He made this statement while standing at the podium of the National Press Club. Is this Alice in Wonderland?
These people are construing disagreement with what they are saying as "suppression". I guess they're just not used to this kind of "trouble in paradise".
What this is is a plea to the media to help them stifle OUR dissent.
That's it. From the old playbook they expected to be media heros. But everything has changed, and dissenting voices are being heard now. Well, that's not supposed to happen!
Look at Michael Moore at the Oscar awards. He made his comments, lied about the number of booers afterwards, and has been spinning ever since. In the 1970s, he would have been a hero on ABC, CBS, and NBC. "The times, they are a'changing."
BTW, I view this as the middle class, the center, taking over and away from only communist, and left-wing propaganda. It's very unsettling for the ones that thought only the left had freedom of speech.