BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?

Subject: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 09:33 AM

BBC, Guardian, Politco, CNN, Daily Mail and others are banned from WH briefings by Spicer and may not ask any questions, The President will not be questioned.

The pressuring of Senate and house investigation to tell the press there is no Russia story as well as Priebus Chief of Staff telling two FBI officials to stop their investigation is the story that the President will not answer to.

We do not know what the AG Sessions will do.

If banning decrees seem to work for Trump we will see many more.

This sounds like a Miller and Bannon policy.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 09:48 AM

The Media is massively biased and too powerful, it requires urgent regulation......It only reflects the opinions of a small section of the population.....The "liberal" elite.

I have been watching CNN for a few months now, there is no alternative voice on that channel.
I have seen no Mainstream US news outlet which has consistently supported your new President.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 09:56 AM

Again, Ake, you are such a Trump apologist you don't understand what the fuck you're talking about. Better to be silent and not appear so foolish; learn from the people who live here and experience this disaster than to snipe from Scotland where you don't have a dog in this fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 09:57 AM

So only media who "consistently support" the President should be persona grata?   Is that what you're saying? And who gets to decide? Do apprise us.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:02 AM

If anyone here had any doubt that ake is a fascist, his last post should absolutely obliterate that doubt.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:10 AM

Ronald Reagan abolished the media fairness doctrine. Fox pretends it still exists with the fair and balanced nonsense.

The people in Congress who are suppose to run the investigation decided not to lie to the FBI and admitted they called the press telling them there is no Russia story. That is important. That should be the lead story, Banning the media is the reaction.

Journalists need only continue to do there job. We know Spicer whose job it is to lie, will not clarify truth in his briefings.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:14 AM

It was certainly a dreadful post, gillymor, that's for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:15 AM

I think the Media should reflect opinion equally
When EVERY outlet supports one faction then you have the seeds of Fascism.    Even Fox did its best to see Donald John defeated.

The establishment is strong, they band together, the last thing they support is democracy.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:22 AM

Acme.....you appear to think a huge section of the US electorate are very stupid indeed.....as stupid as me perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:25 AM

Good, what is the counter fact regarding the WH asking the chairmen if investigations to smother the Russian story by calling the press and tell them there is no story? They went ahead and did as asked.

THE Opposite of the truth is not an equal reflection of opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:27 AM

All things are not created equal, yet you would consider the lunatic view equal to the mainstream. The 97% of scientists who know that climate change is a real Thing are placed on equal footing with the 3% religious zealots who interpret scripture. We know better than to say it is an actual "debate" between scientists and crackpots. Again, you don't know what you're talking about.

You keep saying things you think are true, hoping if you say them often enough, they will be. If that fascist shoe fits, Ake, wear it.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:41 AM

When Comey and an agent admit to being ordered by the White House to stop investigating and when both Senate and House chairmen admit to the WH pressure to tell the press to lay off the Russia story it is a fact Not an opinion.
Of course they all could recant. And that too would then become a fact if they did so.

Folks this is an impeachable offense.

It is the same offense Nixon was charged as the first reason for his impeachment.

Trading Bannon trump for Pense is no gift.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 11:08 AM

"The Media is massively biased and too powerful, it requires urgent regulation."
By a fascist President - I don't think so!!!
".....as stupid as me perhaps?"
Nah - nobody's that stupid
"I have been watching CNN for a few months now,I have been watching CNN for a few months now,"
Would this be the same time as yo tune in to ANN COULTER ?
How do they compare?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 11:25 AM

Jim I suppose you remember the "good old days"...and some not so old days when the UK media mobbed every move towards the political Left, how Mr Corbyn is demonised in every paper, how the establishment howled in in horror and the media snapped into line when the people revolted over the policies of the EU.   Do you remember that Jim, how you used to damn the Fascist Press?

Well quadruple that and you have the American Media....all establishment lackeys to the core.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 11:29 AM

Although I rarely defend any of Twitler's actions, I have been reminded that, at one point, Fox News was excluded from White House press briefings by the Obama administration.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 11:55 AM

I have been watching CNN for a few months now, there is no alternative voice on that channel.

I presume you would want Kellyann Conway with her "alternative facts" (i.e., LIES) as that "Alternative Voice".


I have seen no Mainstream US news outlet which has consistently supported your new President.

That's not their job. They don't support Holocaust deniers or the KKK either.

Jesus wept.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 12:44 PM

" Do you remember that Jim, how you used to damn the Fascist Press?"
I never at any time condemned the press out of hand - nor did I describe it as fascist - certainly not all of it.
o you honestly believe all of this frightening shit has anything to do with truth?
I'm sure you watched as I dis, while Trumps experts declared his inauguration gathering at the White House the largest in American history - up against the to arial shorts of Trump's and Obama's showing Obama's massive lead.
And you would put our right to information in the hands of such a bunch of proven liars?
Trump has banished all but your "establishment lackeys" and replaced them with the likes of Ms Coulter.
I asked what was your alternative - I receive no reply, which was what I predicted.
You are one creepy individual - Mr Goebbels would have cherished your support
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 12:45 PM

They support the establishment, and you my friend should know that.
The establishment is the enemy of change, sometimes we need one step back to take two forward.
Party Politics are about to become obsolete in the UK, time to smell the coffee Greg.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 01:44 PM

"They support the establishment, and you my friend should know that."
Trump is the establishment and you are giving him theright to control the press
Not all of them do anyway - Trump is just removing the ones that don't support his establishment - you bloody well know that, which is why you won't give us your alternative
You rally are a fascist - and that is an analysis, not an insult
Go lok up the definition of the term, you'll find it in the same dictionary as "leberal"
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 02:16 PM

....as stupid as me perhaps?

It would be cruel of me to day that no-one is that stupid. But I can't resist it :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 02:19 PM

Once Obama had 2 reporters barred from one briefing over bad decorum issues.

He did not ban the LA Times NYTimes BBC Guardian Politico Daily Mail NYPost CNN and others as Trump did to hush the Russian Mess.

Who is next?

You suppose Jeff Sessions was told to stand down but never recuse himself?

Only Democratic Party organizations must be barred?
Perhaps Democrats will be decreed illegal like the Communist party was.

If Ake is happy to shut up and obey remember he was only following orders.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 05:35 PM

First they came for the climate scientists and I was not a climate scientist. Then they came for the huddled masses and I was not a refugee. Then they came for journalists and I became deaf! And dumb!

But I shall hear again (Huzzah!) when the Atom Drums Bop.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 06:06 PM

Trying to work out what this is all about here. I get that trump gvt has banned some news outlets. So does this mean that joe public won't know what's going on ? Or that the press won't have a say in what the trump admin should do ? Or that they won't be able to put questions / accusations to him ?   And how does this make him like hitler ?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 06:23 PM

Say good-night, Pete.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 07:43 PM

Try to keep up, Pete. I know it's Sunday and you've had other things on your mind, but...

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 08:50 PM

"There are very good articles in it [the US Constitution]: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted."
            -- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13   Nov. 1787

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 10:01 PM

A lot of that quotation is also natural manure. Have a read of Leonard Levy's "Jefferson And Civil Liberties" some time.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 02:25 AM

I dont think being dismissive of pete is a good enough answer, so i wll spell it out a bit as I see it.

