{"id":56105,"date":"2024-08-13T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56105"},"modified":"2024-08-13T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:18:16","slug":"about-that-pesky-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56105","title":{"rendered":"About That Pesky First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Amendment states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Founding Fathers had enough faith in the American people to allow them to distinguish the fake news from the real news.\u00a0 Evidently at least one of today&#8217;s newspapers does not share that view. Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson asked an amazing question at Monday&#8217;s press conference with Karine Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/08\/washington-post-reporter-wants-joe-biden-intervene-stop\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEoblNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVON0gTUyRGegM4Sl3JQ8L-qtM0wUVFBvOocu3OBRtx6l0GWv8ufqTgRLA_aem_yv1v4bpihNcyMiCR_H74jg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> quoted the question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cOne more, Elon Musk is slated to interview Trump tonight on X. I don\u2019t know if the president is going to \u2014 feel free to say if he is or not \u2014 but I \u2014 I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It\u2019s a \u2014 you know, it\u2019s an America issue. What role does the White House or the President have any sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter \u2014 intervening in that. Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but you know it\u2019s a wider thing, right?\u201d Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson asked Karine Jean-Pierre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Karine Jean-Pierre went along with the far-left reporter and agreed that social media companies have the responsibility to shut down so-called misinformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who determines misinformation? The Washington Post shared a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on Russiagate. All of that reporting turned out to be false. Was that misinformation?<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s all hands on deck right now to silence Trump ahead of his blockbuster interview with Elon Musk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The globalist tyrants in control of the European Union sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/08\/european-union-tyrants-send-letter-elon-musk-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter <\/a>to Elon Musk on Monday demanding the X owner censor President Donald Trump during their interview tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why is the mainstream media so afraid to let President Trump speak?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11848,250,2205,8286,3401,2340,8569,10589,13260,1083,12766,9084,13505,11716,8367,1134],"class_list":["post-56105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elon-musk","tag-european-union","tag-first-amendment","tag-founding-fathers","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-gateway-pundit","tag-mainstream-media","tag-president-trump","tag-pulitzer-prize","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-social-media","tag-the-first-amendment","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56120,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56105\/revisions\/56120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}