White House offers inane defense for barring CNN reporter from public event

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

"You ask her if we ever used the word 'ban.'"

AARON RUPAR JUL 26, 2018, 11:13 AM

On Thursday morning, incoming White House Communications Director Bill Shine defended the Trump administration’s decision to bar CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from a public event at the White House by making a fuss over the exact language he used during the meeting in which he informed Collins of his decision.

During a brief interaction with reporters, the former Fox News executive admonished reporters to ask Collins “if we ever used the word ‘ban.'”

“What word would you use, Bill?” a reporter asked him.

“When you ask her if we ever used the word ‘ban,’ then I will answer that question,” Shine replied. “You ask her — focus now — you ask her if we ever used the word ‘ban.'”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/bill-shine-defends-white-house-ban-kaitlan-collins-cnn-0cb0d930aa92/

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Hey Shine did you see what your boss said at the VFW meeting...................the Orwellian comments..............you sound just like what he said at that event and what you are are saying now..................




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough................vote

[unblock]

1. so it's not a ban if you don't use the word ban? like it's not a lie if you don't use the word lie?

[iluvtennis]

2. Don't care what Shine has to say. He's just a propaganda machine like Trump. Hurry up November.

[Scarsdale]

3. Aptly named "Shine"

We are going to find out that he cannot separate "Shit" from "Shine-ola" His wife seems like such a nice woman, too. Racist as other tRumps co-horts. Unfortunately, tRump does not have quality people to choose from, he gets people just like himself - the DREGS.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Shines produces turd by the hour and feeds them to the brain dead Republican cult. And he is the one

to complain about being wronged?

The rest of the media gets who he and Fox are.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. "The question is, said Trumpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."

https://flipsideflorida.wordpress.com/category/tenniel-john/



Meaning according to Humpty Dumpty

[underpants]

5. ban't?

Asking for a friend

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The exact word less important than the action. But of course Shine will distract with a non-issue.nt

[lagomorph777]

7. Screw Trump. No respectable network should bother attending the HucksterBee Show.

Total waste of airtime and reporters' salaries.

[Grasswire2]

9. that's not the point

The point of the press attending briefings and pool sprays is to exercise, every damned time, the right of the people to question their president. Reporters preserve that right by showing up. By repudiating intimidation. They stand between the people and tyranny by doing so.

[lagomorph777]

10. Why bother asking - the answers are ALWAYS lies. Watch what they do, not what they say.

[Grasswire2]

11. you still didn't get the point

The point is to exercise the right to question authority. To preserve it.

[lagomorph777]

17. Fine, yes. But we don't need to watch the shit-fest on TV - it's 100% lies and I'd rather hear

from INVESTIGATIVE journalists.

[MadDAsHell]

20. But they're not questioning the President.

They’re questioning some stooge who we’re all supposed to believe “answers” for the President. It’s a joke and has been for decades

[NewJeffCT]

8. so, instead of banned?

they used what, "prohibited" or "forbid" or "We are disinclined to allow you access to the next briefing"

[Mr. Ected]

13. "So, to rephrase sir: was she permitted by the White House to attend the public event?"

No?

Then she was banned.

Why does the press allow these liars to control the narrative?

[George II]

14. "You will never ever ever be allowed in here again, but you're not banned!"

[Snellius]

15. "Fox News slams Bill Shine for banning CNN reporter" - NY Post

Fox News slammed one of its former top executives, White House communications director Bill Shine, for banning a CNN reporter from a press event after she shouted questions at President Trump.

“We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press,” Fox News president Jay Wallace said late Wednesday.

The network’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, also took the White House to task for banning reporter Kaitlan Collins from an event in the Rose Garden.

“As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access,” Baier said on “Special Report.”

https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/fox-news-slams-bill-shine-for-banning-cnn-reporter/

[TeamPooka]

16. Shine is a deflection machine. Call him al liar and move on media.

[groundloop]

18. What a vile bastard (Spanky must be very proud of him)

Damn I can't wait until these fuckers are kicked out of the White House.

[marble falls]

19. He'll be selling penny stocks to our grandparents by phone out of a boiler room after

cheetolini falls early next spring after we turn Congress this November.