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Mediaite's list of the "25 Most Influential in Political News Media[edit]

Is this fact trivial, not relevant, or obsolete? Was this a one-time list of done annually for ten years and this was the highest Bannon ever placed?Scranton (talk) 15:39, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In 2015, Bannon was ranked No. 19 on Mediaite's list of the "25 Most Influential in Political News Media 2015". Scranton (talk) 15:39, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about its triviality, though WP:RSP gives Mediaite a yellow color and says it is considered "only marginally reliable, and should be avoided". —ADavidB 18:18, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Scranton (talk) 00:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UK conservative party[edit]

The UK conservative party is quite mainstream. Can the identification as far-right be removed?Scranton (talk) 00:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maureen Bannon[edit]

This might be interesting to add to this article: Steve Bannon's daughter Maureen graduated from West Point and served as an officer in Iraq. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 17:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is this information covered by a reliable source? Zaathras (talk) 20:48, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

West Point magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20170202052920/http://goarmywestpoint.com/news/2009/10/3/Set_Up_For_Success.aspx Scranton (talk) 18:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://web.archive.org/web/20161129152415/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/politics/steve-bannon-white-house.html "When his eldest child, Maureen, got into West Point, Mr. Bannon was thrilled and joked about switching his allegiance to Army from Navy. He never missed her volleyball games, and he was at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 2011 when she returned from a deployment to Iraq. “That was one of the greatest feelings I’ve had, seeing my dad when I walked off the plane,” she said."

But through his daughter’s service, he saw an inequity that fueled his anger at the privileged Americans among whom he had long worked.00:30, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Link is not loading for me right now, but by the URL I assume it is a puff piece on her volleyball stint. Zaathras (talk) 21:14, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

i think it loads a little unusually. scroll past the grey part to see the story.Scranton (talk) 00:21, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

War Room anti-COVID vaccine activism[edit]

In January 2023, "The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project" (!) published an e book with the sober title Pfizer documents analysis report, supposedly "50 reports using primary source Pfizer documents released under a court order by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A team of 3,500 medical experts (jeez) helped rip the veneer off the myth that mRNA injections are safe and effective.” https://dailyclout.io/the-war-room-dailyclout-pfizer-documents-analysis-volunteers-publish-e-book-available-on-dailyclout-ios-website/

Bannon appeared with conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf in a Youtube video of the War Room.- i think its important to mention this as this is circulating. where to fit this in on this overly long page? Wuerzele (talk) 17:33, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a better source than some rando's .io website? Zaathras (talk) 21:48, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Zaathras.- No on that one unfortunately not ! Wolf wrote the foreword of the book, but Bannon not mentionend in it. there s Naomi Wolf Unveils New Book: The Bodies of Others from last year, however, similar topic. Wuerzele (talk) 16:39, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead Section/paragraphs seems gigantic?[edit]

Is all of that information a concise summary of the body of the article? MaximusEditor (talk) 23:15, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]