White House bans CNN reporter from press conference

[hollodero]

(08-01-2018, 07:56 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sounds like somebody might want to suppress Freedom of Speach:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/01/two-way-street-sanders-pressed-trump-supporters-heckling-cnns-acosta?page=2

Dude in the embedded video might just be one.

But I get it: "He didn't actually say that".

I don't know what your perception of freedom of speech is. The reporter asked if the WH was willing to say it was wrong of the crowd to behave like they behaved. That's not calling for suppressing freedom of speech. He didn't ask for the crowd to be indicted, prosecuted, jailed or anything like that. He just asked if the WH would call it wrong, not if they would call it culpable.

When someone say offends an old lady (fictional example), I would call that wrong. I might even interrupt. By that I do not infringe that person's first amendment rights.

Or did you call for suppressing free speech when you called out spectators booing a very conservative soccer player.
I sense a double standard here.