{"id":38863,"date":"2018-08-18T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38863"},"modified":"2018-08-18T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:37:20","slug":"trump-whines-and-lies-about-imaginary-discrimination-of-conservatives-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38863","title":{"rendered":"Trump Whines (and Lies) About Imaginary Discrimination of Conservatives on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone should make an official application to rename the Republican Party the <em>Sniveling Victim Party<\/em>. It seems that most of their time nowadays is spent griping about how terribly put upon they are by forces bent on destroying them. And no one exemplifies this spirit better than the party&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Most Fabulous Whiner&#8221;<\/em> (yes, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32933\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he called himself that<\/a><\/strong>), Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-twitter-birds-2.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36572\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2294351567246292\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning&#8217;s regularly scheduled <em>Twitter Tirade with Trump<\/em>, the petulant president went on a tear over his insistence that social media is <em>&#8220;discriminating against Republican\/Conservative voices.&#8221;<\/em> Never mind that he offered zero evidence of any such discrimination. In fact, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/data-conclusively-debunks-myth-conservative-censorship-facebook\/220679\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all the evidence<\/a><\/strong> proves that this frequent complaint of carping rightists everywhere is utterly false. Nevertheless, Trump&#8217;s tweetstorm makes ludicrous allegations that were surely <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/1030848043329810433\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inspired by his Fox News<\/a><\/strong> viewing minutes before tweeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican\/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won\u2019t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1030777074959757313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThis is a totally baseless accusation that emanates from the deep recesses of paranoid minds. Trump is parroting the criticisms of wingnut icons like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and the irrepressible Demean &#038; Sulk (aka <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37662\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond &#038; Silk<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;..Censorship is a very dangerous thing &amp; absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN &amp; MSNBC, &amp; yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don\u2019t watch at all..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1030779412973846529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIndeed, censorship is dangerous. Which is why it&#8217;s a feature of Trump&#8217;s White House where they have denied access to journalists and they refuse to release documents of critical importance to the public like his tax returns. Even his tiresome charges of <em>&#8220;fake news&#8221;<\/em> directed at CNN, MSNBC, and every other news outlet that isn&#8217;t sufficiently adoring, borders on censorship becaise its purpose is to deny an audience to those he disapproves of. As for Trump&#8217;s assertion that he doesn&#8217;t <em>&#8220;ask that their sick behavior be removed,&#8221;<\/em> that&#8217;s another lie:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918267396493922304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nTrump also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38598\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned a CNN reporter<\/a><\/strong> from an otherwise public event at the White House. Kaitlan Collins of CNN was told that she could not attend because she had the audacity to ask Trump some question earlier that day. It flies in the face of his latest comments about letting everybody participate:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Too many voices are being destroyed, some good &amp; some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good &amp; bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1030781399920455681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThis has a familiar ring to it. Trump is saying, once again, that there are <em>&#8220;fine people&#8221;<\/em> on all sides, just like he did when he defended neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville. What he is likely responding to is the recent banning of his buddy with the <em>&#8220;amazing reputation,&#8221;<\/em> Alex Jones, from Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. To be clear, that isn&#8217;t censorship because private companies have a right to monitor the content on their own platforms. And Jones wasn&#8217;t banned for his political views, but for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2018\/08\/14\/pericope-alex-jones-tells-supporters-get-their-battle-rifles-ready-against-antifa-mainstream-media\/220995\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inciting violence<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain irony about Trump posting his complaints about discrimination on social media, on social media. But he is just extending his campaign against media in general to new platforms. And as always, they are all aligned against him. What&#8217;s more, he knows about this because he obviously pays attention, particularly to television. Contrary to assertion that he doesn&#8217;t watch much TV, he is known to spend as much as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/364094-trump-watches-at-least-four-hours-of-tv-per-day-report\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight hours a day<\/a><\/strong> doing so. And while much of that is spent hate-watching CNN and MSNBC, most of it is devoted to Fox News, Trump&#8217;s shadow cabinet and national security advisors.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone should make an official application to rename the Republican Party the Sniveling Victim Party. It seems that most of their time nowadays is spent griping about how terribly put upon they are by forces bent on destroying them. And no one exemplifies this spirit better than the party&#8217;s &#8220;Most Fabulous Whiner&#8221; (yes, he called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[875,1331,42,554,879,33,22],"class_list":["post-38863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-alex-jones","tag-candace-owens","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-msnbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-twitter-birds-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-a6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31789,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31789","url_meta":{"origin":38863,"position":0},"title":"Not Satisfied With Destroying The GOP, Donald Trump Is Also Destroying Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/9\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a rapidly escalating sense of desperation on the part of the Republican Party. 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