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Trump Is Not a Threat to a Free Press Despite Inflamed Rhetoric, Obama Administration and DNC’s...
IWB ^ | Bob Shanahan

Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:30 AM PDT by davikkm

America’s mainstream media continues to blow President Trump’s words and threats out of proportion while giving the Obama administration a pass for its actions against press freedom and forgetting Bush’s jailing of a New York Times reporter. Trump’s tweets putting an untrustworthy media in its place are far from “unprecedented.”

I’m not pretending Trump is a saint at all. He is far from perfect. Though he has certainly said some alarming things, he has not taken any significant action against the media or attacked the First Amendment in any way.

Sure, Trump suggested journalists be sent to jail, as we learned from Thursday’s release of the Comey memos from February 2017. But he has not mired a reporter in a seven year-long lawsuit or jailed a reporter for failing to disclose a source, as both the Obama and Bush administrations have done.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: freepress; trump

1 posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:31 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Trump revels in the free notoriety that the lame stream media provides.


2 posted on 04/22/2018 6:40:05 AM PDT by Don Corleone ( lose the gun. save the cannolis.)
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To: davikkm

Obama spoke openly about shutting down FNC and talk radio without receiving a word of criticism.


3 posted on 04/22/2018 6:50:47 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: davikkm

Libs are incapable of recognizing the difference between “Freedom of the Press” and “accountability”.

The reason is found in their attachment to moral relativism.

If each of us has their own truth, then there is no “objective truth”.

Thus, their lies are not lies.


4 posted on 04/22/2018 6:59:39 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: davikkm

The DemonRats have become nothing more than the sedition, traitorous and demon worshiper party.


5 posted on 04/22/2018 7:37:02 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Yes and for all with eyes to see !
They are alienating everyone excepts aliens ! Illegal ones !


6 posted on 04/22/2018 10:37:39 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: davikkm

Read later.


7 posted on 04/25/2018 10:12:48 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just look)
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