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Donald Trump just barred Washington Post reporters from campaign events. That should bother you.
washington post ^ | june 13, 2016 | By Chris Cillizza

Posted on 06/14/2016 12:29:44 AM PDT by SteveH

Trump expanded on that in a statement released Monday night. Here it is, in full:

The Washington Post unfortunately covers Mr. Trump very inaccurately. Today's headline, "Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting" is a perfect example. We no longer feel compelled to work with a publication which has put its need for "clicks" above journalistic integrity.

They have no journalistic integrity and write falsely about Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump does not mind a bad story, but it has to be honest. The fact is, The Washington Post is being used by the owners of Amazon as their political lobbyist so that they don't have to pay taxes and don't get sued for monopolistic tendencies that have led to the destruction of department stores and the retail industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: SteveH

I despise headlines that tell be how feel. Oh wait, liberals are emotion-driven. Hence, any article purporting to tell me how to feel is automatically written for morons, er... liberals


41 posted on 06/14/2016 2:42:10 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: SteveH

Wow a Washington Post reporter writes an article telling me how I have to think. What else is new?


42 posted on 06/14/2016 2:44:19 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Doogle

Crack whores don’t like it when you call them out for what they are.


43 posted on 06/14/2016 2:48:37 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: SteveH

Guess what? I doesn’t bother me. In fact, it pleases me that the Washington Post has been banned from Trump events. It’s about time.


44 posted on 06/14/2016 2:53:12 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: SteveH

It doesn’t.

The WaPoo is execrable!


45 posted on 06/14/2016 2:56:08 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: SteveH

No, it doesn’t bother me at all. We can do without another left wing ragspewing the same bull$***. Hope it goesunddr.


46 posted on 06/14/2016 2:57:01 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: SteveH

It’s about time someone had the stones to do this. The NYSlimes is another rag that can properly be ignored.


47 posted on 06/14/2016 3:07:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: SteveH

Don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out!


48 posted on 06/14/2016 3:07:49 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: SteveH

Doesn’t bother me. I don’t consider the a credible new source.


49 posted on 06/14/2016 3:13:53 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: tcrlaf

I use Amazon and have their Prime membership. It’s a good deal for me, actually. I haven’t received any emails from Amazon.com or any anti-trump infowar emails for that matter.

Mostly what I get are spam marketing emails supposedly from all the major retailers trying to get me to hit a link in the email, but they are all fake.


50 posted on 06/14/2016 3:14:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SteveH

Banning a publication that overtly slants almost everything to the left does not bother me at all. What does bother me, though, is the number of people commenting at the site that this is somehow “proof” that Trump is a would-be dictator while invoking Godwin’s law.

Perhaps none of them realize that without publicity, Trump is a nobody. He has made the media into part of his campaign. However, since as a public figure, his ability to sue for slander and libel is very limited, his only recourse is to shut out those venues that are prone to libel and slander. Venues like WaPo.

It’s not like the press has been barred. It’s not like you can’t find out what Trump is doing, even without the press.


51 posted on 06/14/2016 3:16:50 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: SteveH

WaPo blogger Chris Cillizza:

that moment when a person presumes to decide for you when you should be offended by something... and suddenly your gaydar goes off


53 posted on 06/14/2016 3:21:59 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

Partially correct.

The Washington Post bothers me.


54 posted on 06/14/2016 3:24:23 AM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: SteveH
The real irony is that they lied to make it seem like Trump said something bad about Obama - that the People already believe to be one of Obama's bad traits....

Priceless!

55 posted on 06/14/2016 3:31:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: SteveH

It doesn’t. Please, Chris Cilizza, can you remind me which reporters were kicked off of the Obama plane in 2008?


56 posted on 06/14/2016 3:31:40 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Gaffer

Amazon Prime is a profit driver and won’t insult its customers. TWP, on the other hand, . . .


57 posted on 06/14/2016 3:32:38 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: SteveH

Trump’s right. 8t was a lying headline and article, and just one of many. Does Bezos use the WP to further his own interests? Yes.


58 posted on 06/14/2016 3:36:56 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: BRL

With today’s journalistic bent towards an op-ed bent rather than shoe leather reporting I’m rather surprisesd this hadn’t happened sooner.

The people have a right to know and to read what is actually happening, and not what is being conjured up as informational propaganda. Political agenda has no place in the first amendment.


59 posted on 06/14/2016 3:38:18 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: SteveH

...it should but it doesn’t. The first amendment has been usurped by a bunch of anti-american extremist and I hope they are destroyed each and every one!


60 posted on 06/14/2016 3:42:31 AM PDT by Randy Larsen
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