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June 14, 2008 at 07:52:14

Please write to Gwen Ifill: 35 Articles of Impeachment Censored

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Hello friends

Tonight I watched Washington Week in review. Being Boeing-funded, it was slanted, as usual.

I was pleased to see that they covered the habeas corpus issue, at length. They also showed McCain stating that this is "one of the worst decisions in America's history" or something very close to that (I regret that I did not jot down the exact words, so I am quoting to the best of my memory). I believe those words are going to come back to haunt him, and will lose him a lot of support. Good!

It's all the more a case for not going by outward impressions, but for checking the Congressional voting record. So many people ---even liberals---have told me that McCain would never vote for torture, because he himself was tortured.

Well, question assumptions.

Not only did McCain vote for torture, granting Bush and future Prez's immunity from prosecution as a war criminal while the Prez unilaterally "interprets" the Geneva Conventions and the US Constitution (Military Commissions Act)----but McCain also specifically voted against restoration of Habeas Corpus (Sen. Chris Dodd's "Restore the Constitution Act"). So much for outward appearances, belief-based voting, etc...check the voting record!

We heard it out of his mouth. There can be no more argument: McCain, a former Prisoner of War, stands in support of torture and calls the Supreme Court's striking down the Military Commissions Act as unconstitutional, "one of the worst decisions in American history". PLEASE PASS THIS ON!!

And thank you, Washington Week in Review, for the honest disclosure. Good!

But where I was disgusted was that they censored the 35 articles of impeachment as brought to the floor by Kucinich. Not even a word about it. Instead, they chose to spend lots of air time gossipping about OBama and his wife. How informative! Above all, how helpful.

Please write Gwen Ifill and Washington Week in Review, reprimanding them for standing complicit with....a strike against Iran, as announced by Israeli Radio to be planned by Bush for the next couple months ahead of us....our kids dying for more lies....torture....gag orders (Patriot Act) with great unilateral FBI powers.....free speech attacks (see the ACLU's website for numerous examples).....200,000 National Security Letters issued between 2003-2006, 53% of which were for Americans, with only ONE terrorist caught, according to the ACLU and former FBI agent Mike German....ETC! As witnessed by their support of Bush, The Great Dictator. Because obviously, if they did not support Bush, they would show the articles of impeachment.

Any news media has to be unbiased for credibility's sake. Please tell Gwen Ifill that this strategic blunder and censorship of free speech discredits her show as an unbiased source of news. http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/feedback.html

How can Gwenn Ifill's conscience permit her to censor this matter, considering all that is at stake? To hell with Boeing and other sponsors. When life and WW III hang in the balance, you'd better believe you do what all of us here are willing to do: Rock the boat. Lose jobs. So what! What's more important: A job or lives by the hundreds of thousands, maybe more?

Please write Gwen and tell her that you are not going to watch Washington Week in Review until they really, truly review ALL that is going on in Washington...especially, when no less than thirty-five articles of impeachment for the US President are filed. What kind of "Washington week in review" is that, when something that historical is omitted?

Please tell her you are not only going to boycott the show---a show it really is----but also that you are going to spread word on the Internet, in letters to the editor, chain emails, etc. http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/feedback.html

Please also write a letter of complaint to your local newspaper editor, and show a hard copy to Gwen. Try also the college editors and smaller newspapers, who are more likely to print it. Enclose your printed newspaper letter with a sympathy card for the US Constitution and sign it with the signature of yourself and other like-minded friends. If you have time, you might even consider tabling in front of Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, asking for signatures and thus informing people of what they are not being told (Kucinich's impeachment articles). Lord knows how many signatures you would get. It would be interesting to see at least, eh?

Thank you.

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a concerned citizen and supporter of a new Coalition 3rd Party; as well as the Open Source Energy Movement!
Steve Windisch (jibbguy)a concerned citizen and supporter of a new Coalition 3rd Party; as well as the Open Source Energy Movement!

Great point! Thx, Kathryn!

Heres' my comment:

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Your most recent show failed to mention the word "Impeachment" at all, despite the fact that Congressman Dennis Kucinich read 35 well-documented Articles of Impeachment to the House on the evening of Monday June 9th. You had several days to note it before your taping.

