What is it with conservatives and hypocrisy?
They spent eight years complaining that President Obama spent too much time on golf courses while neglecting his duties (and then complained when he’d issue executive orders).
During Trump’s first term in office he’s been on a golf course six times. He actually corrals the press into a club house where the windows are blacked out so they can’t see him play. Is the conservative press complaining about this? Of course not which might be why they’re not excluded from Trump press briefings.
On Friday Donald Trump spoke at CPAC and continued his war with facts and information. Once again he claimed a free press is the enemy of the American people. He said he doesn’t like “fake news,” despite actual fake news helping him win the election.
Before Trump took the stage his chief adviser Steve Bannon spoke to the group and declared the war against the media will intensify. He labels the press as the “opposition.” If information and facts are the opposition, what does that make you? Oh yeah. Liars. Lies and misinformation were Bannon’s bread and butter while he was head of Breitbart, that racist, alt-right, “information” source.
On Friday Trump’s press secretary held a press “gaggle” and prevented several legitimate news organizations from attending. He blocked The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Politico, and Buzzfeed.
Interestingly enough, Breitbart, who shouldn’t even be allowed on the White House grounds, was invited. Also invited was The Washington Times, which is very pro-Trump, and owned by a religious cult (the Times fancies itself “America’s newspaper” and a competitor to The Post, but their circulation has fallen to less than 60,000). The third conservative news outlet invited was One America News, which you’ve probably never heard of, or if you have seen it on cable you mistook it for an angry infomercial. You can make an argument that The Washington Times is a news source, but the other two are not.
News is not what the Trump administration wants shared. They’re against news. The Trump teams wants propaganda and they’ll punish those who won’t play along. Bannon has promised to make things worse for the press. That means he’s going to make things worse for everyone who actually cares about freedom in this nation.
And those conservative outlets? They’re carrying Trump’s bags.
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I have an idea to share, not related to this post, but about health care. I watched part of the “debate” between Bernie and Ted. I don’t know how Bernie could stand to be on the same stage.
Cruz, when lacking real arguments, brought up the death panel charade again. Can we call Paul Ryan an executioner, and indeed anyone who sponsors a bill to get rid of ACA as being part of the death panel? Since there will be deaths as a result of all the people they kick off insurance. The Republican Congress would be the real death panel.
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One of my petsitting clients used to subscribe to the Washington Post and the Washington Times. It was fun predicting what the Times headlines would be after reading the Post, and easy to do. One of her cats preferred shredded newspaper as a litterbox filler, which is probably why she got both papers. I was always happy to shred the Times and encourage the cats to pee and poop on it.
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