Patrick Kennedy: The Press Corps Is 'Despicable'

[kpete]

Patrick Kennedy: Press Corps Is 'Despicable' For Not Covering Afghanistan War Resolution

First Posted: 03-10-10 03:57 PM | Updated: 03-10-10 08:47 PM

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) excoriated the national press on Wednesday during a debate over the war in Afghanistan, charging reporters with shirking their duty to cover the issue and instead focusing on the peccadillos of former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.).

"There's one, two press people in this gallery," he thundered. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV. We're talking about war and peace; $3 billion; 1,000 lives and no press! No press!"

The House is debating a resolution written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), which would require the military to withdraw from Afghanistan within 30 days or longer if it couldn't be done safely that quickly.

"You want to know why the American public is fit? They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they're sent to do," railed Kennedy, who is retiring at the end of this term. "It's because the press, the press of the United States, is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It's despicable, the national press corps right now."

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/patrick-kennedy-press-cor_n_493848.html

[Hissyspit]

1. VIDEO and TRANSCRIPT Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x441825

[old mark]

2. Bet they won't report this, either. But he is certainly right.

The cheap shot is all they seem to know, and they have no sense of responsibility at all.

Great hair, though.

mark

[customerserviceguy]

3. The ironic thing is

that I saw his rant on the NBC news broadcast tonight. I guess if you say something loud enough (and if your name is Kennedy) you get heard.

[SteveM]

4. If you ain't a Kennedy, it's C-Span for you.

[Kievan Rus]

5. The media cares more about celebrity crap than the issues. He's 100% right

[Echo In Light]

8. 'They' don't "care more" about that, but use re de-politicization of a brainwashed populace

[otohara]

6. Truer Words Were Never Spoken

WTG Congressman

[asdjrocky]

7. He rules.

It was so good to see him call out the useless press corps we now have in this country.

What is more important than war and peace?

[Orsino]

9. Half-truths, anyway,

He failed to call out the corporate executives who made the press corps suck.