Posted on 02/18/2017 2:23:43 PM PST by ColdOne
McCain, R-Ariz., said that having a free press is "a fundamental part of the new world order" when asked by NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd to respond to Trump's tweet that specifically calls out the New York Times, NBC and CNN as "fake news media."
"I hate the press, I hate you especially, but the fact is we need you, we need a free press," McCain said in a clip of the show released on Saturday. "If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and sometimes adversarial press. Without it, I'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."
Todd asked McCain if he thought Trump was acting like a dictator with his tweet.
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McPain has come completely out of the closet.
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Calling out the press’ lies is NOT speech suppression.
Shutting down criticism of the press IS speech suppression.
It was all for Palin. McCain is looney #1!!
McCain is an old fool. Trump is NOT suppressing freedom of the press. But the left IS trying to suppress freedom of speech.
The press has already been subverted. Trump is trying to liberate it.
I’m not crazy ether one but Queeg loves himself
McCain is a Horse’s Ass who should have retired years ago. He clearly has some mental problems at his advanced age, and isn’t doing the country any good whatsoever by constantly trying to get attention in the media.
Most thinking/intelligent people can clearly see that he is delusional if not worse.
Dear God, thank you that this insane curmudgeon never got elected president.
Total ass-clown. The MSM is suppressing and distorting facts.
We have a free press. They can print whatever they want....and they do. Truth doesn’t enter into it.
Just up and die already.
McCain has Stockhold Syndrome. Loved by the press right up until he became the republican candidate.
McCain doesn’t understand that President Trump isn’t “suppressing” the press, he’s holding it responsible for what they report.
Mark
Had he listened to Sarah Palin and not Steve Schmidt and how they boxed her in, this past Jan 20th he'd have been a retiring POTUS.
He Fubar'd that one not I or any of us Wacko-Birds on FreeRepublic. With all do respect to your Military Service Senator, when it comes to your Presidential run, you blew it, not us...
McCain is such an ass, he obviously forgot how the press treated his running mate and too much of pussy to stand up for her.
criticizing press not equal to supresing it, johnny.
this soros sucker needs to be doing the mussolini dance. g-d murderer of’our’own service’people’with his jackass jet stunt.
What publication has been censored or shut down? What journalist has been fired, arrested or imprisoned? For a dictator bent on destroying the free press, Trump is getting off to a pretty weak start.
;) yes we dodged a bullet on him too.
...put his service whatever to his head and go blowee...
McLame. Becoming more of a traitor with every word.
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