Under the rubric of 'knowing on which side your bread is buttered.....'
1. "CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta"
CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta
And....in related stories, sans lawsuits....
2. āBut Trump's anti-press bluster aside, there's a clear blueprint to follow ā courtesy of Barack Obama, who once claimed that he would be the most transparent president ever but proved to be no friend to press rights.
Under Obama, the Justice Department subpoenaed the telephone records of AP journalists as investigators pursued a leak.
ā¦what happened under Obama set an ominous tone for reporters who were trying to do their jobs of informing the public.
So did the Obama administration's record-breaking use of an arcane century-old law ā the Espionage Act ā which it used nine times to pursue leakers.ā Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was made by Obama
3. āWeeks before President Barack Obama was to leave office, [James] Risen wrote in the Times, āIf Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.ā
The Obama administration's aggressiveness on this front mushroomed into a scandal in spring 2013, as revelations surfaced that the Justice Department had subpoenaed two monthsā worth of phone records of Associated Press journalists, and that it had named James Rosen, then of Fox News, as a potential co-conspirator in a criminal leak as it pursued his reportorial records.
Which is to say that entangling the media in leak investigations isnāt a Trump-era outrage; thereās nothing here for Trump to ānormalize.ā
Opinion | Seizing journalistsā records: An outrage that Obama ānormalizedā for Trump
4. āā¦many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.ā
Opinion | If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
5. āā¦about the media that undercut Obamaās credibility with the absurd claim that he ā unlike Trump ā didnāt āthreaten the freedom of the press.ā Baloney.ā Before Trump, Obama was an 'enemy of press freedom'
Which reminds us that the only place on finds justice is the dictionary and the cemetery.
Why do you hate Obama?
BTW, there's somethings Donald Trump and you need to read:
āCongress 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.ā
and,
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Of course you and he have no code of ethics, or any ethics for that matter, and will continue to sully everyone who holds no loyalty to him and you, or to any part of the Constitution which conflicts with your wants.
"BTW, there's somethings Donald Trump and you need to read:
āCongress 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.ā
and,
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
It is only the Left/Democrats/Liberals who demand restrictions on free speech.
Here's a real Liberal documenting same:
If you ever get around to reading a book.....
....silly me.
Send me an executive summary and I'll read it. Notwithstanding your silly ad hominem I read a very interesting op-ed by Ms. Powers.
You and other readers might enjoy this piece written for the USA Today:
CNN's Kirsten Powers' Op-Ed: I Thought My Sexual Assault Was My Fault | HuffPost
Gads, you Liberals are dumb.....and lazy.
Here's part of my notes....
Silencing The Right
1. As true sons and daughters of the German totalitarian inclination, contemporary Liberals, Progressives, Democrats try their utmost to silence any voices that they determine to be iterations of their own views.
And by 'their views,' I refer to the supremacy of the state, the collective, over the individual.
a. The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, āThe state says ⦠you must obey ā¦. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of
obeying without protestā (Ralf Dahrendorf,
Society and Democracy in Germany).
2. The staging area for incipient totalitarians is, of course, the university system, where huge dollops of indoctrination are doled out, and no adverse information is tolerated.
Dennis Prager gives this overview:
Leftism is so pervasive, that if applied to any other way of looking at life, it would be widely recognized as a form of brainwashing! Image a person who attended only fundamental Christian schools from preschool through graduate school, who never saw a secular, let alone anti-Christian, film, and who only read religious books. Most would say that they had been ābrainwashed.ā Yet, we regularly find individuals who only attended secular liberal schools from preschool through college, watched or listened to only Left-of-center television, movies, music, and had essentially no exposure to religious or conservative ideas. Brainwashed?
Of course not! Liberals are open-minded!!! The irony here is that the denial itself shows how very effective the brainwashing has been.
Now, Christians or Jews who have rarely been exposed to secular ideas and values would readily acknowledge same. It is only those on the Left who fool themselves into believing that they have been exposed to all points of view.
a. Universities have become to Liberalism what a Christian seminary is to Christianity. The difference is that Christian seminaries acknowledge their purpose, to produce committed Christians.
b. āThe purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible.ā
" The University's Part in Political Lifeā (13 March 1909) in PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 19:99.
As Lord Acton stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?"
Such is clearly seen in academia, where diversity of opinion is forbidden.
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As Lord Acton stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?"
Such is clearly seen in academia, where diversity of opinion is forbidden.
And that corruption appears in the very area in which America was once the ideal of the world: free speech.
3. Exactly so...as can be seen in the university system, "with a spate of high-profile2014 commencement speech cancelations and forced withdrawls. These were spurred by the protesets of lefty students and professors outraged that someone who held views with which they disagreed, such as support fo rthe Iraq War or capitalism, would be allowed to deliver a commencement address.
