The Press Is Public Enemy No. 1 – American Greatness

The Press Is Public Enemy No. 1 – American Greatness
"Why do Americans entertain the press as safekeepers of democracy? 
We are not a democracy, nor is such deep trust in the press warranted by history.

When George Washington sat at the head of the table at the Constitutional Convention, he allowed no daily briefing of the press and forbade notes to leave the room. 
Washington, like President Trump, did not take kindly to leakers.

Washington recognized that if the public heard the details of the debates and disputes at the convention day in and day out, all filtered through the back and forth of the partisan press (which, for all its faults, was at least honest about its partisanship—unlike today’s “objective” journalists), the people might well be excited into losing hope in legitimate political processes. 
The father of our country had little confidence in the power of the press to inform the people properly.

A few of President Trump’s critics in the media and politics recently received packages of spare parts, some of which “contained powder from a low explosive or a pyrotechnic, as in fireworks,” or, in the cases where it didn’t even qualify as that, “energetic material.”

Members of the excitable press, who insist that Americans thank them like soldiers “for their service because they devote themselves to protecting our freedoms,” went into hysterics over the “devices” that they insisted on calling “bombs.” Sure, they were “missing a crucial component for a functioning explosive device,” but you say “tomato,” they say “bomb.”

Never ones to let an opportunity to politicize a crisis or take shots at Trump go to waste, the whole of the establishment media (including the effeminate wing of Fox News, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace) made the bombathan appear to be a national emergency. 
Many people scratched their heads at the rhetoric. 
The media has lauded Antifa, which has been inciting and engaging in political violence since Trump was elected. 
Now all of a sudden, the nation had a crisis of “right-wing terrorism.” 
It was strange to see..."
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