Posted on 01/14/2018 4:21:28 PM PST by Kaslin
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) compared President Donald J. Trump’s animus towards the media to totalitarian dictator Joseph Stalin's propaganda on ABC News' ‘This Week’.
While discussing a series of speeches the soon-to-be-retired Senator will be giving over the next few weeks, host George Stephanopoulos read aloud an excerpt from one.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We’ve gotten some excerpts of what you’re planning to say, taking on the president’s comments about calling the press the enemy of the people. And I just want to read a portion of what we’ve had.
It’s a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies. It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase enemy of the people that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade it’s use. And of course, the president has it precisely backward. Despotism is the enemy of the people, the free press is the despot’s enemy.
What are you trying to do with these speeches?
FLAKE: Well, I -- what I’m trying to say is, you know, you -- you can talk about crowd size and this is pretty innocuous if there’s a falsehood. But when you reflexively refer to the press as the enemy of the people or fake news, that has real damage. It has real damage to our standing in the world. And I noted how -- how bad it is for a president to -- to take what was popularized by Joseph Stalin, the enemy of the people, to refer to the press.
And then now, today, you have authoritarians across the world using the term fake news to justify cracking down on their opposition or -- or staunch legitimate debate. That’s nothing we should be proud of. And so I’m going to talk about how damaging that is. It’ll be I think on the same day, probably, Wednesday, that the president is giving out some fake news awards. And I -- I just want -- want the president to know that this has real consequences."
As noted by Cortney, Flake's distaste, putting it mildly, of Donald Trump is well documented.
"The hostility between Flake and Trump started when we learned of Flake's "secret" book, "Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle," in which he trashed Trump's agenda. The 45th president had a major hand in "compromising" the Republican Party's morals, the politician/author suggested. After the discovery, Trump mocked the senator at a rally in Phoenix."
Previously on 'This Week,' Flake has attacked Trump supports as angry and resentful.
"When you look at some of the audiences cheering for Republicans, sometimes, you look out there and you say, 'those are the spasms of a dying party,' " Flake said on ABC's "This Week."
"When you look at the lack of diversity, sometimes, and it depends on where you are, obviously, but by and large, we're appealing to older white men and there are just a limited number of them, and anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy," he continued.
He plans to run against President Trump in 2020, if I am not mistaken
Is Flake LDS?
Flake is representative of a certain segment of the Mormon political class- they love illegals because they think that indigenous Americans are “the Lost Tribes of Israel”, and their religion has them as eager to give them all amnesty as any Obama Democrat and Bush Republican.
The are also possessed of a stiff moralizing that regards vulgar language as A Great Evil.
So in light of that Flake imagines himself some sort of holy warrior engaged in jihad against the potty mouthed smiter of the Tribe of Dan, Mexico Division.
Jeff Flake is just living up to the family name.
"....Despotism is the enemy of the people, the free press is the despot’s enemy....."
Well, that may have been true to some degree in the past but the problem is the press is no longer free.
It is paid for lock, stock and barrel by the democRATS and establishment DC Swamp.
Now the Left has a propaganda arm in the media to push their agenda, and in the case of Trump, to assist the Resistance in trying to unseat and/or destroy the sitting president.
So knock off the Stalin talk Jeff. Your hyperbole is a tell about your bad character and poor judgement. When you try to run for president, I hope you're disgraceful language disparaging your own party's president will be highlighted during your campaign by your opponent.
And what really must be tough, Jeff, is that Donald Trump is still the president and you are going bye-bye.
A despicable, self-serving toad with either a total ignorance of, or complete disregard for the historical fact that Stalin made Hitler look like an amateur.
There's not a dime's worth of difference between this Flake maggot and any of the vile stooges of the traitorous Left.
Maybe Flake is a mole, working for the left.
This guy needs a punch in the mouth.
Wasn’t this ahole flake gonna be leaving ???? My gawd what a jerk he is!!!!
Yes he is.
Jeff flake hates Trump becaue Trump like Arpaio and Flake blames Arpaio for his stupid son’s actions regarding his arrest for animal cruelty in the deaths of 21 dogs..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795513/US-senators-son-4-indicted-dogs-deaths.html
This too. Apparently Flake is a real flake and so are his kids.
He is probably jealous of Trump because Trump’s kids aren’t all screwed up like his own.
This is the guy leaving Washington because he didn’t want to campaign negatively.
People in AZ have a history of picking very bad people for their “leaders.”
Where is the list of Americans Trump has had killed for him own self aggrandizement.
Flake wants to kiss some liberal ass because NO ONE in Arizona can stand him..that is why his approval rating is 8 percent..but screw that right Flake, as long as he has the media kissing his behind
I can dream can't I?
So this schmuck’s kids MURDERS dogs..gee the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it..a dog murderer..where the heck is PETA
It's okay. I wish the same thing about Obama every time I pay my medical insurance premium.
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