Reacting to a New York Times report that former White House adviser Steve Bannon had been forced out at Breitbart News, an MSNBC panel laughingly piled on the disgraced executive -- led by host Nicolle Wallace who once memorably called Bannon a "incompetent boob."
Setting the stage by describing Bannon's current relationship with President Donald Trump as "two scorpions in a bowl trying to kill each other," Wallace -- who was a principal campaign adviser in Arizona Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign -- gave a blunt assessment of Bannon's political skills.
"I knew that Steve Bannon was in trouble when I called him an incompetent boob around the Roy Moore thing and nobody attacked me," she began.
"This is not a guy with a big or active fan club," she continued. "My suggestion was that he was an incompetent political strategist. He does not belong. He is not worthy of being of being in a category with David Axlerod, Karl Rove or frankly, any other of Donald Trump's people that he dials up for advice."
"He is a lesser political strategist than anyone who has ever had that title in the White House before," she bluntly stated. "I wonder who today he's on the phone with, or who is he at a bar downing V-8 with -- or whatever he's drinking? Who's standing by Steve Bannon today?"
"I think you have nailed the most important point: who at this hour is Steve Bannon's constituency?" MSNBC contributor Elise Jordan suggested. "He flew too close to the sun. He he thought that he had just as big of a constituency as Donald Trump. He was down in Alabama, reporters at his event saying that he looked like he was campaigning for president himself. He had really warmed to that role of being in the spotlight."
"What utter irony, though, that this comes on the day that President Donald Trump announces he is going to Davos, and it is fully over. It is dead. Steve Bannon is dead," she pronounced as the whole panel burst into laughter.
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