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This week CBS and its flagshp news program “60 Minutes” did a Columbia University-style cave-in to President Drumpf’s pressure, in hopes of not jeopardizing its corporate owner’s merger plans, which require government regulatory approval.

Yesterday I read an article in Yahoo News about Drumpf’s ICE-machine thugs grabbing and quickly deporting of two teenaged German female adventure tourists, who had just landed in Hawaii on a flight from Aukland, New Zealand for the next leg of their round-the-globe backpacking tour. Instead, after entering Hawaii for a planned six-day hiking adventure, they had their German passports taken from them and were put in a local prison along with regular prisoners including a woman who’d been locked up for 18 years on a sentence for murder. The young touriwts were accused, baselessly, of planning to work illegally in the US. The next morning, they were cuffed, brought to the airport and put on a plane to Japan (which they no doubt had to pay for). Their passports were returned in Japan, each containing a folded up statement, aigned by them, but, they said the statements had been altered without their knowledge to say falsely that they admitted to planning to work illegally. The evidence ICE presented to supposedly. “prove” the two girls“planned to work illegally” was that they had not listed a hotel they would be staying at while in Hawaii. But of course they planned to camp outdoors. on the subtropical Aloha islnd state!

I was so disgusted by this disgusting treatment by ICE that I wrote a comment to add to the over 2000 already posted to the article. I wrote:

President Trump is doing his best to turn the US into a “sh*thole” country.

A message appeared immediately in red below my submission saying that my comment would be reviewed to decide if it was suitable for publication because of language. Later I eceived an email notice from Yahoo News censors explaining that my comment was rejected for inclusion because of language “violated community standards .

But here’s the thing: The word “shithole” (which I tastefully had modified with an asterisk in place of the letter “i ”), was a quote from President Trump himself, whp used it to describe some African and South American countries.

If a newspaper or news-site has to edit the president for taste it should be rejecting a whole shitload of the stinking verbiage that spews from that lardbutt in the Oval Office, who is a living, shuffling obscenity.

But that’s just the last two days. The Washington Post’s mega-billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos has banned critical opinion articles in his newspaper, wanting only happy news about the Trump administration. The paper has since been hemorrhaging reporters and editors. Other corporate media are getting the message and keeping their heads down.

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