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Congressman slams Trump’s tweets, says ‘dictators attack the media’
AOL News ^ | July 3, 2017

Posted on 07/03/2017 4:05:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Democratic Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut appeared on CNN's 'New Day' Monday morning and weighed in on President Trump's anti-media message.

"Pretty much every president before this one has understood that the media is absolutely essential to our liberty...Dictators attack the media," Himes said.

His comments come one day after Trump shared a wrestling video in which he battles an opponent whose head has been digitally replaced with a CNN logo. After forcing the CNN wrestler to the mat, Trump throws a couple of punches at his head.....

(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...


TOPICS: Connecticut; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: connecticut; democrats; media; trump; wrestlingvideo
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1 posted on 07/03/2017 4:05:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Trump SAYS a few harsh words.

Obama sicks the IRS on them

2 posted on 07/03/2017 4:07:58 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Himes is hilarious.

Under a dictator, the media does not criticize the dictator or they will disappear.


3 posted on 07/03/2017 4:08:37 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump SAYS a few harsh words.

Obama sicks the IRS on them

4 posted on 07/03/2017 4:08:57 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Under a dictatorship the media is eliminated.


5 posted on 07/03/2017 4:10:49 PM PDT by Parmy
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himes is an idiot of the first order. At least this uninformed, mutant backbencher finally said something after collecting his paycheck quietly for years. What a major loser.


6 posted on 07/03/2017 4:11:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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Dictators imprison the media. Or just shoot them.

Not that the people Trump is criticizing have any sort of valid claim to be journalists.


7 posted on 07/03/2017 4:13:04 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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The msm doesn’t dare criticize a dictator. These journalists (journalists = 12 year old girls writing fantasy in their diaries) would be fed to the gators if they lived under a dictatorship.


8 posted on 07/03/2017 4:13:28 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Dipstick alert! Dictators KILL neg news.


9 posted on 07/03/2017 4:13:38 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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Republicans are supposed to cower and roll over for the media. Too bad. Trump welcomes the fight and gives it back twice as hard.


10 posted on 07/03/2017 4:14:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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The two headline whores Joe & Mika have to be furious about Trumps CNN tweet.


11 posted on 07/03/2017 4:15:15 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
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Dictators attack the media

No. POLITICIANS attack the media.

Dictators TAKE OVER the media.

12 posted on 07/03/2017 4:17:05 PM PDT by plain talk
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Representative Himes, a nothing and a nobody, dsperately clawing for fake news media attention. Looking for his 15 seconds of fame.


13 posted on 07/03/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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Dictators attack the media, Himes said.

Yep. And REAL Presidents correct them when they try to peddle FAKE NEWS.

14 posted on 07/03/2017 4:18:02 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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And Nazi’s love to spread lies.


15 posted on 07/03/2017 4:18:07 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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The worst assault against ANY country is fake media, false propaganda for the simple fact that it destroys a country from the inside out. It’s what turned Germans against the Jews in the 1930s and created the hell that is North Korea. Anyone who disagrees with that, anyone who doesn’t fight that, is only complicit.


16 posted on 07/03/2017 4:19:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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And cowards fail to fight back against leftist bullies.

Demoncraps and the media (but I repeat myself) should all be hung by the neck until dead.


17 posted on 07/03/2017 4:22:59 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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MEDIA HYPOCRISY: Here Are All The Times Obama Blamed Fox News For His Problems

http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/media-hypocrisy-here-are-all-the-15464359/


18 posted on 07/03/2017 4:23:50 PM PDT by McGruff
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All I can say to Jim is:

Shut up Nancy boy.


19 posted on 07/03/2017 4:24:32 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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Obama never attacked Fox News, or Limbaugh, or Hannity.


20 posted on 07/03/2017 4:27:26 PM PDT by odawg
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