Sean Spicer told CNN reporter Jim Acosta that if he tried to ask a question at the presser...

[PearliePoo2]

He would be THROWN OUT! Literally THROWN OUT. Acosta looked shaken.

Jesus help us all (and I'm an atheist)

[nolabear]

1. Afterward? Any presser? This should be actionable.

[metroins]

3. By who?

Who can take action?

CNN will just replace the reporter and acquiesce. If they take a stand, they lose out on access to Trump.

He's bullying everybody and Bully's only respond to force.

[True Dough]

26. I would assume Drumpf would use his private security

At least they were wise enough not to try to escort Acosta out when he did insist on asking a question. That would have been a major blunder played over and over again. Don the Con has dug a hole deep enough already (but he won't put the shovel down for long).

[lark]

31. CNN could.

If they took this to court and won (which they would) they could just force Drumpf to answer questions or take him to court for violating an order. They don't need him nice, he's only nice when someone is sucking up to him.

[Ms. Toad]

52. What would be the legal basis for the claim,

and on what grounds would they win?

[metroins]

58. Exactly what I was thinking

The president doesn't have to be accessible to the press by any laws that I know of.

[kelly1mm]

78. Why do you think they would win? There is no 1st amendment right to have

the Press's questions answered. Heck Trump does not have to have another press conference ever.

[kelly1mm]

6. Like what kind or action and by whom? nt

[Kingofalldems]

13. Not again!

[etherealtruth]

2. This is deeply disturbing (as are most things tRump and his horde does)

Acosta really seemed shaken as did his colleagues on CNN following.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. Trump liked CNN fine back when they were giving him free airtime n/t

[etherealtruth]

45. Yep ... he is an embarrassment to our country

[BlueCaliDem]

80. As much of an embarrassment as CNN has been. eom

[lastlib]

87. We are under the boot of a tyrant.

If we don't rise up and overthrow this basturd, the America we knew is doomed to be buried.

[SHRED]

4. They need to get unshaken quickly and take this buffoon down

[Greywing]

17. Agreed ... they've done it before with Nixon. With Trump

there is so much more just totally lying out there waiting to be picked up and reported on. This buffoon is not as smart as he thinks he is. Freedom of the press, baby!

[bdamomma]

38. oh yes, Trump is silencing the press

or his accomplices are.

[Sanity Claws]

5. RNC Propaganda Minister

I had to look the name up. Thought this might help others who don't have complete recall of all names.

[Blue Idaho]

7. It is now time for the fourth estate to earn their 1st amendment rights.

Trump is now more than ever a clear and present danger to the Constitution of the United States.

[SHRED]

8. Link?

[LisaM]

9. Well, they created this monster.

They, and all the so-called reporters who wouldn't stop talking about emails month after month after month, and who waited at half-filled stadia for this monster to show up at his rallies while other candidates were having real events all over the place, and who provided moderators to debates who wouldn't ask questions about climate change and women's issues, and news anchors who wouldn't report real news, and the list goes on.

It makes me ill. I don't care if he provided ratings. I'm sorry that we're in the place where ratings drive news, but the media bears a huge responsibility in all this. I couldn't turn on cable news without seeing that asshat's face all summer long, and to the people who wouldn't stop watching him ("oh, he's fascinating&quot , well, they bear a little bit of responsibility too.

[greatbaldeagle]

28. Spot on LisaM

But this started WAY before he ran for office. They covered his ridiculous birther movement even though it didn't deserve one second of coverage given that it was born out of racism and was irrelevant since President Obama's mother was a US citizen and her children are therefore automatically US citizens regardless of where they were born. He gained national notoriety through that movement before running for office. THAT is what built this orange monster. Now they are so offended by how he is treating members of their community. Well, welcome to the party. They should get no sympathy from us as we have been offended by this con man since he first landed on our television screens.

[LisaM]

50. That's a great point.

They never should have legitimized the birther nonsense.

[tomp]

86. yes,it was both racist and xenophobic....

....hallmarks of his ultimate campaign.

