Posted on 01/01/2018 12:18:40 PM PST by Starman417
If you do a search, you'll find that the media pretty much is in agreement that Donald Trump is a fascist:
Donald Trump is actually a fascist - The Washington Post
Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. | New Republic
Congratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president- Salon
There are lots more.
You will also note, however, that these accusers are still free to make these lunatic accusations even a year after Trump being elected President. In contrast, Iran has a long history of suppressing dissent. Iran conducts public hangings, and hangs gays and stones women to death. How does it deal with the media?
Iran’s media environment remained one of the world’s most repressive in 2014. Certain topics—including criticism of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—were subject to long-standing red lines, enforced in part through harsh online and offline censorship. Several dailies and magazines were closed or suspended during the year, and a number of reporters were arrested and prosecuted. Journalists practiced self-censorship, though some said the atmosphere had improved slightly since the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, who presented himself as a moderate. Among other limited improvements that carried over from 2013, reporters and editors were able to cover a marginally broader array of sensitive topics than in the recent past, and a few new publications were allowed to open.There's more:
Security authorities continued to clamp down on free speech and dissent, and revolutionary courts handed down harsh sentences against social media users, including death sentences in some cases. As of December, according to Reporters Without Borders, Iran held at least 50 journalists, bloggers, and social media activists in detention.The UN called on Iran to stop intimidating its Persian staff.In April, an appeals court in Tehran sentenced six social media users to five to seven years in prison for their Facebook posts on charges of “assembly and collusion against the national security” and “insulting the sanctities.” On July 13, 2014, a Tehran revolutionary court had previously sentenced eight Facebook users to a total of 127 years in prison for allegedly posting messages deemed to insult government officials and “religious sanctities,” among other crimes.
On June 1, another revolutionary court sentenced Atena Farghadani to a total of 12 years and 9 months’ imprisonment in connection with a critical cartoon she drew and posted on her Facebook page in August 2014 that depicted members of Iran’s parliament as animals. The charges against Farghadani included “assembly and collusion against the state,” “propaganda against the state,” and insulting public officials. Although by law she should serve no more than seven-and-a-half years, the heaviest single sentence she received, the judiciary compounded her sentence.
On June 8, authorities announced a wave of arrests of social media users and activists who “published illegal invitations on social networks ... [and] had anti-security tendencies.”
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian did an interview with Anthony Bourdain for Bourdain's show Parts Unknown, wanting to show the positive side of Iran. Six weeks later he and his wife were arrested and spent two years in prison.
The Iranian government has recently begun killing protesters.
Since Donald Trump was elected no gays have been hanged in the US for homosexuality, no women have been stoned to death by the government, no reporters have been arrested and imprisoned, no protesters have been killed by the Trump administration.
So who does the media side with? Iran.
Donald Trump signaled his support of the protesters and that sent the left wing media into a bizarro frenzy.
Major Garrett of CBS:
But that didn’t seem to sit well with Garrett who immediately questioned the wisdom of stepping out in support of the Iranian people. “And the purpose of that national address would be to take note of this moment and put the United States foursquare on behalf and behind those people protesting in the streets,” he wondered. “Some have said that would be the wrong thing to do because that would give the regime an enemy to point at, us again!”NBC news:
KATE SNOW: In Iran, protesters demonstrated against the government for a fourth day today, and two people were reportedly killed at a rally in Western Iran. In a tweet today, President Trump cheered on the protesters, and he was criticized by Iran's president. NBC's Matt Bradley has more on this new wave of protests.The prize for being the biggest useful idiot goes to, naturally, CNN and Arwa Damon, who inexplicably became the spokesperson for the mullahs:MATT BRADLEY: In Iran, the regime strikes back. After four days of anti-government protests and just as many tweets from Donald Trump supporting protesters for "finally getting wise, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani broke his silence. In a speech to his cabinet, he defended demonstrators' right to protest, but took a swipe at President Trump.
"This man in America who's sympathizing with us today has forgotten he called Americans 'terrorists' months ago," Rouhani said, "He has no right to sympathize with Iranians." The unrest now deadly -- two protesters killed at a rally last night. Officials blaming the deaths on foreign agents.
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Why not post it right here?
Well, they were the useful idiots of the Soviets back in the day, so I am not surprised about this.
The MSMLSD bunch will go the way of the NFL. Once they’ve gone over to posting on the internet they’ll be totally ignored. I’ve not watched the alphabet news for over ten years; figured their bias way back then.
The Commie media has always favored brutal dictators..especially those regimes that call for Israel’s demise..and remember this, they HATE and I mean HATE with a passion President Trump SO MUCH they will root for the opposite of what he supports.
I guess they waited for Odungo’s view
bammy had his iranian - valerie jarrett in the White House, paid by us, to make sure that he did everything the iranians and muzzies wanted us to do.
hillary had her iranian - huma abedin, to make sure she did everything the iranians and muzzies wanted us to do.
The media was 100% aware of that, and did everything it could to support the iranian regime. It will continue to do that, even while D Trump gives the iranians the backside of his upraised finger.
Well, they’re just “useful idiots” to whomever will have em...as long as it’s America’s enemies.
They will make an alliance with anyone against the United States.
Spot on. Valjar is Obama’s handler, and Huam, Hillary’s. I wonder if the true story will ever come out.
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