Brian Karem: Press Vs. President, No One Wins

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http://www.playboy.com/articles/donald-trump-free-press

In the Battle of Press Vs. President, No One Wins
By Brian Karem

July 6, 2017


We are divided as a nation as we’ve not been since the beginning of the Civil War. We’ve divided into two camps – at least – of individuals who believe in the absolute rightness of their cause and the absolute evil of the opposition.

We’ve forgotten that United We Stand and Divided We Fall. We’ve abandoned the principle that I hold dear: we may disagree with what you say but will defend to death your right to say it.

Hatred and anger have overtaken the national debate. The intense light of the television camera has furthered the divide, creating rhetoric aimed at reinforcing our own prejudices.

In our divided past, we looked to people like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and others for guidance and words to heal and bring us together. But our current president, Donald Trump, is such a polarizing force of nature that to mention his name either provokes waves of hysteria aimed at ending his presidential existence or chants of determined worship.

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Last week Playboy had enough with the press bashing, and I said so in a daily briefing that I believe was called for and put on camera merely to embarrass CNN specifically. Former presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted our current president has stepped over the line by calling the press the enemy of the people but said I went too far by calling him out on it.

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2. He's wrong. Trump wins.

Because the conversation is about his War on the Media, and not about his campaign's collusion with Russia, Wikileaks, and the Intertube's most loathesome trolls.

Trump wins through division, through perpetuating and exacerbating the demonization of Liberalism and Progressive thought.

We don't hate Trump for no reason; we hate him BECAUSE OF HIS ACTIONS. I won't defend to the death Conservatism's right to purchase all the airwaves and fill them with propaganda.