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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

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All together now, Media thank you for your service!!!
1 posted on 08/07/2018 11:44:43 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

NO! The Monolithic Media Cartel is protecting us FROM Freedom!


2 posted on 08/07/2018 11:47:02 AM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“It is absolutely vital for every American to watch CNN for five minutes a day. Why? Because it will give you a good idea of what it’s going to be like when you have a stroke.”

—comedian Lewis Black


3 posted on 08/07/2018 11:47:09 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

The Media SHOULD BE protecting our freedoms! But it’s not.


4 posted on 08/07/2018 11:47:39 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump has remained steadfast! This is leadership! Steadfast, America! We shall overcome!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

It’s protecting the corrupt and criminal RULING ESTABLISHMENT.


5 posted on 08/07/2018 11:48:18 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump has remained steadfast! This is leadership! Steadfast, America! We shall overcome!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Let me guess, is it really realistic to compare these people, many of whom make for a week’s worth of work about what most other North Americans would take six months (or even more) to equal, to the troops?


6 posted on 08/07/2018 11:48:23 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Oh hell yeah. Give them all a medal. Are you kidding me?


7 posted on 08/07/2018 11:48:29 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Over there at CNN they’ve got the Newspeak down pretty good.


8 posted on 08/07/2018 11:49:28 AM PDT by arthurus (djpqbxckf,)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
The mainstream press, as they are called, along with Progressive politicians, may have passed the point described by Thomas Jefferson in the following words:
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.

". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson

On the other hand, as the historical record confirms, Jefferson was a great defender of freedom of the press, although he could be objective about their departures from the truth.
[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226

"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155


9 posted on 08/07/2018 11:51:16 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

It’s the protector of the Dem Party and the deep state so F dem and their military comparison! The Military protects all of US!


10 posted on 08/07/2018 11:54:12 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Holt wrote before declaring that the press is made up of human beings who “sometimes make mistakes.”

Boo, frickin, hoo!

The military supports the US Constitution. The press supports socialism. Big difference. Holt teaches at Notre Dame???


11 posted on 08/07/2018 11:55:15 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Jim Acosta thinks he’s Daniel Pearl now.


12 posted on 08/07/2018 11:55:23 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

These people in the MSM are delusional.

They better pray that the shtf never happens.

MSM, your armed bodyguards will desert you the second day. Trust me.

If that time happens, you better pray.

5.56mm


13 posted on 08/07/2018 11:57:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: arthurus

Peter Arnett and “Operation Tailwind”. Jane Fonda was in on it too.

Yeah. They have our backs...like hell.

Bastards.


14 posted on 08/07/2018 11:57:59 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
“The press isn't the enemy, it's the protector,”

First of all, they are NOT "the press." They are corporate media organizations (CMOs).

The press in the Constitutional sense is a device that can be used by people to publish their thoughts and opinions.

Every American, including those who run or work for CMOs, has a right to freely use a press to disseminate his or her views on any subject at any time.

But the reporters at NPR, NYT, Washington POS, CNN, MSNBC and all the other networks (including Fox News) do NOT have any constitutional right to have access and be heard at White House "Press" conferences.

They don't have that right, because neither I nor anybody else who posts opinions in print, by broadcast or online has that right, even though we use the press to publish our opinions, as I do regularly on Free Republic. (After all, the Internet is a means of publishing thoughts and opinions and therefore is a "press" in the Constitutional sense.)

And another "right" that these CMOs definitely DO NOT have, is the right not to be insulted by the President, who did not surrender his own First Amendment right to free speech when took the oath of office.

Being invited to participate in a White House "press" conference is therefore a privilege that can be extended or withdrawn purely at the discretion of the White House (or Congress, or the Judiciary in their own venues).

I so wish that at Trump's next "press conference," he will state this reality once and for all. And then I hope he will take a question from Jim Acosta, after prefacing it with the following statement:

"I'm now going to take a question from Jim Acosta purely as a courtesy, albeit an undeserved one, because this is going to be his last White House 'press conference' during my administration. Additionally, I am revoking the press credentials of CNN,the racist New York Times, and a number of other Corporate Media Organizations who will soon be notified of their change in status. OK Jim, what's your question?"

Then I hope that in the future the White House will issue "Media Passes" to other respectable press users - bloggers, authors, YouTubers, etc. who will be invited to future Media Conferences, provided that they show courtesy, intelligence and respect.

And as for the CMOs, they can watch the President's Media Conferences on C-SPAN and then write whatever the hell they want to about them.

15 posted on 08/07/2018 12:02:20 PM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
How is CNN "protecting" our freedoms by its incessant effort to sabotage the first President since Reagan who has shown he cares about our freedoms? Cnn gets by with its blather only because of the dumbing down of American public discourse over the past century and a half.

CNN was perfectly happy to shower adulation on President Obama, who over & over again, sought to diminish our traditional freedom. Does CNN understand the difference between increasing control over the lives of a people and their traditional rights to chart their on lives? Apparently not!

16 posted on 08/07/2018 12:02:54 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

CNN is nothing but communist propaganda. They ceased being the news many years ago.


17 posted on 08/07/2018 12:05:39 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Who did CNN protect when they gave Hillary the debate questions?


18 posted on 08/07/2018 12:06:26 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I suppose Jim Acosta wants a Purple Heart for his wounded feelings at the Trump rally.


19 posted on 08/07/2018 12:06:44 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Compare the media to the military? CCN = Benedict Arnold!


20 posted on 08/07/2018 12:08:48 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
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