MSM ignoring Kucinich Articles of Impeachment against Cheney

[mnhtnbb]

I sat and flipped channels at 5 p.m. on Tuesday when Dennis Kucinich was holding
his press conference to explain the introduction of HR 333--Articles of Impeachment against VP Cheney. Not one damn channel was covering it live.
Wolf Blitzer gave Kucinich a 5 minute post-presser interview, but you had to sit
and wait for it to come up. There was no indication of exactly what time it would occur.

The next morning, I went through our local paper, The Raleigh News & Observer,
and there was not one word about the press conference or the Articles of Impeachment. I was so incensed I fired off a LTTE. It has not been published.

Today, the News & Observer gave substantial coverage and summary of
the first Dem presidential candidates debate last night in SC. Guess what?
Not one mention of the most visually striking moment, when Dennis Kucinich
reached into his pocket and pulled out the small copy of the Constitution of the United States. NOT ONE DAMN WORD! NO PICTURE! No mention of the question
he posed to the other candidates (which was, granted, against the rules)
asking whether they supported Articles of Impeachment.
I was very, very disappointed to see that this crop of Dem candidates, minus
Dennis, failing to stand up for the Constitution against Bush/Cheney.
But I'm not surprised. This is exactly the behavior that led to the Iraq War.


I had thought the Dems were beginning to show some spine, but it looks as though they have a long way to go to recognize what is truly needed in this country.

I think that we all need to continue putting pressure on not only our elected reps, but our individual candidates, and our local media. (I posted on Edwards website the day before the debates suggesting it would be a great move for Edwards to support the Articles of Impeachment). I'm not giving up.

What about it?

[wyldwolf]

1. Apparently EVERYONE is ignoring them

[MADem]

2. They aren't GOING to cover it, so stop looking. They won't respond to your "pressure" either.

The representative's peers do not support his initiative. No one is speaking up for it. They'd rather box the miserable incumbents in than give a replacement a chance to break out with a "new broom" attitude.

The media has corporate interests. They like Cheney where he is, for their own reasons, which have to do with the war.

You're better off picking a battle you can win.

[femmedem]

3. The NYTimes gave it one sentence today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/politics/27dems.html?hp

(None went up when Mr. Williams asked if any of the others on stage supported the call by Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio to begin impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney, the vice president).

But on the whole, you're correct. I e-mailed the editor of my local paper and said that Kucinich's articles of impeachment were at least as worthy of newspaper space as the cost of Edwards' haircuts.

[Justyce]

4. It's shameful. When I first read on

here that Kucinich was going to make the announcement, I emailed everyone I was so excited... and now nothing. It's not surprising that the MSM isn't covering it much since the media has become such a joke, but add to that the fact that no one raised their hand last night on the debate when asked who supported it. It's disgusting.

[Iwasthere]

6. I know. I was sickened by that display too.

And Brian Williams is an asshole!

[Dhalgren]

8. All of the politicians on the stag last night are in the same club with Cheney

(except Kucinich), so they actually support Cheney - that's right, they support him. If any of the candidates do not think that Cheney should be impeached, what would it take to make impeachment valid? What would an incumbent have to do to get impeached?

They all support Cheney as not having committee any action that is impeachable. Think about that for a minute. Any one of those politicians last night could have said, "I think that Cheney should be impeached, but it won't happen." Or something like that, but they didn't...

[LibDemAlways]

12. Excellent point. To think that the repukes

had no qualms about impeaching Clinton over a personal indiscretion, and the Dems won't go after lying, thieving, murderers.

It's a DU cliche, but I don't think the chimp and cheney taking turns sodomizing a child on the WH lawn would get the bastards impeached. The Dems would issue statements denouncing it, but impeachment would remain "off the table."

[mmonk]

5. The News & Observer has become useless since McClatchy bought

it. I intend to drop my daily service to weekend only next billing cycle.

[mnhtnbb]

11. Hubby wants it for the Sports. Only reason we get it.

[leftofthedial]

7. How about that American Idol anyway?

:dunce:

[Justyce]

9. And did you hear Alec Baldwin is going to apologize?

:crazy:

[mnhtnbb]

10. Looked up impeachement in Wikipedia

to find that it's already relegated HR 333 to the dustbin of history.

In April of 2007, Rep. Dennis Kucinich submitted a resolution (House Resolution 333) to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney; like all resolutions, his resolution was referred to a Committee (in this case, the Judiciary Committee) where it will likely receive no further action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States


This is very, very sad.

[OHdem10]

13. In oder for Media and or Congress to notice or pay attention

The truth is you have to have ordinary citizens in
addition to activists calling and clamoring for
impeachment. The pressure has to come to Congress
from their constituents and to the Media from their
viewers. It takes a long time to organize such
a movement. Even though DK is a Congressmen, the
others are not threatened by him. It takes each
Congressmens consituents to make them move.

This is how the RWers got attention for trying
to impeach Clinton.

[mmonk]

14. How is that possible when access to knowledge is blocked?

How is that possible when people who speak the truth are considered radicals and kooks by their own party?

[wiggs]

15. Kucinich campaign should pay for full page ads across the nation. Kill two birds

with one stone: gain popular support for resolution and at the same time gain visibility for campaign.

Any chance Kucinich offered the resolution SO THAT frontrunner dem candidates could show their moderate stance by ignoring it? Or is Kucinich so far out on his own his doesn't coordinate with other dc dems?

[mnhtnbb]

17. Kucinich said he hadn't coordinated with other Dems. Seems true,

given the lack of response. They're all afraid of Bushco.

[polichick]

16. The lack of coverage is truly disturbing.

And the other Dems seem to have misplaced their balls and ovaries. It's a sad day in America when speaking the truth and protecting the Constitution makes you a kook.