Trump Bans The Press

It's about time really. They keep writing unflattering stories about him. This'll show them.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...-fake-news-enemy-of-1487963297-htmlstory.html

The White House has created its own safe space. Truly an historic moment.

Spicey said it at a Politico event.

Today Politico was one of the excluded organizations

So the White House Press Secretary, by doing precisely what he defined as characteristic of a dictatorship, has essentially confirmed what many of us already realized: that the Trump administration is a dictatorship (or at least laying the groundwork for a dictatorship).

"Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale!."

What's depressing is the disturbing amount of so-called conservatives that'll think this is just great.
Those same people, if Obama had called Fox News "an enemy of the people", and banned them, would be screaming for his lynching, and burning puppets of him.

Has any other modern president done this?

Nixon banned reporters from every room in the White House except the press briefing room. Otherwise, I can't think of anyone else in modern history. The only thing that could possibly come close, if you twisted it into existence by sheer unreason, is if you count the time candidate Obama denied entry to three press agencies trying to get on his plane during his campaign.

Is anyone here at WF supportive of Trump at this point?

Ramen had his lips firmly around this little orange cock, but he's been scarce lately.
Good riddance, all he did anymore was troll.

Dayton

That makes me feel a little better.

^It's comforting. No matter how bad our lives get or how weird and far-fetched our opinions are, at least we're not Dayton.

We haven't heard from Dayton, but he would be my guess.

"It is more Nixonian than Nixon."

-- John Dean

That's right, he's outdoing Richard fucking Nixon, and even Nixon's lawyer can see it.

Dean was on Weekend Edition three weeks ago and this was probably the best part of the interview:


SIMON: Recognizing that all analogies are imperfect, do you see any between 1973 and 2017?

DEAN: Too many. I see, first of all, similar-type personalities in the Oval Office. Nixon was clearly an authoritarian-type personality, but had we not had the tapes, only those of us who dealt with him probably would have known about it and the world at large wouldn't because he was shy. Donald Trump is right out there. He doesn't hide any of his authoritarian proclivities, if you will. And Nixon was - his moral compass was sometimes questionable. I really wonder, so far, if Mr. Trump has one. I'm waiting to see it.

See? Obama did it too. How come all you triggered librul cucks complaining about Trump said nothing when Obummer did worse stuff?

I hope Trump herds all you progerssive crybabies into a camp and then builds a wall around it, because you're all a threat to freedom.

On one hand having a press conference and not inviting all the press is fucking and counter productive (Hello? PRESS is in the term Press Conference) but pretending this is anything serious is a joke.

Yes, poor little Donny wants a safe space where no one will ask him mean, mean questions. That is pathetic, though his followers probably will pretend it is brave. What it is not is a dictatorial threat to the Republic. What is the result? Donny gets less coverage and fewer people tuning in when he calls a press conference because he wants to get his spin out?

I think that is a good thing not a bad one especially since he might not invite everyone to his little supporters only event but he still can't ban any network in the real world and that is what matters.

I agree with most of this. But couldn't they basically ban networks whenever they kill net neutrality?

Pay the major service providers enough money or offer them government favors if they block people's access to CNN, BBC, etc?

Not just websites but also cable channels like CNN? In that case people have to rely on FOX News, Breitbart or dying print media.

Many of them did that on days ending in Y already.

Truly, a fucking utter disgrace.

Is it still worth it to vote for Trump to see liberal foam at the mouth?

For people who think this is just a game where they get to be "right" about something? Yes. There are people who would laugh their asses off because a nuke was dropped on a liberal owned property, right before the blast wave reduced their dumb asses to dumb ashes. There are some people you just can't reason with, and most of them are proud of that.

I think it's fucking hilarious, but it's a bad move politically. Far better to let them in and than berate them to their faces for their crap or flat out ignore them. Either way will drive them crazy.

Not letting them in just gives them power that they don't deserve.

Cue @Zombie ...

Sean Spicer thinks this type of action would define a dictatorship!

Post #3.

http://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/2937161/

D'oh!

No, Dayton has clearly said he despises Trump. I think we only had two Trump supporters, and after one of them was banned for calling for the lynching of a black board owner, that only leaves @Tuttle to defend their crowd against claims of violence, racism, and autocracy.

Notably, @Paladin did say he was overjoyed over Trump's election. I don't know his current position.

So that's just not true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/...ump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html?_r=2

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html?referer

They said they'd treat Fox News "like an opponent", and that sort of thing was the impetus behind Spicer's comments to Politico in the first place.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

Bush had his problems, but Obama took it to a whole new level.

No, it's true. You're talking about something else entirely. We were discussing whether any previous president had barred the press from briefings like the ones mentioned earlier. While that doesn't mean your point lacks merit, it does mean it's a different argument than the one being made here. As for Sean Spicer, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.