Sociology Professor: National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corporate Media

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http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2006/11/national-impeachment-movement-ignored.html

National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corporate Media
By Peter Phillips

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Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have been printed in the past six months asking for impeachment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer George Matus says, “I am still enraged over unasked questions about exit polls, touch-screen voting, Iraq, the cost of the new Medicare…who formulated our energy policy, Jack Abramoff, the Downing Street Memos, and impeachment.” David Anderson in McMinnville, Oregon pens to the Oregonian, “Where are the members of our congressional delegation now in demanding the current president’s actions be investigated to see if impeachment or censure are appropriate actions?” William Dwyer’s letter in the Charleston Gazette says, “Congress will never have the courage to start the impeachment process without a groundswell of outrage from the people.”

City councils, boards of supervisors, and local and state level Democrat central committees have voted for impeachment. Arcata, California voted for impeachment on January 6. The City and County of San Francisco, voted Yes on February 28. The Sonoma County Democrat Central Committee (CA) voted for Impeachment on March 16. The townships of Newfane, Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney in Vermont all voted for impeachment the first week of March. The New Mexico State Democrat party convention rallied on March 18 for the ”impeachment of George Bush and his lawful removal from office.” The national Green Party called for impeachment on January 3. Op-ed writers at the St. Petersburg Times, Newsday, Yale Daily News, Barrons, Detroit Free Press, and the Boston Globe have called for impeachment. The San Francisco Bay Guardian (1/25/06) The Nation (1/30/06) and Harpers (3/06) published cover articles calling for impeachment. As of March 16, thirty-two US House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors to House Resolution 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment.

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Despite all this advocacy and sentiment for impeachment, corporate media have yet to cover this emerging mass movement. The Bangor Daily News simply reported on March 17 that former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has set up the website Votetoimpeach.org and that other groups are using the internet to push impeachment. The Wall Street Journal, on March 16, editorialized about how it is just “the loony left” seeking impeachment, but perhaps some Democrats in Congress will join in feeding on the “bile of the censure/impeachment brigades.”

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The Bush Administration lied about Iraq, illegally spied on US citizens, and continues war crimes in the Middle East. Despite corporate media’s inability to hear the demands for impeachment, the groundswell of outrage continues to expand.

Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored a media research organization. Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips is scheduled for release this summer by Seven Stories Press.

[Generic Other]

1. Here's more on the movement from Vermont

You Can Impeach the President
By Dan DeWalt

In mid January of this year, in a moment of quixotic zeal, I wrote a five point resolution calling for the impeachment of G W Bush. With 5% of the towns registered voters signing on, it went to the selectboard and was included in the warning for Newfane Town Meeting on March 7.

By the end of Town Meeting day, five towns across Vermont had overwhelmingly adopted this resolution. My phone started ringing within an hour or two, and a day and a half later, I had given more than 30 interviews to media outlets, from FOX and CNN radio to several Boston and local Vermont radio stations, from a Massachusetts ABC-affiliate to Bloomberg News, the Washington Times (snake in the grass), Boston Globe and Reuters.

I soon found out that Vermonters had already been hard at work drafting the “Rutland Resolution," which is an impeachment resolution to be passed by the state legislature, and forces the federal House of Representatives to forward it to the Judiciary Committee. We are continuing our efforts and are making headway, with over half of the state's Democratic County Committees passing it. The state Democratic Committee will be considering this on April 10. Several legislators have expressed a willingness to go along, if not to lead.

I also discovered that all across the country, this call for accountability is being received with welcome and relief. People who have identified themselves as Republicans, evangelicals, many veterans, many elder Americans, contacted me or Newfane to say that they are supporting us and appreciate our speaking out.

Those who support this effort can bring it to their home towns. Whether you have Town Meeting, town council, county supervisors, or any other local political structure, you can petition them to adopt a resolution. Gathering signatures to persuade them may be easier than you would imagine. Support for this president’s actions is very thin. As more revelations dribble out from the mainstream press, more Americans are willing to reconsider their willingness to be unquestionably led by this malignant administration.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=622

[Old and In the Way]

2. The case for impeachment isn't going away. Investigations will only

make the justifications more apparent. If the actions of this administration don't rise to the level of impeachable offenses....I'd really like someone to explain what are examples of impeachable offenses.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The really interesting tests of the system will arise when

all kinds of filthy & illegal Republican/Corporate dealings start to surface & the press ignores them. You know--Conyers finds baby skeletons in the White House basement with letter openers bearing the Presidential seal in their little ribcages, and the big story on ABC is "John Kerry Flubs Another Joke."

Then what?

[DaveJ]

5. We need to boycott television news

It is absolutely impossible to get full representation of the facts in a half hour newscast.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. You just have to understand WSJ-Speak.

"Loony Left" is anybody who thinks unrestrained corporate control of everything is a bad idea.

[AZgirl7]

6. WSJ and IBD (MSM)

they are so desperate to keep their wealth and their coveted tax cuts, they refuse to budge even though they KNOW America is swimming in a sea of red ink.
"In The Way".......they DID show you what their idea of impeachable offenses are: Can you say BLOWJOBS?

It's simply not in the "mainstream" media's best interest to talk about throwing the bums out.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Blowjob is necessary but not sufficient.

Blowjob + Democratic politician is sufficient.

[texpatriot2004]

8. There's also the DIY Impeachment nm

[Disturbed]

9. The Media Moguls are backing the Busholini Regime.

They don't want their Conglomerates brocken up. They love their power and wealth.

[OneBlueSky]

10. at this point, the important stories that the corporate media DOESN'T cover . . .

probably exceed those that they do, and by a hefty margin . . . that's why so many people are turning to the net for their news . . .

the media today is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the corporate/government/military complex, currently headed by BushCo . . . as far as informing the public goes, it's virtually useless . . .

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