Tag Archives: Jim Acosta

The Trump administration uses press conference footage deceptively edited by InfoWars to justify the banning of CNN’s Jim Acosta

By Mark | November 8, 2018

Yesterday, when I posted about how Donald Trump had installed someone as acting Attorney General who has said publicly that the Mueller investigation should be stopped, I made a brief mention of the fact that CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, on the same day, had his press credentials revoked after refusing to stop a […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged CNN, Donald Trump, fake news, InfoWars, Matthew Whitaker, me too, Orwellian, Paul Joseph Watson, post-truth, press credentials, Republican lies, threats to journalists | 96 Comments

Sessions to be replaced by a Fox News commentator who once described in detail how he would kill the Mueller investigation… I think this probably qualifies as a constitutional crisis, right?

By Mark | November 7, 2018

[above: A shot from outside the White House tonight by CNN’s Jim Acosta, who had his press credentials stripped this afternoon after standing up to Donald Trump.] Back in July of 2017, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said there’d be “holy hell to pay” if Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Well, today, Donald Trump not […]

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White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders refuses to say the press is not “the enemy of the people”

By Mark | August 2, 2018

today concedes that his son met with Russian operatives at trump tower with Russian operatives to get dirt on his opponent. Ben Rhodes ‏ Verified account @brhodes 3h3 hours ago More Ben Rhodes Retweeted Donald J. Trump I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Capital Gazette, CNN, David Simon, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, fake news, First Amendment, freedom of the press, Hitler, incitement to violence, journalism, Lügenpresse, lying press, Michelle Wolf, Q Fever, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, smokey eye, the sad state of journalism | 28 Comments

The insane Trump “fan fiction” of QAnon goes mainstream

By Mark | August 2, 2018

If for nothing else, yesterday’s Trump rally in Tampa was noteworthy for it’s insanity. Not only did Trump fans surround CNN’s Jim Acosta, screaming “you’re a liar” and “traitor”, but, for the first time ever, it would seem, there was a significant contingent from the far right, conspiratorial fringe in the audience, brandishing their “We […]