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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

The press is and arm of the dimoKKKRAT party and not independent. There in lies the problem.


61 posted on 02/18/2017 3:09:20 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: ColdOne

‘Free press’ is an illusion. A press which is the handmaiden and financial slave to corporate globalism and the new world order is an illusion. But old man river is one of the globalist pissants.


62 posted on 02/18/2017 3:09:51 PM PST by Lent
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To: goldstategop

Hillary and the DNC had direct control over the content of most of the broadcast networks and media as shown in leaked emails. John McCain wasn’t worried about that. John McLame is a traitor.


63 posted on 02/18/2017 3:11:46 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: ColdOne

Suppressing the press? I would surprised if the ratings for news are not up since Trump got elected. McCain is a disgrace.


64 posted on 02/18/2017 3:13:12 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: ColdOne

Indeed we do need a free press ! Let’s get a free press instead of a dnc pr outfit. So simple.


65 posted on 02/18/2017 3:13:43 PM PST by major-pelham
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To: ColdOne

“Now you’re getting nasty.” McCain is crossing the line from ludicrous to dangerous.


66 posted on 02/18/2017 3:13:44 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: ColdOne

Has anyone proposed eliminating a Free Press?

Or is Comrade Juan McNuts just making things up, a la Fake News?


67 posted on 02/18/2017 3:14:18 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: ColdOne

InSane still at it.


68 posted on 02/18/2017 3:17:12 PM PST by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: ColdOne

McShamey has stroked out. He is incompetent to fill his office as senator


69 posted on 02/18/2017 3:20:49 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ColdOne

McCain and Graham hate President Trump.


70 posted on 02/18/2017 3:21:35 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: ColdOne

This from the treasonous a-hole who foisted McCain/Feingold on us? The most anti-1st Amendment legislation in the history of the Republic?

FOAD, McCain! In a just world you would be found face down in a Mexican lettuce field with a copy of the Constitution protruding from your nether exit.


71 posted on 02/18/2017 3:22:27 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: ColdOne

I’m sure he’ll be on tv tomorrow morning...he’s just such a maverick, ya know.


72 posted on 02/18/2017 3:28:23 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: ColdOne

73 posted on 02/18/2017 3:29:05 PM PST by McBuff
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To: kiltie65
That campaign contribution from Soros barely scratches the surface.

John McCain funded by Soros since 2001

John McCain Gets Soros Cash

McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero

McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006

Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)

John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?

Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute

Inside McCain's Reform Institute

McCain’s Reform Institute donor list: (From the WayBackMachine. RI removed it in 2006)

Lining the Pockets of McCain’s Reform Institute

Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
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74 posted on 02/18/2017 3:31:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: ColdOne

Trump is not suppressing anything, you jerk (McCain). He is just putting his FACTUAL positions out there. GTH McCain.


75 posted on 02/18/2017 3:32:15 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: ColdOne

Bitter old man.


76 posted on 02/18/2017 3:41:48 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I held my nose, voted for Trump, then took a shower. All to defeat evil.)
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To: ColdOne

He may be a POW, but he’s certainly a POS.


77 posted on 02/18/2017 3:46:37 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: ColdOne

Keep digging yourself into that hole, McPain.


78 posted on 02/18/2017 3:47:37 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: Phil DiBasquette

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with having a “press” just so long and they do not “create” news instead of reporting it. Slanted news will always be with us but created garbage is just that, garbage.


79 posted on 02/18/2017 3:48:30 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: House Atreides

Yup!


80 posted on 02/18/2017 3:48:36 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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