[ April 24, 2024 ]
CNN is a fake news outlet. How is this a right? Furthermore, it is not lost on me, of all people, that CNN is suing based on their First Amendment rights when they have denied me (and many of my colleagues ours). They attacked and smeared us for our free speech event in Texas in submission to the speech laws under the sharia.
They adhere to the draconian prohibitions on speech under Islamic law. And they self-comply.
Speaking after the ruling, Ted Boutros, an attorney for CNN said the news organization is “Extremely pleased with the ruling today.”
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“A great day for the First Amendment and journalism,” he said. “We’re very excited to have Mr. Acosta be able to go back and get his hard pass and report the news about the White House.”
Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s White House press pass
CNBC, November 14, 2018:
A federal judge on Friday grants CNN’s request for a court order that would temporarily reinstate network correspondent Jim Acosta’s White House press pass.
CNN’s legal challenge comes in response to the Trump administration’s decision last week to yank Acosta’s “hard pass,” which gave him access to the White House grounds, after Acosta clashed with the president at a news conference earlier that day.
CNN’s lawsuit underscores Trump’s increasingly hostile relationship with many mainstream media outlets, which he regularly decries as “fake news” and “the enemy of the people.”
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98 Comments
5 years ago
ah another lib appointee, no take it to next level.
5 years ago
Reply to
mudpuppy6
Judge was appointed by Trump. I see the ruling being upheld by the DC Circuit.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Seen a few posts here and I’m hoping you can set the record straight as to what exactly qualifies a person to have press credentials in the first place. Seems to be an unknown. If audience numbers is a qualifier, then others have more standing.
5 years ago
Reply to
Bradley Lexvold
IINM, it has to do with working for a bona fide news organization. If Trump were to say that CNN is not such, he would then have the burden of proof of showing how he arrived at such a decision neutral in content. CNN has 50 passes, but most organizations have more passes than will be there at one time, just in case, since no organization has more than 2 reporters there at any one time.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
He may’ve been appointed by Trump, but that Judge proved too weak to stand up to these self-important bullies.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
But that’s not what he’s doing. He is for all practical purposes an activist doing the bidding of leftist special interests.
5 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Or you’re asking a dumb question! The judge cited precedent in his circuit by which he is bound (Sherrill v. Knight). You knew or should have known about that case. Trump was wrong and so are you…and that’s final!
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
There were many judges that, over the years, cited Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson and Buck v. Bell (which institutionalized eugenic sterilization) as “precedent.” You are clearly in league with an entity that is an avowed enemy of the American people if you agree with that ruling.
5 years ago
Dog gone it! I forgot about the corrupt biased obama appointed ‘judges’ that are partisan and not objective! GFDI!
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
This judge was appointed by Trump. His ruling cited specifically the lack of a code of conduct. As for CNN, as they are not government (addressing Geller now), they cannot deny Geller 1A rights.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Yes, little one … and pursuant to YOUR LIE, indosneezia doesn’t receive US foreign aid. Which in truthful reality, indosneezia has received US foreign aid, every year since 1948. Why do you continue to HUMILIATE yourself? Is it because you are a somowlee muslima that is missing its clitoris?
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
Unfortunately this is a Trump appointed judge.
“The Trump administration countered the motion, saying Acosta “disrupted the fair and orderly administration of a press conference” when he refused to give up the microphone. Judge Kelly dismissed the Trump administration’s claim that CNN could simply send another reporter in Acosta’s place and told attorneys to file additional court papers in the case by Monday.”
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Acosta has emerged as a hero of the #Resistance after making a habit of shouting and interrupting when Trump and members of his administration are available to the media. Acosta has also gotten into combative arguments with other members of the administration, including former Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-orders-white-house-returns-press-pass-to-cnns-jim-acosta
5 years ago
The executive and judiciary are separate branches of government.
5 years ago
Reply to
Warmac9999
The issue isn’t a separation of powers. It is an issue of being civilized and respectful.
It is his CONDUCT that is the issue.
5 years ago
I look forward to the moment when that innocent child waving his new pass is tossed out on his ear, like last time, for being rude, disrespectful, hogging the mike and refusing to do as he was bidden – by his President.
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
They are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons
And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them https://tinyurl.com/yahupccy
Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.
5 years ago
All Trump had to do is to ignore crybaby Acosta.
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
You can’t. He has become more and more disruptive and disrespectful.
He is like an unruly child constantly talking back and throwing tantrums.
Try ignoring that and see how it escalates. The same is true here.
5 years ago
Ignore the judge
5 years ago
How the hell is this within the power of any court? Its not as if all journalists have a right to be at the WH briefings.
