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What A Coincidence! Hours After Fox Criticism, Trump Bans Washington Post From Covering Him

Posted by Ellen -7841.60pc on June 13, 2016 · Flag

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As I previously posted, Fox's Howard Kurtz criticized The Washington Post for correctly calling out Donald Trump's attempt to link President Obama to the Orlando shooting. A few hours later, Trump decided to ban The Post from his campaign. UPDATED

A few hours ago, I posted about Kurtz's criticism of a Washington Post headline, accurately titled, "Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting." Kurtz gave a pass to Trump's awful comments about President Obama as well as the "secret Muslim" dog whistle Trump blew to - yes, connect Obama to the shooting. Instead, Kurtz complained about the "awful" WaPo headline.

Lo and behold, Donald Trump just happened to take exception to The Washington Post, too! But he didn't just complain. Mr. "Make America Great Again" decided to ban one of the country's largest and most important newspapers from his campaign.

Trump announced this attack on The First Amendment via Facebook and Twitter:

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Think Fox News will wake up and smell the fascism? Don't hold your breath.

UPDATE: In a tweet, Kurtz seemed to take credit for Trump's decision, saying, "I criticized WashPost for 'Donald Trump Seems to Connect President Obama to Orlando Shooting.' That's why Trump has banned paper from events" Kurtz also mildly criticized Trump for banning The Post: "Trump says WP 'has put its need for 'clicks' above journalistic integrity.' But I think unfair to ban paper for one writer's bad headline"

Donald Trump vulture graphic by DonkeyHotey via Creative Commons license. 

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Ray Michaels commented 2016-06-15 06:38:16 -0400 · Flag
I remember back when White House talked about banning FOX from press conferences all the main stream media rushed to their defense crying foul! So Trump has been banning media left and right and no one says a word?
David Lindsay commented 2016-06-14 07:38:25 -0400 · Flag
Howard Kurtz used to be the referee on the media at CNN. He wasn’t any good at it there either.
john howard commented 2016-06-14 07:16:20 -0400 · Flag
This is so much BS from a has been and a never will be.
Bemused commented 2016-06-14 05:39:24 -0400 · Flag
Looks like the Drumpf’s on the road to implosion. He is so thin-skinned that he has to BAN a major media operation from his presence? Wow, just WOW!

I watched both Clinton’s and Trump’s speeches yesterday, and found a bit of solace in both. Clinton was substantive and informative, steady, calm, while Trump – despite the teleprompters – wandered about, lost track and contradicted himself repeatedly. He was also and visibly uncomfortable on getting timid applause and started reading fast when there was no applause at all. The guy can’t help himself: he’s a victim of his own temperament.

After two days of being practically glued to CNN (too chicken to watch Fox), I feel pity (well, not really, it’s more like a perverse form of glee) for the Radicalised Christian Fundamentalists (RFCs) as they struggle to express solidarity with the LGBT community. Some politicans can’t even say LGBT without dropping their voice and Trump got it wrong both times he tried. The usual evangelical opinion leaders are avoiding the spotlight as they try to choose between two objects of hatred.

Off-topic: Apart from the fact that a ban on a religion would be un-Constitutional, I wonder if Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims might not be applicable to him, personally. After all, Germany/ Prussia was a serious factor of disturbance in Europe for several centuries leading up to the two World Wars when posters all over the USA warned people about the “fifth column”. Applying Trump’s own logic, Germans should have been banned from entry into the US and those already in the country (including all their children) should be sent back to Germany.
David Lindsay commented 2016-06-13 21:23:00 -0400 · Flag
If it’s his campaign bus or campaign plane, I would think he could and would. But a more public venue, he will have to suffer the slings and arrows of the fifth estate.
Barbara S commented 2016-06-13 21:07:57 -0400 · Flag
Is he able to do that?
David Lindsay commented 2016-06-13 21:04:38 -0400 · Flag
I wonder if the major news outlets are gonna peel off 1 by 1 til November, leaving only a skinny bare naked Faux the only one fit to cover the Donald.

The Donkey Hotey graphic is weird but good. Fitting.








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