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Sunday, February 19, 2017

A Bit More on Media Sycophant McCain

How soon McCain forgot that the press turned on him as soon as he was running for President against  the black guy. They would have turned on him anyway, in favor of any Democrat. Trump is openly criticizing the media to its face. Obama was undermining and, at times illegally, using the massive power of government to silence the media he didn't like. McCain is still the fool and he always has been. m/r

Where was McCain when Obama attacked the free press?


By Monica Showalter  February 19, 2017

Senator John McCain poured it on for the press at a Munich defense conference Saturday, warning in a veiled attack on President Trump that attacks on the press are a leading danger for democracy. “That's how dictators are made!” he shrieked. It was rich stuff, given that most of his European listeners do not have the same wide press freedoms found in the states. But more to the point, it was McCain up to his old tricks: Ingratiating himself to the anti-Trump press by playing its champion, in a bid to be the media's darling.
What stands out here is the hypocrisy of his claims. He's suddenly concerned about press freedoms and dictators?
Where was McCain when President Obama was systematically violating press freedoms every which way to Tuesday?
Seven examples of Obama's attacks on a free press spring to mind and not one of them drew any significant criticism from McCain.
Where was McCain when Fox News correspondent James Rosen was illegally followed around by Obama's Department of Justice in 2013 over a story he published on North Korean activities? It was a clear-cut example of reporters just doing their jobs, even as someone in government was leaking the story, but Team Obama went after Rosen with the Espionage Act. ...

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