5 years ago
Reply to
fred m
Yes, I don’t quite understand it. However, I was talking to an ace reporter from the Pioneer Republican, a weekly published in Marengo, Iowa. I couldn’t quite understand why she did not have a White House “hard pass”. Perhaps, precedent has been set and she should receive one, as to have denied her the pass is definitely, pursuant to that judge’s order, a violation of the First Amendment. Hayull, I want one too.
5 years ago
Reply to
fred m
Agreed. As a solid response, the WH is rewriting its code of conduct for those attending briefings. You can bet your ass that getting physical with the WH staff members will be very near the top of the list.
Wait, that’s it, Acosta had been listening to his Olivia Newton-John collection and the song “Let’s Get Physical” and a flashback occurred.
5 years ago
Reply to
fred m
Lack of a written code to enforce = denial of due process. This is an open-and-shut 5A case thanks to an unforced error by Trump, although the judge is ensuring there won’t be a repeat by having a code written and approved by him.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
How is this even a 5th amendment case? Was Acosta arrested? Was he imprisoned and then prosecuted unjustly for a crime? Or was he just excluded because he’s a jerk? Precedent and not the 5th Amendment dictates that the President can choose who he speaks to and who he doesn’t. If Trump had Acosta imprisoned and held then due process because a factor. That is not the case here. The judge’s ruling here is almost like saying that one is required to allow somebody who entered your house to stay against your will. I shouldn’t need a reason to ask somebody to leave and asking them to leave is not a due process issue.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ray - God Bless Israel.
I’m praying that Trump orders Obama’s records to be unsealed so those who voted for him TWICE, will know what they actually voted for! He is NOT an American and his own white grandmother SAID so on national TV before the 08 election – I heard and saw her speak! She appeared quite healthy, yet she died suddenly within a week or two after that appearance … think on that a bit…
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
He said he was many times, have you not followed the news from the beginning when he first appeared?
5 years ago
I went into a shop CNN was on, gloating. I turned around and walked out. Acosta is a weenie of the first order; a traitor feigning to be a journalist. Professional journalism is dead, thanks to the Leftist/Democrats Mainstream Media. If it were Obama giving a journalist the toss the courts would bow and scrape to the demands of the faux-messiah.
5 years ago
So much for decorum!
I have watched Sarah Sanders press briefing over at the Conservative Tree House. All he does is grandstand.
His questions are accusatory and he argues when replied to. He takes up time not allowing others to get their questions in. The news is about HIM! He rarely gets his facts straight so we have moved beyond fake news to being an unruly, disrespectful cretin. Even a school teacher can expel a student for this disruptive and disrespectful behavior. There are civilized LIMITS to “free speech”. Try shouting down a flight attendant or yelling “fire” in a theater or “I have a bomb in my suitcase” while in line to check in at an airport. Even the woman who would NOT sit for the plane to take off because a RAPIST was being deported was punished. This is a wrong decision.
5 years ago
This is nothing to do with the First Amendment but under twisted logic of the Fifth, under the “Pursuit of Happiness!”
5 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
For muslums happiness is a dead/enslaved/persecuted/oppressed/raped kuffar. Who are we to interfere w/their right to the pursuit of happiness and their freedom of religion.
5 years ago
If CNN or the NYT is not out rightly lying then they try to hide or obfuscate “news”.
The LIBERAL media IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
Nolte – Media Cover-Up: Guy Who Yelled ‘Heil Hitler’ During ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Performance Hates Trump
By John Nolte
Novermber 16, 2018
The establishment media do NOT want you to know it was a TRUMP HATER who stood up during a Baltimore performance of Fiddler on the Roof to yell “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump!”
Look at the headlines:
Washington Post: “A man shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ and ‘Heil Trump’ during ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — and people fled”
CNN: “Man yells ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump!’ during a performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’”
New York Post: “Man has pro-Nazi, pro-Trump outburst at ‘Fiddler on the Roof’”
New York Times: “Baltimore ‘Fiddler’ Disrupted by ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’”
Baltimore Sun: “Drunk man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,’ does Nazi salute during Baltimore performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’”
NBC News: “A man yelled ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ at ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ show in Baltimore, sparking fear in the audience”
ABC News: “Man shouted ‘Hail Hitler, hail Trump’ during intermission at ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ performance”
USA Today: “Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ at ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ performance in Baltimore”
Mediaite: “Trump Supporter Interrupts Fiddler on the Roof Performance Shouting ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’”
CBS: “Witnesses: Man Shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ During Performance Of ‘Fiddler On The Roof’”
That’s just a taste.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/16/nolte-media-cover-up-guy-who-yelled-heil-hitler-during-fiddler-on-the-roof-performance-hates-trump/
5 years ago
As president Trump stated this morning, decorum rules and regulations will now be outlined and applied. More importantly, while non-violent free speech is sacrosanct and must be protected, there is nothing in our constitution that requires anyone to answer. Though I understand saying nothing to a question has its ramifications, there is nothing in the coostitution that requires anyone to answer every question posed.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
WH press briefing are not required either.
