{"id":309,"date":"2017-02-26T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-02-26T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:13:10","slug":"this-is-an-emergency-now-here-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/26\/this-is-an-emergency-now-here-this\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS IS AN EMERGENCY:  NOW HERE THIS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>THIS IS AN <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EMERGENCY<\/span>!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>In following the news this week, there\u2019s no doubt you\u2019ve read\/heard\u00a0about the Conservative Political Action\u00a0Conference (CPAC), where White House Chief Strategist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/2\/23\/1637159\/-President-Bannon-threatens-media-We-re-going-to-make-it-worse-every-day-for-you\">Steve Bannon made a dangerous and odious threat against the media.<\/a> This was\u00a0followed by\u00a0Donald Trump echoing the\u00a0same message\u00a0while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/cnn-new-york-times-other-media-barred-from-white-house-briefing\/2017\/02\/24\/4c22f542-fad5-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.06dacb1dccbd\">barring some reputable, truth-seeking news groups<\/a>\u00a0including\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <em>New<\/em> <em>York<\/em> <em>Times<\/em> from a White House\u00a0briefing, an\u00a0unprecedented act against the media, the freedom of the press, and the nation\u2019s First\u00a0Amendment.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The\u00a0legendary newsman Dan Rather took to social media to\u00a0share his straight-shooting views,\u00a0experience and wisdom\u00a0regarding the latest dereliction from the White House. Here is his Facebook post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theDanRather\/posts\/10158259641415716\">in full.\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;The time for normalizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Trump has long since passed. The barring of respected journalistic outlets from the White House briefing is so far beyond the norms and traditions that have governed this republic for generations, that they must be seen as a real and present threat to our democracy. These are the dangers presidents are supposed to protect against, not create.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>For all who excused Mr. Trump&#8217;s rhetoric in the campaign as just talk, the reckoning has come. I hope it isn&#8217;t true, but I fear Mr. Trump is nearing or perhaps already beyond any hope of redemption. And now the question is will enough pressure be turned to all those who enable his antics with their tacit encouragement.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>There has been a wall of unbending support from virtually every Republican in Congress, and even some Democrats. Among many people, this will be seen as anything approaching acceptable. And mind you, talk is cheap. No one needs to hear how you don&#8217;t agree with the President. What are you going to do about it? Do you maintain that an Administration that seeks to subvert the protections of our Constitution is fit to rule unchecked? Or fit to rule at all?<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>This is an emergency that can no longer be placed solely at the feet of President Trump, or even the Trump Administration.<\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>This is a moment of judgement for everyone who willingly remains silent. It is gut check time, for those in a position of power, and for the nation&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>NORTONSPEAKS says: \u00a0SPEAK OUT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. \u00a0 TRUMP MUST GO! \u00a0 THE EMPORER HAS NO CLOTHES!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS IS AN EMERGENCY! &nbsp; In following the news this week, there\u2019s no doubt you\u2019ve read\/heard\u00a0about the Conservative Political Action\u00a0Conference (CPAC), where White House Chief Strategist\u00a0Steve Bannon made a dangerous and odious threat against the media. This was\u00a0followed by\u00a0Donald Trump echoing the\u00a0same message\u00a0while barring some reputable, truth-seeking news groups\u00a0including\u00a0The New York Times from a White&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,43,20],"tags":[54,50,30],"class_list":["entry","author-larrynorton","post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-government","category-honesty","tag-corrupt-trump","tag-media","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Donald_Trump-by-Gage-Skidmore-CC-BY-SA-3.0-.jpg?fit=4272%2C2848","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bppg-4Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}