CNN Lockhart wants Trump Oval office test in advance - so media can "decide what's true"

Posted: Jan 8th, 2019 - 8:54 am In Reply to: Standard Democrat response to anything Trump - says...

Fourth Estate? Forget about it. Joe Lockhart wants to make the media the First Estate, with the right to rule on the veracity of presidential statements before the peons are permitted to hear them.

On this morning's New Day, Lockhart, a CNN political commentator and former spokesman for President Clinton, recommended that the networks not provide live coverage this evening of President Trump's Oval Office address about the situation at the border. Instead, Lockhart said Trump should give the networks the text in advance, "and let us decide in advance what's true."

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Do they fear a break with reality? - Sm (Views: 580, 2019-01-07, 11:35 pm)
- Facts and figures have already...sm - Anon (Views: 232, 2019-01-08, 6:56 am)
- All grasshoppers and no ants. Mainstream media response - is already out there, Democrats. (Views: 225, 2019-01-08, 7:08 am)
  - Standard Democrat response to anything Trump - says... (Views: 225, 2019-01-08, 7:11 am)
    - Resistance to the wall, including Republicans. - Not according to the media. sm (Views: 227, 2019-01-08, 8:05 am)
      - I appreciate source, but Cato is a libertarian think tank - Many of the folks at Cato are (Views: 213, 2019-01-08, 8:13 am)
        Again, the proof that there is no crisis can be - found on govt sites as well as sm (Views: 279, 2019-01-08, 8:16 am)
        The Cato Institute receives no government funding. - sm (Views: 187, 2019-01-08, 8:35 am)
        Cato has many articles about the global warming hoax - refuting Obama's "facts" but hey (Views: 233, 2019-01-08, 9:10 am)
        Cato was founded by one of the Koch brothers, both of - whom are pro illegal immigration (Views: 227, 2019-01-08, 8:48 am)
        More defection from facts available from many - sites including the govt. nm (Views: 243, 2019-01-08, 9:16 am)
    - CNN Lockhart wants Trump Oval office test in advance - so media can "decide what's true"
      - He's the one who let Obama use his house and was a - spokesman for the Clintons. (Views: 253, 2019-01-08, 12:20 pm)
    - It's time to start listening to law enforcement about the - border and not politicians. (Views: 188, 2019-01-08, 4:51 pm)
  - What about fact checks by his own administration? - He just ignores it. nm (Views: 227, 2019-01-08, 7:11 am)
    - He should definitely be very careful on what he says. - This will end up in a legal battle. (Views: 210, 2019-01-08, 7:18 am)
      - Like if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor? - What fraud. (Views: 264, 2019-01-08, 7:24 am)
        Useless deflection at this point. - nm (Views: 269, 2019-01-08, 7:25 am)
        A valid way to make a point, in my opinion. Too bad - the media never fact checked (Views: 242, 2019-01-08, 7:26 am)
        Point taken. Does not matter. This is 2019. - Trump is POTUS. When this ends up in court, sm (Views: 188, 2019-01-08, 7:28 am)
        That's why half the country doesn't trust the media. - nm (Views: 215, 2019-01-08, 7:29 am)
        Nor do they trust Trump. He could have probably - won more support if he (Views: 209, 2019-01-08, 7:36 am)
        Some journalists have always been liars, even back during the - days of William Randolph Hearst. (Views: 192, 2019-01-08, 7:47 am)
        FDR lied to Americans during his reelection. "I have said - this before, but I shall say it again (Views: 233, 2019-01-08, 8:01 am)
        Guess the truth hurts - No deflection, but rather fact. (Views: 228, 2019-01-08, 9:44 am)
        Dems are not the only ones with opinions. - See how that works? nm (Views: 185, 2019-01-08, 9:52 am)
        Walter Duranty of the NYT "There is no famine or is there - likely to be." His pro soviet stories (Views: 194, 2019-01-08, 7:43 am)
      - Depends on which court - and which president (Views: 184, 2019-01-08, 9:05 am)
    - You can say that again...sm - Old Anon (Views: 213, 2019-01-08, 7:31 am)
  - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should give a comment on - the speech. Forrest Gump wing (Views: 222, 2019-01-08, 7:18 am)
    - Well, she does have the right...SM - Old Anon (Views: 194, 2019-01-08, 7:38 am)
      - The President has that same right. - nm (Views: 211, 2019-01-08, 7:45 am)
        I personally don't believe the Pres has the right - to lie to the American people, constantly. nm (Views: 205, 2019-01-08, 7:48 am)
        Then OBAMA should have been impeached - On the first day. Did nothing but lie (Views: 229, 2019-01-08, 9:47 am)
        And what year is this? 2019, right? Who is POTUS? - You guys can talk about sm (Views: 228, 2019-01-08, 9:58 am)
        Same old Democrat deny, deflection - Dems NEVER looking at their wrong (Views: 196, 2019-01-08, 10:27 am)
        No judge will care if the wall money ends up in court. - See how that works, right? nm (Views: 199, 2019-01-08, 10:38 am)
    - She just can't understand why so many people resist - the siren song of socialism, (Views: 244, 2019-01-08, 8:07 am)
  - Who talks like that? sm - Anon (Views: 235, 2019-01-08, 7:48 am)
    - And this is why we are losing our cultural cohesion - sm (Views: 291, 2019-01-08, 10:45 am)
      - I wonder how many of us...sm - Anon (Views: 213, 2019-01-08, 11:27 am)
        Aesop's fables have been transmitted through the ages since before Christ. - sm (Views: 229, 2019-01-09, 2:24 pm)
      - Thank you. I wasn't going to waste my time. - :) (Views: 214, 2019-01-08, 12:17 pm)
  - Hubbard described the media as chaos merchants. - nm (Views: 194, 2019-01-08, 8:19 am)
    - Who's Hubbard? - Anon (Views: 218, 2019-01-08, 11:40 am)
  - Who cares if the MSM airs his speech or not. With the - internet, they are not longer the (Views: 213, 2019-01-08, 8:51 am)