Only 43%?
And only "shut down"?
I'm thinking more along the lines of free helicopter tours.
Posted on 08/07/2018 12:54:19 PM PDT by SMGFan
President Trump’s repeated cries of “fake news” and attacks on journalists as “enemies of the American people” have resonated with his base, with 43 percent of Republicans saying he “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”
The results — suggesting that a plurality of Republicans would have no problem trashing the First Amendment — came from a stunning new poll conducted by Ipsos and reported Tuesday by the Daily Beast.
The survey also showed that just 36 percent of GOP voters disagreed with that statement.
When asked if Trump should close down specific news organizations, such as CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times — all frequent Trump targets — 23 percent of GOP voters agreed while 49 percent did not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
So, per the lame stream, more that half of republicans are okay with it then?
Hanging them would be better.
Nobody’s proposing closing anyone down. Kick them out of the White House, and stop shoving them down our throats at the airports. But they should be free to peddle their lies to whoever will listen . . .
That poll needs to be examined for responses by leftist trolls.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70018
...[To:]Major-General John A. Drx,
Commanding at New York:
...you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commission for their offense.
You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce, and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom.
A. LINCOLN.
Lincoln did it.
Not necessary.
They are doing just fine on their own shutting themselves down.
> That poll needs to be examined for responses by leftist trolls. <
I also suspect Borat-like behavior on the part of the questioners: Ask manipulative questions in a way that gets you odd and unusual responses.
no need, they’re doing a great job making fools of themselves. OTOH we also don’t need public funding of the progressive propaganda machine.
The U. S. Constitution, with its First Amendment can be likened, as someone has written of the Holy Bible, to an anvil which, if upheld, can, and will, "wear out many hammers."
Stop the daily WH food fight and make them act like adults once a week.
Total FakeNews meant to distract from the purging of InfoWars.
Per Ipsos' website:
These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted August 3-6, 2018. For the survey, a sample of roughly 1,003 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii was interviewed online in English. The sample includes 323 Democrats, 363 Republicans, and 207 Independents.
The sample for this study was randomly drawn from Ipsos’s online panel (see link below for more info on “Access Panels and Recruitment”), partner online panel sources, and “river” sampling (see link below for more info on the Ipsos “Ampario Overview” sample method) and does not rely on a population frame in the traditional sense. Ipsos uses fixed sample targets, unique to each study, in drawing sample. After a sample has been obtained from the Ipsos panel, Ipsos calibrates respondent characteristics to be representative of the U.S. Population using standard procedures such as raking-ratio adjustments. The source of these population targets is U.S. Census 2013 American Community Survey data. The sample drawn for this study reflects fixed sample targets on demographics. Post-hoc weights were made to the population characteristics on gender, age, race/ethnicity, region, and education.
Only 43%?
And only "shut down"?
I'm thinking more along the lines of free helicopter tours.
Exactly! Kick them out, make them work for a living as real reporters. Let the blather and propagandize for the communist, just don’t subsidize it with White House offices and assistance. And call them out every time you possible can for their lies and hypocrisy. But ban them? No!
The first part is true - the second part is false. The big lie here is that President Trump has said that FAKE NEWS is the enemy of the people.
***FAKE POLL****
The irony of the FAKE STREAM NEWS acting outrage when they are openly calling on the ban of Alex Jones, Drudge, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ban POTUS off of Twitter, any web site that does not believe in the Climate hoax, etc...
HYPOCRITES...
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