Some of those 35 indictments are "new": Such as the Bush regime, through the CIA, paying and arming middle-eastern terrorists to kill innocents in Iran, with the aim of helping start another illegal war. Do you not consider this "NEWS"?

The fact that you did not mention this Earth-shaking and historic event, at all, pretending it never happened, shows that PBS is no better than the corporate-owned and wholly controlled mainstream media. Because of this, PBS will no longer get a dime from me, or from hundreds of thousands of other shocked, dismayed, and angered former supporters.

You call yourselves "journalists"?... You should stop doing so, immediately. You are better described as "propagandists" and "shills"; who are deceiving the American people by deliberately not mentioning information important to them.

There is no possible excuse for this, and there will be no forgetting it, or forgiving. You have stepped over the line into government propaganda, and you cannot hide from your very obvious actions.

If you had any credibility, journalistic integrity, or morals.... You would have resigned before allowing such a major story to be suppressed. Shame on you, and when this all comes out, expect to find a new field to work in... And perhaps look for a good lawyer. Because what you have done could be considered "criminal"... It is certainly disgusting and immoral.

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Anyone still giving money to PBS should think about this: You are now supporting a government propaganda machine that uses PBS' former good name as a means to further its own ends... Ends which are clearly not those of the vast majority of people who contrbute to PBS in the now UTTERLY VAIN hope that at least one dissenting voice on television was worthy of our trust.

We can argue that PBS and NPR still do "good work"... Perhaps they do. I do not think that Bill Moyers has given up on them yet. But when they fail to note something like Articles of Impeachment being read into Congress... Then whatever good they still do is erased.... And those who still trust them have had that trust brutally abused. So there is only one course that could make any sense at all:

We must STOP funding our own enemies' propaganda machine. Perhaps this will do some good, clean out some bad leadership there; using the only means we have to effect any change. But it is more likely, that whatever money is lost from citizen's donations, will be instantly made up by even greater corporate ones... For having PBS as just another controlled mouthpiece is well worth it to the controllers... They get to shout about "Liberal Bias" in one of the most ridiculous and cynical lies ever propagated on the American people... Using PBS' former "independant" status as a cloak for spouting propaganda "in stereo".... Fooling many into believing that even the "opposition" are in agreement with the main lie.

Instead give the money to Op-Ed News, or to one of the many independant journalists and organizations working to free the media from suppression and control. This money, at least, will be used to help open people's eyes... Not shutter them.

by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 171 comments) on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 2:53:20 PM

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PatYour Voice Is Your Vote. Make sure it counts.

I sent this in to Ms. Enabler Ifil

You have some guts and and planty of hypocrisy to claim you are a news organization. WHERE is the top coverage that is warranted by the HUGE story of a well-known recent Presidential candidate, and long-time respected member of Congress submitting 35 - that's THIRTY-FIVE - Articles of Impeachment against the faux president of the United States???? You are no better than your deceitful, propagandist cronies- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN- all of you are pure propaganda centers for Bush and the rest of the war criminals that run the country. You are enablers and traitors to the nation.

by Pat (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments) on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 3:00:34 PM

Hello friends
I have decided to take a break from political writing for a while and have disconnected my email address correlated with Opednews. If any of you send me a message to my Opednews box and I do not respond, I am not ignoring you: The message simply is not getting through to me because of my disconnected email at home. Thank you and best wishes, Kathryn Smith

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Kathryn SmithHello friends
I have decided to take a break from political writing for a while and have disconnected my email address correlated with Opednews. If any of you send me a message to my Opednews box and I do not respond, I am not ignoring you: The message simply is not getting through to me because of my disconnected email at home. Thank you and best wishes, Kathryn Smith

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I LOVE IT!!!

Thank you, Pat and Jibbguy! I love the strength of your assertions, and the dead-on truth of them. BRAVO!!! It's so good not to be alone in this. I really appreciate everybody who helps out.

More, more....let's keep those letters coming. Maybe if more people threaten lawsuits---and mean it and follow through----we will have a change in our Media and its biased brainwashing/slanting.

Thank you, thank you! I hope to see more letters below. Your letters give me encouragement. Thank you!

by Kathryn Smith (93 articles, 2 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 361 comments) on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 5:29:38 PM