Funny how this works.
Scary, actually.
Do you think if The New York Times and the Washington Post and CBS and CNN and the rest of the nation's corporate-owned-and-operated news crowd had actually done their journalism jobs right, we'd be in such a mess?
A senseless military bloodbath in Iraq. Environmental crises locally and globally. A crumbling dollar. And the crooks and liars still in command.
First Amendment?
Use it or lose it, eh?
Vermont's one-of-a-kind Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders was recently the keynote speaker in Atlanta, Georgia at the annual convention of The Democratic Socialists of America annual convention.
Did the American corporate media notice?
Are you serious?
The only press coverage we could find was on the website of the Atlanta Progressive News:
"We’re not radical. You know who’s radical? George W. Bush," Sanderssaid in his remarks. "Bush says we can’t afford money for foodstamps... but we can afford $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can affordto repeal the estate tax. If anybody tells you we can’t afford healthcare for all or getting all children out of poverty... you look them inthe eye and say Bernie Sanders is on the Budget Committee and it justain’t so."
More here.
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.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Ever wonder why they made it the very "First," eh?
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