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Trump's delusional assault on press should get him banned from the WH Correspondents' Dinner (tr)
NBC "News" ^ | April 4, 2018 | by Kurt Bardella

Posted on 04/05/2018 10:45:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

OP-ED: For reasons that I can’t possibly understand, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) has a standing invitation to President Donald Trump to attend their annual dinner later on this month.

This is the same Trump who just a few days ago resumed his irrational campaign against the “Fake Washington Post” and called for the publication to register as a lobbyist.

On April 2, he defended Sinclair Broadcasting, which has been forcing local news outlets it controls to run de-facto propaganda segments decrying “fake news,” calling Sinclair “far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.”

Inviting Trump to attend an event that is supposed to celebrate the First Amendment makes as much sense as inviting Mike Pence to officiate a gay wedding.

In the wake of Trump’s most recent attacks against the journalistic community, the White House Correspondent’s Association should rescind its invitation for this year. If they don’t and Trump decides to attend, media outlets and journalists should boycott the event in a show of solidarity and support for press freedoms and the Constitution.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; journalism; journalists; media
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Kurt Bardella is an NBC THINK Contributor. He is a former spokesperson for the Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-CA) and Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA).

1 posted on 04/05/2018 10:45:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To young to remember Trump doesn’t go to these dinners?


2 posted on 04/05/2018 10:47:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hope the president does not go.
Kathy Griffin will be there too, waiting to create a scene.


3 posted on 04/05/2018 10:47:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The WHCA should be disinvited from the White House and new media allowed in. Let CNN and NBC, and others, do their reporting from outside the White House fence.


4 posted on 04/05/2018 10:48:55 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Didn’t take this creature long to conform to the views of his NBC paymasters.


5 posted on 04/05/2018 10:49:15 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Neither the Washington Post or NBC have been involved with presenting legitimate News in many years.


6 posted on 04/05/2018 10:50:03 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Psychosis in liberals, generally comes in two forms, often in combination:

Hallucinations (when liberals see or hear or feel things that aren't really there)!

Delusions (which are fixed false beliefs).

7 posted on 04/05/2018 10:51:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The unimPressive press.
8 posted on 04/05/2018 10:52:15 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The first thing I learned to love about trump after his inauguration was the lunacy he exposed in the left.

Love it!


9 posted on 04/05/2018 10:52:36 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Snowe was from Maine.


10 posted on 04/05/2018 10:53:54 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The fake media should not be invited. That leaves only 1 or 2 fit to attend.


11 posted on 04/05/2018 10:54:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left. PS. f*ck the media.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Without the President there, there is no reason to have this event. Just another news day of bashing Trump.


12 posted on 04/05/2018 10:54:37 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump should boot the press corps out of the White House.


13 posted on 04/05/2018 10:54:38 AM PDT by jospehm20
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ROTFLMAO
So?
Who really cares?
Certainly not the WH correspondents.
They’re there to be seen, to drink, to eat.
President Trump?
Ask him and surely you’d hear “I’d rather be anywhere rather than sitting at the boring dinner with a group of men ready to scratch my eyes out and bleed me to death.
Dying from boredom would be preferable.

The days of wine and roses are gone. It’s high time, too.


14 posted on 04/05/2018 10:54:48 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When don’t have a Press in America, we have Democrats and their Mouthpieces. Why Trump continues to let Democrat propagandist into his home to attack him is beyond me.


15 posted on 04/05/2018 10:55:49 AM PDT by heights
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To: I want the USA back

I’ll go.


16 posted on 04/05/2018 10:56:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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President Trump doesn’t need mentally ill rats posing as journalists spewing out Fake News about his people, family and himself. He can tweet us the real news and negotiate with those in the media, who are not mentally ill.

President Trump Has Reportedly ‘Ramped Up’ Dinner Parties With Fox News Executives!

Mediaite.com ^ | 12:58 pm, April 5th, 2018 | by Chris Riotta |
Posted on 4/5/2018, 10:48:00 AM by ethom

Making America great again — with hors d’oeuvres and sparkling wines.

President Donald Trump has been hosting dinner parties at the White House ever since he moved in last year, inviting media personalities, politicians and even Alaska’s very own Sarah Palin. And the commander in chief has now “ramped up” those parties, Politico reported Thursday, dining alongside the likes of billionaire business mogul Rupert Murdoch, conservative media figure Matt Drudge and various titans of Wall Street, including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

Trump reportedly loves to “play host” in the People’s House, mixing campaign aides like Brad Parscale with senior advisers like Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, along with his favorite television news hosts, including Sean Hannity.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3645157/posts


17 posted on 04/05/2018 10:57:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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She might try to go Muslim on him.


18 posted on 04/05/2018 10:58:24 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This turd worked for Republican politicians??? Yet another example of how horrible most establishment Republicans are — they really are just a branch of the MSM/Democrat Pary apparatus.


19 posted on 04/05/2018 10:58:30 AM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does Kurt Bardella indulge in hallucinogenics?

From wiki:
“While hallucinations can occur when abusing stimulants, the nature of stimulant psychosis is not unlike delirium.”


20 posted on 04/05/2018 10:59:50 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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