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Grasswire2

(13,684 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 01:50 PM Jan 2019

Barr: I could conceive of situations where reporters could be jailed for...

.....reporting something wrong that would hurt the country.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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maxsolomon

(34,929 posts)
1. they can and have been jailed
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 01:52 PM
Jan 2019

mainly for refusing to reveal sources.

THIS, however? fuck him. zero Dem votes to confirm.

NoMoreRepugs

(10,431 posts)
5. Could only be said in a Republican controlled Senate and have the confirmation process continue.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 01:55 PM
Jan 2019

How anyone can compare the Republican BizaroWorld to what transpires when Democrats control a Branch of Government boggles my mind.

Grasswire2

(13,684 posts)
6. who decides what is "wrong"?
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 01:56 PM
Jan 2019

who decides what will hurt the country?

Does he understand that drool ran out of Trump's mouth when he made that statement?

ScratchCat

(2,385 posts)
7. Hold on, what was he supposed to say?
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 01:58 PM
Jan 2019

Was he supposed to say, "There is no circumstance under any condition ever, ever, ever that a reporter could be jailed for."? Come on. These are all "loaded" questions. There are important questions and they are mainly going with these outlandish questions.

LAS14

(14,442 posts)
9. Why does it means poster is "on the side of," just because...
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:09 PM
Jan 2019

... they want us to be the party of rationality?

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
13. Not loaded at all. Straight forward. What leads you to allege it was loaded?
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:27 PM
Jan 2019

As the question was "would you jail a reporter for doing their job?", it denies your creative, though wholly irrelevant rationalizations that it meant something other than its obvious sentiment.

Come on, indeed...

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Grasswire2

(13,684 posts)
17. good point
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:55 PM
Jan 2019

Arrest Hannity if he won't testify to his collaboration with Assange regarding HRC emails.

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