My "WTF?" of the day, CPAC edition...

[Archae]

By the way, this is the same asshole who narrated Carly Fiorina's "demon sheep" ad.

Actor Robert Davi Calls For Jailing Reporters Who Spread Lies About ‘Virtuous Political Candidates’ Like Trump

By Kyle Mantyla | February 25, 2017 10:51 am

Speaking today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), actor Robert Davi called for the passage of laws that would jail reporters for spreading false information about “the very best of our American heroes,” like President Trump.

Davi claimed that in Ancient Rome, anti-calumny laws made it “impossible to spread false rumors or lies against upstanding and virtuous political candidates” and called for such laws to be enacted in America.

“Let’s go back to Ancient Rome,” David said, “because if such laws existed today, we would see more men like Donald Trump and Mike Pence running for Congress or the Senate or the presidency and more fake reporters perhaps going to prison for the very lies they make up to commit cruel character assassination against the very best of our American heroes.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/actor-robert-davi-calls-for-jailing-reporters-who-spread-lies-about-virtuous-political-candidates-like-trump/

[SHRED]

1. That guy needs a rubber room and a straight jacket.

[radical noodle]

2. I wonder if he's considered that Hillary

would have won if it were illegal to spread lies about politicians?

[MrScorpio]

3. And he wonders why he never scores gigs anymore.

[Else You Are Mad]

4. So...

They want to turn America into North Korea?

Funny, these idiots don't realize that if these laws were in effect under Obama's two terms, we would be much better off because they wouldn't be able to bog down the administration with bullshit lies.

[stevenleser]

5. My response to him on Twitter

Link to tweet

[angstlessk]

6. Hell, and we thought the repugs wanted to go back to the 1950's or 20's or even to 1860?

They want to go back to days of Caesars!

[Turbineguy]

7. Go back to ancient Rome?

As my 5th grade teacher used to tell students, "The Romans would have thrown you in the Tiber by now!"

[underpants]

9. Is Trump going to pull a Caligula?

In this case Bannon gets appointed to the Senate not a horse.

[Archae]

10. Well, bannon is a horse's ass...

[underpants]

24. Thank you that's the joke I was looking for.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. He's mainstream

This is normal in the Republican Party. And Trump has been suggesting journalists go to jail for a long time. It's a matter of when not if they start throwing journalists in jail for this administration.

People still don't see that we are dealing with a full fascists dictatorship at its early stages. Wait until Trump launches a war and some journalist criticizes it, he'll go after one to make an example of. It is going to happen.

[EarthFirst]

20. I consume a vast amount of information in a day, sometimes in the deep corners of the internet...

While I am adverse to giving them the web traffic, it helps to gauge the pulse of the incredibly dangerous elements that exist within the Republican Party.

There are numerous OpEds published which openly call for the press to be criminally held with sedition against our nation.

I do not feel that you are wrong in your own opinions that jailing the press is not far from where we stand now with this administration.

These calls for incarceration of the press are being made every day by constituents of these politicians, and i personally feel that they are not falling upon deaf ears.

A truly terrifying moment in history that we are watching unfold...

[Johnny2X2X]

21. Trump himself has said as much

He's talked openly about "dire consequences" for the press who dare oppose him. And he's talked openly about changing the legal system so they can be punished.

Everything we are seeing from this fascist regime right now will be ten fold more extreme when the wars come. Trump is cruising for a major war and he'll manufacture an excuse to invade someone soon enough. People lost their jobs for daring to question Bush in the build up to Iraq. Trump will throw people in prison for opposing his invasions, mark my words. The real goal for them though is public executions for dissidents and those considered enemies of Trump (and thus to the government, enemies of America).

There may not be a political solution to these monsters.

[Bettie]

11. There is no point in lying about Drumph

becasue the truth is far worse than anything we could imagine.

[luvMIdog]

12. I'd rather jail Trump for telling lies about President Obama

[Squinch]

13. He and Chachi should go on the road together. And go away.

[Snarkoleptic]

14. I'm sure he was screaming at the top of his lungs when Drumpf questioned Obama's birth cert

and entire RW media circus was built on his claims.

[dalton99a]

15. Bingo!

[Vinca]

16. I've never heard of this guy before - apparently he doesn't get in front of a camera much.

I would love for him to explain how Trump is an "American hero." When his chance came to serve he cried "bone spur" and went skiing. Since becoming POTUS, he casually signed off on a dangerous military mission over dinner and didn't bother to go to the Situation Room to see if it was successful, opting instead to tweet about a television show. A Navy Seal died. Civilians died. Expensive equipment was lost. "Hero" is the very last word that can be used to describe Trump.

[rockfordfile]

17. That actor sounds un-American

[Yavin4]

18. My question is...who is Robert Davi?

And what has he done?

[mnmoderatedem]

25. he was once a villain in a James Bond movie.

now he's just a villain.

[dalton99a]

32. Very important actor, extremely famous celebrity.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Ancient Rome??!!

Why not just renovate the old Colosseum and stock it with hungry lions?

[Initech]

22. Snowflakes, the whole damn lot of them!

[Horse with no Name]

23. IF that is the case...the entire right wing media echo chamber

would be jailed for lying continually about Obama.

[AJT]

26. If we jailed journalists and politicians for spreading

fake news, and falsehoods doesn't he understand that Brietbart, Jones, Fox news and most of the current occupants of the Whitehouse would be in jail?

[Chevy]

27. Yes because Rome worked out so well. *shrug* n/t

[Stuart G]

28. k and r...nt

[Mr. Ected]

29. But what would right wingers do when everyone at FOX is frog-marched to prison?

Who could accuse Barack Obama of being a Muslim traitor? Who could call out Hillary for being a murderer?

There's a lot of words I associate with Trump, but "virtuous" will never be one of them.

[Takket]

30. WTF???????????????

[3catwoman3]

31. Upstanding and virtuous?

Trumplethinskin?