Democrats organize to fight back

[Galen]

(05-27-2017, 05:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-27-2017, 01:03 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(05-26-2017, 03:09 PM)Galen Wrote:

(05-26-2017, 12:07 PM)Eric the Obtuse (accurate description restored) Wrote: Apparently less than half of the apparent 700,000 registered voters voted, and most of them voted early. So this result was due to many Montana citizens not voting in a special election. Their only recourse now, if they want to have someone other than a thug represent them, is to recall him, if they can. Polls also show that they still approve of the thug in the White House who inspired Gianforte's behavior. This also needs to change, if Montana is to join the civilized world again.

Given the current reputation of the mainstream media beating up that reporter was probably helped him get elected.  Newspapers have been on life support for some time and these days only the geezers watch TV news.

When political violence becomes normal, democracy dies. Political  violence seems incompatible with any libertarian essay that I have ever seen.

Hypocrite! You have outed yourself.

Indeed he has, and not for the first time. Liberty and democracy are impossible without a free press. Those Trump supporters and other right-wingers like Galen are upset at the press because it tells the truth and because it wants answers to important questions, like the one which that reporter asked.

The mainstream press hasn't really told the truth in years.  Even without the corporate outlets which really are the mainstream press we do have a free press.  They just live on the internet rather than on TV or the newspapers.  Go back and look at what the press was like in the nineteenth century sometime.