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[McCain (D, AZ)]: Mr. President, stop attacking the press
The Washington Post ^ | 1/16/2018 | Senator John McCain

Posted on 01/17/2018 9:11:47 AM PST by Architect of Avalon

President Trump does not seem to understand that his rhetoric and actions reverberate in the same way.

He has threatened to continue his attempt to discredit the free press by bestowing “fake news awards” upon reporters and news outlets whose coverage he disagrees with.

Whether Trump knows it or not, these efforts are being closely watched by foreign leaders who are already using his words as cover as they silence and shutter one of the key pillars of democracy.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; fakenews; mccain; trump
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

41 posted on 01/17/2018 9:26:30 AM PST by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Even worse, they will elect McSally to replace Flake and she is every bit as much for amnesty.


42 posted on 01/17/2018 9:26:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Did McNuts and fluckin’ Flake hold hands when they issued their statements? Two worthless POS’s!


43 posted on 01/17/2018 9:26:57 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Architect of Avalon

...Mr. President, continue attacking the press! Continue telling truth to “power” (a felating press and a swamp full of unconstitutional, unAmerican sycophants), march forward with the apparent plan, not fully understood by all, and anathema to the soci-prog-zippies...

YMMV

KYPD


44 posted on 01/17/2018 9:27:04 AM PST by petro45acp (It is just that the left,progressive,socialist,antifa,fascist endgame seems so inhuman...unfree)
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To: Architect of Avalon

John

Go to bed and gently into that dark night

With all due respect


45 posted on 01/17/2018 9:27:38 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Architect of Avalon

He has threatened to continue his attempt to discredit the free press by bestowing “fake news awards” upon reporters and news outlets whose coverage he disagrees with.

...

If their reporting were factual I would agree.


46 posted on 01/17/2018 9:28:22 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Take the same physical and mental tests our President just took.
If (when) you fail, you leave.
That’s what you anticipated and wanted to happen to PDJT.


47 posted on 01/17/2018 9:29:18 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Sometimes the press accidentally practices journalism when they are not spending the bulk of their time making up falsehoods out of whole cloth about conservatives and the current occupant of the White House. How soon will we see some real Senators from Arizona? I thought is was bad in Ill-Annoy with our ‘Sack of Durbin’ and ‘Tammy Not-Worth-a-Duck’.


48 posted on 01/17/2018 9:29:22 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; WashingtonFire

Yup, no way McCain wrote this, he’s dying.

This was probably done by one of the many anti-Trump haters on his staff.

These people are so rabidly spiteful that, when McCain dies, they’d probably put him in a bathtub of ice (like Jim Morrison) and pretend he’s still alive, just so they can continue to deny Trump that Senate vote .... you watch!!


49 posted on 01/17/2018 9:30:00 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Architect of Avalon

Hey Juan, the current “press” is the enemy of America.

5.56mm


50 posted on 01/17/2018 9:30:25 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: jospehm20

If McCain had stayed above the hard deck, he would not have been shot down, and would be a nobody today...if only.


51 posted on 01/17/2018 9:30:50 AM PST by AFret.
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To: Obadiah

Not that he actually goes to a VA hospital by it would have been justice for him if the VA misplaced his records and then to watch him try to navigate around that until he received his medical care.


52 posted on 01/17/2018 9:31:44 AM PST by shotgun
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John McCain tried hurting our Democratic process with the dossier and blaming the win on Russia.


53 posted on 01/17/2018 9:32:18 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Ladysmith

You cannot get any odds on who will go first.


54 posted on 01/17/2018 9:33:48 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Architect of Avalon

Mr. McCain, stop tainting the Earth with your rancid presence.


55 posted on 01/17/2018 9:35:04 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: JenB987

i think he should attack them even more.bunch of betas


56 posted on 01/17/2018 9:35:36 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Sweet! Fake News Awards TODAY!!

On Twitter, Fox News, or where (lol)??


57 posted on 01/17/2018 9:35:47 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: Architect of Avalon

McCain still has not returned to DC.
If he is unable to serve the citizens of AZ,
he should resign and let the GOV appoint
someone who can.

He must think he can take his Senate seat with him
when he dies.


58 posted on 01/17/2018 9:35:48 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Architect of Avalon
Trump's NOT attacking the press - he's attacking the corruption in the press.

When people were attacking companies that made cigarettes, they weren't attacking ‘companies’... they were attacking companies pushing toxic products.

Our ‘press’ is putting out toxic material.

It's that easy - no one is attacking the concept of a free press... we're attacking the abuse of a free press by liberal elites who do it for the sake of their own power.

59 posted on 01/17/2018 9:35:58 AM PST by GOPJ (The press is fed by the FBI & CIA - YOUR tax dollars at work - propping up establishment democrats.)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL.


60 posted on 01/17/2018 9:36:50 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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