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CNN Op-Ed slammed for comparing military to the media, says both are 'protecting our freedoms'
Fox News ^ | Aug 7, 2018 | Brian Flood

Posted on 08/07/2018 11:44:43 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden

CNN has been widely mocked for publishing an opinion piece calling for Americans to thank the media the way members of the military are acknowledged because they are both “protecting our freedoms” and “the stakes have never been higher.”

University of Notre Dame management professor Joseph Holt wrote the essay headlined, “The press isn't the enemy, it's the protector,” which was published last week. The widely ridiculed piece is labeled “opinion” and notes “the views expressed here are solely the author's.”

Holt defended CNN’s Jim Acosta, who was mocked by Trump supporters at a recent rally. Acosta then asked Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday to say whether the press is indeed the “enemy of the people,” as her boss has controversially claimed. Sanders didn’t oblige and Acosta stormed out of the briefing. Holt took to CNN’s website to defend the network’s top White House correspondent.

“A real enemy of the American people seeking to undermine our democracy would love nothing more than to shut down the press,” Holt wrote before declaring that the press is made up of human beings who “sometimes make mistakes.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: brianflood; clintonnonnews; cnn; fakenews; indiana; jimacosta; josephholt; media; mediawingofthednc; michellewolf; military; notredame; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; whcd
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Right, because just like Hillary, the CNN media is always ducking for cover from sniper fire. Well; when they aren’t disrupting press conferences or generally making an ass out of themselves on camera.

Translated: They both lie like a rug.


21 posted on 08/07/2018 12:10:19 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
This is absolutely ridiculous. The media have been complicit in trying to remove a duly elected President, thus are working against the electorate. How is that protecting freedoms? The media is full of people whose self-perceived importance far outstrips their actual contributions and exhibited talents.
22 posted on 08/07/2018 12:10:37 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

BullStalin


23 posted on 08/07/2018 12:20:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

deviation from leftist group think gets death


24 posted on 08/07/2018 12:26:17 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Old Teufel Hunden; Syncro; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; RedMDer; musicman; MEG33; deoetdoctrinae; ...

Is this a joke? CNN is a godless America-hating, constitution-hating, liberty-hating, free-market-hating, leftist/socialist/globalist political organization that works in concert with their allies in the socialist democrat party and the rest of the godless leftist media to push the liberal/progressive/socialist/Marxist/fascist/globalist line. They wouldn’t know or defend freedom if it reached down and bit them on the butt.

The very foundation of America is the self-evident Truth that freedom is an unalienable right granted to us by God!

CNN should look it up. It used to be in the older history books before the God-hating Communist inspired Marxist/Stalinist fascists took over all of our public institutions and burned them all, but they should still be able to find a copy of the Declaration in the official archives or etched in stone on the monuments and government buildings in DC. Might even find some references to God and His Commandments still etched in stone in the marbled halls of our Capitol.

I’ll believe CNN defends freedom after they start defending God and the Declaration daily on their broadcasts and that freedom is an unalienable right granted to us by God and that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and stop pushing godless socialism.

They hate freedom so much they go so far as to deny the very existence of God and the fact that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and that our freedoms were granted by God, expressly so they can erode away those very freedoms. They want to deny that our founders and the founding itself was actually inspired by God in order to try to deny us our unalienable rights to freedom.

Stay armed, stay vigilant.


25 posted on 08/07/2018 12:37:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I can see his point. Joseph Goebbels was just as important to the 3rd Reich as Germany’s military was. So, under Obama, it was more important than the military.


26 posted on 08/07/2018 12:44:52 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Jim Robinson

God challenges us everyday. We mustn’t turn our backs to these challenges as they have purpose.


27 posted on 08/07/2018 12:58:14 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

The scumbags in the “media” is “protecting our freedoms”? ROTFL. Somebody been hittin’ da happy smoke.


28 posted on 08/07/2018 1:16:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

How long do you think Acosta would last at Parris Island?


29 posted on 08/07/2018 1:21:42 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Sorry, one does not protect freedom by continually publishing lies, half-truths, fake news coupled with omission of inconvenient, but important facts


30 posted on 08/07/2018 1:23:08 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: SVTCobra03
"How long do you think Acosta would last at Parris Island?"

If he was willing to try, I'd put my smokey bear back on and go down to Parris Island myself to get the answer for you.
31 posted on 08/07/2018 2:28:18 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

The big difference, of course, is that the guns of the military are pointed away from us.


32 posted on 08/07/2018 2:32:05 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

The free media protects us, not the Leftist propagandist media who hate the free media and want it banned.


33 posted on 08/07/2018 2:53:36 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Notre Dame continues its downward spiral. Thanks Old Teufel Hunden.

34 posted on 08/08/2018 1:14:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Maceman
First of all, they are NOT "the press." They are corporate media organizations (CMOs).

Well said.

These Sons of Belial think that they have a license for bad behavior because they think they are “the 4th branch of government” mentioned in the 1st amendment. What arrogant presumption. They are no more privileged than any citizen of this republic.

35 posted on 08/08/2018 3:21:09 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

CNN sucks AND they’re delusional.


36 posted on 08/08/2018 8:19:26 AM PDT by GOPJ ( New York Times: Printed by liberal elitists for the benefit of liberal elitists ONLY.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks Jim

You nailed it


37 posted on 08/08/2018 10:55:04 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: richardtavor; All

“So, under Obama, it [the media] was more important than the military.”

Correct.

It’s been my contention for some time now that the media are one of the two major political parties.

Not GOP and democrat party, but The Press and the GOP

It seems that for some time now that the press is not a branch of the democrat party, but the democrat is a branch of the Media Party as they are dictated to by the press and parrot what they say and do.


38 posted on 08/08/2018 11:02:33 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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