Discussion: EPA Blocks AP, CNN From National Summit On Harmful Water Contaminants

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So let me get this straight. The reporter had to back into the meeting, after having been pushed out. Is that right?

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The CNN reporter tried to enter the speech as a member of the general public for which there was room. The reporter was excluded. It’s in the link.

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It sounds as if they had second thoughts about dying on this particular hill.

Never start a publicity fight with someone who buys electrons by the barrel.

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The guards need to face assault charges and whomever ordered them to manhandle the AP reporter committed criminal offenses as well. Pruitt is a cancer on the republic.

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Nowadays that should probably be updated to something like “who has their own redundant, load-balanced Cloud Data Center”… :wink:

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Don’t worry–This jackass will certainly try it again. :angry:

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In some ways, the press is a willing partner in this bs. Michelle Wolf nailed the media with her comments about the profitable love/hate relationship the media has with tRump. The response was to attack Wolf for her mild jokes about Sarah Sanders and sooth Sarah’s bruised fee fees, and in return, Sanders proceeds to gaslight the crap out of them about tRump’s Chinese loans. tRump himself is threatening to block media access over articles he doesn’t like, and the media response is to report it and gaslight their audiences into believing this is normal. Keep pretending tRump is your friend.

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From TheHill.com:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/388770-outlets-pushback-against-epa-limiting-reporters-at-chemical-summit

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If this meeting is about changes to regulations or possible new regulations aren’t meetings involving the public supposed to be, um, public? I think the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), puts limits on the amount and type of work that can be done behind closed doors.

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You make the common mistake of taking me seriously.

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Oops. Just too much reading today…

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Imagine if the journalists who exercise their 1st Amendment rights started to use an interpretation of the 2nd Amendment at that event. Pruitt would be thankful that he used excess taxpayers funds for his enhanced security.

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Let her back in? Good. Admission of guilt and consciousness thereof.

Still sue for assault. FUCK THEM. NO MERCY. NO QUARTER.

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