Leave the current administration aside for the moment and think of all politicians everywhere. How often do they admit they have done something wrong or step down over an offence before it is the public eye? Even when they apologise in Parliament or elsewhere you will see their and their collegues statements are much more "Sorry for being found out" than "sorry for doing wrong." It would be better if politicians stepped down when they did wrong, but they don't. For that reason mechanisms to hold them to account are vital. And for all its faults, that is one of the main roles of the media.

By restricting the media to only those "on your side" you stop this happening and so free the politicians from any form of critical assessment. And this is one part of the first amendment: it forbids any law infringing the freedom of the press. Unfortunately the people who framed the amendments were lawyers so it did not occur to them that there are plenty of other ways of infringing the freedom of the press without creating laws. Nevertheless it is clear the intention was to ensure the goverment did not interfere with a free press.

The President has also made noises saying he wants all sources to be identified. Cast your mind back (if needs be) to when you were say 30. Imagine you have strong grounds to believe your boss is committing a crime - fraud or embezzlement perhaps. You do not have photographic evidence. Are you prepared to go public and risk not only your job but also all your future career? A few are, but most of us are not that brave. An anonomous means of alerting people to this is essential, or the crime continues undiscovered. The press have always been one of these options. Cutting this will, as Trump said, cause a lot of the stories to dry up. But it will not stop the crime and it will allow more.

Of course the media is far from perfect and often frankly despicable: no one says otherwise. It would be great if it did more investigative journalism and less froth. But even with all its faults it performs a role vital to an effective democracy.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 02:50 AM

Nice post "D", but the present power of the entertainment and news media was never visualised decades ago.

When that power is concentrated on one side of the equation it becomes a sort of tyranny in itself.

These threads are a microcosm of the national picture, where infantile lists of insults take the place of reasoned discussion.

The West as a power block is in decline, there is a new world order being formed, we need to get up to speed in order to take our place within it.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 03:43 AM

"These threads are a microcosm of the national picture, where infantile lists of insults take the place of reasoned discussion."
Reasoned argument requires to and fro response
You refuse to qualify your support for Trump and you have yet to explain what you would put in place of the media you are happy to see cencord by the World's most dangerous fascist.
How is "reasoned discussion" possible in the face of such dishonest cowardice?
JIm Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 05:48 AM

Oh come on chaps and chapesses.
You wouldn't expect an extremist to like a medium, now would you?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:29 AM

'Trump is the establishment......'

is he?

the military don't seem to like him. his own party don't seem that keen.

that first debate - when he was stalking round the stage - i thought the only establishment that would be interested was a mental hospital.

watch this space!!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: TheSnail
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:50 AM

akenaton
The Media is massively biased and too powerful, it requires urgent regulation......

First Amendment - Religion and Expression. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:57 AM

Aside from the fact that "the establishment" is a hazy concept at best, Trump is solidly a member of whatever it is. Just because a few fellow-denizens thereof have recognised that he's a thuggish thicko doesn't mean he's out of the club. Surely one of the most vital pillars of the establishment is the capitalist system. Anyone care to deny that he's one of capitalism's staunchest champions? If not, tell me how he made his dough!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 07:15 AM

If not? If so? Gahd, I'm easily confused...

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 08:14 AM

apparently he inherited it.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 08:22 AM

According to PBS, he blew most of his inheritance on stupid deals. Because he had this media reputation on the apprentice programme, the banks bought his name and they bung him a few quid every time they put up a building - they charge something to call it Trump Tower.

I've been think of naming my garden shed Trump Garden Shed. - and seeing if he'll sue.

I'm not sure he's the establishment. I think maybe he's a huckster - a bit like Maxwell was in this country. don't breathe indoors the wallpaper isn't paid for, sort of thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 08:23 AM

Leave the current administration aside for the moment...

Now here we have a pretty puerile suggestion - since the discussion is ABOUT the current administration.

you appear to think a huge section of the US electorate are very stupid indeed...

Well Ake, lets take a look at that. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that a yuuuuge section of the U.S. electorate beileves that Ex-Prez Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya, and a thousand other examples, I give you the yuuuge section of the U.S. electorate that believes that Trump's inauguration crowd was the largest ever - despite incontrovertible evidence that it wasn't.

Now if that isn't very stupid indeed I don't know what would be.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 08:43 AM

Less than half of Americans wants Trump to be Trump.
Trump wants to be a dictator. Even GWB said being President would be much easier for a dictator to run America

What do dictators do? They shut down and replace the press. They Ban. They imprison and often murder. Fear does the rest for all but the brave and the martyrs.

With all we know about dictators how long will this go on? How far will the destruction (deconstruction) of democracy go on"

When dictators become the establishment there is hell to pay for decades. The innocent suffer. The guilty crawl back into society and find like minded solace as they did in Germany.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 09:07 AM

Thanks Dmcg for your thoughtful and reasoned response. I do have some questions though to clarify. Does this move by trump mean that the press outlets in question will not know what happened and was said . That they will not be allowed to write editorials expressing their opinions and political bias . Or that the secret police will be on their doorstep ?    The foregoing has , and still is the norm in many states that don't get to vote a new head of state or president in every few years .   Is this , perhaps less than best directive , really worthy of hitler and totalitarian states comparison ?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 09:57 AM

Where did Trump get his money? He inherited millions and then proceeded to turn those millions into billions.

On the power of the press thing.

How many people think that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was carried out because Saddam Hussein had WMD?

How many people think that Tony Blair stated that Iraq could strike the UK with WMD within 45 minutes?

MSM were responsible for both misrepresentations - nobody said either.

Iraq was invaded and occupied because Iraq under Saddam Hussein was refusing to comply with the terms and conditions of the Safwan Ceasefire Agreement - the invasion was to ensure and verify beyond all doubt that Iraq DID NOT have any WMD.

It was a British tabloid newspaper The Sun who came out with the 45 minute story, completely misrepresenting what Tony Blair had said in Parliament about the time it takes to arm munitions with WMD and have them ready for use. Saddam could not strike the UK, his military just did not have the capability, but he could strike British Sovereign Territory in Cyprus.

On both those stories had the press simply reported the story faithfully relaying what people had said then there would have been no misunderstandings. Instead they reported what they thought people had said - different thing entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 10:12 AM

Traveling home with his mother from Jamaica Mohamed Ali's son was temporarily detained for hours to investigate after his admission of being a Muslim. Customs says that had nothing to do with it.
He had a terrorist sounding name I guess.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/25/customs-alis-son-wasnt-detained-because-hes-muslim/98419924/

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 10:50 AM

WHERE DID TRUMP GET HIS MONEY FROM?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:26 AM

TRUMP'S BUSINESS DEALINS in DETAIL
AND MORE
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:37 AM

i simply cannot understand why you have any time for the chap Keith, and please don't leap in with calling him a fascist or whatever Jim.

