A MESSAGE TO WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS

[PJMcK]

You must not attend the White House Christmas party!

The attacks on the First Amendment by Trump and his administration threaten your very existence and mission. You must not normalize this.

The exclusion of reporters because Trump doesn't like their views is damaging to a free press.

Trump has incited violence against reporters.

What more evidence do you need? You're not being invited to the party to report on it, you're being schmoozed. Don't fall for it.

You must send a message to this White House that their attacks on the free press are unacceptable and un-American.

Stand united against these fascist actions.

[Achilleaze]

1. Make or break time for corporate "journalists"

Will they continue in submissive stenography to Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, and his cabal of KGOP republican cronies?

Or will they stand in principled solidarity against the daily onslaught of republican lies, and turn their backs - and asses - on the republican lie & crime & treason machine that they have let use them shamefully?

Will White House correspondents take a stand for truth?

[gratuitous]

3. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns

But the White House correspondents showed a remarkable capacity for abuse and self-abasement during W's administration. Trump is even worse, but I have yet to see a concerted effort by the reporters to stand up to any of the abuse. When they didn't object to right wing jackoff ideologues like Lars Larson skyping in to the daily pressers so they could fawn over the administration, it shouldn't surprise them that the administration saw that as a new floor instead of an upper limit.

[RKP5637]

5. The WH reporters have become more note takers than questioners. When I watch they seem meek. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

37. But they're also not supposed to be like cross-examiners, seeking to trick the President.

No matter who is in the White House. Ask hard questions, jot down the answers, ask follow-up questions, jot down the answers. Report all that. They are not supposed to be in the business of arguing with the W.H. It's not supposed to be an antagonistic exercise. We're all on the same side.

But yes...those who ask hard questions, and follow-up questions, sometimes get disinvited by THIS W.H. As Stephen Miller said, "We will not be questioned!"

[RKP5637]

38. Yes, and what you discussed in your last sentence will fray the open press apart.

"As Stephen Miller said, "We will not be questioned!" That, is a dictatorial statement if ever and invites a totalitarian form of government ... which I think is the agenda in some GOP circles.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Yes. That was really shocking, and will stay in the anals of history to show the kind

to show the kind of administration we had for a short while, thanks to traitorous collusion with a foreign enemy.

That clip of Miller saying that will haunt him the rest of his life. He even looks like a Nazi while saying it. "Ve vill NOT be qvestioned!"

[RKP5637]

40. Miller IMO looks/acts like he's cast right out of WWII Germany. He's creepy! n/t

[SusanaMontana41]

44. Straight out of 1933. eom

[annabanana]

2. Seriously this! . . . Attending social functions on command of the White House

paints the media as completely servile. I can't imagine it would be anything other than an uncomfortable, cringe inducing evening...

[heaven05]

4. they'll be there

sucking up to the fascist-in-chief. No doubts. Skinnin' and grinnin'....all anyone will see is gums..... If they boycott en mass, then it will show they are trying to get out from under that heel of the monster they, in a large part, are responsible for creating by allowing that abomination to use them to spread his hate to his 66 million bots that follow him....

Fall of ameriKKKan empire is underway. With this administration dismantling our democracy in favor of their greed and white racist hate, we won't recover anytime soon...maybe, if we can get this POS out of office soon, a couple of generations.

[RKP5637]

7. Well said! IMO it's time for the press to say an en masse fuck you to Trump and his regime. I'm so

fed up with much of the media knuckling under to this ass in the WH and being subservient. Someone has to tell him to fuck off!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. WAYYY overdue!! (Still not gonna happen.)

[SusanaMontana41]

45. I could hardly believe they let their children

visit Trumpf on Halloween, during which he slammed their parents and said he couldn’t believe their kids “didn’t have weight problems.”

That should have been the last straw (of many).

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

48. Missed that... unreal.

[0rganism]

6. on the other hand, what are the odds that it gets freaky out-of-hand?

it is, after all, the Trump WH Christmas party. you've seen how they decorate - emo as fuck, right? just imagine what creepy shit is going down at that "party". this has potential to be at least a 3 on the Frankenfurter scale.

"It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right"

[Scarsdale]

8. Maybe Maleria

can recruit some of her old co-workers to attend? They might be a little long in the tooth by now, but maybe they have daughters?

