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Hanks: Calling CNN ‘Fake News’ is ‘Monkeying Around With Constitution'
MRC Newsbusters ^ | December 5, 2017 | Corinne Weaver

Posted on 12/07/2017 4:09:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

When did actors become the ultimate authority on the constitution?

CNN’s David Axelrod (who, lest we forget, was Obama’s political guru) interviewed actor Tom Hanks on The Axe Files on December 2, and pushed Hanks to pontificate on Donald Trump, the constitution, and fake news. When Axelrod asked Hanks whether he was “concerned” by the president “target[ing] news organizations,” Hanks responded, “As an American, it concerns me because it’s monkeying around with our Constitution.”

Again, this is David Axelrod, who worked for Barack Obama. He now has a show on CNN. He’s asking wonderfully leading questions about Donald Trump’s criticism of … CNN. Is just a little self-awareness too much to ask?

Anyway, according to Judge Hanks, media criticism is meddling with the constitution. Where is that in the amendments?

In the hour long interview, Hanks went on to talk about the fake news phenomenon: “It’s relatively obvious, I think, as what is trying to go forward. When you tear down these institutions to a level and say you can’t believe anything that is in any of them, that raises the stock of those agenda-filled other institutions and what not so that if you can’t believe them, well that means you get to believe some of the other stuff that is in these and so what is happening is that dilution, the dilution of the great … they’re throwing dirt and oil into a bucket of water. So it all becomes undrinkable after a while,” he told Axelrod, the former senior Obama official who now has a show at … CNN.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axelrod; clintonnonnews; cnn; constitution; davidaxelrod; fakenews; hanks; hollywood; mediawingofthednc; nitwitactor; partisanmediashills; theaxefiles; tomhanks; trump
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To: Feckless
...but The Lying, Dying Fake News Liberal Media choosing sides and lying is just what the Constitution call for?
Bulls-eye!
41 posted on 12/07/2017 5:11:07 AM PST by Marauder ("I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: PIF
agenda-filled other institutions

Hanks, you bumbling idiot. The MSM are the agenda filled institutions.

42 posted on 12/07/2017 5:11:37 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Alas Babylon!

So, Tom...

The “news” industry is pure as the driven snow, right? Honest as the day is long, huh? They NEVER, EVER have a bias or agenda, correct?..(unless it’s FOX)

Mr. Hanks, you make Forrest Gump look like Albert Einstein.


43 posted on 12/07/2017 5:12:24 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: MountainWalker
How about False News or Fraudulent News or just plain Propaganda News?

Much better, thank you! Whew! Glad we got that settled!
44 posted on 12/07/2017 5:12:49 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

What do I care what an “actor” thinks?


45 posted on 12/07/2017 5:13:04 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: All
Hanks wasn't that worried about the Constitution when he helped bail out Clinton's sex mess.

Herewith, for your edification, are the Certified Democrat Degenerates......the scum that vilify and destroy America's Judeo-Christian ethics and values in movies promoted as being "diverse, politically correct, and socially relevant."

HOLLYWOOD'S CERTIFIED DEMOCRAT DEGENERATES
FINANCED BILL CLINTON'S LEWINSKY SEX MESS

According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.

Thanks to Hollywood's generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:

<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, who have given $60,000;

<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;

<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;

<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;

<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.

Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:

<><> singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand;

<><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;

<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;

<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.

======================================

When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.

Billionaire Harvey Weinstein raised $1,422,683 for federal candidates and political entities between 1990-2016. That’s small potatoes for his 27 years of rank Democratism, sucking up to feminism and upholding so-called abortion rights as he rampaged and assaulted young women. Adds up to about $5300 a year. Something tells me there are a lot of cash payments off-the-record being paid. (hat tip outpostinmass2) Crunching the numbers as outpost did does give us a sharper look at the political money game as played by the conniving Clintons.

Harvey also gave a bundle to the nefarious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation and perhaps to offshoots of the Clintons tax-free entities.

Did Harvey's donations to the C/F go to "do-good projects"? Or did they make a circuitous route? Maybe landing back into the Clintons eternal political scams?

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<><> How did the Hollywood elite list payments to Clinton's sex defense fund on their tax returns?

<><>How did the "DreamWorks" trio, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, list their 60,000 dollars to Clinton's sex defense fund?

<><>How did BET list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?

