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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Acosta: I've just been denied entrance to the WH. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter
Ive just been denied entrance to the WH. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the WH grounds for my 8pm hit
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From SHS:
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spanone
(135,816 posts)write good things about me or nothing at all.
square on the nail.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)You're now being allowed to be used politically? What a blow. Your job is to protect the president , not be his bouncer.
Another anti-democratic practice lifted from earlier nazis.
elmac
(4,642 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I don't know if those agents stayed with him, or did they get a bunch of newbie proud boys.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...plus, do you think Trump would use the same agents that Obama did?
bluestarone
(16,900 posts)How much more can we take?
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)they are in fact sh*t-heads themselves.
This would be unbelievably pathetic if it was anyone but Trump. B/c it IS Trump, it's sadly quite believable.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)and that the other media outlets stop sending their people too. As much as he claims to hate the media it would really fry Tiny's ass if nobody showed up for his phony press conferences - because he lives for media coverage. He just doesn't want it ever to be critical.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Wrong wrong wrong.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)MontanaMama
(23,302 posts)they allow themselves to be used and abused in this manner. The should ALL boycott this pResident and SHS. There is no other option.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,318 posts)Excellent.
Might be an echo around here.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Trump @PressSec confirms that White House has suspended the hard pass of a reporter because it doesn't like the way he does his job. This is something I've never seen since I started covering the White House in 1996. Other presidents did not fear tough questioning.
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MelissaB
(16,420 posts)As a result of todays incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice.
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LisaM
(27,800 posts)W wouldn't call on Helen Thomas.
mwooldri
(10,302 posts)LisaM
(27,800 posts)But he treated her poorly.
brewens
(13,566 posts)DC Sarah. No way they should tolerate his behavior. They need to demand he keep his mouth shut and let them finish their questions, then respectfully answer. It does no good to ask him anything worthwhile anyway.
Onward AND Upward
(122 posts)and he will start acting out and make a serious mistake(s). Starve the Monster.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)It is the obligation of the free watchdog press to question the president on behalf of the American people.
Boycotting that obligation would mean an administration like this one could end press privileges.
That's why our dutiful reporters lay down a marker for history every day that the First Amendment was honored, the people were served, and the Constitution remains.
Hands off the free press.
AJT
(5,240 posts)The reporters should report on what is really happening in the White House, not the lies being fed to them. The press doesn't need access to a serial liar and his toadies. Report the truth.
brewens
(13,566 posts)being booted out. It's like if you have big trouble on the job, it's really better to make them fire you sometimes. I've mostly worked at places that never contested unemployment that I knew of, so that usually worked out.
Getting kicked out and having video evidence that it was over a legitimate question is probably better than being part of a boycott.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,318 posts)I should've read before posting -- echoed your call down-thread.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Without daily fertilizing.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,318 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Something that IQ45 can't touch. He's excelled and exceeded his reporter's position...on to bigger and better things. Thanks to The Idiot, his name is well known.
bluestarone
(16,900 posts)MontanaMama
(23,302 posts)than the remaining press to act like puppies waiting for a treat as suggested on this thread. Acosta wont be the lastto be blacklisted. SHS and Orange Shit Stain will focus on someone else...then what?
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)For no real purpose...SHS has taken the role into the absurd, just as her boss has done with the presidency. Many times I've wondered why they all genuflect, more or less, at this vacous task.
It's one of those things...what if they held a press conference and no one showed up. I mean, have we every learned ANYTHING from these, other than watching shameless verbal combat?
I know it's too much to ask, but it does bear some reflection on the dinosaur relationship between the WH and the Press. Merely a charade. Time for the "enemy" to to feint and let them fall to the ground in humiliation.
Cha
(297,123 posts)There some brainwashed trumphans giving him shit on there.
catbyte
(34,367 posts)received from TRUMPRAVDA, er, Fox News, on a daily basis for eight years. The press' refusal to kiss Il Douche's ass is the First Amendment at its finest.
Cha
(297,123 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)As it was originally.
The politicos of the Press Office should have no authority over the free press.
See FB page "People's Bill Of Rights For White House Transparency"
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,318 posts)All news agencies should boycott the White House until Daddy's Boy Donnie learns to play nice.
(It wouldn't be fair to boycott until he learns his job, because that would require him to learn the Constitution and he's not capable).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have an idea. How about the MSM stop covering him altogether? Just make shit up about him while he's not there. He's going to accuse them of lying no matter what they say, so they should just say whatever they want about him.
thin skin. (Trump)
You go Jim Acosta don't back down.
malaise
(268,885 posts)Media
brettdale
(12,376 posts)This is not just big news, this is fuckin scary what Trump has just
done in the past hour.
As for sarah sanders calling his behavior disgusting, Im at a lost.
Within a year, the only reporters there will be Sean hannity and Jesse Watters.
912gdm
(959 posts)I fear April Ryan is next.
Basement Beat
(659 posts)His fellow colleagues would tweet support but just feel great it wasn't them. There is zero solidarity in this field. Everyone is just too busy trying to get their "gotcha" moment. Hell, just look at how April Ryan is consistently treated and reports asking questions afterward doesn't even acknowledge how she's being disrespected.
Nothing will change with them until it's too late.
musicblind
(4,484 posts)He immediately took up for Jim Acosta and defended his honor.
Takket
(21,552 posts)i wish Acosta's peers would do the right thing and refuse to cover drumpf anymore, but they will never give up that access.
if they wind up accusing him of some sort of assault for touching an intern, he should sue for slander.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)He struts around like he's some tough guy but can't handle questions from a real reporter.
Peace
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)UTUSN
(70,674 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Covering the President is news.
Covering THIS President is fake news.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)They could do the investigation and make the American people aware of what trump is and what the republicans are.