For the umpteenth time, AP executive order Julie Pace claims to be fighting for the freedom of speech of all Americans by demanding exclusive cartel access to the White House.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Well, Dear Julie, Press Access is not Freedom of the Press, it is a privilege—some have it and some do not. Play nice and stop being a jerk and privileges may be forthcoming.
If Pace were at all literate, she would at least be arguing about Freedom of the Press, but neither one applies.
Now, if Trump had dispatched the FBI to smash up the presses or ban the AP from operating for refusing to use the term Gulf of America, that would be a textbook First Amendment violation.
But that is not happening. Instead, the AP is not be granted the access it feels it so rightfully deserves. And access is not a right or a freedom, it is a privilege. One that operates on the premise that media access should be limited to select elite, typically non-hostile individuals.
[Again], press access is not freedom, it is privilege.
NOTE: Loss of press access, however, is something that happened to conservative journalists when the government came after them—directly or indirectly, through Facebook or Twitter—for their views.
Dear Julie had no problem with that and kept quiet about her feelings concerning the matter because at the time she was in the club. And the club is the actual enemy of Freedom of the Press.
Dear Julie argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
The ability to comment on politics and consume news created without interference and intimidation by the government is central to American democracy. So central, in fact, that it is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Again, Dear Julie, these words disingenuous and they come too late to be seen as little more than disgruntlement over turn around as fair play.
Commenting on politics does not pertain to being granted access to government events, rather being able to comment and write about politics without being censored by Facebook at a command from the White House.
Had you spoken out in support of conservative journalists when Obiden Regime came after them you would now be seen as being somewhat less hypocritical.
Tellingly, Dear Julie uses the word “consume.” To her, free speech is a passive act. The act of consuming or listening to whatever lies she tells while commanding an unearned power.
That is not how the First Amendment was ever meant to work, despite however much twisting liberalism tries to perform on 1A.