<><> Did Harvey's company list these payments as "business expenses?"

The biggie is the tax element.

<><> Did donors deduct it as a “business expense”,

<><> was it included in assets, payments listed on organization balance sheets as a "liability?"

<><> Did Clinton document it as "income"?

<><> Were the donors given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?


46 posted on 12/07/2017 5:13:34 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnÂ’t know which bathroom to use)
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To: Feckless

The answer is yes

It has always been so


47 posted on 12/07/2017 5:14:00 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Calling CNN a news station is monkeying around with reality.


48 posted on 12/07/2017 5:16:42 AM PST by kempster
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To: Alas Babylon!
“As an American, it concerns me because it’s monkeying around with our Constitution.”

Completely wrong.

Imagine that democrats want to create a VP Pence scandal: they start a whisper campaign that Pence is always chasing women. What happens? It flops. There is zero evidence, and it's not plausible given what we all see of VP Pence.

Now imagine that real Americans want to damage the credibility of the mainstream media: they start a whisper campaign that CNN/NYT/WaPo are all #FakeNews. What happens? Four days after the Inauguration, Time publishes that President Trump removed the MLK bust from the Oval Office, later retracting the story. ABC publishes a major story that Flynn contacted Russia during the campaign, later retracted. CNN publishes a story about Trump ally Scaramucci contacting Russia, later retracted . . . I could list hundreds of similar cases where the media jumped all over a claim with little or no evidence in the hope that it would hurt Candidate Trump or now President Trump . . .

What is hurting press credibility is that #FakeNews is real, and it is a significant fraction of our mainstream press. Their lack of integrity and Trump commenting on that bias have no effect on the Constitution. The liars at Time/Newsweek/MSNBC/ABC are still free to write any story they want to write. The difference is that viewers critically evaluate media accuracy. That is as it should be for a free press in a free country.

49 posted on 12/07/2017 5:16:52 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Howie66

I like the way you think! Jerks hiding behind the Constitution using some parts to beat you over the head with while they seek to undermine other parts and ridicule the brave, fearless, far thinking founders who gave it to us at great personal sacrifice. That type of stuff is nothing more than treason but then there is the ultimate hiding place.

The First Amendment, how convenient.


50 posted on 12/07/2017 5:18:28 AM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

FOAD, Tom Hanks.


51 posted on 12/07/2017 5:21:19 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: joethedrummer

...and, since when has calling out FRAUD that our so-called “free press” spews out 24/7 become “monkeying around with he Constitution?

Stick with what you know, Tom... just Do that thing you do...


52 posted on 12/07/2017 5:22:23 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: wita

As one Oathkeeper to another, I find comfort in knowing that we are not alone. These are trying time, indeed. Being Americans, we know how to prevail, though. With God’s Blessings, we shall.


53 posted on 12/07/2017 5:28:20 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: MountainWalker

“How about False News or Fraudulent News or just plain Propaganda News?”

The MSM are Mediacrats. the propaganda arm of the DNC.


54 posted on 12/07/2017 5:28:34 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (BANNON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Oh,Tom...I'm not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.Monkeying around with the Constitution would be a government official/entity trying to shut down or restrict what the Clinton News Network reports.

The very same Constitution that give CNN the right to exist and to report freely gives me the right to question the accuracy of their reporting.

And BTW,Tom...you were lousy as Captain Miller.Horvath,Jackson and "Doc" were the real stars.Mellish and Reiben were good too.

55 posted on 12/07/2017 5:36:20 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’ve never cared for this guy, the message Forest Gump gave, or for anything else this leftist piece of trash says or does.


56 posted on 12/07/2017 5:36:24 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: Alas Babylon!

There are zero degrees of separation between Hillary, Obama, CNN and Hanks.


57 posted on 12/07/2017 5:38:37 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

hasnks is your typical LIB lunatic. The kicker is that some actually listen to him. What putrid morons.


58 posted on 12/07/2017 5:39:43 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Thibodeaux

He also produced the John Adams miniseries, which I am watching currently for the umpteenth time.


59 posted on 12/07/2017 5:39:58 AM PST by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Horsefeathers, Forrest. If anyone is playing fast and loose with the First Amendment, it’s the super PACs ABC/CBS/NBC/MSLSD/PBS masquerading as “the Press”


60 posted on 12/07/2017 5:40:26 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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