[calimary]

33. Have you noticed that our great friend Andrea Mitchell looks a bit sobered these days.

As well she should. She could NOT help herself, day after day, month after month, throughout the campaign - dishing whatever gossip she could scrape off the windshield about Hillary's emails. Info from fake news outlets that had been picked up by more "established" sites like Drudge (gee, and Breitbart, too, why not? As long as you're here...), or perhaps even handed to her by her gooooo-oooood sources within the RNC (gee, like they didn't have an agenda...). And throughout that her demeanor on air was just a whiff of smugness, that seemed to telegraph "this is such a fun story, I'm having so much fun on this story, ooo-oooh this story's juicy, oooh look we're closing in on her, dig the dirt! Dig the dirt!! Ooo-oooo lookey, I'm the lead again! Um - how soon am I on again?"

Now she looks sobered and more serious. Maybe it's just me, but I think I see just a touch of skittishness, the look of having to wear a guilty conscience around.

I interject here - from the confirmation hearing today:

Cory Booker was IMPRESSIVE. Made me suspect I was watching a Democratic presidential candidate someday (soon)? That was QUITE a speech he gave, sitting at the witness table.

John Lewis is seated at the same table. The word "magnificent" keeps popping up in my mind.

[radical noodle]

75. I never fail to be impressed by Booker

Even if Sessions is approved, he has been given notice that people will be watching him.

[calimary]

83. Agreed. He really acquitted himself well today. Impressive and eloquent as all-get-out.

VERY impressive. I bet it's gonna launch him into the "likely standard-bearer" category. People are gonna take another look at him and add him to the list of 2020 Democratic up-n-comers.

[Alice11111]

61. Yes, they sure helped!

.

[Texin]

74. Absolutely!

I was appalled for nearly a year in advance of this so-called *election* that every cable news outlet was covering this cretin nonstop. Why in the hell was MSNBC news covering his every rally from start to finish? They and every other cable news channel and virtually all the print media were chuckling at what they thought was just a joke and a longshot. Well, guess what? The joke's on them now! And, unfortunately, everyone else with a pulse.

It's a helluva lot easier to make a dictator than it is to control the bastard once they're unleashed and unfettered, and that's what we've got here: Amerika's very own Vlad Putin!

[Cha]

81. Bullseye point, Lisa.. thank you Be nice if they could uncreate it.

[RedWedge]

10. Why didn't he? Force the issue!

[etherealtruth]

23. Watching the exchange ... it looked like he tried to do exactly that

He was aggressive albeit appearing somewhat shaken

[Tanuki]

11. Some interesting info from the Holocaust Museum:

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007677
"Nazi Propaganda and Censorship
Once they succeeded in ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media.

During the spring of 1933, Nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by Germans. Then, on the night of May 10, 1933, Nazis raided libraries and bookstores across Germany. They marched by torchlight in nighttime parades, sang chants, and threw books into huge bonfires. On that night more than 25,000 books were burned. Some were works of Jewish writers, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were by non-Jewish writers, including such famous Americans as Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis, whose ideas the Nazis viewed as different from their own and therefore not to be read.

The Nazi censors also burned the books of Helen Keller, who had overcome her deafness and blindness to become a respected writer; told of the book burnings, she responded: "Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas." Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States protested the book burnings, a clear violation of freedom of speech, in public rallies in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis.

Schools also played an important role in spreading Nazi ideas. While some books were removed from classrooms by censors, other textbooks, newly written, were brought in to teach students blind obedience to the party, love for Hitler, and antisemitism. After-school meetings of the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls trained children to be faithful to the Nazi party. In school and out, young people celebrated such occasions as Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of his taking power.".....

[blueseas]

71. Thanks for posting

Good read, I will bookmark this ...

[JHan]

12. Of course, if HRC were president elect and she pulled off this stunt..

Well we know the rest..

[PearliePoo2]

14. My impression was that Spicer meant he would have Acosta THROWN OUT.

Last edited Wed Jan 11, 2017, 02:35 PM - Edit history (1)

Dump refused to take a question from Jim Acosta, told him he was rude and he was fake news.
fuck

[Stellar]

15. I think he should have tried to ask a question so that the World can watch

our'freedom of the press' member being thrown out on camera.

