Posted on 04/13/2005 8:28:11 AM PDT by Valin
Senator Barbara Boxer attended the opening session of the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference in Washington on Tuesday. In remarks to those newspaper editors the California liberal pleaded with the editors to "explain why a vocal minority in the Congress is essential for a democracy and why it is essential for you."
She explained to the trade magazine Editor & Publisher that she believes that Americans don't understand the term filibuster and believes that "editorials would be very helpful."
Barbara Boxer made it clear that she wants the press to favor the Democrats in those editorials in remarks at the conference. "You have a dog in that fight. Your whole basis of what you do is exercising that freedom of speech. These checks and balances are crucial for all of us. We exercise them.”
In other words, liberals are for freedom of speech, conservatives are not.
She wasn't finished. "There is a big story to be told out there, and I hope you will tell it as you see it. ...They are going to change the rules of the Senate that have been around for 200 years. These rights are important, this leverage is important. And your rights to tell stories the way you want are in many ways tied to this. You are in this battle."
Liberals love to play the victim and spread the misery. Here's Barbara Boxer telling hundreds of newspaper editors in Washington DC that unless they help Democrats stop judicial nominees from getting an up or down vote in front of the full Senate, those newspapers will no longer get to practice freedom of speech.
That's a bit frightening, but pretty far fetched. These aren't the usual moonbats that Boxer usually tries to frighten. These are news pros. And while its likely a majority are probably liberal, I doubt that many buy Boxer's argument that their free speech rights are about to be taken away by "evil" conservatives through ten judicial nominees.
And Boxer's biggest mistake is trying to tell the liberal press how to do its collective job. Boxer and her left-wing cohorts in the US Senate have tried to convince the American voter that they are practicing this brand of obstructionism because they want an "independent judiciary." But they have proven they only want judges that agree with them, and a news media that spreads their version of events.
It’s a bad strategy. An independent media is just as important as an independent judiciary.
Aren't they doing this already?
Interestingly, now that she asked them to, they might not. Certainly, they are much less likely to be enthusiastic about it.
Funny, we never heard this kind of talk for the many decades that the democrat hacks had their strangle hold on Congress.
In the LA Slimes that's exactly what they're getting.
Boxer is a SLUT(nastier words come to mind actually).
Preaching to the choir.
---"Boxer is a SLUT(nastier words come to mind actually)."---
Actually slut would be a promotion for her.
Funny, we never heard this kind of talk for the many decades that the democrat hacks had their strangle hold on Congress
There's a very simple reason for this. That was then this is now.
Yeah. Boxer was preaching to the choir.
Boxer's mistake was taking the time to ask them to do what they are going to do anyway. She needn't have bothered.
Liberal code for "give em a definition that makes us look good and the Republicans look bad because most Americans are too dumb and lazy to look it up for themselves so they'll never know the difference."
Paging Doctor Lakoff (rhymes with j*ckoff).
Is this woman certifiable or what? She reminds me of an aging star from the 'Valley of the Dolls' movie. Does anyone take her seriously?
They should just read the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution to her and tell her to go pound sand.
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