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McCain Warns Suppressing Press ‘Is How Dictators Get Started’
NBC News ^ | 02/19/17 | CHUCK TODD, PHIL HELSEL and MATT RIVERA

Posted on 02/19/2017 6:36:43 AM PST by Enlightened1

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To: Lazamataz

HARUMPH!


41 posted on 02/19/2017 7:13:47 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Morpheus2009

Not only did McCain lose, but he didn’t act like he wanted the job, unlike Trump. In fact, he came very close to endorsing his opponent.


42 posted on 02/19/2017 7:19:00 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Enlightened1

Impeach McCain. He’s nuckin futs and the ‘Manchurian Candidate ‘

No one is suppressing the press. Just ignoring them and doing end runs around them. If they want to get the stories (that they cherry pick and modify) they will have to work harder. Poor babies.


43 posted on 02/19/2017 7:19:29 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Enlightened1

He’s the Maverick who has always been loved by the MSM. He’s also a bitter old fossil who lost his chance at the Presidency. But he can be a headache for President Trump.


44 posted on 02/19/2017 7:20:03 AM PST by Lonely Are The Brave
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To: Enlightened1
It seems when then Candidate Trump went to see Kissinger, things changed with John McCain...

John McCain became more bitter, mouthy more than usual, and there is a big reason why...remember it was Kissinger and Nixon that knew what had happened in Hanoi where ‘captive McCain’ was being held...

Several survivors of that situation have spoken out before their deaths and none of them had any respect for McCain...

And every time a bill came on the floor of the Congress to release the files of the hearings on what happened and why these people were captured, it was McCain that pitched a fit...to this day, we still don't know for sure if there were any of our people left there and what happened to them...

In McCain's statement he said he felt ‘remorse’ because he was treated ‘better than the rest of the men’...what does that say???

Does President Trump know what is in those files and will be ever bring them out? If I were John McCain I wouldn't poke this ‘viper’ because President Trump has been known to bite back ‘harder than being poked’...just saying...

45 posted on 02/19/2017 7:20:25 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Enlightened1

Calling out a lying press and exposing a lying press is a different concept from suppressing the press.

I assume McCain can understand that, which makes McCain more of a lying hyena.


46 posted on 02/19/2017 7:20:55 AM PST by odawg
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To: Enlightened1

This from the guy who always leaves bloodshed and genocide in his wake when he goes overseas.

A truly evil man, whose only confimed kills in the military are other Americans.


47 posted on 02/19/2017 7:21:00 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain, the Songbird. See "loose cannon".)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

They didn’t have to torture him, even his captors called him the Song Bird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y


48 posted on 02/19/2017 7:25:17 AM PST by RetSignman
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To: stansblugrassgrl

That’s what primaries are for!


49 posted on 02/19/2017 7:25:30 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Enlightened1
McCain Warns Suppressing Press ‘Is How Dictators Get Started’

We'll keep that in mind, you senile old man, as soon as anyone starts "suppressing" the Press.

How about just telling the Press what you think if it? How about telling the press you think they suck green donkey d---s? Is THAT allowed?

This idiot acts like there's not a partisan press in this country!

The fact that the mainstream Media is overwhelmingly Left wing apparently hasn't occurred to him.

Nobody's complaining about the idea of a Free Press. It's simply that the mainstream Press is completely slanted to the Left and Establishment.

This guy needs to start taking Alzheimer's meds...

50 posted on 02/19/2017 7:26:24 AM PST by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Enlightened1

John McCain is a very sick man. He is motivated by a need for attention and has the enormous character flaw of readily, willingly and ably stabbing his party in the back.

He also acts like a beat dog. The very press that he sucks up to brutally and unfairly savaged him during the 2008 campaign. In fact they made it impossible for him to win an already uphill battle. Yet, here he is acting as if they are his besties. He instantly accepts the premise of his enemies. In this case he accepts that the press was an admired and respected entity until Trump destroyed their reputation.

But let’s look at the evidence that Mr. John “Eunuch” McCain ignores:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/185927/americans-trust-media-remains-historical-low.aspx

Trump had barely started his campaign when that poll was conducted. Yet, somehow we are to believe that Trump is responsible for the decline in credibility of the press?!?!

I am also sick and tired of McCain getting a free pass for his less than honorable political career because he had an honorable Military career. Duke Cunningham ring a bell?


51 posted on 02/19/2017 7:26:42 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Enlightened1

Dear Arizona,

Please stop inflicting this traitorous asshole on America.

Thanks.


52 posted on 02/19/2017 7:28:09 AM PST by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: FES0844

To make it worse for Juan, Trump did it without spending decades kissing establishment butt like McCain has done.


53 posted on 02/19/2017 7:31:06 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Psalm 144

Prior Pres. have played the established media “GAME” Trump is “NOT”!

On MCCain check out all the YouTube vids on this guys record from his military days onward, regarding this mans character???


54 posted on 02/19/2017 7:32:27 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: Enlightened1

The press is nothing more than a branch of the democrat party.

The kissed Obama’s bony butt for eight years. Never reported about his illegal alien aunt and uncle in Massachusetts. Never question why he had a social security number issued in Connecticut, a state in which Obama never lived. Never question his trip to Pakistan as a 20-year old. Never questioned Obama about his placing of Muslim Brotherhood members and members of CAIR in the highest levels of government, etc.

Give it a rest, McCain.


55 posted on 02/19/2017 7:33:49 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Our 8 Year Nightmare Has Ended!)
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To: Enlightened1

The best thing Trump can do to mclame is to totally ignore him. Never mention his name, never invite him to a state function, never invite him to the White House. Pretend he does not exist.


56 posted on 02/19/2017 7:34:04 AM PST by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: Enlightened1
InSane is an idiot. His expiration date has passed.
57 posted on 02/19/2017 7:36:15 AM PST by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: Enlightened1

First, illegal immigration becomes immigration before our eyes.

And now, anti fake news becomes anti free press.

Conflation on steroids and right out of the Liberal and GOPe playbook.

McBluster goes overseas and starts this crap. That is the first problem. Nobody is saying that we shouldn’t have a free press but we are saying we want an honest press. Not a press that gleefully repeats some published BS and then stands back in their smug “we didn’t publish it first” attitude. What a bunch of MORONs.

The good news is that the real battle lines are becoming clearer and that is the first step to responding.


58 posted on 02/19/2017 7:40:22 AM PST by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: Common Sense 101

At least trump did not call the press the same names that Angry Juan calls his wife


59 posted on 02/19/2017 7:45:28 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Enlightened1

Don’t let the crazy senile old man back into the US.


60 posted on 02/19/2017 7:47:37 AM PST by TYVets
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