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WH ignores 1st Amendment of Constitution

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by coleg, Feb 12, 2025.

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  1. Feb 12, 2025 #1
    coleg

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    White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on 'Gulf of America'
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    Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)


    NEW YORK (AP) — The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.

    The reporter, whom the AP would not identify, tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away. Later, a second AP reporter was barred from a late-evening event in the White House Diplomatic Room.

    The highly unusual ban, which Trump administration officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free-speech implications.

    Control of what the free press publishes is important to all the best fascists. Watch for a "new" government press agency headed by Bannon to become the official Pravda.
     
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  2. Feb 12, 2025 #2
    cocodrilo

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    Isn't it kind of disrespectful to wear a hat in the Oval Office, especially when standing right by the President's desk? Unless, of course, you literally wear the hat in the Oval Office, and you're letting the President sit at your desk.
     
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  3. Feb 12, 2025 #3
    slocala

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    OP should provide a comment.

    The WH not allowing the AP into a press briefing is just being petty. The US calls it the Gulf of America now. Who cares. The rest of the globe calls it Gulf of Mexico. Who cares. The AP’s gets paid to be in that briefing and report. If the WH doesn’t allow questions from certain news outlets, that tells me more about the WH than the AP.
     
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  4. Feb 12, 2025 #4
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    OT response to your OT post :oops:

    The irony that Elon talked about unelected bureaucrats while he himself is an unelected bureaucrat.
     
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  5. Feb 12, 2025 #5
    cocodrilo

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    How is my post off topic when the photo in the link is of Musk wearing a hat in the Oval Office? I should not comment on a disgusting photo (including a hat or not) in a link?
     
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  6. Feb 12, 2025 #6
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    I removed the off topic rating. there are no rules here on what is off topic, on topic, or no topic!
     
  7. Feb 12, 2025 #7
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    The tan suit was far worse than the hat. :rolleyes:
     
  8. Feb 12, 2025 #8
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    Now Maga is turning on a conservative group (FIRE)
    Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
    it recently supported :
    "In a February 11 post on X, formerly Twitter, FIRE argued, "Punishing journalists for not adopting state-mandated terminology is an alarming attack on press freedom. That's viewpoint discrimination, and it's unconstitutional. President Trump has the authority to change how the U.S. government refers to the Gulf. But he cannot punish a news organization for using another term. The role of our free press is to hold those in power accountable, not to act as their mouthpiece. Any government efforts to erode this fundamental freedom deserve condemnation."

    MAGA Republicans were quick to attack FIRE, defending the barring of the AP reporter. And a group that many right-wing pundits applauded in the past for taking on progressive and liberal college administrators is now being slammed by Trump supporters."
     
  9. Feb 12, 2025 #9
    citygator

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    It's simple. Trump fired the people around him until they were all filled with ass kissers. He is looking to do that with the press too. A fat dumb man surrounds himself with people who tell him he is 220lbs and amazingly smart. lol. This makes for good TV.
     
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  10. Feb 12, 2025 #10
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    Even the Mods (really a Mod) start threads with "this is good", "this is bad", "this is interesting". Nothing is no worse than that. But I think his comment is the last line of the post.
     
  11. Feb 12, 2025 #11
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    Thank you. I should have compared the quote to the article to know the OP’s point. That was me being lazy.
     
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  12. Feb 12, 2025 #12
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    It's even less respectful to sniff your prey.

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  13. Feb 12, 2025 #13
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    Someone has JBDS (Joe Biden Derangement Syndrome). Even after he has become a footnote in history apparently some MAGATs continue to be obsessed with Biden.
     
  14. Feb 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM #14
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    LOL. DEI hire blabbering on about censoring the press. Her bad makeup job should be censored.

     
  15. Feb 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM #15
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    It’s the Trump White House so they probably weren’t aware there was a 1st Amendment.
     
  16. Feb 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM #16
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    It only applies to speech they approve of.
     
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  17. Feb 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM #17
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    This is a bigger battle for this WH/trump. Attacking the media. It’s textbook for authoritarianism. See Putin’s control over Russian media. Or other authoritarians in history.
     
  18. Feb 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM #18
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    while in my opinion it is a waste of time to ban them- the WH is free to ban whomever they want in the press room
     
  19. Feb 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM #19
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    The White House is free to invite or not invite whomever they want in the press room.
     
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  20. Feb 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM #20
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    So when the felon bans all media sources that do not print what he chooses... that will be fine as well?
     
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