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De Blasio lets security haul away Post reporter for asking question

TU Curmudgeon said:
From FOX News

De Blasio lets security haul away Post reporter for asking question
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Mayor de Blasio is a such a big believer in the free press that he let two bodyguards physically remove a credentialed Post reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question in public on Sunday.

The unusual muzzling unfolded at the start of the annual Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, where the reporter sought de Blasio’s reaction to The Post’s front page story about his administration’s many meetings with lobbyists.

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Wanna bet that most FOX News readers won't get all the way down to the "The incident was reminiscent of one last month when the White House barred a CNN reporter from a Rose Garden event for shouting “inappropriate” questions at President Trump in the Oval Office earlier in the day." bit before claiming that this is just another example of the left-wing fascist tactics of the Democrats.
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To a Liberal being hypocritical is considered a positive attribute?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
I'll never claim that the Republicans have cornered the market on hypocrisy.
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Then please feel free to call Blasio all the nasty crap people called trump.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
If BOTH sides are being hypocritical (and the supporters of each side take the position that they are "telling it like it is" while the other side is not), what does that say about the level of ethics involved in American political discourse?
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It tells us that we need to oust both parties. Unfortunately, they have the system rigged so that only one of the two of them can win, no one else.
 
ludin said:
Then please feel free to call Blasio all the nasty crap people called trump.
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If it were justified, I would.

Unfortunately Mr. de Blasio (NOT "Blasio") compares to Mr. Trump as the East Podunk Middle School Football team compares to the Green Bay Packers.

However, please feel free to heap the plaudits on Mr. De Blasio that you heap on Mr. Trump when he does the same things that Mr. de Blasio does.
 
Moderate Right said:
I don't watch foreign cartoons. This is the US. Do you have something to say about the US that isn't a cartoon?
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Two "minor" points:


  1. The fable (it was originally published as a book) is NOT "about the US"; and
  2. the fable doesn't mention ANY specific country at all.


While I appreciate that some people are of the opinion that NO ONE BUT AMERICANS is capable of rational thought, I happen to disagree with that opinion.

However, you have a perfect right to disregard any thoughts, ideas, or things which are not **1*0*0*%** **A*M*E*R*I*C*A*N** (as you appear to do).
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Two "minor" points:


  1. The fable (it was originally published as a book) is NOT "about the US"; and
  2. the fable doesn't mention ANY specific country at all.


While I appreciate that some people are of the opinion that NO ONE BUT AMERICANS is capable of rational thought, I happen to disagree with that opinion.

However, you have a perfect right to disregard any thoughts, ideas, or things which are not **1*0*0*%** **A*M*E*R*I*C*A*N** (as you appear to do).
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I deal in the real world, not fables and cartoons.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Nope, just someone who likes to point out the occasional "reality disconnect" between the headlines and the content in news items.

You did notice that what Mr de Blasio did is (essentially) what Mr Trump did (and which FOX News did not condemn when Mr. Trump did it) - didn't you?
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You posted this not to show what De Blasio, but to point to Trump doing something similar?

Wow man, you have it bad.
 
Mason66 said:
You posted this not to show what De Blasio, but to point to Trump doing something similar?

Wow man, you have it bad.
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If Mr. Trump had not done something similar then there wouldn't have been any point in attempting to point out the hypocrisy of one side condemning something, would there?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
How sad for you not to be able to comprehend similes, metaphors, allegories, and the like.
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When that's all you've got for proof then you have no proof. Carry on living in your cartoon world.
 
akyron said:
Actually the network came out the same day against banning reporters. As they should have.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/fox-news-slams-bill-shine-for-banning-cnn-reporter/

"“We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press,” Fox News president Jay Wallace said late Wednesday.

The network’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, also took the White House to task for banning reporter Kaitlan Collins from an event in the Rose Garden.

“As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access,” Baier said on “Special Report.”"

CNN correspondent blocked from White House press event | Fox News

"Fox News President Jay Wallace said the network stood with CNN.

“We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press," Wallace said."
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I cannot comment on Jay Wallace but Bret Baier is just a regular professional reporter who just happens to like working at the Fox network. He'd probably be comfortable anywhere.

Escorting reporters out of a press conference is wrong no matter who does it.
We should strive to do it as little as possible, if ever.
 
Moderate Right said:
When that's all you've got for proof then you have no proof. Carry on living in your cartoon world.
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If you are one of the mice that is content to live under alternating regimes of "Rule by the Black Cats" and "Rule by the White Cats", who am I to say you nay.
 
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