He was a ready promoter of stories about President Bill Clinton's sexual and ethical lapses, proved and otherwise."[6]

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