Guest wrote:Maddog wrote:Grafenwalder wrote:Maddog wrote:Cannydc wrote:There's quite a diatribe on 'Conservative Home', telling the world that the 6 morons should NOT have been arrested.
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetor ... ested.htmlIt now turns out that several of them were members of the local Conservative Club...
Am I surprised ?
Is being a moron illegal now too?
Talking of morons, shutting down media that doesn't bow before you flies in the face of your 1st Amendment doesn't it?
If you're talking about Acosta, CNN has a bunch of other folks that can do his job. Not everyone with press credentials gets to attend press briefings.
Acosta got what he wanted.
How can anyone who supports free speech in the way you do approve of the way Trump acts against the very principle of a free and independent press. Trump seems to think he is the editor of every TV show, newspaper, editorial and blog and that's not his job. Furthermore when a government starts to think that's their job, whether that be as arbiters of tastes or as the ultimate arbiters on what questions can be asked Free Speech is out the window.
I have admired your strong libertarian principles but I guess you're just another conservative hack who has sold out to Trump like Rand Paul. Damn you guys are disappointing.
Trump and Acosta are combative. Trump doesn't have to answer his questions. I can see your point, if he made this a habit, but in this particular case, you had one reporter, who for 2 years now, has stood out as a giant pain in the ass, to garner attention for himself, more than to cover the president.
If Trump does this again to someone else, I'll switch to your way of thinking on this particular incident.
Or, for a different perspective.
Given the immense amount of energy being directed at such non-events such as Acosta-gate—did the CNN reporter manhandle a White House intern during a post-midterm press conference?—it's likely we as a country are choosing the latter.
This is unfortunate for an infinite number of reasons, but chief among them is the simple idea that whether we pay attention to it or not, the federal government continues to function, to pass laws and regulation, and to spend more money that we don't have. Donald Trump's brilliance in many ways is to make the mundane seem somehow important and out of the ordinary.https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/08/with ... g-to-get-s