3 House Judiciary Committee Members Call For Impeachment - No MSM Report It?? (Their Op-Ed Not Run)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/15/183511/90

A curious media black hole
by Kagro X
Sat Dec 15, 2007 at 05:14:04 PM PST

There have been several recommended diaries about the call by House Judiciary committee members Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin and Luis Gutierrez for the committee to actually begin hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

But don't you find it curious that there's been literally no traditional media coverage of it? Three Members of Congress, all on the Judiciary Committee, call outright for impeachment hearings, and no one reports it?

The three even wrote an op-ed together explaining their reasoning and offered it to the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. No one has yet agreed to run it.

Isn't that interesting, in and of itself? I mean, say what you want about impeachment, but when three members of the Judiciary Committee sign on to a positive call for it, that's worth a little news blurb, don't you think?

Of course, it should also be noted that they wrote a 700+ word op-ed inspired by Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution without ever mentioning Dennis Kucinich, but that's perhaps a subject for another day.

In the meantime, Wexler's gathering signatures to gauge support for their call for hearings. Interested? Drop him a line, won't you? Don't be embarrassed. Your neighbors certainly won't read about it in the paper.

SEE LINK FOR PETITION

[Mnemosyne]

1. Needs a

:kick:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. I can do that...

:dem:

[Mnemosyne]

7. One more time..with feeling!

:kick::applause::kick:

[NMDemDist2]

3. if you haven't signed the petition yet, go here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2477661

[Senator]

4. K&R&ImpeachNow

[magellan]

5. Wexler and Baldwin are co-sponsors of HR333

I can't find that Gutierrez is yet, but in any case his support is new and helpful.

I'm wondering if the Dem leadership has squashed the op-ed....

[EFerrari]

6. There is a media blackout on the I word.

So, it's up to us to sing it, spread it.

:kick: for three good people.

[Hissyspit]

8. kick n/t

[DemGa]

9. Hell no, I don't find it curious

The corporate media does as it is told. I find it curious that anyone who has followed our wonderful liberal media is surprised by this at all.

Still, it certainly deserves a :kick:

[garybeck]

10. I do not find it interesting. I find it very fucking bothersome.

Interesting went out the window about 3 years ago.

Shit like this just pisses me off. And that's going out the window too. I have become desensitized. Nothing surprises me. Nothing is really "interesting".

Now if they were actually going to have some hearings, now that would be interesting.