Sidebar: Email of the Week 9/17/20

Yesterday's snail mail winner of our coveted Email of the Week award was from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, one of the many communications folks who have taken the briefing room podium on behalf of the president.  

One of the key things recipients of the emails were asked to do was to fill out the STOP FAKE NEWS petition which was included. And, as I read through the survey, it occurred to me that, with just a minor tweak or two, it pretty much demanded that the media stop covering the president. 

Take a look. 

STOP FAKE NEWS _ A CITIZENS PETITION

To: The United States Senate

Whereas, media outlets in American enjoy freedom due to the First Amendment but with that freedom comes a responsibility on their part to not actively mislead the people or disseminate news stories they know to contain falsehoods;

Whereas, since president Trump took office, the American people have been inundated with stories attributed to unnamed "sources" and the vast majority of these stories have attempted to portray the president;

Whereas, during the past three years, countless media stories have been completely disproven and show to be riddled with verifiable lies;

Whereas, the American people elected president Trump to do a job, and we deserve media outlets that report fairly on his efforts to do that job, not an endless flow of attacks;

Therefore, I demand that all media outlets in America STOP airing/publishing the Fake News they've been churning out for the past three years, and I urge Republicans in Washington to seek new ways to enforce a sense of truth and fairness in media reporting.  

I'm not a Republican - heck, right now I'm not a registered anything, truth be told - but I've got to tell you, I'm practically giddy seeing Republicans all up in arms about the lies and the attacks (in which they've been complicit, as we all know - and they know, too).  

I mean, Trump has attacked them, and lied about them, and he's also attacked and lied about:

• their constituents;
• Democrats, Independents, and folks belonging to any other party;
• our allies; 
• urban people;
• suburban people; 
• immigrants and asylum seekers;
• protesters (which, as we all know, are not the same as rioters and looters);
• hurricane victims;
• wildfire victims;
• mask wearers;
• Catholics;
• Hispanics, blacks, and whites;
• LGBTQ and their allies;
• all those people from the shithole countries; 
• the poor;
• the middle-class; 
• women and children; 
• scientists; 
• first responders;
• elected officials;
• doctors;
• Asians and Asian-Americans;
• farmers;
• Americans who were born here; 
• Americans who chose to become citizens; 
• green card holders, DACA recipients, and those here with other special protections;
• public school children; 
• artists, musicians and actors who don't support him;
• reporters, photojournalists, and anchors; 
• folks who work in retail for companies that drop his darling Ivanka's clothing line; 
• folks who work for all the other companies he's asked people to boycott;
• Gold Star families; Angel families
• veterans (including the losers and suckers);
• people who want health insurance and actual health care (not the same thing, but I supposed that's being snitty);
• all the people he's driven out of public service;
• all the crooks who worked for him who haven't been pardoned yet; 
• organizations he screwed over through his, ahem, charitable activities;
• beauty pageant contestants;
• the women he's sexually harassed and/or abused;
• book publishers;
• all of the very good people who still work for us in the federal government;
• athletes;
• businessmen  and -women from all industries;
• small business owners who he said will lose their businesses because of COVID-19 but that's OK because something else will take there place;
• educators and educational facilities of all kinds that serve people of all ages;
• taxpayers who have had to foot the bill for his endless tourist visits to his own properties;
• the disabled;
• all the people he's declared himself smarter than; 
• voters and people who want to be voters;
• the USPS; 
• Native Americans; 
• the Constitution, our flag, the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the rule of law; 
• judges and justices, from village court up to and including the Supremes; and
• anyone else I might have left out of the long list of people about whom the president has lied, whom he has attacked personally and professionally, and whom he has threatened, in any way, shape or form. 

So, yes - let's  STOP FAKE NEWS  - let's' get the president off the airwaves. If I had a grand to spare, I'd be happy to send it along if we could just make him stop talking.