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by
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Images)
Donald
Trump
is
mad
online.
Again.
No,
not
because
“BETA
MALE
Howard
Stern
made
a
fool
of
himself
on
his
low
rated
radio
show.”
Not
because
Vice
President
Harris
chatted
with”the
degenerates
on
The
View,”
and
“the
dumb
women
on
the
show
wish
they
never
asked
her
the
question
that
led
to
that
Election
Defying
answer.”
And
not
because
Harris
sat
down
with
“Call
Her
Daddy”
host
Alex
Cooper
and
her
five
million
strong
“Daddy
Gang”
for
a
discussion
on
abortion,
sexual
assault,
and
why
humility
is
not
an
aspirational
goal
for
women.
(No
Truth
Social
link
because
women
under
35
speak
at
a
frequency
inaudible
to
the
former
president.
True
story!)
Trump,
for
whom
it
is
always
and
forever
1987,
is
up
in
his
feelings
about
Harris’s
appearance
on
“60
Minutes”
with
journalist
Bill
Whitaker.
At
first
Trump
insisted
she’d
faceplanted,
scoffing
that
it
was
“considered
by
many
of
those
who
reviewed
it,
the
WORST
Interview
they
have
ever
seen.”
But
soon
he
shifted
to
complaints
about
the
network’s
editorial
decisions,
claiming
that
the
network
had
cleaned
up
Harris’s
answers,
particularly
on
questions
about
Israel,
to
make
them
more
coherent.
Then,
in
a
post
accusing
Harris
of
being
“virtually
incoherent,”
Trump
went
from
describing
CBS’s
editorial
choices
as
“possibly
illegal”
to
“an
open
and
shut
case”
which
“must
be
investigated,
starting
today!”
“Just
imagine,
60
Minutes
actually
took
Lyin’
Kamala’s
answers,
and
CHANGED
THEM.
It’s
unthinkable.
They
are
in
big
trouble!”
he
yelled
into
the
cloudless
ether.
And
he
was
still
at
it
this
morning,
screeching
that
“CBS
should
lose
its
license”
and
“be
bid
out
to
the
highest
bidder.”
That’s
big
talk
from
a
candidate
who
spews
the
vilest
racism,
only
to
have
it
described
as
a
“fascination
with
genes
and
genetics.”
Perhaps
the
guy
who
spawned
the
neologism
“sanewashing”
should
simmer
down
about
networks
cleaning
up
a
candidate’s
prose.
But
this
is
hardly
the
first
time
Trump
suggested
that
journalists
he
doesn’t
like
should
be
silenced.
After
his
sole
debate
with
Harris
(THERE
WILL
BE
NO
REMATCH!
BESIDES,
KAMALA
STATED
CLEARLY,
YESTERDAY,
THAT
SHE
WOULD
NOT
DO
ANYTHING
DIFFERENT
THAN
JOE
BIDEN,
SO
THERE
IS
NOTHING
TO
DEBATE.
THANK
YOU
FOR
YOUR
ATTENTION
TO
THIS
MATTER!),
he
complained
to
his
Fox
&
Friends
support
group
that
ABC
should
be
punished
for
being
mean
to
him.
“To
be
honest,
they’re
a
news
organization.
They
have
to
be
licensed
to
do
it.
They
ought
to
take
away
their
license
for
the
way
they
did
that,”
he
whined.
To
be
honest, no
they
don’t.
You
don’t
need
a
license
to
practice
journalism.
You
don’t
even
need
a
license
to
own
a
television
network.
The
FCC does
license
local
television
stations
which
use
the
scarce
broadcast
spectrum,
a
vestige
from
the
days
when
Americans
got
their
six
channels
through
metal
divining
rods
on
the
roof.
But
even
Trump
must
know
that
it
doesn’t
work
like
that
any
more.
But
more
to
the
point,
the
FCC
isn’t
going
after
television
networks
because
it
doesn’t
like
their
coverage,
no
matter
how
vile
and
mendacious.
(Cf
Fox
freakin’
News.)
As
current
FCC
Chair
Jessica
Rosenworcel
tweeted
during
the
last
campaign
when
Trump
tried
to
get
her
predecessor
Ajit
Pai
to
go
after
Comcast,
“The
FCC
doesn’t
sanction
stations
for
what
journalists
say.”
Rosenworcel
has
been
debunking
Trump’s
claims
since
at
least
2017,
when
she
penned
an
article
in Cosmopolitan
calling
it
an
absolute
affront
to
the
First
Amendment
for
a
sitting
president
to
demand
that
the
government
punish
speech.
And
she’s
still
at
it,
putting
out
a
statement
today
responding
to
Trump’s
calls
to
sanction
CBS:
While
repeated
attacks
against
broadcast
stations
by
the
former
President
may
now
be
familiar,
these
threats
against
free
speech
are
serious
and
should
not
be
ignored.
As
I’ve
said
before,
the
First
Amendment
is
a
cornerstone
of
our
democracy.
The
FCC
does
not
and
will
not
revoke
licenses
for
broadcast
stations
simply
because
a
political
candidate
disagrees
with
or
dislikes
content
or
coverage.
Trump
responded
by
posting
that
inflation
is
up,
manufacturing
jobs
are
down,
and
FEMA
has
abandoned
North
Carolina.
Then
he
took
credit
for
capping
insulin
costs
at
$35
a
month
in
2022.
But
don’t
say
on
air
that
those
are
abject
lies,
because
that’s
an
illegal
campaign
contribution
and
they’ll
take
away
your
license.
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.