Trump doesn't care about the First Amendment? Sure. Forget about the fact the press often distorts what Trump says and the fact that the press is majority liberal, and their coverage often reflects it.
Obama and Clinton and Biden have all blocked reporters, locked them in small rooms, or literally spied on them! Obama jailed the maker of the fake video blamed for Benghazi. They have abused their power against people practicing the First Amendment repeatedly.
National Press Club - “Defenders of the Constitution” - yeah, right. And every journowhore man, woman and tranny with brown noses from eight years of the Kenyan witchdoctor can’t wait to bury them in the short curlies of ultraleft psychofeminist dead broke drunk lezbo grannys. All hail the watchdogs of the public interest, fighting for truth, justice, and the American Way!
PUKE
Where was this guy before yesterday? Suddenly he appears on the scene to make this very high flown defense of the media on First Amendment grounds, but the timing makes you think he’s really just miffed that Trump called out his buddies in that press conference yesterday. He sort of pads it with the stuff about blocked access and the libel law but really he’s feeling stung by that presser.
And has this guy has said one word about Hillary not holding a single press conference this year? What kind of access is that? Would he rather have an available but pugnacious Trump or a sequestered Hillary?
Why does the National Press Club president think that the press is above criticism, which is all Trump has done at this point?
fta... the role a free press plays in a democratic society,” said Thomas Burr, the National Press Club president. “Reporters are supposed to hold public figures accountable.
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1) The USA is not a democratic society.
2) Why does the press not go after liberal politicians like Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, et al, just like they do to Conservatives and Republicans?
Seems the prez of the NPC is just as biased as its members and is its head liar.
Reverse the Title: What does Barack Obama have against the Constitution - EVERYTHING.
Free speech works BOTH ways. Trump was merely expressing his right to free speech at a corrupt media.
Trump is not upset about the press investigating his fundraising, but he is upset about the press making up out of whole cloth, fabricated stories.
The press hasn’t known what the words “investigative journalism” mean in many years.
How does anyone ask that with Obama in the house.
The press is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Communist/DemonRat party. It is that simple.
They have an agenda to hurt the country, the constitution, and us. Part of having freedom, means that, at least for now, we can be critical of the corrupt media and the corrupt Communist-DemonRats. Freedom to hold people account is supposed to work both ways and it is about time the Rs started holding the press accountable.
Sorry Mr. Burr, Trump is finally calling you on your dishonesty and left wing bias.
No amount of back flips can make that an attack on the first amendment.
Hard to believe he can say this with a straight face, they have no intention of being a "check on politicians of all parties" since they let those with a D skate. Waiting for them to ask the tough questions of Hillary and Sanders, and other dims...Sure it will happen.
public figures to sue news organizations for libel, a change that would practically suffocate a free press”
Didn’t take very long for the crybaby writer to ADMIT they were LIAR’S.
You CAN NOT be sued for telling the Truth!!
The press is wallowing in their own self pity. If the a-holes would devote equal time to the other candidates as they do to every little thing they can find on Trump then maybe their ratings would surpass the single digits they now own.
Look around morons you are standing alone in your pity pit.
The First Amendment guarantees the right of a free press TO THE PEOPLE; it does NOT guarantee the right of the New York Times or the Washington Post to exist in perpetuity.
If those "press" outlets fail to provide an appealing product, a new press will emerge to replace them. "They" are not protected, the right of a free press is.
-PJ
Is that the first amendment that protects freedom of speech? Including Trump calling the media sleazes? Or is it the freedom of speech the media considers “free”...where they frame the narrative for us...
Too bad the press has no curiosity about progressive behavior.
American People to National Press Club President.
How can you be this completely ignorant of the US Constitution that you think this?
They don’t have the freedom to LIE and try to steamroll people they don’t like or agree with! And what part of Trump’s Free Speech rights don’t they like? That he actually uses it?!?!