Free Republic

CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett wrote an op-ed for Sunday’s Washington Post imploring journalists not to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The headline was "Skipping 'nerd prom' now would prove Trump right" -- that journalists hate him too strongly to sit through a dinner with him. Garrett also pushed back against the Post’s own Margaret Sullivan, who argued that it would be appropriate to cancel the event altogether because the press should not be Mr. Trump’s “prom date.” "But no self-respecting White House reporter has ever been a president’s prom date, and the dinner isn’t a date at...

Why can’t we see the cartoons? The ones that have the Muslims burning down embassies and killing people. Why can’t we see them? What theory of the First Amendment is it that has kept the American news media from showing us the cartoons? They talk about them. They condemn them. They say they’re really bad. But they won’t show them to us. Not the TV. Not the newspapers. Not any of them. We’ve seen pictures of people having their heads cut off. We’ve seen dead Americans dragged through the streets. We’ve seen burned Americans hanged from a bridge. We’ve seen...