You can bet that if Drumpf does this, which I’m sure he’ll try to do sometime in the near future as Mueller draws near him, the Dems will have this to run on this year (they just won’t celebrate).
Leftists are the only one opposed to free speech. Citizens United was about a movie about Hillary, made by a bunch of people who put their dimes together to fund it. Conservative speakers are the only ones attacked on campuses. Suspect the Trumpian language intends only to give leftists a mirror to their actions.
Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”
He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.
His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.
Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump’s inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”
So many people miss the point. So many others deliberately twist the issue.
Long before Trump hit the scene I stated that we need to have the press chopped back down to the same level of 1st Amendment protection the rest of us enjoy.
They can publish things with impunity that would result in defamation convictions for the rest of us. Call yourself a “journalist” and you gain a level of protection that makes you virtually immune to the repercussions the average citizen is subject to.
I said this about Klein’s Clinton books years ago, and I say it about Wolff as well. I am reasonably certain that the founders did not intend for free speech to be a selective right, more equal from some than others.
All you say is factually accurate and simply confirms what I am trying to tell you in the first place. Public vs private is the variable you seem to be missing – or deliberately ignoring.
Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America’s free press — Richard Kluger (2016)
railwayman001 almost 7 years ago
You can bet that if Drumpf does this, which I’m sure he’ll try to do sometime in the near future as Mueller draws near him, the Dems will have this to run on this year (they just won’t celebrate).
Guy Fawkes almost 7 years ago
♪ All aboard! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ♪
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Heil – Heil – Heil Heil – Heil – Heil
Crazy, but that’s how we goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
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Mental case not healing
Trump’s a total shame
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
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Let’s go!
*
We’ve listened to Kluxers
We’ve listened to fools We’ve watched the White House
Make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media smells it and we live the role
*
Founder’s words still screaming
Driving us to vote
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
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We know that things are going wrong for US
You gotta resist His lies
Yeah
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Heirs of a cold war
That’s what we’ve become
Inheriting troubles, we’re mentally numb
Crazy, we just sit and stare
We’re living with something made by the Bear
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Mental case not healing
Who and what’s to blame
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
We’re going off the rails on a crazy train
braindead Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Just another component of Making America Great Again.
The Supremes already decided that money is speech, so if you don’t have sufficient money, you don’t have speech.
jbmlaw01 almost 7 years ago
Leftists are the only one opposed to free speech. Citizens United was about a movie about Hillary, made by a bunch of people who put their dimes together to fund it. Conservative speakers are the only ones attacked on campuses. Suspect the Trumpian language intends only to give leftists a mirror to their actions.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Leftists are in favor of free speech, as long as you share their viewpoint.
Timothy Madigan Premium Member almost 7 years ago
The funny thing is that if Pres. Trump got his way, he could be, or have been sued, in regards to the birther stupidity.
Radish... almost 7 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/22/this-new-trump-book-could-do-even-more-damage-than-michael-wolffs-heres-why/?utm_term=.c32953c3ddda
Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”
He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.
His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.
Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump’s inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”
kaffekup almost 7 years ago
“And that’s a good thing, Anthony!”
Andylit Premium Member almost 7 years ago
So many people miss the point. So many others deliberately twist the issue.
Long before Trump hit the scene I stated that we need to have the press chopped back down to the same level of 1st Amendment protection the rest of us enjoy.
They can publish things with impunity that would result in defamation convictions for the rest of us. Call yourself a “journalist” and you gain a level of protection that makes you virtually immune to the repercussions the average citizen is subject to.
I said this about Klein’s Clinton books years ago, and I say it about Wolff as well. I am reasonably certain that the founders did not intend for free speech to be a selective right, more equal from some than others.
garcalej almost 7 years ago
The worst leaders are those who can’t take criticism of any kind.
Mr. Blawt almost 7 years ago
The price to be paid for free speech is listening to the president’s defenders say paying off porn stars is morally upstanding.
Guy Fawkes almost 7 years ago
@Andylit
All you say is factually accurate and simply confirms what I am trying to tell you in the first place. Public vs private is the variable you seem to be missing – or deliberately ignoring.
Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America’s free press — Richard Kluger (2016)