Yesterday NPR suggested Trump was a dictator. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3676572/posts
FAKE News is the enemy, unfortunately for NPR they probably qualify based on this article.
Journalists being propagandists is a menacing move
This NPR jackass has it all backwards.
To advocate that Trump’s name-calling should be prohibited, is to advocate tyranny.
Trump’s name-calling is protected under the First Amendment, and would be protected even if it wasn’t true.
How is Trump calling the press the enemy of the American people any different than the press saying Trump behaves like a tyrant?
They are words. Free speech.
ANY speech should be protected, even sacrilege, even racist speech, even holocaust denying (I know, people will disagree with that one - but be careful - when you limit someone else’s speech, you ultimately limit your own).
There is really only one exception: threats of violence should be punished - but even that is not a limit on speech - it is a limit on the crime that is being threatened.
If a man threatens to kill someone, that is not just words - it’s a plan, a conspiracy.
Hey Scott Simon: I was an accredited reporter for many years and still do some freelance work. There was a time when much of the press/media was a “friend” of the people, despite a few reds and wackos in it.
Since Vietnam (where I was an accredited correspondent), the US mainstream (print, some radio, and much of TV/Cable) has turned not only to the Left, but the Far-Left. Key writers and talkers are often as hardcore a bunch of Marxists with a liberal cover as can be. Others are just batshit cracy and incompetent, but use the clamor of “they’re attacking the press” as a cover for it.
Read the letters to the editor of the Wash. Post for a week and if you don’t puke, then you’re the reason the president and tens of millions of Americans consider the media the enemy.
The sheer amount of Marxist/communist propaganda, disinformation, and tactics that I learned/studied over the decades is showing up in ever larger proportions to what is written, from economics, politics, the cultural/social sections, columnists, editorials and even in a few comic strips.
Good, sharp and funny satire is one thing. What I’m seeing is another - sheer leftist propaganda, hate and disinformation.
Even the Wash. Post has a few leftist writers who blame what is happening in sports on Trump. He didn’t start it - Comrade “Che” Kopernick did. And if those photos of him in communist/Che t-shirts are real, then I stand my ground. If they are fake, let’s expose it too.
If you don’t think that the mainstream media, aided and abetted by insane politicians and academics, isn’t off the rails, then you have no idea what “reality” is.
It is “John Kerry, the phony 3 Purple Hearts” egomaniac Senator; it is a fake Indian Elizabeth Warren; it is Sen. Bernie Sanders claiming to be fighting a war on behalf of the “poor” while he has three houses in Vermont (none of which he is sharing with the poor, recovering drug addicts, or Syrian refugees.
Adam Schiff is caught on tape trying to get information on Trump from a “Russian” (a prankster), all the while claiming that Trump is the one who is “colluding” with them.
In Schiff and Swalwell’s cases, “colluding rhymes with deluding”, which sums up their mental illnesses.
Hillary and her money laundering foundations and fake charities! Need I say more except that most of the MSM refuse to really investigate her and her operations, fail to question her integrity and honesty over the destruction of her emails, servers, computers, phones, etc., and her ties to the crooked DNC and the fake “Dossiergate” hoax of Steele.
I think you get my drift. I sure hope you do because if you don’t, then you are proving my point that you are NOT getting the truth, real news, only the FAKE stuff. That is the real danger to our country, aided and abetted by the media.