BILL SHINE, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS' DECISION TO BAN REPORTER KAITLAN COLLINS FROM WH EVENT BACKFIRES

[yuiyoshida]

White House communications staffers Bill Shine and Sarah Huckabee Sanders' decision to ban pool reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden event because she asked Donald Trump questions he did not like backfires big time.

White House communications staffers Bill Shine and Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ decision to ban pool reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden event because she asked Donald Trump questions he did not like backfires big time.

The drama started when Collins shouted out questions to Trump while he was in the Oval Office with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday afternoon. Collins, who was acting as the “pool reporter” for CNN, Fox News, NBC and ABC, asked Trump about the Michael Cohen tapes and his invitation to Vladimir Putin to visit the White House. Of course, Dear Leader was furious because he thinks he is a king or emperor and above the law.

Link to tweet

CNN ripped the White House saying, Collins’ questions were not “inappropriate” as Shine and Sanders claimed. “Just because the White House is uncomfortable with a question regarding the news of the day doesn’t mean the question isn’t relevant and shouldn’t be asked,” the network said in a statement. “This decision to bar a member of the press is retaliatory in nature and not indicative of an open and free press.” “We demand better.”

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[msongs]

1. "we demand better" - and if you don't get it then what? sternly worded letters? nt

[HuskyOffset]

45. Then what? Well, lemme tell you . . .

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[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[sarcasmo]

3. Step 1, ban reporters. Step 2, jail reporters. Step 3, Putin murders reports.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Murders Reporters...(?)

Yes he does that. Will that be in the Trump agenda next?

[Fred Sanders]

8. Jailing reporters is never going to happen, which is why his days are very numbered and he knows it.

[Bradshaw3]

9. And you know this ...how?

[pangaia]

25. yeah, that's my question,too.

[Fred Sanders]

39. Same reason others say they will be jailed - I have an opinion! Calm down says Grumpy 😡 🐱!

Yee of little faith in the many layers democracy has cloaked herself in, public opinion being a thick one.

[Bradshaw3]

41. Opinions stated as facts aren't facts

No one knows for sure where this is going. Our democracy can die, just like every other system has died in man's history. Democracy didn't cloak itself in anything - people make it and people can destroy it.

[uponit7771]

36. They take babies from people seeking Asylum of course it would happen

[iluvtennis]

19. Exactly.

[Cha]

5. Cnn should "demand better".. and they should

have demanded better of themselves when they were busy normalizing the Fraud to help get the USA in this Fascist state.

[dhill926]

7. exactly....

[MontanaMama]

14. +1

Would have been so much easier had the MSM done their due diligence during the election season. They might have saved the country. What a concept. 🙄

Oh that’s right....Hillary sent some emails... 🤮

[Cha]

16. I know, MontanaMama! When has the

M$M ever done their due diligence other than, trying to cover their collective ass, after the carnage when it's too late?

Except back in the days of Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murrow, and Harry Reasoner.

There I dated myself.

[MontanaMama]

18. I remember them too!!!

You just felt safe when one of those esteemed reporters was on the air. Even when the news was bad, you trusted what they told you. MSM shit show these days.

*dated myself too cha. Sigh...

[Cha]

21. Yeah, what are gonna do.. just celebrate another Birthday.. Bonus Tweet for you!

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

23. THAT

was a delight to read! Everybody on this thread needs to clink on that GQ article. Colbert is brilliant. And hilarious!!!

[Cha]

31. IKR!

[leftieNanner]

32. We still have Dan Rather!

Thanks for reminding us that journalists were once all and only about reporting the News. Those pesky facts.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. The dotard and the Whitehouse staff should buck up

And act like adults

[Cha]

22. uh huh..

Link to tweet

[enough]

10. Why do they even go to these events. Nothing gets said there but lies. NT

[zentrum]

11. All reporters need to

...not show up at the next press event. Either that. or they need to preface all questions by saying "Kaitlin Collins
asked me to ask you......"

Solidarity to save the 4th estate.

Doubt they'll have the stomach for it though.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Wondered this before...and the explanation was that each

Person in WH corps represents a business who wants to be first. So competing interests make them not support each other as much as we would like and as much as now seems crucially important.

[zentrum]

40. Yes. Reporters...

...used to feel a real allegiance to the profession and to the Constitution. Since they became stenographers, this speaking truth to power idea is gone.

I'm beyond freaked out.

[chillfactor]

12. sorry BUT....

"we demand better" is not what I would call a backfire.

[catbyte]

15. The tweets from other networks & reporters excoriating the White House are impressive.

[JohnnyRingo]

26. I read the entire article looking for the "backfire".

It turns out it was a flood of responses on Twitter.

I don't think the president is suffering any severe powder burns from a social media blast. I expect the administration will continue it's general assault on the press.

Exaggerated headline bordering on click bait.

[catbyte]

13. I wonder what they'd do if no reporter showed up. Even Bret Baier was pissed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. They'd be happy yet sad...fewer vehicles to spread their bullshit propaganda.

[uponit7771]

37. They would just add more right winger news sources

[catbyte]

43. Then they'd be only preaching to their demented 38% choir.

If no mainstream news covers them, they won't pollute the airwaves. I doubt Independents will check out Breitbart online. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. If they stop covering the bullshit propaganda speeches and lying press conferences, they'd have a lot less chances to poison the country.

[unblock]

17. My guess is the key is that she was a pool reporter.

Seems to me when Donnie picks on individual networks or reporters one by one, they don't defend each other.

This time he picked on a pool reporter, do this one act immediately affected several networks all at once.

*that* finally gets major pushback from the media.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Sarah Huck knows how to handle the tough questions.

[SCVDem]

24. A simple solution?

Don"t attend the bullshit sessions and just make shit up.

If you're already accused of being fake, just have at it! Go full National Enquirer on their ass! So what?

They have tweets and Faux. Fight BS with BS! We already have our anchors. Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel, et al.

C'mon November!

[CloudWatcher]

27. "backfires big time" -- still waiting

All I see is some minor bellyaching and complaints by the press. Until they present a united front and stop repeating the lies from the White House, this is just business as usual.

[Pacifist Patriot]

34. Could not agree more

I don't see anything here rendering the phrase "big time" or even "backfires" particularly relevant. <sigh>

[uponit7771]

38. +1, it's pretty easy just to wag a finger

[Ilsa]

28. I have noticed recently that when Sarah Huckster tries to shut down

a reporter, the next reporter she calls on asks the same follow-up question, or the next logical question. Doesn't happen every time, but it is happening more frequently. The 4th estate is doing a better job sticking up for each other.

[SunSeeker]

47. I hope so. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

[blue-wave]

33. I'm with Cha on this one

They (the mainstream media) created this monster back in 2016. I'm actually laughing at them because they are finally discovering what we have know all along. The tang man is a childish, temper tantrum throwing baby who likes to bully when he doesn't get his way. I welcome the main stream media to our club. You're late to the party, but welcome.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. You Nailed It

I clearly remember 10 minutes of an empty podium while HRC was giving a speech on her economic plan.

They preempted her speech on the ideas to correct "economic anxiety" to show an empty podium.

Worse yet, her speech ended 8.5 minutes into that 10 minutes. Meaning they could have shown the WHOLE speech and missed nothing.

[Tipperary]

35. Stupid misleading headline.

All caps or not, I see no “backfiring.”

[Major Nikon]

42. I'm pretty sure it wasn't their decision

This level of stupidity could have only come from the top.

[Demovictory9]

46. kick