So revoking Acosta’s WH pass because he wasn’t going to surrender the microphone is interfering with his “freedom of speech” and quashing “freedom of the press”, but a violent mob of dantifa thugs going after Carlson’s family isn’t.
I get that one is government and the other is a pack of wild leftist thugs, but it’s clear that the thugs want to silence Carlson, while the WH doesn’t want to silence Acosta as much as to deny him the press room stage.
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It's really absurd when those who get the vapors over what they regard as Trump's lies willfully misrepresent this situation as an attack on the press. Clearly, it is a denial of privileges to an ass. Few presidents have been as accessible to the press as this one, yet the haters act as if Trump intends to suspend the freedom of the press. The president has no obligation to hold ANY press conferences. And he doesn't have to stand for grandstanding and rude behavior by hacks like Acosta.
As to Trump's response to such people, the left also fails to understand that Trump is no different than millions of Americans who have long been fed up with the bias that the leftist media doesn't even try to hide...despite constantly lying about being objective. They ain't foolin' nobody! It was their own slanted "reporting" that led to conservative talk radio, FoxNews and now a host of blogs and internet news sources.
Now they're saying the video of Acosta's rude behavior is doctored. It's a C-Span video and supposedly the White House "doctored" it. Incredible.
“Having your White House pass (temporarily) pulled for unruly behavior is not actually a threat to free speech-
But having a mob show up at your home and threaten your wife and children because you are a prominent conservative in media- that is a threat.
To all of us.“
Who are you going to believe? Them or your lying eyes?
Wasn’t it the Obama administration that tried to exclude an entire network from the press pool?
I was stunned that CNN claimed his temporary removal was "a threat to our democracy." Really? As opposed to all the other rights violations (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.) going on?
And threatening a man and his family is not?
The double standard is palpable.
Did you really expect anything but a double standard. Seriously, temporary revoking the press pass is one “reporter” (who’s more prone to rudely make speeches than ask questions), doesn’t seem to strike at the heart of our republic. It seems as thought having a WH press pass is more of a privilege than a right. We certainly see hundreds of reporters managing to report freely without one.
Maybe the problem is with a news media who is more interested in being news, than in reporting news.
How could you even compare the trauma Acosta had gone through (and the sympathy he’s gotten), with the tiny inconvenience of a rabid mob outside the home of a commentator intentionally trying to use violence to silence him.
You heartless..,
I’m thinking about dedicating a blog to exposing the double standards of those on the left, I’d certainly have plenty of material.
Of course Carlson brought it on himself, he deserved to have angry mobs threaten his family. But then so does Dans Loesch. She clearly deserves to be raped and killed after her children have been shot down in cold blood.
Acosta bears no responsibility for what happened to him.
It’s interesting that the downgrading of one “reporter’s” press pass from an all access to limited access threatens the entire concept of the 1st amendment, while attempts to ban and regulate guns from lawful owners who have done nothing isn’t undermining the 2nd amendment in the least.
Let’s ignore the fact that Acosta is not reporting news as much as trying to make political statements, and that 99.7% of gun owners never use their guns illegally and just embrace the double standard.
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