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The mainstream media has been angry about the White House's decision to "ban" a CNN Reporter for her disruptive behavior at the next rose garden event the administration holds. The Trump administration says she wasn't banned permanently, and the network was not banned, but she was not going to be allowed to continue her behavior at that event and she was not going to be invited to the next one. The reporter from CNN, Kaitlan Collins, says she was targeted and removed because she was asking embarrassing questions about Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly taping him, and the President didn't like it. The briefing was over, and the President wasn't answering any more questions. She was out of line, and she knew it. I say it's about dang time a GOP politician of any kind tells the biased media to can it, or be canned. Besides, who cares about whether or not Trump was an altar boy in his past when his current policies as President has the United States in the midst of an economic boom, and in a position of growing respect worldwide as our peace and prosperity president continues to weave his multiple successes into the American Story?
Kaitlan Collins was booted from a rose garden event after her continued screams of hard left loaded questions about Cohen and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and for refusing to leave as she shouted those questions when she had been informed that the press briefing was over. The White House responded that her removal had nothing to do with her political stance or line of questioning. It had everything to do with "process, procedure, and protocol."
The problem is, the leftist reporters think that their behavior can go anywhere they want. Hating Trump is apparently, to them, license enough to act unprofessionally without consequences. But, if they are called out by anybody on their unprofessionalism and lack of decorum, then they freak out and start making baseless accusations and claims of victimhood. Some people may have fallen for it, but as Trump's approval rating just keeps steadily ticking upward, the reality is, most people are either realizing the truth, or they just don't care because with the rising economy they have a job they couldn't find before, therefore, they have more money in their pockets. What's that Clinton era saying?
_________________________ "It's the economy, stupid." _The argument from the liberal left side is that this is somehow a freedom of the press issue. Really? The government under Donald Trump is not telling you how to report on it. You are free to report the way you want, even if it is nothing but lies, or failing to report on the issue that the press briefing was about, in the first place. The White House calling out someone for lying or being rude and disruptive is not an attack on their free speech, it is simply an acknowledgment that your reporting is full of crap and their behavior is not acceptable. Telling them they can't attend a rose garden event in this day and age is also not an interference in one's freedom of the press or freedom of speech. You don't even have to be in the room. You can report on it based on the video you watch of the event provided by your colleagues ... and more specifically ... recorded by people who aren't rude and disruptive. The White House, if you are willing to be disruptive and out of line, does not have to tolerate your B.S., so, buh-bye.
Historically, this is not the first time the behavior of a journalist, or in Kaitlan Collins's case, a person pretending to be a journalist but is really nothing more than an opinion hack and disruptive jackass (jackass, noun, 1. a stupid person, 2. a male ass or donkey, 3. a member of the Democrat Party), has been reprehensible and unacceptable in their behavior. The Founding Fathers used to complain about the ridiculous tactics of the press way back when the country was being founded.
In other words, this is not an issue about free access by the press. The press has access. Their access is not being impeded by the White House. Access by a reporter who acted in a manner that is unacceptable is being rejected. Find another reporter who can behave, and with that person, have full access.
My curiosity is about why it took so long for such an action to have taken place. CNN specifically has had reporter after reporter cross the line time and time again. Press briefings have been a free for all with loaded questions and unacceptable behavior that nobody would have tolerated during a Barack Obama event during his presidency. Remember Jim Acosta's behavior? Why wasn't that the donkey that broke the elephant's back? I was thinking back then that if CNN had any integrity whatsoever, they would have fired him. Instead, they played the same game they are playing regarding Collins. No matter how disgustingly rude a reporter's behavior, from the media's point of view it's all Trump's fault, and he is some kind of tyrant trying to kill the Bill of Rights enumerated right of the freedom of the press.
Acosta and Collins are not the only offenders, either. April Ryan's unprofessional tendencies (who is also a contributor to CNN) at press briefings are well documented. Brian Karem, executive editor of the Montgomery County Sentinel and White House correspondent for Playboy magazine, and yes, a CNN contributor, has a habit of also being disruptive with a unique style of aggressive grandstanding at these briefings. The list goes on and on and on.
These people are rude, disrespectful, aggressive, unprofessional, constantly speaking out of turn, talking over anyone who dares to disagree with them through uncalled for interruptions, out of line, and their only questions are loaded questions that are designed to be character attacks instead of the kind of questions that would be asked by a reporter if that reporter was actually performing a journalist's job of reporting the news. What they have is a pointed radical intolerant agenda trying to protect a failing Democrat Party narrative that the American people, I believe, is truly beginning to see through. An individual not being allowed to participate because of uncivil behavior has nothing to do with freedom of the press, and everything to do with bad behavior. CNN has been trying to make this about their alleged victimhood at the hands of a Trump administration that they hate with an unbridled passion, and freedom of the press, and the reality is, if any reporter acted as their reporters do at Trump's briefings during the Obama presidency, CNN would have been at the head of the line calling for the removal of the disruptive individual, and would have fired that reporter if they had been one of their own.
The news, by the way, that Collins was unwilling to report as a White House pool reporter was that the tariffs by Trump have not created a trade war, and Europe has responded to our President's firm handling of their unfair trade practices with a deescalation of their trade war threats. He has won, once again, but rather than report on that, the media is still seeking to create anything negative they can about him because the reality is, President Trump has disrupted the socialist trail of madness the Democrats had us on, and he has not only interrupted their socialist plans, he has vowed to dismantle the machine that has been fueling their treasonous, unAmerican coup against our Constitution.
President Trump's success, from their point of view, has to be hidden and buried, so they are making a stink about an alleged attempt to disrupt freedom of the press, when the reality is, they are stinking up the room to hide the fact that the winning ways of President Trump are not only continuing, but are escalating and becoming so loud that only freaking out and creating new diversions can, in their minds, suppress the truth.
In short, CNN's victimhood claim in relation of Kaitlan Collins is a manufactured diversion created by the hard left media corps in the hopes that doing so will hide the reality that President Trump is succeeding, again, and again, and again ... and people are starting to notice.
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