Posted on 08/17/2019 6:08:54 PM PDT by cba123
The Trump administration has fired another shot in its war with the US press, suspending the credentials of Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy and an analyst for CNN.
The 30-day revocation was announced on Friday and echoes hugely controversial action taken against CNN’s Jim Acosta in November 2018.
Acosta, a frequent irritation to Trump, had his pass taken away after the administration claimed he used inappropriate force in resisting an intern’s attempts to take a microphone from him during a news conference given by the president.
Karem had his pass suspended after an altercation with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka in the White House Rose Garden in July, around a “social media summit” convened by Trump and attended by some of his most ardent supporters. Both men attracted criticism for their behaviour.
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This time the journalist sounds like he just got out of hand, wasn't even about Trump.
CNN only buys his magazine for the articles, not the pictures
I understand that is now correct. Playboy has no nude photo layouts anymore as it objectifies women as sex objects. They are well on the way to being a digital ‘magazine’.
Gorka hasn’t mentioned it
Gun control? What gun control? Grandma’s...press bans..
That’s gotta be the funniest GIF i’ve ever seen :)
Is it doctored in some way or did some penguin really just feel like screwing over another penguin? :)
The press has been in a one-sided war against conservatives for several decades. Thank God we finally have a republican president who will shoot back!
I think he’s helping, actually.
(For real)
I've no idea .. just swiped it off the webz cuz it cracked me up - still does after ~ 15 years LOL!
(perhaps i'm just easily enterained ;-)
The First Amendment speaks of “the freedom . . . of the press.” The first “the” refers to the fact that freedom of the press, limited by pornography and libel constraints, existed prior to the adoption of the Constitution. And that freedom - neither more nor less - was fixed in place by 1A.In Acosta’s case, a federal judge, Timothy Kelly, found the White House claim about his behaviour was “likely untrue” and ruled in favor of the reporter, ordering the White House to reinstate his passBut second “the” is interesting. The expression “the press” does not refer to an institution which did not exist in the 18th Century. And at that time - and even into early days of the telegraphy era before and shortly after the Civil War - newspaper printers were fractiously independent of each other. So “the press” refers not to the unitary political establishment which gets called “the MSM” today, but to the use by the people of technology (the Constitution refers to “useful arts”) to propagate facts and opinion.
I emphasize “by the people” to dismiss the conceit - which so enthralls journalists - that “the press” is a title of nobility or a priesthood set apart from, and emphatically superior to, the people.
is, IMHO, very bad law. The president is not inferior in law to someone just because that person works for CNN, The New York Times, or any other operator of a press. He can admit to his house and office, or bar from either, any such person he chooses.
HOORAY Chief!
YUGE BUMP!!!
Thanks. BUMP!
It’s doctored.
Watch the penguin’s left foot. He steps forward and the ice breaks causing him to fall.
It is one of the all-time great gifs though.
Trump should have a “media lottery” where ALL MEDIA OUTLETS are invited to participate. The winners get to send their correspondents to the White House for 1 month...then another lottery. CNN would get one chance, and Ch. 37 in Oshkosh would also get the same one chance. So, with luck, CNN will be win about 1 month per year, same as Washington Post, and CBS. Meanwhile, just due to numbers, the vast majority of the people in the White House will be from small markets.
Might make things a lot more CIVILIZED there.
The judge maybe the reason press conferences are no longer held. For which every honest reporter (limited, I know) can say, “Thank you, Acosta.”
He's suing the White House over being suspended.
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