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PEN America Mocks 1st Amendment with Obama Gala
American Thinker.com ^ | December 7, 2020 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 12/07/2020 5:39:01 AM PST by Kaslin

On Saturday, I received an email from Stephen Fee, the Communications Director for PEN America, alerting me to a virtual gala celebration on December 8 to honor Barack Obama with its 2020 Voice of Influence Award.

Among other topics, Obama will share with the PEN audience how “disinformation -- and media outlets willing to spread it -- are an immediate threat to democracy.” PEN’s mission, so they tell us, is “to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.”

Is this a hoax? Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than he deserves this award. A report released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in October 2013 showed that only in Bizarro World would Obama merit such an honor.

In the way of background, a group of foreign journalists founded the CPJ in 1981 to protect their colleagues around the world from harassment by authoritarian governments. The CPJ is not exactly part of the much-bruited “right-wing noise machine.” Au contraire!

Over the years the CPJ board of directors has included any number of liberal luminaries, among them Christiane Amanpour, Gwen Ifill, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Clarence Page, and even serious leftists like Victor Navasky, longtime editor of the Nation. The principal author of the report was Leonard Downie, Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post. In the opening paragraph of the report, Downie sliced right to the heart of the issue:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 12/07/2020 5:39:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The media will rant about keeping its first amendment right while trying to limit it for private citizens.


2 posted on 12/07/2020 5:42:12 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Kaslin

What a bunch of self serving Aholes.


3 posted on 12/07/2020 5:46:33 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

PEN?


4 posted on 12/07/2020 5:50:35 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin

that this award including his nobel peace prize for nothing looks nice in the cell window at gitmo


5 posted on 12/07/2020 5:52:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Kaslin
We are truly living in Orwell's 1984. These people are way more than mere liars; they are pathologically deranged.

6 posted on 12/07/2020 5:54:08 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: PghBaldy

“Poets, Essayists, Novelists (later broadened to Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN_America


7 posted on 12/07/2020 5:54:08 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Spok
First Amendment. Right. Just try and give a counteravailing opinion on global warming, or Covid, or election fraud, or Black Lives Matter.
8 posted on 12/07/2020 5:55:13 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Spok

The media is hoping they will be the last ones to get eaten.


9 posted on 12/07/2020 5:55:46 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

[[[Among other topics, Obama will share with the PEN audience how “disinformation — and media outlets willing to spread it — are an immediate threat to democracy.” PEN’s mission, so they tell us, is “to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.”]]]

Industrial strength projection.


10 posted on 12/07/2020 6:02:50 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: Kaslin

Everyone mentioned in this article is an anti American globalist.These people and their ilk are the people who hope to destroy the American nation, strip Americans of their liberties and rights and subject them to an authoritative, unelected one world goveernment controlled by elites. The globalists control academia, the MSM, big tech, finance,the democrat party and the deep state. They are the enemy of the American people and must be stopped by any means necessary.


11 posted on 12/07/2020 6:06:17 AM PST by allendale
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To: headstamp 2

[Among other topics, Obama will share with the PEN audience how “disinformation — and media outlets willing to spread it — are an immediate threat to democracy.”]

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Montage of media hairdos nationwide from FoxCNNABCNBCCBS saying the EXACT same thing... short, only 1:39 minutes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PaLnrDq-bcw


12 posted on 12/07/2020 6:29:09 AM PST by guthunde47
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To: Kaslin

>>“disinformation — and media outlets willing to spread it — are an immediate threat to democracy.

Like telling the public that the 9-11-2012 terrorist attack on our embassy was really the result of a “provocative” Youtube movie about Mohammed so they went and locked the filmmaker up to appease the Islamonazis.


13 posted on 12/07/2020 6:52:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: PghBaldy

This ORGANization’s name would be more accurate if its “PEN” name (representing “Poets, Editors, Novelists”) was broadened include its two other members:
Idiots and Satanists!
:(!


14 posted on 12/07/2020 7:00:59 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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To: milagro

LOL.


15 posted on 12/07/2020 9:34:29 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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