You ever notice how some professions are just filled with horrible people – until you need them?

Cops? They’re all racist or corrupt donut eaters until, of course, a police officer helps you by the side of the road, or recovers stolen property or does something for you that allows you to know that someone is actually watching out for you.

Then you brag to your buddies about how you know a police officer.

Lawyers? What’s the old joke: What do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start. Yup, we don’t like attorneys much until someone sues us, or we get arrested or we get into an accident. Then they are trusted members of the family.

We send them a Christmas card each year.

Teachers? Oh, they only work part of the year, but receive a full-time paycheck and they’re filling our kids’ heads full of crap dictated by the federal government. That changes a bit when you realize teachers are helping your kid get into the school he or she wants to attend or is coaching your offspring in a sport that makes you proud.

Years later, you still get a little weepy remembering what that teacher did for your boy or girl.

And reporters and members of the media? We are all liberals who receive our marching orders from George Soros, Barack Obama and Jon Stewart. We hate America and strive to tear up the country apart with every news story we write. We’re all one monolithic collective, until you want us to put in your kids’ photo or write about your business – which, of course, will mean you won’t advertise – or make sure your church’s fundraiser gets some attention.

Your fridge has a coating of photos or clippings about your kids, church or organizations we’ve published.

Hey, hypocrisy is part of the human condition. This thought came to me as I read an interview with one of the biggest press schmoozers in American history: The Donald, as the New York press dubbed him.

He told Jim DeFede of CBS4 in Miami on Oct. 23 he believed that freedom of the press is too strong in the United States.

“Our press is allowed to say whatever they want and get away with it. And I think we should go to a system where if they do something wrong… I’m a big believer tremendous believer of the freedom of the press. Nobody believes it stronger than me but if they make terrible, terrible mistakes and those mistakes are made on purpose to injure people. I’m not just talking about me I’m talking anybody else then yes, I think you should have the ability to sue them.”

Of course, Trump is a master of getting publicity. He understands how to get items into the press that benefit him. He could teach a course – he had the chance with his Trump University – on how to give the press what they need in order to get what you want.

Considering the battering he has received by having his public record scrutinized, the Republican nominee for president now is singing a somewhat different tune. Trump told the reporter – who certainly cashed his check from Soros right after the interview – he would rather see a system similar to that in the United Kingdom.    

“Well, in England you have a good chance of winning. And deals are made and apologies are made. Over here they don’t have to apologize. They can say anything they want about you or me and there doesn’t have to be any apology. England has a system where if they are wrong things happen,” Trump said.

Is the press a human institution? Yes it is. Are there reporters, editors and publishers with personal agendas. Yes there are. Is there no recourse for someone who has been libeled? Yes there is.

My staff and I work very diligently to get things correct. If we don’t we readily try to make amends. That is our philosophy.

Messing around with the First Amendment is not the answer especially when Trump’s statements are not very specific. Is he speaking about news stories or columns? Is he addressing social media? Would his changes be a response to factual errors or libelous attacks of character?  Would his changes be more oriented to the average person or the celebrity?

He seemed to like the press when they were doing his bidding, but of course we know how that works.