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Cuomo Suggests Trump Refused to Lower Flags Because He Hates the Press
newsbusters.org ^ | 7/3/2018 | Nicholas Fondacaro

Posted on 07/03/2018 8:40:15 AM PDT by rktman

CNN host Chris Cuomo wrapped up the first hour of Prime Time by emphatically ranting about President Trump not ordering American flags be flown at half-staff to honor the five journalists killed during the Capital Gazette shooting. According to his speculation, it was because of Trump’s “insensitivity to the dead” and his hatred for the press.

“It's been four days since the most recent mass shooting that robbed this world of five lives, shattered families, and added another layer of shame on all lawmakers for not doing something to stop the damn shootings,” Cuomo began the segment. “So why did this happen? Is there a protocol that would make it weird to respect the dead journalists?”

Cuomo then proceeded to rattle off other instances where Trump had ordered flags lowered such as the Las Vegas and Parkland shootings. To make the point about the number of victims not being an issue, he cited the lowering of flags for former First Lady Barbara Bush and Reverend Billy Graham.

“So, why would the mayor of Annapolis say he was turned down with such a no-brainer request,” he rhetorically asked himself. “Now, I'm afraid I know the answer and it's because President Trump doesn't like the media.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fidiotrepoters; trumpmedia
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To: rktman

Cuomo is one of many snowflakes who grew spoiled by the previous occupant of the WH, and his habit of lowering flags for the likes of Whitney Houston, who never risked a finger for her country and died an addict.


61 posted on 07/03/2018 10:30:16 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: rktman

If Trump had ordered flags flown at half mast, the @ssh*les in the fake news media would have raged about what a hypocrite Trump is, lowering flags is an empty gesture, blah, blah BLAHHHH!!!

Fredo Cuomo looking for relevance on CNN, the fake news network that nobody watches.


62 posted on 07/03/2018 10:38:35 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: angcat

It is a peeve of mine for many, many, years now.

I despise the lowering of flags to half-staff for every damn thing that happens.

I understand it for Pearl Harbor. I understand it for 9/11.

I can even understand it for the death of anyone who has served as President, even if I disagree with that President fundamentally on everything.

But I hate lowering it for anyone who has died an untimely or violent death, as much as I may like/dislike a person or group, or even if I know anything at all about it.

To me, it fosters a sense of national victimhood, which I utterly detest.


63 posted on 07/03/2018 10:40:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Unfortunately not. It’s a touchy feely requirement rather than a show of respect for exceptional people.


64 posted on 07/03/2018 10:41:52 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Bryanw92

Yes. See my post at #63 above...


65 posted on 07/03/2018 10:42:55 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rktman
I'm so tired of American political royalty: I've had a bellyful to last ten lifetimes.
 
66 posted on 07/03/2018 11:03:31 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: rktman

Maybe the flag should be lowered for dead distinguished paedophiles and notable Communists.


67 posted on 07/03/2018 1:00:29 PM PDT by arthurus (sdfagdasgfry52rra)
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To: rktman
The Constitution says,
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States
. . . but journalists refer to themselves as “the Fourth Estate,” and insinuate that the First Amendment confers a title of nobility on them.

It doesn’t - but you can understand why they think that ’nobility’ such as themselves should be deferred to by lowering the flag.


68 posted on 07/03/2018 1:58:10 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: DPMD

I know.. That Idiot Obama lowering our flag for her really ticked me off!


69 posted on 07/03/2018 5:09:47 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: sitetest

Yes, I know that. I was commenting in general about the idea that flags are to be lowered anytime there is some tragedy.


70 posted on 07/03/2018 7:23:53 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: rktman

Trump should fly our flag at half staff until Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Abortion, the leftist sacrament, butchers 125,000 babies every day world wide.


71 posted on 07/04/2018 12:58:05 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“I believe Maryland can still choose to do that with its own banner.”

We (Maryland) had an idiot governor a while back who had the state flag flown at half mast every time someone was shot to death. Baltimordor made sure that happened a lot.


72 posted on 07/04/2018 1:04:42 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: rktman

My Father, a WWII Veteran died in 2016.

Obama did not lower the Flag.

Who do I call?


73 posted on 07/04/2018 1:07:34 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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