Trump is odd. he reminds me of Jimmy Saville.

as Bo Diddley said, you can't judge a book by looking at its cover.....however if it stinks like shit, you'd be daft spreading it on a sandwich.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:46 AM

Teribus, we don't KNOW that Trump turned millions into billions. He has lost close to a billion, we know that from one leak that showed he hasn't paid taxes in years, but until he releases his taxes there is no further material from which to extrapolate. He may be close to broke and just be hiding it.

Greg F, you left something unsaid in this explanation: Leaving aside for the moment the fact that a yuuuuge section of the U.S. electorate beileves that Ex-Prez Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya, and a thousand other examples, I give you the yuuuge section of the U.S. electorate that believes that Trump's inauguration crowd was the largest ever - despite incontrovertible evidence that it wasn't. The crackpot dentist Orly Taitz may have started it, but Trump picked it up and ran with it for years - so his cockeyed behavior "informed" his many television fans to begin with. He worked to spoil the Obama presidency - the press was all over that one though, and easily proved that Obama was a full-fledged US citizen. And Trump's still playing to that TV fanbase with the arguments that the press is telling fake stories. Those viewers evidently think his showmanship is truth telling of some sort, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Ake is arguing all of these points just to argue. He's finding a whole bunch of willing participants in these threads. You need to stop feeding the troll, just don't acknowledge his presence or answer his questions and it won't become part of the thread, just a blip people skip over.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 12:02 PM

When my lad was younger he used to enjoy watching the professional wrestling put out by 'WWE'. At one point in time Trump 'fought' and beat the WWE president, Vince McMahon. I get the impression that some people believe anything as long as it is on TV. Surprised that Trump has never brought that up as being one of his wins!

Or has he?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 12:07 PM

Does this move by trump mean that the press outlets in question will not know what happened and was said

Yes, It means exactly that. They will get any press releases, of course, but they won't get the chance either to ask questions themselves or to hear answers given to others. For those they are not able to make their interpretation of the answers, but at best an interpretation of someone else's interpretation and only that if the other person - who is essentially their competitor, remember- is willing to give it.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 12:10 PM

I should have said some of the questions will be to understand what exactly any press release means. You cannot assume another party will even ask for the clarification you seek.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: DMcG
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 12:28 PM

A bit of a misunderstanding there, Greg. The reason I said "leaving the current administation aside for the moment' was because I wanted to make a statemwnt about all politicians, which includes Trump and co but was not reatricted to them. If you interpreted it as excluding Trump, I apologise.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 01:14 PM

Gotcha now - Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:14 PM

Ake can and does fight for himself like a soldier. A bad soldier.

We are all soldiers whether we are members of the military or not.
We fight for our ethos and the lands and Seas.
Soldiers are supposed to fight for those who can not fight for themselves.
Earth's foes fight only for themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:36 PM

CORRECTION:

Breaking the Executive regulation of communicating and pressuring the FBI is not an impeachable offense alone. Nixon had other criminal charges such as burglary and high crimes and misdemeanors.

I erroneously said it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Naemanson
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 06:50 AM

If you want a summary of what is happening just go to WTF Just Happened Today.

It does have a liberal bias which means it cites sources for its items.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: gillymor
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 08:18 AM

Like that site.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 01:08 PM

Thank you Dmcg. So , if I understand you correctly ; news is passed on , is published , commented on , but some outlets were not allowed to be there . Limited minor censure

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Raggytash
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 01:29 PM

Au Contaire Pete,

The New York Times, the Guardian, the BBC, CNN and even the Daily Mail amongst others were banned.

These, whether we read them or not, are major providers of News both in the USA and the UK.

Hardly limited, hardly minor.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 01:33 PM

I wonder what would happen if NOBODY showed up for the next press briefing.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 01:47 PM

Pete & Ake seem are now leading competitors for the "person that knows the least about The United States" contest.

Soon Pete will be telling what a great Christian Trump is.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: DMcG
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 01:48 PM

Hardly minor, pete. Assume the first amendment is not some idle whim, but that the authors' thought it so important that the freedom of the press was not infringed in any way that they altered the constitution to enforce it. As an exercise, try writing ten sentences why they might think that. Then for each reason decide whether prohibiting some media works with or against that reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 07:28 PM

How does climate change present itself?

It presents itself in EXTREMES.

Today in LaSalle near Chicago powerful tornados devastated homes and medical facilities

That far north and in February

Drought-floods
Temp extremes
Storm Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 07:50 AM

Excellent speech by President Donal John to Congress, now I hope all the hysterical outpourings here will stop.....and it's not just female "liberals" who can behave hysterically.

looks like DJ may be creating a template for the future of the West.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 07:55 AM

Don't know about the others but I did watch BBC's Jon Sopel at one White House press conference with President Donald Trump. Had he behaved that way with any other Head of State not only would the BBC have been banned from ever attending any other Press Conference, Sopel himself would be lucky if he still had a job. The disrespect shown was shameful and embarrassing.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:06 AM

"The disrespect shown was shameful and embarrassing."

Respect is earned, not automatically gifted due to social or political rank. If Trump wants the respect of the press corp, he has to grow a pair and answer the questions put to him, not matter how much it upsets the little tyke.w

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:26 AM

At this point Twit is like a talking dog, any words he can manage are going to sound impressive. He even came up some more "Alternative Facts":

AP fact checks

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:35 AM

Completely disagree Stu. There is a difference between "the man" and "the Office" he holds. The Office demands that respect is automatically shown to it, that Office being the most powerful on this planet - you do not ever approach the holder of that office as though he or she is "just one of the boys", or patronise it, or treat it with condescension which is exactly what Sopel did - respect does not equate with "like" it never has and once the election is won it is never a popularity contest.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:37 AM

"Excellent speech by President Donal John to Congress,"
INTERESTING COMPARISON HERE
ANOTHER GOOD SPEAKER
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Raggytash
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:40 AM

It is far easier to show someone respect if they return the respect.

If someone treats the press like Trump seems to be doing he does not earn that respect, if anything he succeeds in alienating them.

Vicious circles come to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 10:10 AM

Speech full of fairy tales, unsupportable claims,"alternative facts" (i.e. outright lies).

Just what one would extect from a crooked, billionaire third-rate TV star who inhabits and revels in a fact-free environment- as do his supporters and accolytes.

The disrespect shown was shameful and embarrassing.

Respect? For President Assclown? After that performance? You've got to be kidding.

...a template for the future of the West.

If Trump's dystopian nightmare of no health insurance, no education, rampant unregulated capitalism, no environmental protections, Wall Street run amok, bigotry, racism, xenophobia and "alternative facts" & all the rest is "a template for the future of the West" its time to move east-

When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
                         - A. Lincoln

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 10:34 AM

"There is a difference between "the man" and "the Office" he holds"

A person has to respect the office, and if they don't why should they be deferred to in a respectful manner?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 11:29 AM

Stu is correct, and Teribus has just illustrated the problem. The office should be treated with respect, but the office holder isn't capable of that himself. He's playing with the tools handed to him without understanding how they really work and has already wounded himself in the process. He appears to be playing at being president.

