White House Correspondents’ Association President Jonathan Karl put forth a statement in defense of Playboy reporter Brian Karem Sunday after the White House stripped the journalist of his hard pass.
WHCA Statement on Hard Pass Press Access at White House. #whca pic.twitter.com/ro2vRtIzZx
— WHCA (@whca) August 4, 2019
Karem said that his White House access had been suspended for 30 days after he got into an argument with former White House staffer Sebastian Gorka in early July.
Gorka called Karem a “punk” and the altercation momentarily seemed like it was building toward physical violence.
Trump gleefully tweeted after the scuffle that “Gorka wins big! No contest!”
The White House has pulled this trick before, revoking CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass after he refused to give up his microphone to a White House intern. Then- press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders circulated a doctored video of the moment, sped up to make it look like Acosta swatted the woman away.
CNN and Acosta sued, and a judge reinstated his credentials.
Delightful. Doctored videos, fake news, lying BS from Donnie, what more? Get those reprehensible toads out of the WH…
This trend of the White House revoking press credentials of reporters who question them should strike fear into every patriotic American.
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.” --Thomas Jefferson
Yes it should.
But this was an argument with Gorka…a no nothing that even the WH found worthless in office and eventually sacked. Not in the least because he was mooching daily off of the WH cafeteria and kitchen. And no, I am not making that up.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Especially from such a stenographer as Karl…
I fondly remember a time when every single member of a presidential administration wasn’t a completely irresponsible asshole.