Barack Hussein Obama, speaking to a crowd of college students the other day, raised a fascinating subject out loud.
The 44th president of the United States wondered, “What if I did any of this?” He explained himself. “What if I had banned Fox News” from the White House briefing room? The outcry from the right, he said, would be vociferous.
He is correct. What’s more, the right would have been justified in expressing anger at a president banning a media organization from access it was giving to other such media outlets.
Then he went on. He noted how Donald Trump has banned some news outlets that have been critical of his policies from access to White House sources. “It’s not a partisan issue,” President Obama said. “It’s about who we are as a culture,” he added.
Indeed, the very people who would be angry as hell at a Democratic president doing such an outrageous thing have grown silent as their guy, Trump, seeks to silence The Associated Press, CNN and MSNBC as they seek to cover the events dictated by the current president.
Obama also noted that “a good many of my predecessors” would be aghast at what is transpiring these days within the White House now run by Trump, the MAGA morons who back him and Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth.
Trump has declared his desire to see MSNBC taken apart. By whom or what, he doesn’t say. The implication, though, is clear. He wants to sic the government on the left-leaning network. Trump, who is astonishingly ignorant of the Constitution, seemingly doesn’t know that the First Amendment declares that a “free press” must be kept free of any government interference.
President Obama was spot on in delivering his rhetorical question. He is right to question aloud where we are as a culture that allows people to accept as normal the machinations of a wildly out-of-control chief executive who exhibits every sign imaginable of wanting to run this country as a dictator.
I’ll keep this one short. It doesn’t need much thought.
Interesting take considering you chastised me a while back for “whataboutisms”. Again, the hypocrisy continues.
Yeah, but admit it: You’d be all over BHO if he banned Fox from the White House press room. You’d be right to do so. i would, too. Your silence on DJT’s banning of the AP is stunning … and so instructive.
No silence from me. I don’t write a blog. As far as I know, AP is back in the room. If they are going to report lies, they should be banned. The AP is so far left they can’t even see the center. They were once a fairly middle of the road news source. Now, they have zero right leaning editors or reporters. They had to admit this to congress.
FYI… I voted for BHO for his first term.