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John Kerry: Media Has ‘Responsibility’ to ‘Not Give Equal Time’ to Tea Party
The Blaze ^ | August 5, 2011 | Johnathan M Seidl

Posted on 08/05/2011 12:09:10 PM PDT by lbryce

John Kerry has waded into the media waters and now wants the news to cut out conservatives he doesn’t agree with.

During a discussion of the debt deal and the economy on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday, the current Massachusetts senator and former presidential candidate lambasted the Tea Party and conservatives and the idea that they should be given “equal time” in the media. According to him, their ideas are so whacky that they don’t deserve air time:

“And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

“It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”

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To: lbryce

jenjis rides again. Wonder if he still hears those Christmas carols from Laos?


21 posted on 08/05/2011 12:30:26 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: lbryce

Oh, ok, John Kerry.

That’s called government oppression of the opposition and the last time I checked, Chi-coms, the Soviets and every single tyrant and dictator did the same thing.

What about tanks? Are government tanks good at protest marches too?


22 posted on 08/05/2011 12:31:37 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: lbryce

Imagine if a republican senator said that Fox should not give equal time to liberals


23 posted on 08/05/2011 12:32:02 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: lbryce

Kerry looks like he’s had a face lift and is shot full of Botox.


24 posted on 08/05/2011 12:33:27 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: lbryce

Let’s see, a leftist traitor (John ‘the gigolo’ Kerry) thinks his friends in the media shouldn’t give anyone from the TEA party any coverage. What a shock! He is trying hard to brand anyone that doesn’t toe the liberal line as deranged, dangerous, blah, blah, blah. From Kerry’s warped perspective, if you’re not a big-spending, big-taxing leftist, you must be crazy and the media shouldn’t waste their time on crazy people. John F. Kerry is endemic of the liberal arrogance that amplifies the strong totalitarian streak inherent in the Democrat party of today. What Kerry is saying to anyone who isn’t a leftist is: shut up. Sorry ketchup man, we won’t. Not now, not ever. Your day is passing - and none too soon.


25 posted on 08/05/2011 12:34:28 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: lbryce

Too bad this b@stard didn’t come home in a box from Vietnam......What a POS.....


26 posted on 08/05/2011 12:35:08 PM PDT by geege
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To: rockabyebaby

One of them should just to underscore the tyrannical nature of Kerry’s stupidity. Let the MSM get all wound up about it and then say it was all a joke to satirize Sen. Kerry. Then laugh and walk away from the microphones.


27 posted on 08/05/2011 12:36:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: lbryce

Kerry and his mis-use of parables is such a lout.

The people, finally waking up from BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY SOCIALISTS AND LIFER-GOVERNMENT ELITES, began to question what exactly is wrapped up in that little pink blanket, Johnny?

Kerry: It’s a baby!!

Dems: It’s a choice!!!

Pelosi: You have to give us the blanket before you can see what is in the blanket!

Kerry: Only legitimate thinkers can have this baby.

Dems: Its a choice not a child. Not a baby.

Exactly. It’s not a thing that will die if pruned. It’s a thing that must be examined, accounted for and pruned back Johnny.

It’s called a budget and YOU are using OPM even while you Geithner your yacht.

These people are so arrogant and insulated by perks, power and minions that they have no idea.


28 posted on 08/05/2011 12:37:09 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: tflabo

LOL!!! Yes, that’s him all right!

“La Grenouille Moronic”


29 posted on 08/05/2011 12:37:52 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: WayneS

I understand it was “seared - seared” into his memory...too bad his memory stinks. John Fraud Kerry and American Disgrace.


30 posted on 08/05/2011 12:38:03 PM PDT by Anti dote
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To: lbryce

Heard about this on the radio today, I didn’t believe it when stated, but went online and watched.

Why would anyone watch the news if they can only present one side?

Kerry thinks letting nature to take it’s course is a crazy idea. He needs a government program to help all of nature’s functions to run better.

What an idiot


31 posted on 08/05/2011 12:38:31 PM PDT by dila813
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To: lbryce

This is what happens when liberals get full control.....censorship, history re-written, suppression of any opposition.

Then, when the people do not comply, the liberals justify the use of violence against them.


32 posted on 08/05/2011 12:39:32 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: lbryce

Hey media, the Gigolo has spoken, now you know what to do.


33 posted on 08/05/2011 12:40:21 PM PDT by Argus
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To: lbryce

Ecclesiastes 10:2 says, “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.” God said it, it must be true and that settles it. Kerry is a prime example of whom God was referring to.


34 posted on 08/05/2011 12:49:41 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: lbryce
JK who served in Viet Nam while dressed in a US military uniform. What a Disgrace!!
35 posted on 08/05/2011 12:49:53 PM PDT by drypowder
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36 posted on 08/05/2011 12:56:01 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: lbryce
The Left is only interested their own ideas. Anybody bringing competitive ideas are being classified as nonpersons who by design will be relegated to a kind of counter culture. The Left believes that ever increasing government structure is a requirement of human development.

There are better and more reasonable solutions and strategies for development of our political and economic progress. Since these mechanisms reduce the need of government involvement they are regressive ideas. Regressive ideas will no longer be tolerated.

37 posted on 08/05/2011 1:03:26 PM PDT by oyez ( America is being pimped.)
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To: lbryce

Did he really say, “The President ought to convene the G8?” Did he really say that?!


38 posted on 08/05/2011 1:10:58 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: lbryce

First, John Kerry is a despicable human being and if not a traitor technically, betrayed his country without question.

Second, by his standard I would have wanted his left wing idiocy censored years ago.


39 posted on 08/05/2011 1:14:43 PM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Williams

Despicable and useless.


40 posted on 08/05/2011 1:17:28 PM PDT by beaversmom
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