Trump media blacklisting begins

[inspectordickins]

They even banned the BBC, this is an unprecedented freedom of press violation.

 

[Klingsor]

Screw the First Amendment. As long as we have the Second.

 

[chrisrobin]

NY Times Editorial Board:

It’s tempting to take Friday’s petty decision by the Trump White House to bar certain news organizations from a briefing — something no administration of either party has ever done — as a backhanded compliment to the reporters whose honest work provoked the president’s latest foot-stamping tantrum.

It is certainly that. And in itself it is no huge blow to the republic. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, chose to bar The New York Times, CNN, Politico, Buzzfeed News and The Los Angeles Times, but other trustworthy news organizations were nevertheless in the room, and they can be relied upon to accurately report what they learned.

Yet the move was also an unmistakable insult to democratic ideals. Don’t just take our word for it — take Mr. Spicer’s. In December, he told Politico that the Trump White House would never ban a news outlet. “Conservative, liberal or otherwise, I think that’s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship,” he said.

Huh. Not during Watergate, Iran-contra, the Monica Lewinsky affair or any number of other scandals or crises has a president of either party ever barred an accredited news organization from a White House briefing. Some presidents may have longed to punish particular news organizations or reporters, but aides have generally found ways to protect their bosses from such self-defeating moves, fearing that such vindictiveness would just make their bosses look small.

Mr. Trump’s inexperienced aides, however, seem too frightened to argue with their volatile boss. Mr. Spicer’s hypocrisy came after another wild rant against the news media by Mr. Trump, who during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday again accused reporters of lying and fabricating stories — including stories that members of his own administration helped spread. “They say that we can’t criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment, you know, they always bring up the First Amendment,” he said.

That First Amendment can be inconvenient for anyone longing for power without scrutiny. Mr. Trump might want to brush up on what it means, and get used to it.

Interestingly enough they also banned the BBC - I wonder how many other International news broadcasters they banned - though obviously not Russuia Today!

 

[nickinoo]

It's okay, he's doing it all for 'the people'...

 

[ozwestcoastboy]

The hypocrisy of Trump. Back in the 1980s in New York, he was a media tart, spreading gossip, trumpeting his business dealings and his romantic life in late-night phone calls to members of the press.

Here he is saying “I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out.”

But as one reporter, Linda Stasi of The Daily News, noted yesterday, “He used to be the one leaking. He was leaking about himself. He would call up with fake accents and pretend it wasn’t him. He would tell us 100 times: ‘Now listen, I’m going to tell you something, but it didn’t come from me.’”

He would regularly hide own identity in pushing self-promoting stories, posing as his own public-relations man under the fake names John Miller and John Barron.

 

[deleted15807]

Well, I would go so far as to say he "DESTROYS" him...

Jake Tapper DESTROYS Donald Trump's CNN Ban:

America has the government it deserves. Congrats...God Bless America!!

Robert Reich: 7 warning signs present when tyrants try to hijack democracies

 

[nickinoo]

America has the government it deserves. Congrats...God Bless America!!

Robert Reich: 7 warning signs present when tyrants try to hijack democracies

It's scary when you see it in a list like that, but it's all true (aka fake news if you're a Trump supporter).

 

[ActionBuddy]

Well, I would go so far as to say he "DESTROYS" him...

Jake Tapper DESTROYS Donald Trump's CNN Ban:

I hate it when I don't notice a typo of mine, until someone quotes me, and it's too late to fix it!

I meant "wouldn't", not "would".

A/B

 

[chrisrobin]

How to put it - well lets try.
There has to be an alternative press to the one favoured by the white house otherwise the only news peddled from POTUS will be about how great he is and how rubbish the rest of the world is and he is the only one to tell the truth.
Its only by having a free press not harnessed to the president that the world will know what isn't fake news.
So, in reply to Trumps assertion that hundreds have died in France from terrorist atrocities, that Paris is a no go area try this for size.
More people are killed in Washington state from gun crimes in a year than in the whole of France. There are more riots in California per year than the whole of Europe.
fake news
Yes.
But see Mister President how the cookie could crumble

 

[chicagosam]

Have you noticed how haggard, bloated, gray-skinned, and thin-haired he has gotten in the last month as his presidency has been resisted, investigated, and blocked? He's not feeling the love he feels he deserves in his fantasy world of self-adoration. How soon before he implodes and self-destructs? How soon before those around him show some concern for his health and well-being rather than their self-serving attempts at power, and advise him
to get out?

