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In fact, Representative Maurice Hinchey stated that “we (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”

ITHACA — U.S. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey, D-22nd, decried federal debt, income inequality, corporate-owned media, lost manufacturing jobs, gaps in insurance and the war in Iraq at a legislative briefing Monday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Ithaca. Hinchey said the war in Iraq is part of a larger plan perpetrated by “the political right wing nationally in America going back to the 1970s” to fund military endeavors to divert money from domestic programs. “The situation that we're facing today is not accidental,” he said. “It's a conscious idea of this administration and others like it with the...

Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America’s liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media—especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion. Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly—along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a...

Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) believes Karl Rove was behind CBS’s infamous Bush National Guard memos. Today on Sean Hannity’s radio show, Hinchey asserted that Rove “presented” the documents so that CBS would pick up the story. “There’s a significant amount of evidence,” he insisted, while conspicuously failing to provide any. Two years ago Congressman Hinchey made a similar claim at a community forum in Ithaca, New York. A LGF reader was there and recorded what he said. Audio is available at Little Green Footballs.

U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey is New York's king of comped travel — racking up a stunning $161,393 tab footed by special-interest groups, the fifth most of any federal lawmaker. The Ulster County Democrat has taken 25 trips during the past five years to such far-flung, chic locales as Prague, Rome, Moscow, Shanghai and Morocco — courtesy of private groups intent on influencing the congressman. He's been on the road for 140 days since Jan. 1, 2000 — a full 38 days more than the House of Representatives' 102-day session this year. Hinchey racked up hotel bills in excess of $30,000...

The Word is out. Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and Robert Reich and a vast Left wing chorus agree. "Oh my God. We are living in a theocracy." What's the proof of this proposition? Where is the evidence of theocratic rule? Do you mean the stoning of fornicators on the Library steps in Little Rock? The branding of adulterers in Beverly Hills? The ceaseless up and down of blasphemers in Bronx River ducking stools? None of the above, obviously. You rely for proof upon an aura emanating from a penumbra in the Red state heartland. It's the zeitgeist's terrible swift...

Congressman's Aide Asks for Help Flooding Local Newspaper Poll March 02, 2005 | 09:58:09 EST In another example of the increasing importance of web polls, a spokesman for Maurice Hinchey, the New York Democratic congressman who recently came under fire for suggesting the Bush reelection campaign was behind Memogate, has been asking supporters to skew an online survey in the congressman's favor. "One of our local papers, the Daily Freeman, has been conducting an online poll asking readers if they agreed with Maurice's assertions. Until recently, the response has been relatively equal. However, this weekend, the right-wing bloggers began to...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3199295 mdmc (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-01-05 01:01 PM Original message Hinchey staffer asks DU for HELP! (DU this poll., please) http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.asp?brd=1769 Dan Ahouse runs the show for Hinchey down in D.C. Please help the BIG MO take on Kkkarl and the Orwellian right wing press. Please vote in this online poll. Dan's email message is below. Thank YOU, DU! Friends: As you may know, Maurice has been outspoken over the past week about his opinion that the White House political operation, led by Karl Rove, was behind the leaking of false documents to CBS regarding George Bush's military "service." His...

Is there enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Maurice Hinchey has deserted his constituents in upstate New York's 22nd Congressional District and trotted off to Cloud Cuckoo Land? I'm referring to the Maurice Hinchey who, while speaking on Social Security to a meeting in Ithaca last Saturday strolled off topic to assert that Karl Rove, Minister of Dirty Tricks for the Bush Administration, had forged and planted the Rathergate memos. Hinchey: They've had a very very direct, aggressive attack on the, on the media, and the way it's handled. Probably the most flagrant example of that is...

It gets more difficult each day for Democrats to top themselves with saying something completely over the top. Alas, the latest of the nut cases is Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY). As pointed out on Little Green Footballs earlier this week, at a community meeting in Ithaca, NY, Hinchey entered into a diatribe about how the infamous Rathergate memos were actually planted by Karl Rove as part of a massive conspiracy. In an audiotape recorded by a reader of Little Green Footballs at the townhall meeting, Hinchey first claimed to have direct evidence of Rove’s involvement, but then backtracked from this...

