Posted on 02/27/2016 1:57:52 PM PST by dschapin
In his remarks today at a rally in Fort Worth, Tex., Donald Trump knew he’d make news. “I’ve never said this before,” he declared.
We’ll await the word of the Washington Post Fact Checker on the integrity of the statement, but Trump did appear to be veering into a new talking point. A media-law talking point, that is:
One of the things I’m going to do, and this is going to make it tougher for me…but one of the things I’m going to do if I win…is I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re going to open up those libel laws. So that when the New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.
An attack on media law is a logical extension of Trump’s rhetoric, not to mention a threat to American democracy. After all, he has displayed a highly undemocratic annoyance with the idea that the media is independent. For months he has been attempting to get the cameras at his rallies to properly pan around the thronged arenas, the better to capture his out-of-control popularity, even when the camera operators’ job is to stay on him. He has ridiculed reporter after reporter for reporting the facts of Trump’s march through the GOP primaries. Whenever he has been busted out by investigative journalism, he has attacked the institutions that have compiled it.
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The Media deserves to be skewered, big time.
hahaha
Journalism in itself is an honest and virtuous endeavor. But, it not only attracts the most scurrilous bottom feeders in our society, it somehow makes celebrities of them.
I don't want a President who refers to himself in the third person or is called "the Donald." Very off-putting.
“If done right, I agree.”
If “being done right” means exposing malicious, hateful,
biased writing that involves insidious and libelous assertions without any basis, than what’s wrong with suing an adolescent punk for being a lying mouthpiece for a revolutionary point of view?
Just asking.
IMHO
I think this revolutionary movement is good. It’s an opinion. (he’s simply wrong)
This candidate did this. States a fact. (He didn’t.)
“I think this revolutionary movement is good...”
Which one?
IMHO
It was intended as a generic comment. It would be an opinion.
And opinion is different than a declarative statement.
YEP!!!!
It is a Republic, not a democracy,where political opinion is especially protected. Don’t recall where the Constitution confers protection to willfully lie and present falsehood as fact but the press does it all the time.
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