Not her job or business to be thinking about such things. The government trying to control the media should scare people.
Politically defeating an ideologically corrupt media is not the same thing as exercising "government control over the media."
I think a POTUS ought to be able to call lying media groups what they
are--i.e,
lying media groups. In fact, I think the leading politician of our Body Politic, whether we like him or not--and
whether we all trust him or not-- should not be merely
able to call out the media--and he certainly is able to so under the Constitution--but he
must do so. As I have said on several threads, when the enemies of the Republic are
liars, we need to respond with the
Truth. In the present case, the pivotally important
truths are that
1) The Global Socialists
do dominate the MSM. George Soros is a major financial contributor to the MSM, in fact.
2) The Global Socialists
are ideological enemies of our Constitutional Republic--i.e., they amount to a disloyal opposition.
3) The Global Socialists
are using the standard Socialist stratagem of
lying incessantly about their sociopolitical opponents.
4) The Global Socialists of our MSM are so determined to ruin our Republic that they have given every indication that they
will not stop the vicious lying (which is Conway's bottom-line complaint).
5) The reason why the Global Socialists of the MSM have no intention of stopping their lying is because
lying is their most important weapon against our Constitutional Republic--and, in fact, the only significant weapon that our deranged MSM has in their field of professed journalism. Lying is their
job in the larger mess of Global Socialism. (And they are team players [sometimes without even realizing this, I suspect].)
6) We are in a sociopolitical
war. The election of Trump will probably escalate it even more than we have seen recently. The fact that the MSM regard themselves as the
"good guys" in our sociopolitical war is irrelevant. The MSM guys are self-deceived by their elitist arrogance as social justice warriors. They are self-righteous liars--i.e., fools.
7) The lying MSM is downright
dangerous to the Republic. We, the People of the United States, give the MSM a very important First Amendment protection, but we must not be so stupid as to think that true Constitutional patriots are paralyzed in our present situation by that very Amendment. We cannot compel the MSM by government edict to cease their lying, but we can crush them politically by telling the truth about them. That includes broadcasting the decidedly inflammatory truth that the MSM liars are
unrepentant liars. And since the POTUS does have a bully pulpit, he and his aides are the
best political leaders to mobilize all patriotic truth-tellers against the liars. The POTUS's available option of fighting back with the truth is by no means a violation of the MSM's First Amendment rights. (My goodness, isn't this obvious?)
8) The reason why the Global Socialists of the MSM are so dangerous is related to the reason why they have given no indication that they are backing off in their lying. They believe they can get away with their lying by Alinsky-style intimidation--accusing our POTUS of being a Hitler, for example, even accusing him of trampling on the First Amendment. These accusations
WILL resonate with fools (and maybe even alarm some of us NeverTrumpers to a certain degree, alas!).
9) In other words, the Global Socialists think they can keep a huge percentage of the
hoi polloi dumbed down. Their confidence is not without foundation, because their track record has been
stunningly successful in keeping our spiritually challenged
hoi polloi woefully dumbed down. (After all, the ideologically corrupt, dishonest MSM got Obama elected, not once, but twice in a row. And if had not been for the eleventh-hour revelations by Comey and Assange, they would have finally succeeded in destroying our Republic--likely forever--by getting HRC elected.)
10) Perhaps the most disgusting thing about all of this is that the ideologically crooked MSM is guilty of unfathomably egregious violations of
journalistic ethics. There zeal for vehemently anti-Christian, anti-Semitic activism has
replaced real journalism. They are not shining the light of truth, not trying to keep the public informed. They are elitists who are trying to keep our citizenry in the darkness of hatred and un-American stupidity long enough for the Global Socialists to crush us once and for all.
Many journalism schools have as their motto "The Truth Shall Make You Free." Many, many mush-brained young people who have graduated from these very schools never notice that their own
sub rosa contempt for America and America's God has wickedly disabled their discernment--i.e., has made them despise the Truth. We need to help these poor folks by exposing them in public as self-deceived phonies. We need to shine the Light on them--not say, Oh, well, the First Amendment says that we cannot call them out.
As Lincoln said, "The Truth keeps us safe." The MSM's incessant, Socialistic lying therefore poses extraordinary dangers to the Republic. We must respect and genuinely uphold the First Amendment, but we must not handle the Bill of Rights in the mindless PC way that turns our Bill of Rights into a national suicide pact.
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President Trump will have to be careful if he doubles down against the MSM any further. I wish we could trust him to do what he should do under the Constitutional defense of the Republic--and to do
no more than that. We will have to wait and see how everything pans out.
I definitely think Trump think he should still grant press passes to his rankest MSM enemies. But if I were him, I would wait until the end of every presser to call on the worst of the lying media types. And I would use most of my responses to their questions to point out their longstanding and continuing hypocrisies. In other words, I would find a way to calmly call them liars ever time they opened their mouths.
President Bush never did this--which is mainly why we wound up with Obama in the White House.
