acosta deserves at least the Order of Lenin
Posted on 08/08/2018 5:54:21 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Full title: ROOSEVELT SENDS REPORTER IRON CROSS; O'Donnell Defends Column Which President Seems to Condemn
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- President Roosevelt sent a German Iron Cross today to John O'Donnell, Washington correspondent of The New York Daily News, and Mr. O'Donnell issued a statement saying he was "amazed and bewildered" by the President's action.
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Trump is continuing a LONG tradition of Presidents hating the press, perhaps none as eloquently as Jefferson:
"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46
"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811. ME 13:59
"From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816. ME 14:430
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806. ME 11:118
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:179
"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.
To act like Trump is the first president to bash the press is dishonest at best. No wonder CNN's ratings are a disaster.
Be nice to have a seried of quotes like that. From EVERY President since Adams.
Spiro Agnew attacks news coverage November 13, 1969, Des Moines [speech excerpt]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQpQyJQm2Mk
It always cracks me up about Jefferson pontificating all pious and all when he practically invented yellow journalism.
acosta deserves at least the Order of Lenin
As Nixon often asserted... They are the nattering nabobs of negativism. They always are when a Republican occupies the White House. When a Democrat occupies it... They clam up and become mutes.
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I thought that it was Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s VP, who said that.
Though Spiro Agnew said it, Pat Buchanan wrote it for him. Along with nattering nabobs of negativism came their allies, the pussalanimous pussyfooters, as well as the tomentose purveyors of something or other. Pat had a great time. (Tomentose, sp?, sent reporters scurrying to their dictionaries. It referred to having thickly matted hair.)
I stand corrected... And after googling it I was enlightened in determining that it was William Safire who actually wrote it for Spiro. Of course, William being a speech writer for Nixon and Agnew was fully familiar with the liberal agenda embedded within the media during those years, and the left of center liberals have become even more brazen with every passing year.
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