His haphazard approach to moving into the residence of the president, and his apparent lack of connectedness to the People's House as the powerful tool it was designed to be is disturbing. Reports that he hasn't moved in with personal furnishings, that he rattles around fairly empty rooms with only their existing furnishings and watches TV and tweets at night while his family remains in New York City; his expensive weekly trips to the opulent club in Florida where he hosts foreign visitors. Do they really want to see the gilt facade and outsized veneered-MDF venue that is Mar A Lago when they come to the US, or do they want to visit the gem that represents the seat of our power, the White House? Only an over-heated little Scotsman spouting hyperbole would fail to see the the difference.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 11:45 AM

"The office should be treated with respect, but the office holder isn't capable of that himself. He's playing with the tools handed to him without understanding how they really work and has already wounded himself in the process. He appears to be playing at being president."

Couldn't agree more, but that does not give others leave to do the same and act disrespectfully. It also should not come as any great surprise or shock either. The US has elected somebody to the "Office" who has no political experience whatsoever - that is the accident waiting to happen when your rules state that anyone born in the USA can stand for election - utterly bloody ridiculous notion - the job is just simply too damned nuanced and complex to allow that.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 12:17 PM

Its worked pretty well until President Assclown came along, Mr. T.

Or are you standing for the position yourself in the manner of Mr. Obama in France?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 01:43 PM

Another one of the few Americans in a discussion of American politics...
I was very glad to retire about when GWB was being inaugurated. I didn't like him. Trump, however, scares the living shit out of me. He's the west's answer to Kim Jung Il: unpredictable, egomaniacal, does whatever-the-fuck he wants to do. None of the fear people have now is over the top - it's just the world we're living in.
I respect he office of the President.
Not so much the dickwad that desperate, media-panicked, stupid, self-destructive morons elected, and his own party is too chicken-shit to stand up to, even when they know what he's doing/saying is evil.

...ok, now I feel better. Not much, but hey.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 02:24 PM

like i say...he seemed like a very odd character to me.

you say he scares you Jeri, why is that?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 03:54 PM

A deranged 70 year old bully with a mental age of 6 can be pretty scary, but not half as scary as the gutless wonders of the Republican Party politicians combined with the brainless wonders who comprise the Trump voter bloc.

Now, THAT'S scary!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 03:55 PM

Must be the hair, Al. Can't imagine what else it might be.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 04:39 PM

was it Clinton who used to say - its the economy stupid!

i think there's an element of that. can he pull it off? can he do what no other politician dares do. Say no to the money men....the doors are shut, you're not taking your wealth out of this country....

you couldn't have done that in the 1970's, because the tactics of our financial competitors weren't clear.

however can he get away with saying to ford, and general motors, and epiphone guitars etc   - from now on if you want access to our market - you build your megafactory here.

perhaps this can work whilst we still have some spending power-enough to kick ass. in fifty tears on the present trajectory - we won't.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Raggytash
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 04:54 PM

Did any of you actually read Gillymors link ??

Fact over fiction.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 05:18 PM

Say no to the money men

Several problems, Al -

1. He IS the money man

2. He's owned by the rest of the money men

you're not taking your wealth out of this country.

Too late - he and the others already have.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 05:21 PM

Fact over fiction.

Facts? FACTS??? we don' need no steenkin' FACTS! This is Trumpistan!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:27 PM

Missing fact: Author of Trump speech to congress.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 01:32 AM

Greg F. - 01 Mar 17 - 05:18 PM

"you're not taking your wealth out of this country." - Big Al

"Too late - he and the others already have." - Greg F

Wrong country and wrong President there Greg F. The country where that has happened is France where Hollande upped the taxes on the rich to 75% - Result 12,000 millionaires have left the country taking their wealth with them - you tell me, as a result of this tax hike has France's tax income risen or has it fallen?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 03:24 AM

Teribus is correct. Due to the power of the establishment and their friends in the news and entertainment media any real political systemic change in the US or the UK is all but impossible.
At the moment, the only alternative is to go for peak efficiency in the present system and that involves rejection of most of the inane "liberal" agenda which does so much to make our respective countries uncompetitive and results in the creation of "fake jobs" which are unable to sustain a proper standard of living for normal families.
We must stop relying on "cheap" immigrant labour and make sure that there are jobs available that pay a decent wage to our own young folks.
Wealth creators must be encouraged, and that will not happen by soaking the rich, hence the need for the lowering of tax rates for industrial development.

We just cannot afford to stick with the posturing "liberal" status quo any longer and thankfully, at long last the voting public are beginning to understand that......all over the West.

Bite it and believe it!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 04:21 AM

"Bite it and believe it!"
The Reich is on the move, in other words
The sick triumphalism of extremism Ake
Jim Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 04:27 AM

THIS IS WHAT YOUR POSTINGS ARE BEGINNING TO READ LIKE AKE
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:28 AM

Godwin's Law strikes again.

This might be a better comparison for Ake -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:50 AM

Nice one Brian
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 06:09 AM

" the inane "liberal" agenda"

Welfare of all citizens regardless via a modern welfare state
Publicly-funded NHS free at point of use
Rule of law
Limit the extremes of wealth and poverty
LBGT rights
Freedom of speech for the individual and the media
Civil rights
End to racism and religious intolerence
Evidence-driven policy formation
Climate Change Action
Scientific collaboration
Renewable, clean energy technology development and application
A modern and maintained infrastructure
Fair taxation
Open government
Cheap and clean transport systems
Good schools for all regardless of wealth with valued teachers
Accountable public servants
Fairly regulated capitalism
Save haven for the persecuted and oppressed

etc etc


"Bite it and believe it!"

Nope.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 06:52 AM

It is interesting that now Trump has taken steps to please some of those who voted for him by putting some of his most extreme populist measures (Mexico and immigration) into motion, his team has announced that the more progressive ones "won't happen this year" - probably not until it is time to rehash them as promises at the next election (if he allows there to be another)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 08:19 AM

Racist Trumpite, Senator Sessions accused of lying under oath to Congress in regard with his two meeting with Russians during the election campaign - there is a call for his resignation
Trump's dream team seems to be turning into 'Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue' - possible franchise for a series of Hollywood blockbusters, maybe!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 08:25 AM

France? Well, T, in your 02 Mar 17 - 01:32 AM contribution, you're simply displaying more ignorancce of the U.S. and how the plutocrats there operate and have done for decades.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 11:01 AM

Right before Trump took office, Obama declassified much of the Russian association with Trump with disseminating the information far and wide among senators and agencies so it would not be easily scrubbed or lost.
Without tipping his hand Franken baited and trapped Sessions.

This is like when the Star report had the salacious cigar story and passed in to Republicans and Trent Lott presented Clinton with a box of cigars and a leering laugh.

Dershowitz wants a commission like a 9-11 committee but Schumer wants an independent prosecutor like Star.

The known Russian story is being slow walked partly because we do not know the big dollar quid quo pro part of the story and are waiting for the Trump folks to crack. Reading between the lines are not enough.

Hundreds of millions is known to have come to Trump from RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS but the PUTIN OIL DEAL UPON RELAXING SANCTIONS needs a bit more proof. So far election help is proven but not the hundred billion dollar deal.

