Obama crackdown on press freedom escalates

Breitbart Big Government ^ | 20 Feb 2014 | by BEN SHAPIRO

[onyx]

Last week, Reporters Without Borders dropped America in the World Press Freedom Index 2014 from 33^rd to 46^th. James Risen of The New York Times rightly explained, “I think 2013 will go down in history as the worst year for press freedom in the United States’ modern history.” And he’s right. The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

Selective Access. President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage. CBS’ Steve Kroft admitted as much after a late-2012 interview with the President during which CBS clipped Obama’s explicit refusal to label Benghazi an act of terror: “(Obama) knows that we’re not going to play ‘gotcha’ with him, that we’re not going to go out of our way to make him look bad or stupid.”

Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, got special access for a profile of Obama for Vanity Fair – but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes. Lewis explained that “the White House insisted on signing off on the quotes that would appear.” A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle was threatened for covering an anti-Obama protest. As early as 2008, candidate Obama was kicking dissenters off planes after their outlets endorsed John McCain.

Targeting Reporters. In May 2013, the Associated Press dropped the bombshell that the Department of Justice had grabbed phone records for its reporters and editors of the course of two months. Records for 20 telephone lines belonging to the AP and reporters for it were seized between April and May of 2012. Those seizures affected over 100 journalists.

[onyx]

What? Lamestream calls for empathy, even outrage, for a First Amendment violation that's on par with all the abuse we've brought to your attention as Obama stomps on our Constitution.

You've IGNORED us, you've marginalized us, you've left us for "destroyed."

But when Obama's boot is on YOUR neck you finally wake the h*ll up and cry foul?

Good Lord.

~ Sarah Palin

[Gene Eric]

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. And apparently the greatest threat to themselves too — these MSM traitors made this damn mess.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[CIB-173RDABN]

The fact that Obama allows himself to be interviewed by Bill O’rielly tells you all you need to know about BO

[matthew fuller]

Will it ever be time to impeach this POS?

[Graewoulf]

What did Boehner say at his Presser on this latest Gestapo action by the FCC?

Will Speaker Boehner now FINALLY begin Impeachment Proceedings on Soetoro-Obama?

If the buck doesn’t stop at Obama’s empty chair, then who is in charge at the White House?

[onyx]

IMHO, ‘Not without a sufficient number of TEA Party Patriot US senators in Washington, D.C. and a TEA Party Patriot Speaker of the House.’

[onyx]

I don’t know -— did Boehner even make or issue a statement?

[jazusamo]

Some of the media whores that have crawled in bed with 0bama are now having second thoughts about sleeping with him, what a darned shame.

[Graewoulf]

Speaker Boehner did not hold a presser on this obvious violation of the US Constitution?

I’m shocked! Simply SHOCKED!

[cunning_fish]

[onyx]

Some of the media whores that have crawled in bed with 0bama are now having second thoughts about sleeping with him, what a darned shame.

LOLOLOL.

Well, I just learned tonight, that Jimmy Faloon's (Fallon) new show is being produced by that libtard schumck who produces SNL.

Now I better understand why NBC got rid of Leno.

[jonrick46]

In earlier times when there was no rule of law, the people took matters into their own hands. Let’s hope that spineless Speaker of the House, Bonehead, gets a clue to what all this means for the Republic. The people will not have patience forever and God help us when the pitchforks and torches are manned by the people.

[jazusamo]

LOL!

I’m not a fan of the late shows but I checked out Faloon the other night and in my view his days are numbered. :-)

[onyx]

LOL.

I can’t stand him!

What a PUNK!

[onyx]

Right on!

[onyx]

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[GOPJ]

The press waking up - the press refusing to go along with the FCC crap - is the best news of the year.

It's fair game for conservatives to guilt trip the press for being too liberal... but it's not fair game for government to step in and attempt to make them more liberal or less liberal or more conservative or less.. the government needs to stay out of newsrooms. Period. That's NOT a liberal 'period' it's a conservative 'period'.

Obama and goons don't have the right to destroy first amendment rights - of anyone.

[Logical me]

Democrats are communists and those that stick with this corrupt party are hard core communists. America is being ruled by communists not leftist.

[onyx]

Exactly so.