{"id":65497,"date":"2026-09-21T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65497"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:00:40","slug":"the-children-are-behaving-badly-and-hoping-we-have-short-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65497","title":{"rendered":"The Children Are Behaving Badly And Hoping We Have Short Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-white-house-press-pool-cnn-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a> is reporting today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House\u2019s ban of CNN from acting as a member of that pool, CNN reported.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV pooler when the president is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In addition to CNN, the other members of the White House TV pool are NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are simply outraged. But let&#8217;s look at a little bit of history.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/does-the-press-understand-the-first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Spectator<\/a> posted an article about banning CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It is, however, unreasonable to ask former President Barack Obama to keep his mouth shut on this issue. On Saturday, he appeared on C-SPAN to offer his typically hypocritical take on Trump\u2019s \u201cpress ban,\u201d as the network disingenuously <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/2101478144314085449\">described it<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News, you\u2019re out of here! It\u2019s unimaginable!\u201d Actually, it\u2019s not necessary to imagine what would have happened\u2014Zip. As Piers Morgan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/2101685191093649487\">points out<\/a>, \u201cObama did ban Fox, and waged almost constant war against press freedom.\u201d Joe Concha <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeConchaTV\/status\/2101678409709441135\">elaborates<\/a>, \u201cTeam Obama rejected more FOIA requests than anyone in history, spied on James Rosen, secretly seized AP phone records and booted several <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/does-the-press-understand-the-first-amendment\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">news outlets<\/span><\/a> off of his plane.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But former President Autopen holds the record for the most extensive White House press purge. As Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/440-reporters-lose-press-passes-white-house-changes-requirements\">reported<\/a> in August of 2023, \u201cAt least 442 reporters have lost their credentials since the White House press office changed its rules for journalists to be eligible for permanent passes, according to reports.\u201d The new eligibility requirements were clearly meant to target independent journalists. In order to qualify for a White House pass, reporters had to prove \u201cFull-time employment with an organization whose principal business is <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/does-the-press-understand-the-first-amendment\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">news<\/span><\/a> dissemination.\u201d This travesty produced no condemnation from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). Trump\u2019s action, however, was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whca\/status\/2101371576403050530?s=20\">vociferously denounced<\/a> by WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article at The American Spectator concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As for the claim that the Trump administration has violated the First Amendment, perhaps these \u201cjournalists\u201d should take the time to read it. It doesn\u2019t give CNN, MS NOW or <em>Politico<\/em> any claim to a seat in the White House briefing room.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to AI, 56 percent of Americans watch the mainstream media. That&#8217;s probably still too many, but the distrust of the media is at an all-time high because of their false reporting. The two most honest sources of news right now are Newsmax and One America News. Unfortunately, Fox News has gone over to the dark side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC is reporting today: The White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House\u2019s ban of CNN from acting as a member of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65497\">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":[13307,684,18262,20178,7830,11477,10589,7021,20177],"class_list":["post-65497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-span","tag-cnbc","tag-former-president-barack-obama","tag-former-president-joe-biden","tag-newsmax","tag-one-america-news","tag-president-trump","tag-the-american-spectator","tag-white-house-television-press-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65497","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=65497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65498,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65497\/revisions\/65498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}