Ben Sasse to Trump: Are you 'recanting' oath to protect the First Amendment?

[TomSea]

Ben Sasse to Trump: Are you 'recanting' oath to protect the First Amendment?
Diana Stancy Correll

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., is questioning whether President Trump is still committed to preserving the First Amendment after he repeatedly floated retribution against the media for publishing stories he doesn't like.

"Mr. President: Words spoken by the President of the United States matter. Are you tonight recanting of the oath you took on January 20th to preserve, protect, and defend the First Amendment?" Sasse said in a statement Wednesday night.

Read more at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ben-sasse-to-trump-are-you-recanting-oath-to-protect-the-first-amendment/article/2637259

[kevindavis007]

That is a good question....

[endicom]

Complicating this matter is that government seized the airwaves about a century ago. In terms of the 1st amendment, that's like government seizing printing presses and passing out licenses to use them.

[DiogenesLamp]

Well,  it looks like Mod1 locked the other thread.   


Proclaimed it "boring."    I think that is like deciding something isn't "news worthy".   

[DiogenesLamp]

Media conflate data on mass shootings to inflate number, blame white men

In the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre, left-leaning media outlets have been playing fast and loose with the data on mass shootings to inflate their number and suggest that white men make up a disproportionate share of the perpetrators.

John R. Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said the left uses an overly broad definition to capture gang violence and other incidents not typically considered to be mass shootings.

Link to Washington Times article. 



Another example of how the media deliberately lies to and misleads the public.