So far 4 Russian intelligence agents have ben killed and a Russian ambassador to the US is now dead. The Trump administration still has people who can tell tales.

Democrats are loaded for BEAR.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 11:11 AM

When dictators make the press an enemy along with the courts and intelligence parts of their Army they need only a reason to declare Martial law and assume total unreviewable power.

We better hurry before a huge Trump administration 9-11 event and martial law is announced.

Martial law is like a check mate on the country.


Hey you Brits, you too were blind to Russian intrigue in your own country.

I am willing to elucidate the who's who in my prior post if necessary.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 11:39 AM

Its not only dictators that have the press as an enemy. The press never said anything nice about Kinnock.

And really in '92 - he was by far the better man.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 12:24 PM

"Hey you Brits, you too were blind to Russian intrigue in your own country."
We're far more concerned with the American intrigue being shipped in by own own dear Maggie May trawling Trump Tower looking for punters.
Have to say that no sign of the Russians courting our lady of the streets - why bother - she doesn't have a lot to offer and who would want Mad Nige as an ambassador?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 12:46 PM

Yes, thank you Snail there are many similarities between Mrs May and Mrs Thatcher, most importantly both have been given the job of changing the direction of capitalism.
Mrs Thatcher had millions heading to redundancy as the uncompetitive manufacturing and heavy industry faltered .....these industries were not being run efficiently....everyone after a slice of the cake, unions out on strike every week, but we all know the capitalist system does not operate like that, try to regulate it or cut profits, the money moves on.

Mrs May has the job of overseeing a return to an economy based on real trade, where we are dealing with real jobs, real work for our youth.....huge retraining programmes giving back some pride and sense of worth to generations institutionalised by the benefit system or struggling on short term contracts.

Capitalism is nothing if not adaptable, I also think Mrs May is an extremely able politician who may even achieve the political stature of Mrs Thatcher.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 12:52 PM

who may even achieve the political stature of Mrs Thatcher

As much as I dislike May,I don't think she deserves THAT grievous an insult.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 12:58 PM

"even achieve the political stature of Mrs Thatcher."
Mrs Thtcher was a self-exposed fascist who described Pinochet who tortured and massacred his opponents as "a hero of Democracy"
This will not be acknowledged by you of course, but it confirms where you stand politically
Can't beat the horse's mouth for such confirmation
Jim Carroll

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tories-have-forgotten-that-thatcher-wasnt-just-a-terrorist-sympathiser-but-close-friends-with-one-10507850.html

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 01:06 PM

Well Mrs May seems to get on rather well with President Donal-John and you think HE is a Fascist......in fact you think every second person is a Fascist.......You have simply lost the plot Jim, sorry about that, but as the cartoonist Bud Neill used to say "Ye git that wi'e livin' alane so ye dae ...aye"

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 03:12 PM

"Well Mrs May seems to get on rather well with President Donal-John and you think HE is a Fascis"
Lets see how she attempts to appease his fascism
There is no doubt of what Thatcher was - she decare that the mass murder theat was going on in Chile was "democracy", she moved heaven and earth to prevent Pinochet from coming to trail for his crimes and she accused those who wished to bring him to trail as "running a police state"
She even organised a rally attended by her extremely embarrassed cabinet, where she and others declared their support for this dictator, complete wit crossed British and Chilean flags
What else would you describe it.
Trump enlisted the aid of a foreign power to win n election, he won that election by setting one group of Americans against the other, using "security" as an excuse, he deliberately targetted five Muslim nations, carefully omitting the one which financed and provided terrorists for 9/11.
He is running roughshod over the American constitution and denigrating his own security services and justice system - he is even attempting to control information on his actions.
In the process, those neared=st to him are dropping like flies.
Fascism, by anybody's book, albeit in its early days
You refuse to comment on any of this other than to give it your blanket support - making you.....
No prizes for guessing.
As far as I am concerned, your attitude to homosexuality, your demands that mass murderer Breivik, your insistence that refugees should be forced to ear identification tags long after even the right wing gutter press had condemned it has long identified what you are.
Your description of a new day dawning and tor presenting America's shrillest and most vitriolic media mouthpiece, Ann Coulter, the darling of the Klan, as a serious journalist with something to say (like Breivik)
Your persistent use of her hatred of "liberals" makes you and her soulmates.
I confess, when I was young I over-used the term 'fascism'
Since I took the trouble to learn the definition I tend to say it when I see it - I saw it in Thatcher - I certainly say it in her friend Pinochet - I see it in Trump, and I see it in you.
I don't think I am being unfair to any of you
If I have "lost the plot" I haven't lost my humanity, nor have I lost my respect for and understanding of Socialism.
If Britain had adopted the attitude the same attitude to towards refugees in the thirties taht yoiu abd yours are doing towards thiose same refugees now, there would have been a lot less Jews than there are today      
I remind myself of that fact everytime you go on one of your "liberal" rants
Again - I expect no coherent response to any of this - that's not what you do.
It doesn't matter -it's not for your benefit
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:03 PM

Nothing to see here folks, its just a bit of confusion, Jeffery Beauregard Sessions will recuse himself from campaign investigations.
He says he BELIEVES he has no idea what questions about Russia is all about 3 days after the scandal broke in the NYT.

The actions favorable to Putin after taking office are a more serious matter. An independent prosecutor will be able to look at this matter as a whole while a Congressional investigation would be focused just on the campaign. A Commission would have even more leeway but could remain closed to public scrutiny and stay classified.

What we will know will be very tightly controlled. Could a US President be charged with treason for money? Not bloody likely.

Jim Comey has chosen a curious time to be tight lipped now.

The 'what if' questions abound in a sea of lies. What if it was Comey who should recuse himself as well?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:08 PM

"Well Mrs May seems to get on rather well with President Donal-John and you think HE is a Fascist."

Right, and Pope Pius XI got on rather well with Il Duce. Just thought I'd mention it.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:57 PM

Recuse, hell. Jefferson Davis Sessions requires prosecution for lying under oath.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 07:15 PM

""Ye git that wi'e livin' alane so ye dae ...aye""
Just a reminder that you are the only one openly supporting Trump on this forum, the only one that ever suggested that Anders Breivik had something worth listening to, the only one who regularly targets homosexuals long after the world recognised that homosexuality was as natural as breathing for some people and passed laws confirming that fact, the only one to support forcing refugees to wear identification tags long after even the sewerest of sewer press had comared it to the Jews being forced to wear yellow stars, the only one (certainly on this forum) who suggests that the present crisis in the health service is down to misuse by patients, the only one believes Anne Coulter is a rational, sane and responsible media figure.....
Far from me "livin' alane, I suggest that you check that your own flat-mates aren't imaginary friends.
Rather than targeting me with unsubstantiated abuse, is seems that you are the recluse here.
Try arguing instead of pumping out propaganda on behalf of the feller who seems to be incapable of opening his mouth without provoking a national crisis
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 07:27 PM

I'd also suggest that akenaton stops twatting childishly around with fake Scottish that no-one actually speaks. I have a very strong feeling that he actually comes from Kent and, in real life, speaks a degraded form of estuary English. The twat. Och the effin' noo.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 07:57 PM

Steve Shaw posting on the 1st March - Labour Discussion Thread:

"If you think we deserve it, keep it to yourself and demolish us via measured, careful argument."

