They stupidly believe it gives them the right to say whatever they want and censor everyone else.
Mollie Hemingway and Others Sink NYT Journo's Attempt to Make JD Vance a Censorship Hypocrite
http://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/02/15/mollie-hemingway-and-others-sink-nyts-wh-journos-attempt-to-frame-jd-vance-as-a-censorship-hypocrite-n2408380
Vice President JD Vance's blistering speech at the Munich Security Conference yesterday triggered European leaders and apparently even some people in the U.S. media. Vance delivered several reality checks about censorship and authoritarianism.
Greg Price (@greg_price11) ~ JD Vance went to the Munich Security Conference and roasted the entire continent of Europe for being petty tyrants and criminalizing freedom of speech, including a British man arrested for praying at an abortion clinic.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1890401136160518401
Then there's this story in the U.S. that has caused the White House Correspondents' Association to issue a strongly worded statement:
WHCA (@whca) ~ Statement on White House Barring the AP from News Coverage.
The people at the WHCA are none too bright. No one has dictated anything about standards or editorial decisions to the Associated Press. No one has raided the offices of the AP or attempted to throw anyone in jail. The Trump Administration simply chooses to make itself readily available to those outlets it believes are objective in their reporting. However, just because you are not extended the privilege - that's "privilege," NOT "right" - of being invited to attend a White House press event (in the Oval Office, on board Air Force One, etc.), does not impede your ability to report your slanted version of the news however you see fit. So ...
Add it all up and the New York Times' White House correspondent seems to think JD Vance (and Trump) are being hypocritical:
Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) ~ Headlines from today:
Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech
White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One
The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway brings on the necessary constitutional sarcasm:
Mollie (@MZHemingway) ~ And as it says in the First Amendment, “The Associated Press gets to displace media on AF1 no matter what they do.” Excellent point.
Not letting an Associated Press reporter go wherever they want is censorship?
Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) ~ {Reply to @peterbakernyt} How is the second headline censorship, apparatchik?
It isn't, but the totally objective journalist knows it'll feed a narrative for the Left.
Oh well, Pravda-boy ... at least you tried (but failed miserably) to deflect and deceive like a good lil' Marxist.
Vanessa (@Nessakins_) ~ It’s a free speech issue to the wire service that shared office space with Hamas that it isn’t allowed on Air Force One?
"Any media outlet that demands access to Air Force One and the White House briefing room" isn't part of the First Amendment? Go figure!
The poor babies believe they just have to be sufficiently bitchy enough about it to get their way, don'tcha know.
IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) ~ Europe is censoring free speech, even criminalizing it in many countries. Exclusive White House access is a privilege. @AP is still free to write and publish whatever they like, so there is no 1A violation. These are more 80/20 issues you all are on the wrong side of.
Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) ~ {Reply to @peterbakernyt} But @AP can still write and print whatever it wants. They are not being censored. They may not be allowed in the Oval, but neither are a lot of organizations. Apples to oranges, @peterbakernyt.
Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) ~ {Reply to @peterbakernyt} The newspaper of record is too dumb to understand how freedom of speech works.
Misinforming their readers is what they do.
Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) ~ {Reply to @peterbakernyt} Selecting a different privileged news outlet to fill a spot in the president’s office or on his airplane is exactly the same as British police arresting someone for standing silently and praying to himself. Is this your point, Peter?
If that is your point, Peter, then ...
One thing's for sure:
Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) ~ {Reply to @peterbakernyt} The AP’s speech isn’t hindered. They can continue to lie with impunity.
And they'll do exactly that.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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