Der Fuhrer can order the mike be grabbed from anyone who dares question his infallibility, and then charge THEM with assault.
Trump is going full Third World, and his sucklings are mewling with delight.
Obama was far more oppressive with the media, only, the reaction is not the same from the partisan media.
Show me the time Obama ordered a mike to be grabbed from a reporter.
I'll wait here.
Der Fuhrer can order the mike be grabbed from anyone who dares question his infallibility, and then charge THEM with assault.
Trump is going full Third World, and his sucklings are mewling with delight.
Obama was far more oppressive with the media, only, the reaction is not the same from the partisan media.
Show me a list of all the reporters Obama banned from the White House.
I'll wait here.
Obama was a more behind the scenes kind of guy. He is the type to smile at you and saying nice things while he has someone else stab you in the back for him. Yes, he was and is a sociopath. The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistle-blowers for leaks and gone after more journalists than any of its predecessors.
In a report last year, Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Washington Post, said the administration’s efforts to crack down on information seeping to journalists were “the most aggressive” since President Richard Nixon was in office.
The Obama administration has pursued more journalists than other administrations, secretly looking at phone records and credit card transactions and surreptitiously tracking their movements.
And we should never forget the comments of Helen Thomas who covered the White House since JFK.
Thomas’ best moment in recent years may have come in July 2009, when she slammed Obama’s then-press secretary Robert Gibbs for the administration’s close management of the press and for planting prepackaged questions for the president.
“The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I’m amazed, I’m amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled…” Thomas said.
“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas
said after her confrontation with Gibbs. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”
The absence of journalism and a fair media has led to Trump. Enjoy.
At least with Trump, the media is out to get him so they are more likely to thwart such illegal and nefarious dealings like running guns across the border for drugs or targeting conservatives via the IRS, etc.