re: Huckabee Sanders Threatens CNN Circus Clown Jim Acosta with his White House Access

Why do individual media members think that THEY personally embody the free press.

CNN has no more right to a White House press pass than the Lafayette Advertiser.

By definition of even having to issue "passes" they are excluding SOME (even MOST) of this nations media. No specific media outlet is more deserving than another. Kicking out CNN and giving their pass to a TV station from Salt Lake City or a newspaper from Terra Haute does nothing to diminish the free press.

It does something to diminish the ratings and profits of a business, but that should not be the concern of the government.

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Did she ever make the pies? I missed that update.

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April Ryan's petty arse should've apologized

Swap it and the Msm would cry for an apology

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Don't the MSM get pissy when she dares to call on someone that's not them? Like a CBN or something?

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That's what I don't understand. Those news outlets are looking to twist word instead of simply reporting.

Why can't some podunk Connecticut newspaper be present? It would be instant cred.

Ask kickadawg. He's the one who claimed Obana (his word) created more jobs than Trump.

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I was slightly concerned about her replacing spice but she's done a masterful job

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She's actually way better.

It's pretty obvious now that Sean Spicer was the wrong hire to make for Press Sec.

Read this piece on how she humiliates the media daily.

WaPo Columnist: Sarah Sanders humiliates the media daily.

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A Washington Post columnist said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders humiliates the media on a daily basis.

In a column published Tuesday, opinion writer Kathleen Parker referenced Sanders asking reporters earlier this week to say what they were thankful for before asking a question.

"Yet again, she controlled the crowd, though this time by candy-coating her usual condescension with faux fellowship," Parker wrote.

"I'm thankful I wasn't in the room."

She wrote that her first impulse when someone asks her to share is to "not-share."

"For a press secretary to require professional journalists to essentially beg for their supper, surrendering their adversarial posture like a dog commanded to Drop The Bone, is an infantilizing tactic," she wrote.
"The effect is to neutralize the opposition."

Parker wrote one would think reporters were "supposed to be taking dictation" from the interplay between the media and the Trump administration.

She also went after Sanders for evading questions and "scolding."

To Trump's base, she wrote, Sanders is "the a la mode on a slice of apple pie, the pom-pom and confetti at a freedom rally, or, perhaps, the elfin princess who can read and direct a person’s thoughts by hypnotizing them with her magic pearls."

"Her daily humiliation of the press, making them seem like churlish children, is a booster shot of 'fake news' animus that also apparently inoculates against viral truths."

"To the media, she is the wall Trump promised to erect and, increasingly, it seems, we are the swamp he seeks to drain. Out with the media, out with free speech, out with facts!" Parker wrote.

She added that Sanders is "perfectly cast."

At the end of her column, Parker said she was thankful for the "freedom to speak without (undue) fear of retribution."

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I never understood why those outlets who continually berate him have press passes

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Freedom of the Press.

What I've never understood is why their questions are fielded.

When she spanks those frickheads I get a weird boner.