Newt Gingrich, that standard bearer for high moral values in
America, thinks alt-President Donald Trump should “suspend” CNN reporter Jim
Acosta, who had the courage to go toe-to-toe with Trump during a press
conference on January 11.
Sean Spicer, incoming press secretary, was happy to pile on,
claiming that Acosta verbally attacked the President of the United States.
I believe it’s time for the news media to band together and
stand up to the incoming president before it’s too late. The media is already
down one score in this battle for the First Amendment and can’t afford to get further
behind an obnoxious bully standing behind the world’s greatest bully pulpit.
"In baseball, hockey, basketball, if certain players
behave inappropriately, you kick them out of the game," Gingrich told his errand
boy Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel. "I think the way Acosta behaved
for CNN, have him suspended for 60 days. Send someone else," Gingrich
said.
Other reporters should be sent a message there are limits,
he continued. "When you get beyond those limits, you ain't going to be
there. They shouldn't put up with this. It's bad for the country."
First off, are you freakin’ kidding me? For the past year
and a half, Donald J. Trump has verbally assaulted virtually anybody within the
sound of his voice. That includes Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans, women, members
of the military, a Gold Star mother, the news media, Congress, the intelligence
community, peaceful protesters, Wall Street, liberals, Democrats, President
Obama, Michelle Obama, anyone named Clinton and the 17 other Republicans who
ran for president.
And he has the balls to be offended now when someone does it
to him?
Second, here’s some breaking news for Sean Spicer – Trump is
not the President of the United States for another five days.
If you saw the news conference, you know that Trump opened
up by calling out CNN for reporting “fake news,” and then refused to recognize
Acosta when he tried to ask a question. This is setting a dangerous precedent
under which Trump will never have to answer a question he doesn’t like. He’ll
just “suspend” reporters one at a time until there is no one left to make him accountable
for the decisions he makes as president.
He’s not even in office yet and Trump is already taking the
First Amendment and grinding it up under his heel, and the worst part is, the
media is letting him get away with it. For my money, I don’t know why the rest
of the reporters in the room didn’t get up and walk out the second that Trump
shook his finger in Acosta’s face and said, “I’m not going to give you a
question.”
Trump is nothing if not a creation of the news media. He’s
the monster to their Dr. Frankenstein. They built him in the lab during the long
campaign by giving him hours of free air time to ramble on at rallies unedited
and uncut, and then appeared shocked when their monster got loose and started
pillaging the countryside and killing sheep.
Amen!
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