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If Shakespear in the Park is A.O.K., then Trump's takedown of CNN is righteous as well, and for the very same reasons.
The dignity of the office of the president is equal to some gay theater company? That is Smithson's statement here.
"There's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. The First Amendment is the beating heart of the American experiment, and you don't get to separate the freedoms that are in there... It is not helpful to call the press the enemy of the American people."
Since you do not equate Trump with the dignity of the office, I have no clue what the hell you are talking about, and neither do you.
And, OF COURSE, I was talking about content. trump made his video 10 years ago, only recently modifying it to make a point. It was opposing Senators in Shakespear in the Park who killed the president. It was the president who fought back in the takedown video. Again, you can't agree to one without accepting the other.
Secondly, a "free press" is of no service to democracy if that press is renegade and politically partisan, as is the current Corporate Media.
Anonymous in typical subversive fashion, quoted as writing "a "free press" is of no service to democracy ..." and then wrote the need for a free press as follows:
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
__________________________ Here is exactly what I said and it is not at all what Anonymous quoted:
Secondly, a "free press" is of no service to democracy if that press is renegade and politically partisan, as is the current Corporate Media.
I still believe that. Understand that it is the Socialist Progressives trying to limit free speech,and, a free and vibrant press. The Right never moves in this direction . . . . . never.
The dignity of the office of the president is equal to some gay theater company? That is Smithson's statement here.
ReplyDelete"There's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. The First Amendment is the beating heart of the American experiment, and you don't get to separate the freedoms that are in there... It is not helpful to call the press the enemy of the American people."
- Ben Sasse (R-NE)
Since you do not equate Trump with the dignity of the office, I have no clue what the hell you are talking about, and neither do you.
DeleteAnd, OF COURSE, I was talking about content. trump made his video 10 years ago, only recently modifying it to make a point. It was opposing Senators in Shakespear in the Park who killed the president. It was the president who fought back in the takedown video. Again, you can't agree to one without accepting the other.
Secondly, a "free press" is of no service to democracy if that press is renegade and politically partisan, as is the current Corporate Media.
Anonymous in typical subversive fashion, quoted as writing "a "free press" is of no service to democracy ..." and then wrote the need for a free press as follows:
ReplyDelete“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
__________________________
Here is exactly what I said and it is not at all what Anonymous quoted:
Secondly, a "free press" is of no service to democracy if that press is renegade and politically partisan, as is the current Corporate Media.
I still believe that. Understand that it is the Socialist Progressives trying to limit free speech,and, a free and vibrant press. The Right never moves in this direction . . . . . never.