This is reprehensible even for CNN. I cannot believe any thinking individual believes CNN is a news source at this point.
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Joe Fan
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Which raises the question, does our modern corporate media still qualify as "the press" for 1st Amendment purposes?
At least she's honest that the outrage about sexual assault actually has nothing to do with sexual assault.
Austin_Bill
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From a credibility standpoint, no. From a legal standpoint, yes. I don't think government has the right to censor CNN and the rest of the media. I don't think the government has the right to dictate what they have to say.
However, don't I think individual politicians (including the President) have to give them access to the White House press briefings or answer their questions? No. Trump doesn't have to take Jim Acosta's ********.
Do I think they should have the right to say false and defamatory things without civil liability just because the person against whom the comments are directed is a politician or public figure? No. The court case saying they effectively and practically can is BS and needs to go, and I'd love to see Justice Kavanaugh write the opinion as a big "F-you" to a deserving media. That wouldn't eliminate media bias, but it would change the culture dramatically. All those idiots who said and wrote that Kavanaugh was guilty without any real evidence would have had to think twice. It would have made a huge difference.
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Joe Fan
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I don't think the 1A should be protecting a "the press" that is the functional representative of a political party, as CNN has become for the DNC. We do not accept Russian State media or Chinese State media. Indeed, Trump just gave some of them the boot and the 1A cannot save them. DNC media is no better. From my perspective, they are even worse insidious.
Joe Fan
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Ruh-roh #2
Second woman has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault.
Do I have to vote for a rapist if I live in a swing state?
" .... We have even arrived at the point where Amy Klobuchar, Gretchen Whitmer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders have been asked about the alleged assault by reporters, but Joe Biden has not. One would think, after a month of dozens of interviews on live television, that a reporter would directly ask Biden about Tara Reade’s claims, including the fact that she was abruptly demoted after expressing concerns about Biden’s behavior to her superiors. Combined with the way that Reade has been treated, the fact that the media has failed to engage in this most basic act of inquiry into the alleged assault is a clear statement to fellow victims of Joe Biden: Don’t come forward; we won’t believe you.
That message strikes to my core, because I, too, was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. But if I go public, will I be called a liar? Will I be accused of being a Russian agent? Will my family and friends be attacked for corroborating my story? Will the media ignore me for weeks, followed by Alyssa Milano going on a podcast to suggest that that is a reason not to believe that it is true? Will the national media attempt to cast doubt upon my credibility? Will those on the short-list to become Biden’s vice-presidential nominee remain quiet and hope this blows over? Will half the country brush me aside and claim that at least my assaulter isn’t as bad as the current assaulter-in-chief?"
That message strikes to my core, because I, too, was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. But if I go public, will I be called a liar? Will I be accused of being a Russian agent? Will my family and friends be attacked for corroborating my story? Will the media ignore me for weeks, followed by Alyssa Milano going on a podcast to suggest that that is a reason not to believe that it is true? Will the national media attempt to cast doubt upon my credibility? Will those on the short-list to become Biden’s vice-presidential nominee remain quiet and hope this blows over? Will half the country brush me aside and claim that at least my assaulter isn’t as bad as the current assaulter-in-chief?"
who gets to decide? Are we supposed to only have non corporate publishers? Individual proprietors like Hearst, Pulitzer and Colonel McCormack?
or just shut a few hundred newspapers down and jail a thousand journalists like our first Republican President, that Lincoln critter?
It was all about abortion politics. The left was going all out to destroy Kavanaugh. The liberal surburban moms apparently believed the ruse and confused Kavanaugh with Bill Clinton, LBJ, JFK, Teddy Kennedy and now apparently Biden.
I asked a friend how he could support Biden in the face of a tenable allegation of sexual assault. He said there were 20 such allegations re the president and Biden never bragged about it on the Stern show.
whatever lets you support your party’s political moral lepers I guess
no offense intended to the leper community
whatever lets you support your party’s political moral lepers I guess
no offense intended to the leper community
LongestHorn
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