Kaitlan Collins is not a victim

After an unbelievably rude and disruptive Kaitlan Collins refused to leave the Oval Office while shouting question after question at President Trump, the White House Communications folks told her she would not be permitted at the Rose Garden presser.

And apparently that’s JUST LIKE A DICTATORSHIP!!!!

Except, it’s nothing like a dictatorship.

Instead, it’s just CNN making it all about CNN.

Kaitlan Collins isn’t a victim of oppression or a Free Press martyr.

Instead, she’s a rude, disrespectful little punk who paid the price for that lack of respect.

The problem with CNN trying to gain sympathy over Collins’ deeply disrespectful behavior is, well, CNN isn’t exactly sympathetic.

Let me tell you a story.

In the late 1990s, when I was living in Pittsburgh, I loved going to Three Rivers to watch the Pirates play. And one time when they were playing the Atlanta Braves, this drunk guy sitting in the tier above us started yelling “Chipper Jones is a cock-sucking faggot!!!!”

He wouldn’t shut up.

People were yelling for him to cut it out. Someone pointed out, “There are kids here!”

But he wouldn’t stop yelling really vulgar, homophobic comments at Chipper Jones.

Finally, security showed up and hauled him away.

The response from the fans around him?

Cheers.

When you’re incredibly rude and not particularly sympathetic, nobody gives a damn if you pay the price for being the rude punk that you are.

In fact, most people will cheer.

As Joseph Curl puts it over at The Daily Wire:

Having covered the White House for 12 years, I know a bit about this. To be sure, reporters do yell questions at the president all the time, say, on the White House lawn, at Andrews Air Force base, in a White House press conference or just about anywhere other than the Oval Office. And it’s not only right for them to do so, it’s their job, one the American people expect them to do.

In the Oval, though, reporters are expected to handle themselves with a bit of decorum. It’s the man’s office, after all, and the press was invited in. Yelling repeated questions at the president and refusing to leave is absolutely inappropriate.

But what should we expect?

“Absolutely inappropriate” is CNN’s business model.

They’re the Resistance^LOL network, after all.

And yet the news media portrays this as “unprecedented.”

Really?

Not so much.

@almostjingo on Twitter took the time to chronicle all the times the Obama White House did the same thing and more to reporters who didn’t prostrate themselves before The One.

You can read the entire thread HERE.

But here’s just a taste:

Here's former President Obama having a reporter removed for interrupting him "in his house" the press claps wildly, even starts chanting Obama's name while the reporter is being removed for yelling "NO MORE DEPORTATIONS" #KaitlanCollins cc: @BretBaier pic.twitter.com/FuAuTEmG1Y

— Rosie Perpetually Potentially Sensitive (@almostjingo) July 26, 2018

And this:

Here's a Female, African American reporter with White House Press credentials being carried away by Secret Service in 2009 for attempting to ask President Obama to protect "traditional marriage"#KaitlanCollins https://t.co/t2UFivG6Z4 pic.twitter.com/WHLH8s4tzi

— Rosie Perpetually Potentially Sensitive (@almostjingo) July 26, 2018

But wait!

There’s more!

Let’s put poor victim Kaitlan Collins into perspective, shall we?

During the Obama Administration, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson was illegally spied on — something she once again discussed in a Congressional hearing yesterday.

Here are a few clips of that testimony.

Here is @SharylAttkisson recent Testimony on Capitol Hill. It's very sad to see what our government has done. Sharyl's work is now compromised before she even starts, She wears the Scarlet Letter of being spied on.
A big red S!
Bless you and thank you for all you do.
(pt 1) pic.twitter.com/OUVE8UMVEJ

— Michael Sheridan (@MJASheridan) July 25, 2018

This is from the hearing Shielding Sources: Safeguarding the Public’s Right to Know.

In part 2 and 3 @SharylAttkisson tells @Jim_Jordan what tipped her off to the shenanigan's that our "Intelligence Community" was doing to here computer, and life for that matter. pic.twitter.com/h0SqpdxkdQ

— Michael Sheridan (@MJASheridan) July 25, 2018

In the final part of @SharylAttkisson's testimony she explains the tools of the trade of the Deep State!

But before she goes is the most important part. Her case was DENIED! Please listen to Sharyl's plea at the end asking for help, Thank you @Jim_Jordan every second counts here pic.twitter.com/tlBWAC5AlQ

— Michael Sheridan (@MJASheridan) July 25, 2018

Now, I realize that CNN is incapable of putting things into perspective.

And I also acknowledge that CNN has to make everything about itself.

But telling Kaitlan Collins that she can’t attend a Rose Garden presser because of her abominable behavior in the Oval Office is not a threat to Freedom of the Press. CNN was at that Rose Garden presser — as were journalists from other outlets.

Kaitlan Collins isn’t a victim of tyranny.

She’s a victim of her own boorish behavior.

So simmer down, CNN.

I know you like to make the news all about you.

But a snotty twenty-something getting a wrap on the wrist for being a rude, disruptive punk isn’t the end of Journalistic Freedom as we know it.

And while your media compatriots inside the Bubble might be “well-I-nevering” right along with you, out here in the Real World, normal people are cheering.

Just like folks cheered that boorish lout getting the boot at a baseball game.

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