Posted on 10/10/2007 11:16:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Waxman Denies Investigation of Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer October 10, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on Wednesday denied that he is conducting or ever planned to conduct a congressional investigation of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin and called on a conservative magazine to retract its report that he asked investigators to compile information on the popular conservative talk radio hosts.
"The American Spectator report about a congressional investigation into talk radio is completely false," Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement to Cybercast News Service. "There is no investigation."
Waxman was referring to a report Monday that he "has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows" to build a case for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine.
When asked if there had been ideas or plans to compile reports on the talk radio hosts, a spokesman for Waxman said, "No, there were not."
In his statement, Waxman called on the Spectator to "immediately retract the item and apologize for the confusion its fictitious report has caused."
Limbaugh came under fire from Democrats recently when he used the term "phony soldiers" in setting up discussion about Jesse Macbeth, an anti-war activist who was sentenced to five months in prison for falsifying his military records.
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Don’t let up now boys we got em in full retreat. Keep firing !!
“I am not in favor of ad hominem attacks”
Neither am I, we’re FReepers here, and you should read the kind wishes for Sen. Kennedy at this site.
But Henry Waxman must represent the ultimate in “Revenge Of The Nerd”.
Imagine what it must have been like for him in high school.
And as for those former jocks who now hold powerful positions in the private sector or the Republican Party,
“Well...(rubbing his hands together in vengeful glee), things are different now. You star athletes, you belong to me and my committee now! Raise your right hand, or I’ll hold you in CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, Bwahahaha!!!!”
;^)
He’s been monitoring their phone conversations under the Patriot Act.
looks like he has been snorting too much coke!
Bullfrogg
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