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McCain reacts to Trump: Suppressing free press is 'how dictators get started'
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 2/18/17 | Jacqueline Klimas

Posted on 02/18/2017 2:23:43 PM PST by ColdOne

McCain, R-Ariz., said that having a free press is "a fundamental part of the new world order" when asked by NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd to respond to Trump's tweet that specifically calls out the New York Times, NBC and CNN as "fake news media."

"I hate the press, I hate you especially, but the fact is we need you, we need a free press," McCain said in a clip of the show released on Saturday. "If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and sometimes adversarial press. Without it, I'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."

Todd asked McCain if he thought Trump was acting like a dictator with his tweet.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deepstate; mccain; stfujuan; traitor
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To: ColdOne

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McPain has come completely out of the closet.
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101 posted on 02/18/2017 4:42:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ColdOne

Calling out the press’ lies is NOT speech suppression.

Shutting down criticism of the press IS speech suppression.


102 posted on 02/18/2017 4:43:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: sheehan

It was all for Palin. McCain is looney #1!!


103 posted on 02/18/2017 4:45:54 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ColdOne

McCain is an old fool. Trump is NOT suppressing freedom of the press. But the left IS trying to suppress freedom of speech.


104 posted on 02/18/2017 4:47:12 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: ColdOne

The press has already been subverted. Trump is trying to liberate it.


105 posted on 02/18/2017 4:51:50 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: SpaceBar

I’m not crazy ether one but Queeg loves himself


106 posted on 02/18/2017 4:51:52 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: ColdOne

McCain is a Horse’s Ass who should have retired years ago. He clearly has some mental problems at his advanced age, and isn’t doing the country any good whatsoever by constantly trying to get attention in the media.

Most thinking/intelligent people can clearly see that he is delusional if not worse.


107 posted on 02/18/2017 5:15:32 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: ColdOne

Dear God, thank you that this insane curmudgeon never got elected president.


108 posted on 02/18/2017 5:16:03 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Total ass-clown. The MSM is suppressing and distorting facts.


109 posted on 02/18/2017 5:17:46 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ColdOne
Will he and Lindsay just jump the shark already and declare themselves Democrats? I am sick of it, Just do it Senator...
110 posted on 02/18/2017 5:18:52 PM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: ColdOne

We have a free press. They can print whatever they want....and they do. Truth doesn’t enter into it.


111 posted on 02/18/2017 5:20:58 PM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: ColdOne

Just up and die already.


112 posted on 02/18/2017 5:21:00 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter
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To: ColdOne

McCain has Stockhold Syndrome. Loved by the press right up until he became the republican candidate.

McCain doesn’t understand that President Trump isn’t “suppressing” the press, he’s holding it responsible for what they report.

Mark


113 posted on 02/18/2017 5:21:00 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: jazzlite
"He has been rogue for several years. I think he is just green with envy that an outsider has captured the WH when he did so poorly during his run."

Had he listened to Sarah Palin and not Steve Schmidt and how they boxed her in, this past Jan 20th he'd have been a retiring POTUS.

He Fubar'd that one not I or any of us Wacko-Birds on FreeRepublic. With all do respect to your Military Service Senator, when it comes to your Presidential run, you blew it, not us...

114 posted on 02/18/2017 5:24:01 PM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: MarkL

McCain is such an ass, he obviously forgot how the press treated his running mate and too much of pussy to stand up for her.


115 posted on 02/18/2017 5:25:38 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter
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To: ColdOne

criticizing press not equal to supresing it, johnny.

this soros sucker needs to be doing the mussolini dance. g-d murderer of’our’own service’people’with his jackass jet stunt.


116 posted on 02/18/2017 5:28:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ColdOne

What publication has been censored or shut down? What journalist has been fired, arrested or imprisoned? For a dictator bent on destroying the free press, Trump is getting off to a pretty weak start.


117 posted on 02/18/2017 5:43:24 PM PST by Loyalist (Deplorably yours!)
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To: Caipirabob

;) yes we dodged a bullet on him too.


118 posted on 02/18/2017 5:53:39 PM PST by ColdOne (( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
The old goat needs to...

...put his service whatever to his head and go blowee...

119 posted on 02/18/2017 5:57:36 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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To: ColdOne

McLame. Becoming more of a traitor with every word.


120 posted on 02/18/2017 6:33:35 PM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Stay Calm and Carry.)
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