To Bannon, nothing is more of a compliment than being described as nearly unhinged in his obsession with China. “It’s one of the focal points of my life.” I’ve been doing this for years,” he said in one episode. He’s crowed in the podcast about being labeled a “Superhawk” in Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin’s book, Chaos Under Heaven, which covers the Trump administration’s China policy. “I don’t think in my experience I’ve found someone who is further right when it comes to being a China hawk than Bannon,” Justin Horowitz, a Media Matters for America researcher, told me.īannon loves having this reputation. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) fail to win his seal of approval even when arguing for similar policies toward Taiwan and other issues. Later in the piece, I mention how even relatively hawkish Republicans like Rep. As I wrote, “Bannon can take any subject-from George Floyd’s murder to Trump’s 2020 election loss-and turn it into a galaxy-brain plot, with China as the source of all ills.”Īs the mainstream discourse about China in the United States has turned more pessimistic and combative (due in no small part to China’s worsening authoritarianism), Bannon stands alone as a hawk among hawks. Such a positive reaction is a bit odd given that I described Bannon’s podcast, War Room, as a clearinghouse for conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, coronavirus vaccines, and China. He also told Guo the story was the “best article ever written about me,” according to messages obtained by my colleague Dan Friedman, who wrote an extensive profile of Guo last week.
On Gettr, the social media platform bankrolled by Bannon’s patron, Guo Wengui, he wrote, “Mother Jones Magazine assessment is WarRoom: Pandemic is the gathering place for anti-Communist, anti-CCP fighters - damn right!!!!”
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Reception was generally good although there is some noise possibly due to local interference.Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ī weird thing happened in the hours after I published a story about Steve Bannon’s podcast and its relentless anti-China crusade. The broadcast was received by the Web-interface wideband software-defined radio at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a "Mini-Whip" antenna in AM synchronous mode with 5.08 kHz total bandwidth RF filtering. IRRS broadcast "War Room: Pandemic" several times per day for a number of weeks in March and April 2020. There is an IRRS identification at the end of the recording before the transmitter signs off. During the podcast, Bannon mentions the stations carrying the show including IRRS. The program lasts about 49 minutes with the rest of the hour being music fill. 1)" concerned the effect of the pandemic on the economy on the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 3,000 points or about 13% of its value. This episode of "War Room: Pandemic," entitled "Black Monday Deuce (Pt. The transmitter was switched on several minutes before 20:00 UTC but the usual IRRS sign-on music was not broadcast and the first few seconds of the program audio were skipped. IRRS does not identify the locations of the transmitters it uses. The program was broadcast by IRRS Shortwave, the Italian Radio Relay Service of the NEXUS International Broadcasting Association in Milano, Italy, on 16 March 2020 from 20:00 to 21:00 UTC on a shortwave frequency of 9660 kHz from a transmitter believed to be in Kostinbrod, Bulgaria, and beamed to Africa. Bannon's "War Room: Pandemic" podcast episode no.
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