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"They get started by suppressing free press, in other words, a consolidation of power -- when you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press," McCain said. "And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history."

This sounds about as sincere as Mark Antony's refrain "...but Brutus in an honorable man." McCain is doing more to undermine Trump's Presidency and to besmirch the President than any other Republican, and he knows it.

The only thing I'm not certain about is whether McCain's hysteria towards Trump and thinly veiled accusations of "dictatorship" are sincere (in which case McCain is a delusional idiot), or just a calculated affectation to curry favor with NeverTrump Republicans and with liberals. I think the latter - it's no accident that except when he ran against Obama in 2008, John McCain has long been every liberal's favorite Republican.

1 posted on 02/20/2017 10:01:00 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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John McCain needs a good sit down with the leadership of his party.

He is unfit to sit on any committees. Any that he chairs should be given to someone with half a clue

If this keeps up, John should be removed from the Senate.

That is long past due.


62 posted on 02/20/2017 10:31:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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Senator McCain, you might want to read one very specific chapter from Alvin Toffler's seminal book The Third Wave: "De-Massifying the Media."

Written in 1980, it showed how as communication technologies improve, the days of mass media companies being relevant are coming to an end. And today, we have a President that clearly knows that and uses the modern Internet (and cellphones that connect to the Internet) to bypass the "filter" of the Establishment Media. No wonder why the Establishment Media acts upset: technology has made them just about obsolete.

63 posted on 02/20/2017 10:33:01 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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McCain is correct.

That is what Obama tried to do, with considerable success. That it wasn’t total was due to FOX, AM radio, and the internet.


64 posted on 02/20/2017 10:34:18 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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65 posted on 02/20/2017 10:34:46 AM PST by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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Dictators confiscate all the guns first.

The old saying, “Sticks and stones....”

But an armed resistance is a whole other matter.


67 posted on 02/20/2017 10:42:44 AM PST by burroak
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AND...the first step to being an American traitor “Songbird.” is being on George Soros payroll. Your treachery started decades ago a the the Hanoi Hilton. You’re a FAILED politician and a self serving piece of feces.


68 posted on 02/20/2017 10:47:01 AM PST by Fighter@heart (Ask the American Indian how "immigration" worked out for them.)
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AND...the first step to being an American traitor “Songbird.” is being on George Soros payroll. Your treachery started decades ago a the the Hanoi Hilton. You’re a FAILED politician and a self serving piece of feces.


69 posted on 02/20/2017 10:47:01 AM PST by Fighter@heart (Ask the American Indian how "immigration" worked out for them.)
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McCain is just elected for 6 year term.

So he is free to act as demoncrat for 5 years

6th year he will again become token conservative to fool AZ electorate

70 posted on 02/20/2017 10:48:50 AM PST by cssGA30005
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John - did you ever get all those POW’s that were begging you to?

I noticed the ‘free press’ didn’t feel the need to inform the public on that one.

The ‘free press’ didn’t tell the true story of your shameful military record either, eh John?

How ‘bout you come clean on your own?


72 posted on 02/20/2017 10:50:28 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Soros donations?
Meeting with Syrian ISIS, Al-Qaida?

Let’s talk about that.


77 posted on 02/20/2017 11:02:06 AM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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and ineffectual ones get started by cow-towing to the press!


78 posted on 02/20/2017 11:02:20 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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Looks like CNN and McCain are buddies.


82 posted on 02/20/2017 11:10:28 AM PST by Logical me
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Tell me, John McSlime, just what has Donald Trump done to suppress the free press?


83 posted on 02/20/2017 11:11:30 AM PST by dirtymac
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85 posted on 02/20/2017 11:15:22 AM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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Where was he during obama?


86 posted on 02/20/2017 11:16:44 AM PST by Trillian
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Freedom of speech also means others get to criticize those speaking. Criticism you snowflakes is not suppression.


88 posted on 02/20/2017 11:27:36 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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Dictators often get started by a fawning press Juanito..

Dicheads sometimes get started by being Admiral’s sons.


89 posted on 02/20/2017 11:32:06 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators "get started by suppressing free press."

Well this is exactly right you moron, but you seem not to have noticed that it is all the MSM that have suppressed actual freedom of the press. With their trillion dollars in broadcasting assets and with their monopolistic control of all broadcasting licenses, they have made it effectively impossible that anyone off the Liberal plantation can address the American public on Broadcast Television.

What we have *NOW* is suppression of speech. Grow up and Wake Up idiot McCain.

90 posted on 02/20/2017 11:39:22 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Criticism does not equal suppression. Why should a President’s own beliefs be suppressed. How is that fair. No law has been passed to obertly censor the press.


91 posted on 02/20/2017 11:59:04 AM PST by Crucial
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A free press does not have a right to lie.


94 posted on 02/20/2017 6:36:11 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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