[mobeau69]

16. He did. More than once. It basically turned into a shouting match.

[orleans]

18. video

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/11/donald-trump-jim-acosta-cnn-fake-news.cnn

[PearliePoo2]

40. Thanks for the video!

It's hard for me to grasp this entire disaster is even happening!
It's a nightmare that I keep hoping I'll wake up from. shudder....

[orleans]

49. you're welcome (for the video) n/t

[Nwgirl503]

79. I watched it off WSJ live stream

I couldn't hear any of the questions or see who was asking them. Damn. All I got to hear was Trump's voice. Thanks for the video.

[Idoru]

19. He did and it turned into a yelling match

Unreal. Trump yelled he wouldn't get a question, CNN was fake news, Acosta didn't back down but Trump wouldn't answer. CNN is going to start groveling now, is my bet.

[Stellar]

46. OKAY, I can't take anymore. This will be four years of me not really listening to the news.

[Ligyron]

62. Oh, I don't know if I'd do that.

Things are going to get very interesting - and in a good way for us.

I keep hearing people saying they won't watch the MSM news anymore it upsets and depresses them so. This whole mess won't end well for Trump and he'll take the GOP down with him before it's all over.

The MSM and Congress critters will grow a pair eventually and the court system will be an asset.

Long term, the demographics are in our favor. What we need desperately is a progressive mouthpiece - the equivalent of Fox News for broadcast and some left wing radio stations killing it on the am dial.

[etherealtruth]

21. He did and did so assertively

[Dem2]

27. He did. Over and over again he screamed his question and the Nazi in chief snubbed him

And called CNN "fake news".

[Stellar]

29. So now the world knows that they will be dealing with a bully!!!

[Dem2]

30. He's worse than a bully

He's insane, which means he cannot correct his behavior. He KNOWS he's right. That's insanity.

[Stellar]

43. and he can't speak for himself... why in the world did he have to have this woman speaking for him

while he stood there looking at her? The same way Conway does all his talking for him. Is that because we are not used to looking into his heart yet to get the answers?

Okay, I'll admit I could only stand to listen to approximately 2.5 minutes of his news conference and I might have missed a lot of his lying.

[PearliePoo2]

36. Here's Jim Acosta on video relaying the event:

[bdamomma]

41. Mr. Acosta should press charges against him

this is against the Constitution.

This is all against the Constitution.

[blueseas]

73. Can you post this in the video area

We need to see this later on.

[blogslut]

22. Not exactly correct.

Spicer threatened reporter Jim Acosta after the presser. Acosta is the reporter that got in a yelling match with the Orange Man at the presser.

[PearliePoo2]

32. You are correct. I will edit my post. Thank you!

[PearliePoo2]

39. Video of how it went down according to Acosta on my post #36. nt.

[bdamomma]

42. you know I wish orange man's head

would just explode.

[tenorly]

24. Spoken like a true lackey for a third world tin-pot dictator, Sean SPEEcer.

[jalan48]

25. Are we mice or are we men (and women)?

We are going to find out in the near future.

[tiredtoo]

34. There was a dude in Germany back in the 30s

Don't recall his name but, he also silenced the press. We must not let this happen in the U.S.

[MFM008]

35. Tweetler

? Twitler?

[tiredtoo]

37. Ya, something like that.

[uponit7771]

65. Amen and Amen

[bdamomma]

47. if anyone wants to send or call media.

http://www.nytix.com/Links/TV/articles/newsmediacontacts.html

[PearliePoo2]

53. Whoa...that is like GOLD for contact info! Good job..

and thank you very, very much!

[MontanaMama]

56. Thanks for the link bdamomma!!

I am contacting CNN now to ask them to keep the pressure ON the Orange Asset.

[uponit7771]

66. OP worthy !!!!

[HurricaneWarning]

70. Great information; thank you

[TNLib]

48. I'm not surprised

I'm surprised they even let CNN in the door at Trump Tower.

