Old Rocks
Diamond Member
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.
The Constitution of the United States of America
The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.
Thomas Jefferson
President Trump’s chief White House strategist and former Breitbart News head Steve Bannon granted a rare interview to a member of the mainstream media Wednesday night, and used it as an opportunity to declare war on the Fourth Estate. The New York Times’ Michael M. Grynbaum spoke to Bannon, who arranged for the call to praise White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
But it’s Bannon’s broadsides against the “elite” media that stand out most from the conversation. Among his most blistering lines:
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile.”
“The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.”
“You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.”
Also, the election was “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”
If Bannon was hoping to get a rise out of the media, it worked. Many journalists responded on Twitter with breathless indignation. But if he was hoping to actually get them to “shut up,” he appears to have failed.
Bannon Calls Press the ‘Opposition Party,’ Which Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Bannon is clearly a Fascist. And this admin will at some point try to shut down the press. The orange clown is that psychotic.
The Constitution of the United States of America
The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.
Thomas Jefferson
President Trump’s chief White House strategist and former Breitbart News head Steve Bannon granted a rare interview to a member of the mainstream media Wednesday night, and used it as an opportunity to declare war on the Fourth Estate. The New York Times’ Michael M. Grynbaum spoke to Bannon, who arranged for the call to praise White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
But it’s Bannon’s broadsides against the “elite” media that stand out most from the conversation. Among his most blistering lines:
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile.”
“The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.”
“You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.”
Also, the election was “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”
If Bannon was hoping to get a rise out of the media, it worked. Many journalists responded on Twitter with breathless indignation. But if he was hoping to actually get them to “shut up,” he appears to have failed.
Bannon Calls Press the ‘Opposition Party,’ Which Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Bannon is clearly a Fascist. And this admin will at some point try to shut down the press. The orange clown is that psychotic.