Having just read this:

Steve Shaw - 02 Mar 17 - 07:27 PM

I'd also suggest that akenaton stops twatting childishly around with fake Scottish that no-one actually speaks. I have a very strong feeling that he actually comes from Kent and, in real life, speaks a degraded form of estuary English. The twat. Och the effin' noo.

That's a mighty fine example of "measured, careful argument" Shaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 03:51 AM

"That's a mighty fine example of "measured, careful argument" Shaw."
Again Teribus, he's not left the starting gate next to your libraries-worth of personal abuse that goes back many years and continues virtually uninterrupted
I've said on numerous occasions that we need to get our act together - you have responded with further postingsful of personal abuse - I'd be happy to pull up some of your latest offerings if I didn't think it would fuck up another thread, which you appear hell-bent on doing here
We are all prone to letting rip on occasions, but I can't think of anybody other than you whose postings are based on personal abuse, from star to finish, with all the middle bits included - I put up one of yours containing five examples not too long ago
We all need to calm down and give it a rest, you seem to want to continue by pointing at other people
Maybe Steve needs to draw back, but he doesn't need lessons from a master of the art.
Perhaps you and your new apprentice, Iains could start by addressing people by their chosen titles rather than your contempt-generated "Shaw" or "Carroll" or "Jom" - which, I believe is deliberately inflammatory and extremely childish
For crying out loud, pack it in - you have been asked on numerous occasions before and not just by your victims
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 03:57 AM

Jim I am sick of refuting your disgusting slurs, I suppose that is you MO, keep pushing out the misrepresentations regardless of any attempt by members to explain their position.
All your charges have been dealt with by me on many occasions....and I simply don't care very much what a tunnelvisioned ranter like you thinks any more.

I could lift any one of your posts from years ago and read the same litany of misrepresentations and downright lies regarding your supposed enemies.
Nothing any of us say here will change the world, I come here to listen to other points of view, to argue my own and be involved in civil discussion.

You are a bore Jim.....you have no wish to be involved in discussion, you are a closed minded bully.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 04:42 AM

"Jim I am sick of refuting your disgusting slurs"
They are not disgusting slurs - they are an analysis of your politics taken from your own statements,
People like you have no problem describing me as "leftie" or "member of a pack" or "liberal" used abusively
None of these are strictly accurate, and tthey are fairly commonplace, but I don't whinge about them - I try to refute them with arument (not threats of argument - like you)
The answer is simple - respond to arguments instead of acting as a mindless mouthpiece for the monsters you support
Did you not say what I claim you said about mass-murderer Breivik?
Do you not launch into an attack on homosexuals whenever the opportunity arises, long after the civilised world has moved on and embraced homosexuality as a natural human condition - have you not described them as disease carriers?
Did you not insist that refugees should be forced to wear identification tags long after even the gutter press had compared them to 'Jewish Yellow Stars"?
Have you not ceaselessly targeted refugees fleeing from wards Britain helped to start?
Did you not try to pass of Ann Coulter - the darling of the K.K.K., as a serious commentator on current affairs, using what she had to say as argument for the Thug you support?
Do you not continue to root for a man whose fascism fits the definition perfectly
DO YOU NOT IGNORE REQUESTS TO JUSTIFY THAT SUPPOORT BY RESPONDING TO WHAT HE IS DOING?
I make nothing up - I respond to what you say and what you refuse to say.
Feel free to produce any lie I have told - I don't lie - I don't see the point
Awkward arguments are not lies, they are merely inconvenient - take a look at what you say - it's what makes you what you are - not me, or anybody else
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 06:33 AM

Another thread on the midden of bile spilled by the usual suspects. Well done ladies.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 06:44 AM

For the last time.

I did not say Breivik was "worth listening to", I said he was a mad man who was also a symptom of unregulated immigration into a small country, causing serious societal problems.

I do not "attack" homosexuals, hate homosexuals, or fear homosexuals, my view is that sexual intercourse between males is extremely dangerous and unhealthy and should not be promoted by legislation.
I produce horrific health figures to back up my view. produced not by me. but by the premier health agencies worldwide.

The wristbands and door painting has been explained to you a hundred times, but you prefer your conspiracy theories that some how the house letting agencies have a vendetta against the immigrants ...you are an imbecile.

Ann Coulter, one of the most popular authors and commentators on the right of US politics ...worth listening to.

Donal-John is no Fascist!

Now I have a castle roof to attend to ...read and learn

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 08:20 AM

"I did not say Breivik was "worth listening to","
Yes you did - I put it up and you accepted it
Here it is again - thoughout the thread you blamed multiculturalism and not the motivation of the killer
"Subject: RE: BS: Non-Islamic Terrorist in Norway?
From: akenaton - PM
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 02:42 PM
These are the actions which often occur when a people lose their voice, or are unable to make their feelings known.
Example the use of words like racist, homophobe, bigot here on Mudcat to shut down debate.....and most here are reasonable, intelligent, sane.
How do the less literate come to terms with these problems?
There are great numbers of people in our society and in the US who disagree strongly with the policies of parties which are to all intents and purposes indistiguishable from one another.
For years they have been ramming through poisonous policies against which the ordinary folk have no redress.
Example..a couple of years ago anyone who suggested a cap on immigration here was branded a racist and a bigot.....now this has been accepted by every party as necessary.
We now need to tackle the failed notion of "multiculturalism" along with many other social idiocies.
"I do not "attack" homosexuals, hate homosexuals, or fear homosexuals, my view is that sexual intercourse between males is extremely dangerous and unhealthy and should not be promoted by legislation."
THat's what I said - you target a large number of people who are different to you
THak youu for confirming that so succinctly
Your attitude to the identification tags is what it is - a support of the wearing of "yellow star" type insignia after it had been officially identified and condemned as dangerous to the wearer
"Ann Coulter, one of the most popular authors and commentators on the right of US politics ...worth listening to."
She is a racist supporter of Trump who has suggested publicly the poisoning of his opponents.
Making her "worth listening to" confirms what you are - thanks for that.
"Donal-John is no Fascist!"
Course he isn't - why don't you explain why you defend him?
"Donal-John"
Your sycophancy is sickening - nice bit of alliteration, even if I say so myself
Finished here Stu
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 08:28 AM

Sorry Stu, but it seems impossible to respond to Trumps main supporter other than to respond to him
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 08:46 AM

Regarding my most recent post that has been expunged;

For future reference was their another unwritten law I transgressed?
Is waving a red flag in front of a bull-y illegal?
Checking with the thread originator, all seemed fine.

The subject was that of the many here who share Trump traits , some are on the left.

---

Nothing of yours was deleted from this thread. It apparently didn't save correctly. --mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 11:10 AM

Jim, as you have failed to support any of your disgusting allegations I expect an apology in due course.

and I didn't miss your bigoted post about Christianity and homosexuals before it was correctly erased.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 11:38 AM

You guys get too easily distracted by your personal pathos than the ethos you purportedly debate.