Think about it. The man is being investigated by the intelligence community for what could potentially be treasonous acts and CNN broke the news.



I don't think this going away.

I just hope the media keeps up the heat!

[Grammy23]

55. On the contrary, I believe they allowed CNN to be there

so that tRump could do exactly what he did. He HOPED Acosta would try to ask a question so he could slap him down, be the tough guy, show him (and other news agencies) what happens to people who dare challenge him....on any subject, on anything. If anyone thought he was going to be more Presidential after the election, we got our answer today. This so called news conference was a train wreck of the circus. Wild animals running everywhere while the wreckage was piled up, steam and flames coming out of all sides.

Yes, people, the madman is about to take over and if you don't have on a heavy duty seatbelt, you might be in for a rough ride...a very rough ride. I don't think trump knows it yet, but the ride will be equally as rough for him.

Pop me some corn. I want to see how this turns out. Too bad it is real life and not a bad movie.

[PearliePoo2]

63. Good post! You may be on to something!

Dumb-ass brags he loves a fight, that he's ALWAYS a winner and (scary for this planet), he THRIVES on revenge for anyone or anything that dared to 'diss' him.
This could be his way of showing the world how "Bad-Ass' he is! He is one sick fuck, for sure.

[uponit7771]

67. lol, "steam and flames coming out of all sides. "

[Ohioblue22]

51. hey hillary had all those emails and she voted for the war

good thing enough dems voted for stein and johnson otherwise we have to put up with all of hillary scotus picks . good job dems you blew it the media is the least of our problems

[HopeAgain]

54. There you go

So typifies both the arrogance and ignorance that has put us where we are as a party. I voted for Hillary, but I also had a lot of reservations. We are apparently not allowed to have opinions, so I'll keep the reservations to myself.

[Ohioblue22]

72. yes the arrogance/ignorance of the "dems" who just couldnt

bring themselves to vote for the dem nom and because of their arrogance and ignorance they gave trump the opportunity to remake the scotus into a republican wet dream for a generation instead of the dems.

[Angry Dragon]

57. I will say something that does not come easy to me ........... it seems they are following the Nazi

control the media.......control the information

[rtracey]

59. heres what should happen

If any of these networks had balls, they would not show up to any of Fuckumps Bullshit ahhhhh sorry I mean news conferences. But alas, these networks are ball less and have ZERO integrity.

[uponit7771]

68. +1

[Cha]

82. Precisely, tracey

[cab67]

60. IIRC -

In the early days of the Obama administration, it appeared that Fox was being shunned at press conferences. The other networks - including CNN - vowed to stop attending them unless Fox was allowed to participate.

[spanone]

64. this is how it begins....now we'll see how cnn responds..they were called fake news by the president

of the united states

[BillyBobBrilliant]

69. Spicer...

Spit or Swallow?

[Generator]

76. You mean propaganda mister Herr Spicer Goebbels?

Yeah if we live history books will draw some nice parallels.

[turbinetree]

77. I guess when you give a "guy" over 3 billion in free air time

it comes back to haunt you, and the only thing you are worried about is making money for your oligarchy comes back to haunt you, and instead of asking policy questions and then used the election as something else and basically enabled a corrupt serial pathological liar to gain power, and then go around and say we have never been in these waters before, well guess what, all you have to do is look around the world and see it played out, again it comes back to bite you, and now the entire country is going to pay the price of journalistic malfeasance.


The MSM and cable media failed to hold this man accountable and now they are seeing what he plans to do, go after the media and the intelligence community, all one has to do is look at how authoritarian's used this play book

AS for this Spicer character, whats he going to do when people exercise there 1st Amendment right to protest, call out dogs and the national guard units?

[MontanaMama]

84. As of this afternoon, CNN appears to be holding their ground.

Standing by what they have reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/cnn-statement-trump-buzzfeed/index.html

[world wide wally]

85. If America had any collective courage left, the entire press core should walk out and never cover

him at all

That would kill him… and his ideas.