Obama: Free press 'frustrating' sometimes

Washington Examiner ^ | 8/3/16 | Pete Kasperowicz

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President Obama on Wednesday admitted that America's free press is "frustrating sometimes," but said in the end a free press is healthy because it helps identify real problems that need to be fixed.

"[T]here have been times where I thought the press was very unfair, and I'd open up the newspaper and say, 'What?!' and I'd start arguing," he said in answer to a question he was asked at the Young African Leaders Initiative meeting on Wednesday.

"But, there have also been times where the press investigated something, and I thought, 'You know what, this is a problem,'" he said.

[5th MEB]

I, I, uh, uh, ME, ME, I, uh, me, me, uh, uh my, my, I, I, me, me, uh.
So speaketh the great orator.
So mote it be.

[ExTexasRedhead]

IMO, we have a wanna be Hitler?

[Chgogal]

; )

I did say The Beloved Leader of Idiots.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda is not a free press.

[Cheerio]

He's never done a day's work in his life.

AMEN to that. The only private sector job he held was at Baskin Robbins as a kid in HI.

From politifact - 1975 or 1976 — ice cream scooper, Baskin-Robbins — Honolulu — Obama claims to have lost his taste for ice cream during this, his first job, the duration of which is not publicly known.

Lost his taste for ice cream? More lies.

[NormsRevenge]

Maybe 28 years in a prison cell would help assisting in getting a grip on reality for him.. With Moochelle.

[Mr. K]

Sure it is... you’d like to stop that, wouldn’t you Odumbass...

Only an absolute freaking moron would even THINK something like that, let alone say it.

[Old Yeller]

Free press my shorts.

[BitWielder1]

Nothing compared to how frustrated we have been with the so-called free press that have been 99% 0bama kiss-a$$.

[faithhopecharity]

What Free Press?
If we had a free press, Obama’s ineligibility (and lack of any qualification or experience) would have been trumpeted in 2008 instead of glossed over, also a Free Press would have investigated and found Obama’s real birth certificate and identity papers and immigration papers and any selective service papers and any real social security account number, and his college records if any, etc.

No, there’s not been a functional Free Press in America since at least as far back as 2008

[Billthedrill]

The press isn’t free. It is bought and paid for, though.

[M Kehoe]

“America’s free press is “frustrating sometimes,”

Really? The “free press” in this country has openly wanted you to become a dictator, and has declared your sh!t don’t stink.

That “frustrating” “free” press?

5.56mm

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[hal ogen]

Truth, integrity and honesty are not in this malignant pretender’s vocabulary.

[Gasshog]

its just a lame attempt of damage control due to the wikileaks that point to the FACT the MSM is owned by the Bozo / Clinton Cabal.

You know, Darn that ol free press, it IS FREE, I said so!

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“The freedom of . . . the press” does not refer only to Associated Press journalism, but to the right of the people to use their own money to promote their own opinions by technical means.

Amendment 1:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

does not establish a ceiling over the rights of the people. Rather, as

Amendment 9:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

makes plain, it is to be understood only as a floor under our rights. Since

Article 1 Section 8.:

The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .

does not exclude opinion transmission technology from the intention of the Framers that “the useful arts” be promoted - and because any other interpretation of the First Amendment makes “the press” into a title of nobility or else an established priesthood of people who are above challenge, "the right of the people to use their own money to promote their own opinions by technical means” is the only interpretation of “the freedom of the press” which makes sense to me.