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The Left Continues to Peddle the Lie that Trump Represents a Threat to Press Freedom
https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...s_freedom.html
04/30/2019 ~ By William Sullivan
Saturday night’s White House Correspondents dinner once again came and went without most Americans having paid it any serious attention, and for the third straight year, our president chose to miss this increasingly farcical event where journalists pat each other on the back for the fine jobs they believe themselves to be doing. What made this year’s event a little different than years past is that none of the other senior members of the White House staff attended, either.... “That decision came after Sarah Huckabee Sanders endured cruel taunts at the hands of last year’s featured speaker, comedian Michelle Wolf,” Emily Zanotti reports at The Daily Wire. “[D]espite a longstanding tradition of good-natured ribbing between the press and the president, through dueling speeches, the White House simply stopped RSVPing to the event.”
Without the luxury of roasting their political enemies in attendance to feign a comedic tone rather than a purely adversarial one, the organizers of the event dropped the façade of humor in favor of a “funerary tone” led by a historian rather than the traditional choice of a comedian... But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the event offered anything short of bad comedy.... For example, the White House Correspondents Association’s president Olivier Knox committed to a “dark sermon,” according to Grabien News.... Journalists like Olivier Knox pretending that there’s any realistic possibility that they could be jailed or prevented from reentering the country by this president for having said nasty things about him is worse than an honest fear or fantasy.
The Wilson administration’s most famous action against the free press was the Espionage Act of 1917, under which 2,000 people were charged during WWI, and jailed many members of the press.... Interestingly enough, it was under the auspices of the Espionage Act that President Obama cracked down on journalists “more than any other administration since Woodrow Wilson,” according to Michael Barone at the Washington Examiner in 2013. He cites 20-year veteran of The New York Times, David Sanger, as having called the Obama administration “the most closed, control-freak administration” he’d ever witnessed.
Members of the media today suggesting that Donald Trump represents some uniquely dangerous presidential threat to our free press are either in desperate need of education, or they knowingly lack an interest in truth.
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What to do about the lie when repeated enough becomes the ‘truth’? Today’s ‘Free Press’ are nothing more than ‘Progressive Marxist Socialist’ Activists. They do not report ‘just the facts’ any longer.
It just goes to show that the "news" organizations today have nothing to do with reporting actual news - and have reached a point where they believe they can tell outright lies without penalty. I wish this was nothing more than a conspiracy theory but evidence continuously points to the fact they are part of a Marxist Socialist ideological propaganda campaign to take over our government.
Indeed today’s MSM is collectively the enemy of the people. Their dishonesty prevents the majority from learning the truth about this outrageous Coup d'Etat attempt by members of the government against our president. No doubt those paying attention know how dangerous a dishonest press has become to the survival of our Republic.
who can't handle jokes?
