Last time I looked, “Speech Intimidation by US Senators” was not in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. This is this, however (the First Amendment):
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
And then you see this – who should we blame more, those ignoramuses or these chuckleheads (reformatted, emphasis mine)?
Democrats Plan to Pressure TV Networks Into Covering Climate Change
Senate Democrats pledging to get more aggressive on climate change will soon pressure the major TV networks to give the topic far greater attention on the Sunday talking-head shows. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, are gathering colleagues’ signatures on a letter to the networks asserting that they’re ignoring global warming.
“It is beyond my comprehension that you have ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, that their Sunday shows have discussed climate change in 2012, collectively, for all of eight minutes,” Sanders said, citing analysis by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Right. DEMOCRAT US Senators, who have sworn to uphold the US Constitution (that would mean, every.single.word) have decided to shred the spirit of the Constitution, stomp on the free speech of others, have a hissy fit, simply because other folks don’t believe their issue should be their issue as well? Dunno about you but getting a letter from US Senators screams “Intimidation” – and Sanders just played that card.
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