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE),....during the twenty-two years between 1987 and 2008,138 protests of planned campus speech led to 62 incidents of an invited guest not speaking.
....in the six years- 2009 through 2014- 151 protests have caused cancellation of 62 speeches."
Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech,"
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4. " CAMBRIDGE ā Michael R. Bloomberg implored Harvard University graduates Thursday to ardently defend the rights of others, citing what he described as
growing intolerance for different religions, political ideas, and even college commencement speakers.
āTolerance for other peopleās ideas and the
freedom to express your own are . . . perpetually vulnerable to
the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities, and lately weāve seen those tendencies manifest themselves too often, both on college campuses and in our society,ā....
Bloomberg also condemned how, he said,
college campuses seem to increasingly profess only liberal viewpoints and refuse to listen to conservative ideas. ā
"A liberal arts education must not be the art of liberalism,ā he said.
....he was disturbed by how
numerous commencement speakers either had invitations rescinded or decided themselves to cancel appearances amid protests over their views or actions."
In Harvard commencement speech, Michael Bloomberg assails lack of political diversity at college campuses - The Boston Globe
5. ... itās a schoolās obligation to teach them not what to think, but how to think critically, including
listening to the other side and considering other peopleās points of view. āThe more we accept political diversity, the healthier we are, and the stronger our society will be,ā ...."
Michael Bloomberg Delivers Harvard Commencement Speech
Seems that Major Bloomberg is the right kind of Liberal: he's calling the other kind exactly what they are: fascists.
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6. How do universities decide which speakers are "acceptable"?
Here.....take a peek into the sort of decision making that goes on:
āā¦the Jesuit college Fordham University welcomed infanticide and bestiality advocate Peter Singer for a panel discussion on Friday.
Singer has long lamented the societal stigma against having sex with animals. āNot so long ago,ā Singer
wrote in one essay, āany form of sexuality not leading to the conception of children was seen as, at best, wanton lust, or worse, a perversion. One by one, the taboos have fallen. But ⦠not every taboo has crumbled.ā
In the
essay, titled āHeavy Petting,ā Singer concluded that āsex across the species barrier,ā while not normal, āceases to be an offence [sic] to our status and dignity as human beings.ā āOccasionally mutually satisfying activities may developā when humans have sex with their pets, he claimed.
In addition to supporting bestiality and immediately granting equal legal rights to animals, Singer has also advocated euthanizing the mentally ill and aborting disabled infants on utilitarian grounds.
In his 1993 essay
āTaking Life,ā Singer, in a section called āJustifying Infanticide and Non-Voluntary Euthanasia,ā wrote that ākilling a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.ā
Campus president condemns Coulter event, silent as professor who calls sex with animals potentially āsatisfyingā speaks
The very same Fordham effectively barred conservative columnist Ann Coulter from speaking on campus last week,
The Jesuit universityās president, Joseph M.McShane wrote in a statement the day before the Coulter speaking engagement was canceled. āThere are many people who can speak to the conservative point of view with integrity and conviction, but Ms. Coulter is not among them. Her rhetoric is often hateful and needlessly provocative ā more heat than light ā and her message is aimed squarely at the darker side of our nature.ā Op.Cit.
Campus president condemns Coulter event, silent as professor who calls sex with animals potentially āsatisfyingā speaks
Have a better example of "Silencing The Right"?
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7. Earlier I pointed out the relationship of Liberal/fascist thinking in demands for bowing the head and bending of the knee in respect for big government and the collective.
It's a good time to point out that the view was propounded by the neoMarxist 'Frankfurt School' brought here during WWII.
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Herbert Marcuse (German:
[maŹĖkuĖzÉ]; July 19, 1898 ā July 29, 1979) was a German-American
philosopher,
sociologist, and
political theorist, associated with the
Frankfurt School of
critical theory."
Herbert Marcuse - Wikipedia
Proving that there is nary a difference between communists, fascists,....and Liberals, Marcuse wrote strongly in favor of shutting off opposing voices, and that curbing freedom of expression in favor of leftist ideological aims is absolutely necessary.
From Marxist tactician Marcuse:
"...define the direction in which prevailing institutions, policies, opinions would have to be changed in order to improve the chance of a peace which is not identical with cold war and a little hot war, and a satisfaction of needs which does not feed on poverty, oppression, and exploitation. Consequently, it is also possible to identify policies, opinions, movements which would promote this chance, and those which would do the opposite. Suppression of the regressive ones is a prerequisite for the strengthening of the progressive ones."
Repressive Tolerance, by Herbert Marcuse (1965)
How many good little Liberals, or Progressives, have mindlessly marched down this totalitarian path....
...yet still imagine that they support liberty, free speech, and the unalienable
rights that are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence ?
It is no wonder they are identified as 'useful idiots'.... propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause."
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Be prepared for a quiz.....