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Only Nixon Harmed a Free Press More
New York Times ^ | James C. Goodale

Posted on 05/28/2013 11:10:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The search warrant filed to investigate the Fox News reporter James Rosen proved as many had suspected: President Obama wants to make it a crime for a reporter to talk to a leaker. It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom.

The government's subpoena of The Associated Press's phone records was bad enough. But the disclosure of the search warrant in the Rosen case shows President Obama has delved into territory never before reached by previous presidents.

The Justice Department obtained Rosen’s e-mail by using a search warrant in which it alleged that Rosen was a co-conspirator with a government adviser named Stephen Kim.

SNIP

Until President Obama came into office, no one thought talking or e-mailing was not protected by the First Amendment.

SNIP

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: dennisw

I wish Nixon was not a Republican. He has embarrassed the party for generations. Every time we have some sort of scandal, he is brought up. He clearly was a democrat since he was a dishonest jerky crook. Anyway we can disown him from the Republican Party. Easily the worst Republican President in American History.


21 posted on 05/29/2013 3:44:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: nickcarraway

Bump


22 posted on 05/29/2013 3:47:07 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: golux
There is no comparison.

Nixon was a Christian, a veteran, an anti-communist, a heterosexual, and a patriot. He spent eight years observing a great administrator. Nobody died at the Watergate.

23 posted on 05/29/2013 3:51:34 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Press has ruined itself.

They do not report news any longer, they concentrate on making it , and they are left wing cheerleaders.


24 posted on 05/29/2013 4:18:49 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: nickcarraway

Scumbags... obama will eat your children and crush your ink... like I said... press are ALL scumbags!

LLS


25 posted on 05/29/2013 4:39:58 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: nickcarraway

Dear NYT, we do not have a free press. We have a press that has placed itself in voluntary servitude to the Democrat Party.

A lion hunting the plains of Africa is free, the family dog is not.

The only real autonomy that the press demonstrates is when it gets into an argument with the DNC concerning what strategy best forwards socialism.


26 posted on 05/29/2013 4:47:22 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: nickcarraway
I'm sure there are those who would argue that Bush harmed the press the most because he repeatedly made them go to Crawford, Texas for eight long years.

-PJ

27 posted on 05/29/2013 4:55:08 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: nickcarraway
The Washington Post single-handedly took Nixon out, but Nixon harmed the free press?

Shameless.

28 posted on 05/29/2013 5:56:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (It is the deviants who are the bullies.)
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To: Defiant
How did Nixon harm the free press? He made them stronger.

Indeed. I'd be interested in specifics of what they think Nixon did to the press.

 

29 posted on 05/29/2013 6:33:51 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
There is no comparison. Nixon was a Christian, a veteran, an anti-communist, a heterosexual, and a patriot.

Yes, Yes, this list is correct at first glance. But in all fairness, it's not for us to judge whether Obama isn't a perfectly satisfactory Indonesian patriot.
30 posted on 05/29/2013 6:46:24 AM PDT by golux
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To: napscoordinator

The point is that NYT kept Obama’s name out of the headline.


31 posted on 05/29/2013 2:27:29 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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