If you think about it, it’s actually pretty hilarious that the mainstream media gets their panties so twisted over Trump’s claim that “fake news is the enemy of the people.”
Isn’t getting offended by this claim as good as an admission that they are, indeed, fake news?
Trump never said the First Amendment was the enemy of the people. He certainly never said the press was the enemy of the people. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure he’s never even said the mainstream media is the enemy of the people, a sentiment which this author would quite comfortably state.
No, he’s only said the fake news is the enemy of the people, and if you’re old enough to remember 2016, it was actually the mainstream media that started using the term “fake news”, claiming that “fake news” sites like The Onion and literally every conservative website in the history of the internet were dangerous and, well, essentially the enemy of the people.
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Still, either willfully ignoring or blissfully unaware of the hilarious irony, hundreds of mainstream media forces joined together this week to share the same sentiment that the press is still independent.
Sure, keep telling yourself that, said Twitter:
The press is still free. But it is no longer good. #FreePress
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) August 16, 2018
We have a free press. But we also have an effeminate press that considers itself to be above reproach. That's not how it works. Criticism is a two-way street. #FreePress
— Mike S. Adams (@MikeSAdams) August 16, 2018
If it's a #FreePress, how come you're all saying the same thing? https://t.co/uzf1qT14cv
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) August 15, 2018
I’ll jump on board this #FreePress train when CNN’s Chris Cuomo grills his brother over his comments today.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 16, 2018
And I find it really rich that the American press would coordinate demands for the protection of the free press and more often than not define the Christians exercising their first amendment rights as the bad guys.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) August 16, 2018
"Free press gets a boost from people who voted to change the #1A to allow the govt to ban a documentary critical of Hillary" https://t.co/RQcEQCCnuK
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 16, 2018
How bout you start talking about the biggest conservative voices getting censored and shut down if you wanna talk about the “Free Press”
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 16, 2018
The only press outlets under attack are independent media – under attack from the very same blue check marks & mainstream corporate networks whining about press freedoms.
The sheer audacity of their hypocrisy.#FreePress
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 16, 2018
Even POTUS himself weighed in, clarifying once and for all what dummies the mainstream media are:
There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018
H/T Western Journal
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