Pearl Clutching<\/a>
Trump excluded certain left leaning members of the MSM from the White House grounds. The left is losing their collective minds, claiming this to be an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment, and of course making comparisons to Hitler, their standard accusation. They have almost completely memory holed the fact that both Obama and Biden did the same thing.<\/p>\nIn October 2009, amid a feud in which White House officials (including Communications Director Anita Dunn) publicly described Fox News as not a legitimate news organization but more like \u201cthe research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party\u201d and said they would treat it \u201cthe way we would treat an opponent,\u201d even while saying the network\u2019s point of view was \u201cultimately destructive\u201d to the nation, then ordered the Treasury Department to exclude a Fox journalist from a multi-network interview pool.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s administration was widely criticized by journalists (including from outlets not aligned with Fox) for tight control of information, fewer formal press conferences than many predecessors, restricted photographer access (favoring official White House images), delays or stonewalling on FOIA, and \u201cblackballing\u201d or limiting access for some critical reporters at agencies.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s efforts to plug leaks and persecute leakers even exceeded those of George W. Bush\u2019s administration. The administration prosecuted Stephen Kim, a former State Department official, merely for discussing a classified report about North Korea with Fox News reporter James Rosen, even going so far as to seize Associated Press phone records for two months and used the FBI to conduct surveillance on James Rosen (naming him as an \u201cunindicted co-conspirator\u201d in one case) and New York Times reporter James Risen while trying to identify sources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
DM has much, much more yet.<\/p>\n
Myself, I’m perfectly fine with treating The Enemy as if he was, y’know, The Enemy<\/strong><\/em>. Likewise, I’m also A-okay with ass-munching libtard \u201djournalists” bawling their eyes out nonstop, provided they’re being given beaucoup<\/em> reason for it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Dick-tater gonna dick-tate, tyrant gonna tyrant. Pearl ClutchingTrump excluded certain left leaning members of the MSM from the White House grounds. The left is losing their collective minds, claiming this to be an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment, and of course making comparisons to…<\/p>\n
Would you like to know more? 1st Amendment abolished, freedom of speech canceled<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11,16,32,45,204,54,162,61,73,75,80,84,212,192,117,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-american","category-assholes","category-bah","category-believe-it-or-else","category-cry-me-a-river","category-domestic-disputes","category-enemies-domestic","category-fucking-morons","category-hard-times-are-here-to-stay","category-hmmm","category-loserbabies-crybullies","category-lunatic-fringe","category-near-naked-propaganda","category-passthepopcorn","category-thats-entertainment","category-justice-done","category-trump-derangement","category-waaaaah","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-32-id","wpcat-45-id","wpcat-204-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-162-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-73-id","wpcat-75-id","wpcat-80-id","wpcat-84-id","wpcat-212-id","wpcat-192-id","wpcat-117-id","wpcat-119-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29947,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945\/revisions\/29947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}