{"id":32038,"date":"2018-08-31T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32038"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:25:52","slug":"such-ignorance-about-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32038","title":{"rendered":"Such ignorance about the First Amendment …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here’s a bit of unsettling news: 44 percent of Republicans believe Donald Trump should have the authority to shutter news outlets for “bad behavior; what’s more, 12 percent of Democrats share that idiotic view.<\/p>\n

The polling was done by Ipsos and it sends a chill up my spine. It should send tremors throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

The president is angry with media outlets that report news he finds disagreeable. He has implied a desire to close them down if they continue to report completely the news about his administration.<\/p>\n

Let me remind us all here about something that needs no reminder: The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the media from this kind of government interference, intimidation and intolerance.<\/p>\n

It speaks to freedom of religion, political expression, peaceable assembly and a “free press.”<\/p>\n

The First Amendment says Congress shall “make no law” that interferes with a free press. Period. End of story.<\/p>\n

Yet nearly half of GOP voters and more than a tenth of Democrats think it’s OK for the president to coerce the media and shut ’em down if they p** him off.<\/p>\n

Frightening, man.<\/p>\n\n

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Here’s a bit of unsettling news: 44 percent of Republicans believe Donald Trump should have the authority to shutter news outlets for “bad behavior; what’s more, 12 percent of Democrats share that idiotic view. The polling was done by Ipsos and it sends a chill up my spine. It should send tremors throughout the nation. … Continue reading Such ignorance about the First Amendment …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,1738,3659,5043],"class_list":["post-32038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-amendment","tag-polling","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32039,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions\/32039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}