C.N.N. HOSTS CONFRONT DIRECTOR OF NEW OBAMA MOVIE ABOUT FALSEHOODS IN THE MOVIE
MEDIA MATTERS, August 29, 2012 -- ROLAND MARTIN (CNN contributor): Just curious -- how do you deal with folks who lie? So, for instance, I heard one of the women say, "Oh my God, taxes have gone up." You look at the stimulus bill, actually, 40 percent of that is actually tax cuts. So when you look at analysis of what has happened, taxes have actually -- they have not gone up. So when somebody lies in the film, what do you do?
STEPHEN BANNON (conservative filmmaker): These are called voters.
MARTIN: No, no -- right. But they also lie.
BANNON: Remember, voters can be low-information voters, they could be mid-information voters. We went and took a pool of voters, right, who voted for President Obama, who are active in the voter pool today, registered voters who are likely to vote. Some said they're not going to vote because they may not vote for President Obama. But we got their feelings. Some of them had information that's not absolutely perfect. I mean, some -- a lot of them didn't know a lot about Obamacare.
MARTIN: But if somebody lies, why include the lie?
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN (host): So it sounds like you're saying it doesn't matter to you if the information of the voter is accurate or if it's --
BANNON: No, it matters. But when they're talking about their own personal beliefs, some of that is in there. Absolutely.
O'BRIEN: So -- but taxes going up isn't a personal belief. It's a fact, right? So --
BANNON: Well, it's a -- it was a belief of hers.
STEPHEN BANNON (conservative filmmaker): These are called voters.
MARTIN: No, no -- right. But they also lie.
BANNON: Remember, voters can be low-information voters, they could be mid-information voters. We went and took a pool of voters, right, who voted for President Obama, who are active in the voter pool today, registered voters who are likely to vote. Some said they're not going to vote because they may not vote for President Obama. But we got their feelings. Some of them had information that's not absolutely perfect. I mean, some -- a lot of them didn't know a lot about Obamacare.
MARTIN: But if somebody lies, why include the lie?
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN (host): So it sounds like you're saying it doesn't matter to you if the information of the voter is accurate or if it's --
BANNON: No, it matters. But when they're talking about their own personal beliefs, some of that is in there. Absolutely.
O'BRIEN: So -- but taxes going up isn't a personal belief. It's a fact, right? So --
BANNON: Well, it's a -- it was a belief of hers.
@ RICH, HOW INTERESTING AND ME "I: JUST TURNED IT ALL INTO A JOKE ABOUT THE EXPERTEES OF THE CONSERVATIVE, THE HIGH PAID CNN REPRESENTATIVES OF SKIN COLOR...RM THE PREACHER ANDSO THE PRODUCER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY...
BECAUSE I AM STILL RUMING OVER THAT CNN SPECIAL OF THE BLACK FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!...("I" WILL BLAME MY COMMENT ON MY LISTENING AS I READ THIS TO JOHN MCCAIN'S SPEECH AS AN EXPERT ON OUR PRESIDENT)..."I" SHALL SAY NO MORE ON THE MATTER)...LOOOL (SMILE)