I think Jim sees Ake as patient zero spreading a form of undemocratic oligarchic fascism around the world.

He shouldn't and Ake doesn't have the logos, ethos, psychos or cash.
Trump does.

Donald has completed 3 of the five steps to dictatorship.

I bet one dollar that Trump goes down before Putin because of our system and civil servants.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 11:44 AM

He shouldn't and Ake doesn't have the logos, ethos, psychos or cash.
Trump does.

Ah, but Don - Trump can't do squat by himself. The danger is in his supporters & accolytes.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 12:35 PM

So tell us who else has been banned from the White House?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 12:52 PM

"Jim, as you have failed to support any of your disgusting allegations"
You have failed to respond to the examples I put up - denials don't count in the face of facts.
You acused my of lying - I confirmed what I said as the truth
Didntt bother with
"Ann Coulter, one of the most popular authors and commentators on the right of US politics ...worth listening to" but BUT WHY NOT!!
"I think Jim sees Ake as patient zero spreading a form of undemocratic oligarchic fascism around the world."
I don't Don, but you can only deal with the devil you see
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 01:14 PM

So tell us who else has been banned from the White House?

Sanity.

Intelligence.

Truthfullness.

Cognizance.

Maturity.

Integrity.

Need more?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 01:41 PM

He means Flynn

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 03:57 PM

Your usual below par performance Greg F. I think that the things you mentioned are all "whats".

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 04:14 PM

I think that the things you mentioned are all "whats".

But none the less true - and they incorporate and subsume the who.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 05:47 AM

The plit thockens.
This is safely buried away on page 38 of this morning's Times (U.K.)
Jim Carroll

PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW MET PUTIN ENVOY AT TRUMP TOWER
United States
Rhys Blakely Washington

The White House revealed further contacts between senior advisers and the Russian ambassador yesterday, hours after President Trump complained of a witch-hunt against his administration.
Officials confirmed that Jared Kushner, Mr Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest confidants, met Sergey Kislyak in a previously undisclosed 20-minute meeting in Trump Tower in New York last December.
Mike Flynn, the retired general who resigned last month as national security adviser after he misrepresented his conversations with Mr Kislyak, was also present.
Contacts between Russian offi¬cials and Trump campaign staff are the subject of investigations by the FBI and two congressional intelli¬gence committees. They are exam¬ining alleged Kremlin meddling in last November's presidential elect¬ion.
It emerged that Mr Kislyak also met two other Trump campaign advisers during the Republican national convention in July: Carter Page, a former banker who has advised on Russian energy deals and who lived in Moscow for several years, and J D Gordon, who was a national security adviser to Mr Trump.
It is not unusual for foreign diplomats to have contact with presidential campaigns, and the Department of State funded an initiative to bring foreign ambassadors to the Republican and Democrat political conventions last summer.
The White House, however, has repeatedly downplayed the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian officials. The issue threatened to overshadow a speech Mr Trump made to Congress on Tuesday, where he laid out an ambitious programme of spend¬ing increases and cuts that will face re¬sistance from fiscal conservatives.
Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, said on Thursday that he would step away from any investigation- into Kremlin meddling in the election after it emerged that he had spoken to Mr Kislyak twice, in July and September. Mr Sessions was criticised by Democrats for telling a Senate
confirmation hearing in January that he did not "have communications with the Russians" while acting as a surrogate for the Trump campaign.
Mr Sessions said that he would give a formal clarification to his Senate testi¬mony. He added that his conversation with the Russian ambassador had covered terrorism and Ukraine. He said he did not accept an invitation to lunch from the ambassador.
In a series of tweets yesterday Mr Trump said that his attorney-general had been the victim of witch-hunt. "Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional... The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total 'witch-hunt!'"
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said: "All this is very much reminiscent of a witch-hunt and the McCarthyism era that we all thought was long gone." Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for Mr Sessions, said that the attorney-general did not meet Mr Kislyak as a Trump supporter but in his former capacity as a member of the Senate armed services committee.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 09:06 AM

I like my plot thickened

THIS WEEKS SATURDAY 6 AM TWEETS

Trump has explained the whole thing in 30 characters or less

-Obama did it all=

Actual tweet;

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 09:18 AM

More lying and stupidity from President Assclown. Nothing new to see here, move along.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 09:18 AM

Donuel wasn't kidding:

Story here

It seems Donal-Jerk has gone around the bend, no wait, he's been there as long as I can remember.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 10:51 AM

Rules and laws are not trumps strong suit.

We have a FISA court that can allow the 'tapping' of aliens speaking to aliens but once an American is on the line they are supposed to stop. However if there is a warrant to listen to the American the recording keeps going.

I do not know about the type of FISA warrant used here but lets assume Flynn had no warrant on him. That means someone broke the rule and then leaked the information possibly due to a preponderance of conscience.

This is still a lot of assumptions but this explanation is more straight forward than saying "Obama and his people did it".


-------------

Meanwhile 11 billion dollars of tax payer money is given to Private Prisons to detain the undocumented under Trumps deportation policy , up by 500%. 3,500 Latinos are increasing to 20,000 in these private prisons and factories.
The products made in these factory prisons make products that say 'Made in America'.

Maybe a further investigation is needed into a lot of corruption.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 11:16 AM

Don't forget he actively encouraged Russia to hack Hillary's email.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 11:24 AM

By actively Mr. Red means on multiple national TV channels.

I saw it repeatedly.


--

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/27/private-prisons-comeback

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 12:06 PM

Although Trump provided no information that he may have been monitored, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated that the president may want to lawyer up.

"Mr. President: If there was a wiretap at Trump Tower, that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit," Lieu wrote. After providing a link to a Washington Post article on Trump's tweets and the fallout, Lieu took it a step further.

"Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble," he wrote.

Raw Story

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 12:12 PM

Robert Reich
18 mins ·

This morning Trump went berserk, tweeting a series of bizarre accusations charging that former president Barack Obama orchestrated a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. Citing no evidence, he said the former president was a "Bad (or sick) guy!"

Folks, we've got a huge problem on our hands. Either:

1. Trump is more nuts than we suspected -- a true paranoid.

2. Or he's correct, in which case there's probable cause that he committed treason. A president can't order a wiretap. For federal agents to obtain a wiretap on Trump's phone conversations, the Justice Department would first have had to convince a federal judge that it had gathered sufficient evidence that there was probable cause to believe that Trump had committed a serious crime or was an agent of a foreign power, depending on whether it was a criminal or foreign intelligence wiretap.

3. Or Trump's outburst was triggered by a commentary on Breitbart News reporting an assertion Thursday night by rightwing talk-radio host Mark Levin suggesting Obama and his administration used "police state" tactics last fall to monitor the Trump team's dealings with Russian operatives. If this was the source of Trump's ravings this morning, we've got a president willing to put the prestige and power of his office behind a baseless claim emanating from rightwing purveyors of lies.

So there you have it -- either he's paranoid, he likely committed treason, or he's making judgments based on rightwing crackpots. Each of them is as worrying as the other.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 12:31 PM

either he's paranoid, he likely committed treason, or he's making judgments based on rightwing crackpots

OR ?? He's ALL THREE.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 01:14 PM

Bobad, Its a YUGE problem.

