Posted on 02/19/2017 6:36:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
Republican Sen. John McCain took a veiled swipe at President Donald Trump's attacks on the media, cautioning that suppressing the press "is how dictators get started."
McCain, who has broken with Trump on several issues, made the comments in an exclusive interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd, after being asked about the president's condemnation of several media outlets as "fake news" and "an enemy of the American people."
"I hate the press. I hate you especially," McCain joked. "But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital."
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President Trump is absolutely 100% correct about the Fake Stream News, and it's long past time someone call them out.
Just because President Trump has a different opinion does not make him a dictator McCain. The President can have is own view and is suppose to express it. Which is what ever President has been doing McCain you dumb@ss!
President Trump is not a despicable piece of Globalist trash like you McCain.
McCain is nuts. Maybe it was the torture he underwent; maybe it’s natural. But, Arizonans, don’t you realize he is well past his “sell-by date?”
I remind everyone this is the same McCain that said,
“McCain says immigration ban “will probably give ISIS more propaganda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x1r8oZFKgw
And pray tell, did the drooling moron provide any examples of President Trump’s “suppression” of the enemedia?
Juan McLame needs to retire... LAST WEEK!
The man doesnt know the difference between news and propaganda.
He proved that when he let the NV use him.
I wrote in Kelli Ward this election because this man is suffering from dementia. And it aint age related.
It is also true of allowing the press to present propaganda as news. I don’t remember Trump trying to stifle the news as much as admonishing them to be fair.
No, John, having an approved of press and shuttering anyone else is how dictatorships get started.
This is why liberal the press with credentials from conformatoriums, previously known as universities, want to shut down anyone but them: so they can once again be the only game in town.
It’s envy. Trump achieved what he couldn’t.
McCain, if shutting down the press leads to dictatorship, what does shutting down propaganda lead to?????
Songbird McCain is confused. We dont have a free press now.
It is corrupted by liberal dogma to the extent that information and legitimate news stories that will have a negative effect on the liberal narrative are censored or suppressed by our Corrupt Liberal Media. Liberalism has killed journalism.
He’s off his meds again.
McCain is purely a tool of the Establishment and the Establishment media. He sees that when they are exposed, he loses power.
He is a dangerous man.
“I hate the press...” McCain joked.
Who does he think he’s kidding? McCain RUNS to the cameras!
John McCain is the worst menace in Congress. His Republican label, along with near total opposition to Trump and the GOP makes him the lrft’s most useful tool. He needs to be expelled from the party.
But Obama ordering the Msm around is OK Juan?
How is it a public service to spread propaganda, lies and fomenting violence and sedition? McCain should remember that it could be his head that gets chopped off in the end. Revolution has a tendency to turn on itself, and then you end up with a dictator anyway.
Conformatorium
Well done
Senility is a terrible disease. My best friend of 50 years became senile and destroyed my reputation by telling people that I was having an affair with her pastor, the guy next door to her, and the fellow across the street.
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