[old guy]

31. We should be ashamed for thinking this.

But I'm not.

[keithbvadu2]

43. Easy, there... Roy Moore would show upl

Then again, Dotard might keep him out for fear of competition for young girls.

[VOX]

46. I can easily see an Eyes Wide Shut party at Mar-A-Lago.

But you’ll pardon me if I go outside and spew, after such a stomach-turning thought.

[eShirl]

9. never collaborate with fascists

[spanone]

10. they will go and they will laugh it up when trump makes fun of them....

[KPN]

11. Excellent statement. With you 100%, but sadly ...

too little, too late. When we see articles like "If North Korea fires a nuclear missile at the U.S., how could it be stopped?" in yesterday's Washington Post, this regime has already been normalized.

The media as a whole is complicit in this on-going take down of democracy, free speech, fair elections and the American people by this fascist pig and the oligarchs who created an environment ripe and ready for fascist control.

[zentrum]

12. They must stand up now.

If they ever believed in anything in the first amendment---now is the time to show it.

[Delmette2.0]

13. The reporters should boycott the party.

They are at the WH to work, to do their job. They are not required to attend parties to make nice with 45. Just stay at the office and have a Christmas party.

[world wide wally]

14. Why are the cable news shows airing Trumps campaign speeches constantly

I don't recall them ever doing that for anyone else.

[notdarkyet]

17. That's why I quit watching tv. Every day trump and shs. Don't like to

See or hear either of them.

[Paladin]

15. X 1000. Thank you. (nt)

[PJMcK]

23. Your welcome

And thank you!

[MrsCoffee]

16. The same reporters who cowered in a room with trash bags covering the windows while Trump golfed?

Don't expect much.

[herding cats]

18. Apparently a lot of reporters aren't even invited.

I saw some talking about it this morning on twitter.

[lsewpershad]

19. When next they are insulted

They should all walk out of the press briefing.

[PJMcK]

24. Why do they even go to the briefings?

Sanders does nothing but lie to and snarl at the press corps.

They should just not show up anymore. That would send a direct message.

[Zambero]

20. Trump broke precedent earlier this year

as a no-show to the annual White House Correspondent's dinner. He intends to pick and choose the circumstances for engaging journalists, making certain that he has a clear upper hand, where no "damage" will ensue. This might appear to be a subtle break from normalcy, but it is part of a pattern to isolate the truth.

[2naSalit]

30. +1

[MurrayDelph]

22. I just Tweeted Samantha Bee

the following:

@iamsambee Since @AprilDRyan has been non-invited to the White House Christmas Party,
I think you and she should host an alternate Correspondents' Christmas Party, where you
could celebrate You-know-Who's birthday AND the First Amendment.

[PJMcK]

25. Be sure to invite the entire White House press corps

It would be awesome if they bailed from the White House and attended your suggested party instead.

[MurrayDelph]

29. You are correct

I meant White House Press Corps.

Thanks.

[watoos]

26. Now would be the time

for the M$M to stand with CNN and not go. They have a choice to take a stand or rub elbows with a tyrant who wants to obliterate them.
My guess is that the press' corporate overlords will demand they go. I doubt that the individual reporters will have a choice. I can envision Trump tearing CNN a new one at this banquet. What will those present do, applaud?

[left-of-center2012]

28. They should have their own party

Have a 'Trump' Santa handing out gifts to the top 1%.

[Achilleaze]

32. !

[Doitnow]

36. Handing out? He more likely would be throwing out bundles of money at them.

[NastyRiffraff]

33. NO reputable media outlet should attend

CNN has already said they won't go; let's hear it from the rest: MSNBC, the broadcast networks, etc. etc.

Fox can take Breitbart as its date.

[DesertRat]

34. K&R

[Doitnow]

35. Anybody think Dump would attend a party where he would be sure to be ridiculed----in earnest? He wil

probably cancel it like he did the performing arts and the Nobel prize affairs.

[kairos12]

41. Journalists will sell their ethics for free food and booze.

[PJMcK]

47. What ethics? (n/t)

[keithbvadu2]

42. Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required. Trump supporters

“Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.” Trump supporters

The Man Behind ‘Journalist, Rope, Tree’

We tracked down the guy selling shirts advocating for the lynching of journalists.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-man-behind-journalist-rope-tree


Walmart shut 'em down selling on their website.