Last night Nancy Pelosi announced that she is going to bring a vote to the floor of the House sometime next week to ban Fox News from the halls of Congress:
“That Fox regularly grants access to Republican Congressman to spread their lies and propaganda on their airwaves is a violation of the public trust, and their continued desire to challenge such well documented facts as Global Warming, and the efficacy of single payer health insurance, proves that they are simply doing the work of the special interests. They should thus be stripped of their journalistic access in the halls of Congress,” argued Pelosi.
Is it just me, or are the Democrats in Congress strong arming Fox? Are they really threatening to suspend the CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT of Freedom of the Press?
UPDATE: Thanks to a tip from lefty twitter addict @PlinkingReality I tracked down this story and discovered that it is a spoof. If you look at the dates, the Olberman/Pelosi interview hasn’t even happened yet. But, what is the bigger story here? This has gone viral online. I got wind of it and believed it along with thousands of other bloggers. The real story is that we live in a time when the government is so hellbent on absorbing our individual rights that smart, educated people actually believed the Speaker of the House was moving to rescind freedom of the press.