 

[marinera]

In a way or another, I doubt Trump will last 4 years as President.

 

[nickinoo]

He should get his beauty sleep with his wife instead of playing on Twitter all night.

 

[chrisrobin]

In a way or another, I doubt Trump will last 4 years as President.

I think I agree that it will certainly be one way!

 

[marinera]

 

[chicagosam]

I think I agree that it will certainly be one way!

And not the one he'll want.

 

[nickinoo]

Do you mean he's going to snuff it?

 

[chicagosam]

Do you mean he's going to snuff it?

If you're asking me, he can go any way he wants, just as long as he goes.

 

[Mercurygirl]

When Obama did it ...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/citing-space-co.html

... where was the liberal shit storm?

Was there ever a time liberals weren't hypocrites?

Stop it, just stop it Merc. I watched your President the other day for a full press conference. He was near on illiterate. I barely understood what the hell he was on about. You want to know a leader attacking the opposition looks like without a script?....Our Prime Minister would rip fucking strips off of your President....HA....

He is not President material, he is not a Statesman, he has no interest in unifying his nation. He has no idea of what he is doing. He has spent 13 million dollars in the first month of his Presidency in travel. He suffers from exuberant hand signals, which mean he is full of "it".

What has Donald Trump not said? That is what you need to look at.

I don't think Turnbull is worth being a leader either. But there you go, you elected Don. Turnbull would eat your Don alive, and this is a conservative government. This is politics in Aus, our Senate, Our house of Reps.

Yes Don, come here and speak............... Hear the TRUTH.

Not your staged US bullshit.

Oh look everybody a man worth in excess of 200 million telling another millionaire he's rubbing elbows with the wrong millionaires, those not in the Prime Minister's own personal political crony stable of millionaires and corporate special interests. Nothing but phony partisan grandstanding.

You come in here all the time with your holier than thou down under bullshit. It's always America this and America that and how America is a disgrace and blah, blah, blah. You really need to tuck you sanctimonious Aussie blabbering and take a good look at your own mess of a country. Yeah, America isn't perfect but neither is Australia, not by a long shot. You're more like us than you're willing to admit.

Historically, a bunch of Europeans who declared they discovered lands people had been living on for generations, conquered the continent by way of enslavement and the murder of it's indigenous people, stole their land, and called it home. Sound familiar?

Australia, a fucking racist penal colony that all the way up until the god damn 1970's were putting indigenous peoples into reeducation camps and ripping babies from their Aboriginal mother's arms so the infant "savages" could be placed in White homes and civilized.

Yeah, you people are so much better than Americans, so fucking progress. Interesting how your country is currently going about instituting the same level of immigrant vetting and removal of unsavory individual as the Trump administration are yet have the fucking audacity to criticize him.

Btw, the only good things to ever come out of Australia were AC/DC and Mad Max. Now go drink some of that kangaroo piss you call beer and dry hump an Ostrich.


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[Industrialsize]

When Obama did it ...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/citing-space-co.html

... where was the liberal shit storm?

Was there ever a time liberals weren't hypocrites?




Oh look everybody a man worth in excess of 200 million telling another millionaire he's rubbing elbows with the wrong millionaires, those not in the Prime Minister's own personal political crony stable of millionaires and corporate special interests. Nothing but phony partisan grandstanding.

You come in here all the time with your holier than thou down under bullshit. It's always America this and America that and how America is a disgrace and blah, blah, blah. You really need to tuck you sanctimonious Aussie blabbering and take a good look at your own mess of a country. Yeah, America isn't perfect but neither is Australia, not by a long shot. You're more like us than you're willing to admit.

Historically, a bunch of Europeans who declared they discovered lands people had been living on for generations, conquered the continent by way of enslavement and the murder of it's indigenous people, stole their land, and called it home. Sound familiar?

Australia, a fucking racist penal colony that all the way up until the god damn 1970's were putting indigenous peoples into reeducation camps and ripping babies from their Aboriginal mother's arms so the infant "savages" could be placed in White homes and civilized.

Yeah, you people are so much better than Americans, so fucking progress. Interesting how your country is currently going about instituting the same level of immigrant vetting and removal of unsavory individual as the Trump administration are yet have the fucking audacity to criticize him.

Btw, the only good things to ever come out of Australia were AC/DC and Mad Max. Now go drink some of that kangaroo piss you call beer and dry hump an Ostrich.


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I apologize to all Australians. Some people have no manners.

 

[Mercurygirl]

I apologize to all Australians. Some people have no manners.

Indy, the Lily Allen of America