Kucinich: Congress Must Protect The Media's First Amendment Rights

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Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech today on the House floor:

"This Administration is angry that the media leaked the story about it snooping into the bank records of millions of Americans. It supporters in Congress want to formally condemn the New York Times. What a bunch of baloney.

"It is about time the media did its job of protecting the public interest. If the media and this Congress had shown some independence from the party line of this Administration, the claims of WMDs would have been dismissed, and fact there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11 would have been well established and we would not have gone to war against Iraq.

"A few years ago, a movie, Wag the Dog, told of how a US administration misused its communications power to create phony stories to put the nation into an international conflict. This Administration not only wagged the dog in Iraq, but, with the help of its fabricators at the Rendon and Lincoln groups, it has wagging a whole kennel.

"In a free society the media cannot be a lap dog of any Administration. The First Amendment states, 'Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech', except of course, under this Administration."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0629-04.htm

[IndyOp]

1. Kick for Kucinich! Damn he is good! (n/t)

[Master Mahon]

2. No other Dem has been

consistently 'on the mark' as this guy has been for years now.
Yet he gets no respect from the media and most of his own party.
Could it simply be that he might not look exceedingly macho in a flight suit???
His positions are as good as it gets as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know what kind of an executive he'd make, but there is no doubt it'd be a quantum leap above what we have now!

[Rainbowreflect]

4. You are probably correct.

But IMHO he is the sexiest man I have ever met. His passion & compassion show in everything he does & says.

[blm]

3. Kickin for Kooch.

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[MuseRider]

5. Kicking for DK!

:kick:

[CountAllVotes]

6. that is my DK!

Keep on telling the truth Cong. Kucinich! :loveya:

:dem: :kick:

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. Kucinich is divine! Kick for the kooch! Please send him this thread

as evidence of support for him!

K&R!

:kick: for K!

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8. Kooch kick

[eridani]

9. Want to arrest someone for leaking?

Howzabout the preznit for leaking about Valerie Plame?

[Terran1212]

10. "wagging the whole kennel"

Haha Kucinich you rock.

[jimshoes]

11. Thanks Dennis

We are lucky here in the 10th dist. We need more like him.

[Revolution_July4]

12. "It is about time the media did its job of protecting the public interest"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!