'Self-aggrandizing BULLSH*T'! S.E. Cupp SLAMMED for peddling media firefighters' #FreePress garbage

Well, for what it’s worth, S.E. Cupp is officially on board the #FreePress train. The host of “S.E. Cupp Unfiltered” on CNN is doing her part to make sure Americans realize the importance of a “free press”:

A Free Press Needs You https://t.co/QUyhcxbXkf

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) August 16, 2018

And she apparently thinks that this is the best way to drive the argument home:

The press is not the enemy of the people. The press is the enemy of the powerful, unaccountable and corrupt. The unjust, unethical, and dishonest. The bully, the blowhard. The cover up, run around and false pretense. Let’s be clear: that’s made the press the enemy of one person.

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) August 16, 2018

A lot of “the people” seem to think she misjudged that one.

Not sure the press should be the "enemy" of anything.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 16, 2018

It certainly wasn’t the enemy of the Clintons. Or the Hollywood abusers that networks like NBC tried to cover for. Or the Obama’s. It’s a situational enemy. Namely, when it doesn’t like the politics of certain people.

— Orange Muppet Energy (@sunnyright) August 16, 2018

Exactly. As soon as you announce you are an “enemy” of anything, you have announced you are not objective.
That is fine for a pundit, but death for claiming to be an objective reporter of truth.#FreePress

— Ted Underhill (@alternativeRNC) August 16, 2018

Over the top. And not clear at all, just hyperbolic bluster. Here's what's clear: The establishment press sides with one political party over the other. Very aggressively so. This is NOT your role. How does this reality help the people?

— Orwell's Ghost (@dountoothers5) August 16, 2018

Look, I get that this is an important cultural myth. Sometimes it's even true but it also betrays an enormous amount of self-regard, a level of arrogance we'd call a Messiah complex if we found it in, say, a physician, who is arguably more important to society. https://t.co/cEeROcPpf3

— N. Bourbaki (@d08890) August 16, 2018

Now might be a good time for some uncomfortable reminders:

Get back to us when your network apologizes for that abomination of a townhall in Florida.

— Mark “learn to code” C ?? (@UntraceableMC) August 16, 2018

Her employer, CNN, famously doxxed and harassed some random Trump supporter at her home and accused her of being the tool of Russian bots, so I guess she's keeping with the police of her employer in this regard https://t.co/WBKIGi9T9T

— Justin Mallone (@j_mallone) August 16, 2018

You yourself, famous commentator lady, made a very threatening tweet towards some random who disagreed with you on immigration policy https://t.co/otSN8NGbbB
Maybe you should sit out debates on whether the press is the enemy of the people until you stop being one yourself

— Justin Mallone (@j_mallone) August 16, 2018

Yikes.

The press has become the powerful, unaccountable and corrupt, the unjust, unethical, and dishonest, the bully, the blowhard, the cover up, run around and false pretense. In short, the press has brought this on themselves

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) August 16, 2018

In more ways than one. The media worked overtime to ensure that Donald Trump would be the GOP nominee. They got what they asked for, and now they’re stuck with it. They can take their self-righteous hand-wringing and shove it.