Oh brother. I just received an email saying that on the Sean Hannity radio show, Congressman Maurice “Rove Rules the World” Hinchey (D-NY) has stated that Jeff Gannon broke the Rathergate story. (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.) I didn’t hear it myself; but if true, Hinchey has passed the orbit of Pluto and is boldly going where no moonbat has gone before. UPDATE at 2/24/05 2:39:31 pm: Check it out now before the moderators have an embolism and delete it: Democratic Underground says “Kudos to Little Green Footballs” for breaking the story of Rove’s Master Plan! Bwa hahahaha! UPDATE at 2/24/05 3:00:40...

It has to be getting pretty embarrassing for sensible moderate Democrats. It really must. First Screamin’ Howard Dean was appointed as DNC Chairman, then one of the leftists’ own (Ward Churchill) started preaching for the violent overthrow of the United States and, now, elected official Maurice Hinchey (Dem Congressman from NY) has started speaking publicly about his new and improved “Karl Rove Conspiracy Theory”. Yesterday, Hinchey spoke to a community forum in Ithaca, NY and said that the forged Bush documents (AKA “RatherGate”) were actually the fault of President Bush advisor Karl Rove. Hinchey also said that the Bush Administration...

I've never seen much need to write about the goings-on in live talk radio, but there was an exchange on February 24 unlike anything I've heard since I first opened a mic in 1975. It was so profoundly bizarre it cries for further attention. The exchange was between radio host Sean Hannity and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, a seven-term Democrat from upstate New York. The premise of the interview was straightforward: Did Hinchey have any information to support his claim that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove planted the fake documents on which CBS News based its discredited report...

Maurice Hinchey, the far-left Demcorat who at a public forum in Ithaca over the weekend accused Karl Rove of planting the forged Rathergate documents, will be on Hannity and Colmes during this hour. I'm sorry to say that Hinchey is my congressman. This is the same guy who at the beginning of the Iraq war accused our military of committing 'massacres' in Iraq. I can confidently predict that Hinchey will not back down. He is a strutting little arrogant fellow. Keep your eyes peeled to see if the cameras show his feet - he likes to affect cowboy boots -...

WOODRUFF: As we reported a little while ago in our blog segment, the Internet is abuzz with reaction to comments by New York Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey. The congressman over the weekend shared his views about the now disputed CBS News report about President Bush's Air National Guard service. Representative Maurice Hinchey is with me now, he joins us from Albany, New York. Congressman Hinchey, what exactly did you say on Saturday at this town meeting in Ithaca? REP. MAURICE HINCHEY (D), NEW YORK: Well, Judy, what I said came in response to a question from one of my constituents....

We are pleased to continue an FR tradition that has been going on for over 6 years -- creating an historical record in song. MIDI - EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON See Maurice Henchey, what a tool...New York has crowned a brand new fool Even the kids call him a loon...watch Maurice bark at the moon He claims Rove set up Rathergate...this guy's a lowlife reprobate Even the kids call him a loon...watch Maurice bark at the moon Is it a spoof...he is aloof...Maurice provides zero proof Inventing stories from thin air...Maurice keeps his head you know where Even the...

Yesterday, Little Green Footballs ("LGF") broke the story of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s (D-NY) statement to a Cornell University audience that the CBS TANG memoes were most likely planted by Karl Rove. One of LGF’s operatives recorded the statement and challenged Hinchey on it, only to be told essentially that facts were not as important in determining the truth as Hinchey’s own beliefs. The Cornell audience naturally cheered Hinchey. The initial LGF story included a full transcript of Hinchey’s conspiracist remarks. Since then, LGF has run 3 more strings on the story, #2 #3 #4and a number of other other blogs...

Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security. An LGF operative was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Rep. Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed the fake CBS memos were planted by Karl Rove to discredit Dan Rather, and divert attention from President Bush’s “draft dodging.” When our operative asked Hinchey if he had evidence for these charges, he first said, “Yes, I do,” but when asked a second time he admitted he did...

Suppose you were a member of Congress, and you wanted to make sure no one ever took you seriously, other than a hard-core group of true believers who bought into conspiracy theories? Could you come up with a better plan to accomplish that goal than this? Congressman Maurice Hinchey, Democrat of New York, speaking at a community forum in Ithaca, New York: Probably the most flagrant example of that is the way they set up Dan Rather. Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White...

<p>ITHACA -- U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the State Theatre.</p> <p>Hinchey was cheered as "courageous" for a letter he sent to supporters recently that decried the war in Iraq, and which said that history may come to view it as "a massacre."</p>