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Pretty obvious he was avoiding the tough questions and the guy i the red jacket was much of a journalist really;more like a follower wanting to make brownie points.Can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.Another one running away from his Obama policy association.
Those media guys were more like Emanuel's Praetorian Guard. I've never seen such a more protective media with some of our politicans.
Which is why the press and the media in this country no longer functions as an institution for keeping government in check. The press so adulates upon high ranking political figures in order to gain coveted access. There was all but a brawl over who would get Helen Thomas's seat and anymore, the press serves little more than the PR wing of government.
"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." - Justice Black
Rahm Emmanuel avoided the questions and should not be allowed to run for Mayor. That being said, the guy filing the charges is a wimp. I've had guys take swings at me and I didn't file a police report. I just took a swing back. Jesus, makes Chicagoans look like sissies.
Rahm Emmanuel avoided the questions and should not be allowed to run for Mayor. That being said, the guy filing the charges is a wimp. I've had guys take swings at me and I didn't file a police report. I just took a swing back. Jesus, makes Chicagoans look like sissies.
We agree for once on the first statement.
Now the second statement I agree on somewhat,but you have to realize the "victim" is making a stand for a lot of people's good. He has balls. I support this guy all the way on many levels.
Which is why the press and the media in this country no longer functions as an institution for keeping government in check. The press so adulates upon high ranking political figures in order to gain coveted access. There was all but a brawl over who would get Helen Thomas's seat and anymore, the press serves little more than the PR wing of government.
"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." - Justice Black
NYT v. US
403 US 713
Witness the world's greatest propaganda ministry...
With the appearance of private sector independence, it camouflages its allegiance to the power structure.
No one dares speak against it.
Now the second statement I agree on somewhat,but you have to realize the "victim" is making a stand for a lot of people's good. He has balls. I support this guy all the way on many levels.
Guys who have balls never play the victim, especially if the case involves a verbal threat. Guys with balls would never run to the police and file a lawsuit over some comments made by a reporter. They would meet the guy in the parking lot and settle it man to man, not man to cops to courts. We've become a nation of wimps. Maybe this is feminism gone awry.
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