Nothing in the Constitution says briefings are required.
5 years ago
I watched him and I SAW WHAT HE DID. I would have been thrown out of my Junior High School Debate Team if I acted that way. ‘Talking over’ someone is a way of shutting them down and that is exactly what this sleaze bag did. David Horowitz can tell you about that – he gets it whenever he speaks.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
It’s a double standard. Obama tossed a reporter with cheers and no problems.
See posted video.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama administration also separated illegal children from their parents for years and not a whisper about it.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
Yup! No problem with that either. He literally had kids in cages like animals.
Even worse “abandoned kids” who crossed the border were given to convicted SEX OFFENDERS as “foster parents”.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
David Horowitz has real courage to face the kind of leftist atheist and muslum scum he does at the institutions of “higher learning” that infest the dying West today.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
Jim Acosta is right up there with the Kardashians! IF I never see them again, never hear their names again, G-d is GOOD!
5 years ago
Where does the judge have the standing to do this? What if he decides f’ing muslum terrorists should be allowed access to the White House?
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
He doesn’t…………. He is a gutless politically correct judge.
5 years ago
Put Jimmy in the back row and never call on him for a question.
5 years ago
Tell the judge to stuff it and Acosta to appeal to the Supreme Court.
5 years ago
Acosta is at the top of the chain for everything that is wrong with the far-left-biased main stream media. Acosta is unprofessional, disrespectful, NOT fair and balanced as reporters should be, not reporting facts, extreme far-left biased that immediately taints him as a serious reporter. Acosta is an antagonist, bully, aggressor…not cool.
5 years ago
Reply to
Seaside
He thinks he is a celebrity. It’s all about him and his hatred for Trump.
5 years ago
Why aren’t you triggering the anus of some unlucky goat or little boy for allah the barbarian?
5 years ago
No public briefing by the president he does not have to do it. If he can’t control what happens in the White House what can be control. The judge is wrong and I don’t think he has the authority to do it.
5 years ago
If reporters, any reporters. cannot behave in a civilised manner they should not be at the WH press conferebce. Acosta behaved like an arrogant lout (actually nothing new for reporters).
I bet the judge is an Obama appointee
5 years ago
Timothy J. Kelly is an OBAMA judge. What else? And Jim Acosta gets his baby bottle.
5 years ago
If so, then the aide must lay a charge against him for battery!
5 years ago
Does a judge tell a president what to do? Does a judge determine what is right and wrong? Where is the trial by jury to be judged by his peers?
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Yes and yes. As for trial by jury, that will happen later. Trump will lose because the facts of the case indicate that there were no written codes of conduct. The Fifth Amendment applies to all of government, and you need a written code to have it.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
What are we a nation of infants? Do you fool, not know when a meeting becomes disruptive? When someone is rude? A decorum when speaking to the President?
The one who behaves like a child should be removed like one?
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
You do not know when a meeting becomes rude and disruptive? That the perpetrator must be removed in order for it continue uninterrupted?
Does this need to be defined by a judge, jury and executioner? Why have you become a nation of crybabies?
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
The judge apparently does see a need to define this, or at least codes of conduct. What should also be mandated is a lottery (conducted externally) for reporters to ask questions each session (twice weekly)…the Press Secretary not knowing beforehand who won the lottery, or the questioning.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Why doesn’t a reporter have defined code of conduct? Why is it always US that needs one?
5 years ago
So what is the purpose for a “pass” if going to the WH press room is an entitlement/right?
I certainly hope that the Trump administration appeals this absurd ruling.
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
They will appeal, but I see it being upheld since there wasn’t a written code of conduct to enforce. The judge wants one by Tuesday that he would then sign off on, that would then be binding going forward.
5 years ago
Activist Judges issuing fake opinions based on other law besides the Constitution, are separating reporters, business owners and citizens into categories of those with rights, and those without rights, based on their political leanings, their race and sexual orientation.
Unconstitutional opinons of rogue judges are null and void. By following judicial opinions that are unconstitutional, politicians and citizens make our founding documents null and void, and place judges on thrones as dictators ruling over the other two branches of the government.
Remember the ‘Separation of Powers’! None of the three branches of government have ultimate power over the other two, allowing for checks and balances.
But the Constitution isn’t being followed in our country today…by any branch of the federal government, or most state governments.
5 years ago
Brash, rude, loudmouthed Acosta may attend W briefings, but that does not mean he will be recognized. It will be fun to watch his ranting and posturing as OTHER reporters are recognized while he is ignored.
5 years ago
This is BS! The judge doesn’t have that authority. Whats next forcing people to accept “refugees” in their homes for free? Trump should tell the judge to go jump!