No one is a bigger better (worse) liar, traitor or treasonous President than Donald.

I wouldn't blame the Secret Service for asking for assistance from the National Guard.

A desperate and wounded animal is dangerous.
That goes for Donald as well as his opponents.

As for his supporters, they have 2 words, 'fake news'.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 02:12 PM

The yuge unforeseen new problems are as follows.

Although Sessions is recused, new law specifies only him as the man to choose a special prosecutor.
Democrats will be unhappy with this politically as well as a Republican Congressional Investigation. That leaves, as I have said, an independent Commission which would be as classified as the Warren or 9-11 Commission.

Meanwhile intelligence agencies continue their work along with sleuths, but to be fair there is NO official investigation.

With 48% of Americans becoming displeased that their hero is an accused traitor by fake news, I am guessing a Commission that holds findings classified will be used to soothe worries about insurrection.
Alan Dershowitz agrees with me on this commission route.

In the long long run, while Trump keeps inadvertently implicating himself I bet that lesser scape goats will be sacrificed and the true findings sealed.

As for Trump, he is smart enough to chose the option with no prison time. As Red said (sic.) meet the new President Pense similar to the old President.

Like gillymor said, I am not kidding...but the future is not written in stone.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 05:52 PM

Was this the payback for Putin's help in the election?

Retweeted Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63):

The GOP platform change on UKR is a smoking gun, as I said at the time. Russia edited it through Trump & his team. https://t.co/9dB8NC8d0j https://t.co/d2MveZmbZg

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 17 - 02:38 PM

In this Russian Game of Thorns and the US oily olive branch saga, imagine you are Putin. You have lost all hope that your useful idiot is too idiotic to be helpful anymore.

Putin has killed 4 intelligence agents we know of and is spending big bucks looking for Steele.

Trump is ahead with only two cabinet members ruined.

In this case there is a silver lining......but its made of Plutonium.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 17 - 06:40 AM

25th Amendment time

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 04:20 AM

The guy is running scared!

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 07:34 AM

Article in the Irish Times this morning oints out that there are 50,000 undocumented (illegal) WHITE Irish people living in the U.S. at present
Trump is targeting the Mexican (BROWN SKINNED) illegals
If that isn't a breach of the Constitution......
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 10:39 AM

One good thing Trump is doing is he's illustrating the fact a written constitution is not the best way to define law and government and an albatross around the neck of any civilised country. You can yell about breaches of constitution or amendments or whatever but the truth is constitutions are wide open to individual interpretation and abuse; the founding fathers never meant for the mass slaughter of innocents to occur because of their laws on keeping guns, but that's what's happening and the constitution allows it, at least according to the loons who seem to dictate the way that part of the constitution is interpreted.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 01:27 PM

Quote of the day from Bernard Frum, former speech-writer to George W Bush
"Trump is flipping into an outright personality breakdown in full public view".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 02:38 PM

a written constitution is not the best way to define law and government

So an anarchic, ad hoc approach is somehow better? How, pray?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Raggytash
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 02:42 PM

Sorry to tell you Greg, England and later the United Kingdom has managed without one for a thousand years.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Greg F.
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 05:12 PM

Thanks, Rag, but you're not telling me anything I didn't know. I was simply reacting to Stu's absurd thesis.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 03:52 AM

Interesting development reported by Wikileaks.

Apparently US agencies have been carrying out wholesale hacking of phones


hacking

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 05:06 AM

Old news Ake - that's what they do
Nothing about your friend Trump though - or of Obama having anything to do with hacking him
Smokescreen to cover the foot in mouths from the Thug in the White House
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Stu
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 06:19 AM

"So an anarchic, ad hoc approach is somehow better? How, pray?"

Er, did I suggest it was? Burn your straw man.

There's more than one way to run a country and an unwritten constitution is one; the US constitution is inflexible and anachronistic and whilst there is plenty of stuff to be admired within it, there is no doubt it's open to interpretation and is used to bolster beliefs and dogmas that have no place in the modern world if the human race his never to process.

It's unquestionable and used to silence any alternative views. See: guns.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 09:11 AM

You overlook the Magna Carta?

The current popular interpretation of "to bear arms" doesn't mean the Constitution stifles alternative views. It means that the high dollar gun lobby has influenced a lot of people to accept a certain reading of it. And that lobby stifles all naysayers.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: TheSnail
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 10:04 AM

You overlook the Magna Carta?
So did King John and his successor Henry III.
Anyway, its purpose was to take power out of the hands of the king and put it in the hands of the barons.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 10:42 AM

"Magna Carta?

".........its purpose was to take power out of the hands of the king and put it in the hands of the barons."

That might well have been it's purpose, only thing was that was not the way it was written and the "unintended" and unconsidered fall-out of that was that via the Magna Carta the PEOPLE of England acquired rights. The power of the Monarch was not formally shackled until 1688 and the arrival of William of Orange.

"In the United Kingdom, the Bill of Rights is further accompanied by Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act 1679 and the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 as some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution. A separate but similar document, the Claim of Right Act 1689, applies in Scotland. The Bill of Rights 1689 was one of the inspirations for the United States Bill of Rights."

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 10:45 AM

Forgot to enquire in that last post of mine.

Since the banning mentioned in the title of this thread HAS anybody else been banned, or was it all just bullshit?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 17 - 09:43 PM

The State Dept. has had its budget cut by nearly 40%
Anyone with decades of institutional experience has been fired.
There are no more historic anti Russian/Putin voices left.

A question to Teribus;

What is wrong with having a POTUS who is a devoted Putin advocate and Russian Spy?

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: Teribus
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 01:40 AM

Just think Donuel what might have happened had GWB done the same in 2001. Those who acted as his advisors and pushed for action against Iraq were the same experienced personnel who had advised Bill Clinton throughout 1997 and 1998 to do the same thing (The phrase "Axis of evil" came from a Clinton speech in February 1998) and set regime change in Iraq as official US foreign policy (The Iraq Act late summer 1998).

And the proof that the current POTUS is a Russian spy is what exactly? If it is anywhere near as compelling as your proof that Lt-Cdr John McCain was responsible for the fire on the USS Forrestal then I think the less you prattle on about it the better.

Nothing wrong with the POTUS being prepared to talk to Putin, far better that than have the likes of Obama posturing without stating where the boundaries lie and giving out signals that even if crossed the US would still not act. Putin knew he could away with anything after the Syrian Gas attack in 2012. Now he's not quite sure - best to keep the bastard guessing - both the Russians and the Chinese know that even if they both kicked the traces over the US is still militarily too strong for them to win - your current President has stated that he is going to ensure that it stays that way.

Take it that the answer to my question is that since banning certain media organisations NO-ONE has been banned from the White House. Simple enough question, wonder why it was so difficult to get an honest answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: TheSnail
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 04:30 AM

Magna Carta

Subject: RE: BS: Press Banned from WH who's next?
From: akenaton
Date: 09 Mar 17 - 08:12 AM

Latest, Us troops and equipment deployed to assist Pres Assad in battle against ISIS.