{"id":4321,"date":"2018-08-17T05:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T05:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/17\/is-president-trump-mounting-an-assault-on-the-fourth-estate\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T05:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T05:52:56","slug":"is-president-trump-mounting-an-assault-on-the-fourth-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/17\/is-president-trump-mounting-an-assault-on-the-fourth-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Is President Trump Mounting an Assault on the Fourth Estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously not<\/a>. He is merely punching back at the contemptible pseudo-journalists, feculent with crypto-commie bias, who head up the lamestream media outlets. <\/span><\/p>\n

When leftists accuse us of something you can be sure that they are doing that very thing. Call it political projection. The greatest threats to free speech at the present time emanate from so-called 'liberals.'<\/span><\/p>\n

If  'liberal' is used in the classical way, we conservatives are the true liberals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the end, hundreds of papers telling us how bad Trump has been for press freedom may make all those involved feel good for a day, but it won't move the needle one bit. It may even have an opposite effect than the one intended. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, calling the press the "enemy of the people" is way over the top, and obviously wrong. But Trump's rhetoric is nothing compared to Obama's actions in terms of press treatment. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Left is deeply destructive and they need to be opposed. No Republican except Trump has the cojones<\/em> for the job. If he goes too far, well that is what happens in a war. And it is a war. A war for the soul of America. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously not. He is merely punching back at the contemptible pseudo-journalists, feculent with crypto-commie bias, who head up the lamestream media outlets.  When leftists accuse us of something you can be sure that they are doing that very thing. Call it political projection. The greatest threats to free speech at the present time emanate from … Continue reading “Is President Trump Mounting an Assault on the Fourth Estate?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,120,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-media-matters","category-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}