5 years ago
I’m SO fed up with the stinking activist judges!!! EVERY activist judge should be forcefully removed from the bench!!
5 years ago
I say throw the bum out – but I also do not see him ‘wrestling’ with or attacking the woman.
Where does this; judge get the right to command who gets regularly into Presidential press events?
Where’s my badge?
5 years ago
Reply to
B. Prescott
It wasn’t really “wrestling,” but he did block her arm when she tried to reach for the mic because he wasn’t finished grand standing and accusing Trump of being racist. Trump will have the last word, regardless of a stinking activist judge!
5 years ago
Is anyone surprised that an “activist” judge ruled in error? Yes, this judge was a Trump appointee, recommended to him by an obvious RINO. This is not about freedom of speech; Acosta is free to spew his vitriol whenever he wishes, but not in the White House. Did you know there are 50 other CNN reporters holding hard WH press passes? Shouldn’t they be more evenly distributed among alternate news sources?
5 years ago
Being allowed to go to a WH briefing is a privilege, not a right. If you conduct yourself like a fool, you can expect to be removed. A federal judge doesn’t have the authority to dictate how the executive branch runs their house. There was no suppression of 1st amendment rights; CNN has 50 other “reporters” in the room. Basically, if I were President, I’d tell the judge to get bent. It ain’t his house.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ed Love
I’m SO fed up with these activist judges who think they’re God!! Trump had the last word, however, and said if it happens again, he and his staff will simply leave the room and the “journalists” will be left sitting there facing an empty podium. And that is the right thing to do! If they’re going to be rude and accusatory, rather than asking real questions, there is NO reason he should stay in the room.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ed Love
If what you say is true, then over 200 years of precedent must be thrown out. This was decided on Fifth Amendment grounds, not First Amendment grounds.
5 years ago
More and more I realize there needs to be a right-wing, patriotic TV station which will report the true unadulterated news and many pro American documentaries and stories. There is a series called “Lives of Great Americans” — the one I saw was about Frank Lloyd Wright. There are many about the deeds of our Founding Fathers,especially one about all the inventions of Benjamin Franklin — what a genius — and our other Inventors, writers and artists. Biographies of all our heroes. Who gets to see all these wondrful offerings? No one.
Why cannot such a TV starion be established? It would make millions because so many would want to advertise there and millions of people would watch it and put all the others to shame — CNN would soon be bankrupt and disappear, including Acosta. Why are ALL the TV stations controlled by the swamp creatures?. And ALL the newspapers? I can understand why Communists and Seditionists could get control of one or two newspapers, but ALL of them? Is it a matter of money??? were they bought, and sold out?? All our universities were bought with Saudi money — it is said you cannot just buy a professor at Harvard, you can buy a whole department. Where were the Alumni?? The protests? All our universities are in the hands of the enemy and that’s why nearly half of American citizens are anti-Trump, our students have been perverted — any thinking person could only vote for him, who is standing there like a sacrificial giant taking the slings and arrows and protecting us from the total destruction we would suffer without him. May God bless him.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kriemhild
I can tell you why such a TV station wouldn’t be established:
1. No large market audience.
2. No significant audience in the 25-54 age demographic (MSNBC occasionally wins in this critical demo)
3. No existing channel space that could be used for such.
This is why Trump wanted so hard for Sinclair to succeed in buying Tribune (this transaction collapsed in August).
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
I don’t agree — I believe the audience would be enormous — just look at all the crowds that come to Trump’s rallies — of all ages and types, and all the people who make comments to all the blogs. Everybody is sick and tired of all the blasphemy on CNN and Co. — it is dying. I don’t mean just patriotic stuff — show Father Botros, the Coptic Monk who villifies islam by showing passages direct from the koran, infuriating the islamists because they cannot deny it — and have Kamal Saleem and oher apostates wwho have become Christians after having seen that Islam is just a hoax — You cannot tell he truth about islam ANYWHERE, but it mut be unmasked. There are great personalities who could give talks and inspire our unknowing citizens.
I didnÄt know about the the buying of The Tribune — which Tribune, the one in Chicago, or the one in Paris?? Some way, righteousness has to break through the wall of lies surrounding us at every turn and let the truth be provlaimed.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kriemhild
Tribune TV stations (spun off from Tribune’s newspapers, now TRONC, in 2014).
5 years ago
What a half-baked fool of a judge! Does his ‘mummy’ know he’s out? Utterly clueless, compromising, weak and knows little to nothing about the real world. So a reporter can conduct himself rudely, ignorantly, try to hijack a White House press conference, be rude to a WH employee, and this is okay?
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Or Trump has to have rules specifically written and published to avoid that situation; he didn’t!
5 years ago
Such a disturbing @aemoreira1981:disqus should be reminded about crybaby CNN
