President Trump Picks A Fight

[Flanders]

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. Oscar Wilde​

President Trump’s press conference today clearly showed that he has no fear of print media. Newspapers could say whatever they wanted to say as well as NOT print responses from public figures. Fear of print is no longer true because nobody cares what the NY Times and the Washington Post say:

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain​

Television networks are fuming because they cannot control Trump’s responses, nor can they shut him up by turning off their cameras.

Bottom line: The American people are on President Trump’s side in the fight.

 

[Flanders]

President Trump’s press conference today clearly showed that he has no fear of print media.

Oh yeah, I am going to believe Carl Bernstein’s OPINION of the press.

Legendary Journo Warns Trump More Treacherous Than Nixon
Posted at 10:00 am on February 18, 2017 by Susan Wright

Legendary Journo Warns Trump More Treacherous Than Nixon | RedState​

Bernstein gets a lot of face time on television. I sense that he fantasizes about television acquiring the same influence that print journalism had in 19th century.

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism. Oscar Wilde​

Whatever remained of print journalism’s influence in the Watergate era is long gone. Television is not going to bring it back by talking heads:

Nixon was crucified by the Washington Post for nothing more than engaging in political dirty tricks.

In the mundane world of journalism Ben Bradlee is akin to John Wayne’s screen persona; a straight shooter; a rock of honesty who never did a wrong thing in his life. Frankly, I never believed it.

Back when Watergate was happening I thought Bradlee’s motive was less than pure. Even today, detractors fail to mention the fact that he was JFK’s pal on top of hating Richard Nixon for his role in bringing down Alger Hiss. It’s not difficult to visualize how hatred must have consumed Bradlee after Nixon rose from the dead and won the presidency in 1968. Hence, at the first opportunity Bradlee gave Woodward and Bernstein free rein to do whatever was necessary to destroy Nixon over nothing more than political dirty tricks.

Woodward has been discredited although his fellow journalists still hang on every word he says when he appears on TV panels. Nor will you find the MSM looking at Ben Bradlee with a jaundiced eye. Happily, his John Wayne image is occasionally examined on the Internet:

A Tiny Kerfuffle

Pat Buchanan put Watergate in perspective:​

The Unraveling Myth of Watergate
Pat Buchanan
May 25, 2012

The Unraveling Myth of Watergate​

Bernstein’s bottom line:

Television networks are fuming because they cannot control Trump’s responses, nor can they shut him up by turning off their cameras.

Finally, Bernstein made a career out of unjustly bringing down one president. Apparently, using the same worn out “Save the First Amendment” argument he has his sights on another president.

The thing Bernstein refuses to admit is that freedom of speech on the Internet is the enemy of the press and it is not going away. In fact, President Trump’s tweets strengthen freedom of speech for the rest of us.

“On Friday, Trump tweeted out that the media were the enemy of the people.”​

Trump the tweeter is exactly right: Television is the enemy of the people.

 

[Flanders]

Fear of print is no longer true because nobody cares what the NY Times and the Washington Post say:

February 19, 2017
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By Thomas Lifson

Blog: New York Times obituary for Blind Sheikh Abdel Rahman a classic of its ilk​

If anyone reads the NY Times let me know what they say about:

Norma McCorvey, Roe of Roe v. Wade, hailed as prolife hero
Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 02/18/2017 @ 3:04 pm

Norma McCorvey, Roe of Roe v. Wade, hailed as prolife hero​

Which one will you miss?

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[Flanders]

Whatever remained of print journalism’s influence in the Watergate era is long gone. Television is not going to bring it back by talking heads:

Trump the tweeter is exactly right: Television is the enemy of the people.

Listen to El Rushbo K.O. the media:

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[Flanders]

In fact, President Trump’s tweets strengthen freedom of speech for the rest of us.

It will be interesting to see how President Trump handles this one:

Ann Ravel, a Democratic commissioner on the FEC who infamously tried to censor political speech on the internet, has resigned.​

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By law, President Trump must name a registered Democrat to fill the post.​

February 20, 2017
FEC commissioner who fought to regulate political speech on internet resigns
By Rick Moran

Blog: FEC commissioner who fought to regulate political speech on internet resigns​

I posted this message on another board in 2014:

In a 1998 meeting with reporters then-First Lady Hillary Clinton said:​

We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values ... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?

FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS 'RETHINK'​

It wasn’t so much a matter of hiring a gatekeeper, it was more a matter of which bureaucracy provided the gatekeeper with the authority to override the First Amendment. It looks like Ann Ravel over at the Federal Elections Commission got the job. Notice that in 1998 an Internet gatekeeper was needed to protect reputations. Somewhere along the way the gatekeeper’s duties grew to include this:​

. . . if the new anti-First Amendment ploy by the vice-chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, Ann Ravel, becomes a federal regulation, the ad would be regulated regardless of whether I paid to run it. And so would be the content on this website. Blogs, YouTube, and everything else the Internet reaches would fall under the FEC’s jurisdiction. The FEC will eagerly invade all political speech online, paid or unpaid, even the content of the news and opinion articles like the ones we read every day.​

A quick look at arming federal bureaucrats tells us that Hillary’s gatekeeper(s) will end up carrying guns!

Considering all of the unpunished campaign contributions larceny and stolen elections Democrats get away with, this question takes on some importance:​

. . . we have to go back to the beginning and ask why there should be a Federal Election Commission at all.​

Dissolve the Federal Election Commission
The First Amendment is unambiguous.
By Jed Babbin – 10.27.14

Dissolve the Federal Election Commission​

Why indeed! A police force staffed by deaf, dumb, and blind cops does a helluva lot more to enforce the law than ever did the FEC.

And once again the filthy lying sneaks act like they are morally superior to America’s Founding Fathers:​

First Amendment​

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.​

Make no mistake on this issue. Abolishing the First Amendment will be accomplished by one or anther piece of moral garbage. If you doubt it look at all of the moral filth that is used to justify oppressive government; i.e., take liberties away from productive Americans for the common good.

In the same vein the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech to everyone while:​

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling​

Question: Why does freedom of the press NOT require an FEC gatekeeper? Answer: The press is an instrument of government.

In addition to the obvious answer, nobody in the federal government would need a gatekeeper if they were not so corrupt. Hillary’s gatekeeper was needed to silence talk about degenerates, theft, treason, and every other foul deed the federal government gets up to these days.​