Sipsey Street Irregulars: NYT reporter: Obama administration the ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’ in a generation.

Monday, March 24, 2014

NYT reporter: Obama administration the ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’ in a generation.

New York Times reporter James Risen called the Obama administration “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation” on Friday, explaining that the White House seeks to control the flow of information and those that refuse to play along “will be punished.”

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Anonymous said...: Ya see there! All you folks who voted for him just to show you weren't racist, while all of us who were better informed and had more common sense, and told you it was not because he was BLACK, but instead because he was RED....don't ya feel stupid now?; March 24, 2014 at 11:00 PM
Anonymous said...: And the American people will gleefully ask for a third helping of this shit soup in 2016 when Hillary is coronated our first queen.; March 25, 2014 at 12:25 AM
Anonymous said...: About time the "press" woke up. Funny how it's not so funny when it's YOUR ox that's being gored. And no, I STILL do not trust them as far as I can throw them over my right shoulder with my left hand.

B Woodman
III-per; March 25, 2014 at 5:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Hey y'all- Sure, they suck. Overtly and covertly, this administration twists, degrades and defiles the very concept of a free press and an informed electorate.

EXACTLY LIKE THE LAST ADMINISTRATION. And the one before. Perhaps you liked the style of the previous lies and propaganda better? They were still lies. You were considered to be rubes, suckers and "little people" to be herded, riled up, tickled with straws and used as needed, just as now...

Quit focusing on the faces on the TV and start focusing on the system that's putting them there.; March 25, 2014 at 6:14 AM
SWIFT said...: This is excellent news. Obama is alienating his own supporters as well as the Right. With a lot of luck, maybe his approval rating will drop into the 20's,or lower, assuring a confrontation. After all, who wants to leave this mess for our children and grandchildren to fight?; March 25, 2014 at 6:53 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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