Rep. Eric Cantor Embarrasses Pelosi
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Friday Afternoon Boston Tea Party: The House Republicans Revolt
The GOP staged a coup on Friday afternoon in the United States House of Representatives. Did you hear anything about it, or read about it? Probably not, as the mainstream media tried to hide the story. Republicans believe strongly that we need to drill immediately and bring the price of gasoline down.
Here’s part of what Rush said: Anyway, what Pelosi has basically done here is shut down the House so they don’t have to talk about offshore drilling. They went out, got aboard their jets and they left town without taking any action on the president’s request to drill for oil and other things. Twenty-five members of the House Republican caucus nevertheless stayed behind and continued to make speeches and discuss — on the floor of the House — the need to drill here and drill now. But Pelosi ordered the cameras from C-SPAN turned off, she ordered the microphones turned off, and she ordered the press gallery cleared. However, I have just been informed that the lights have come back on. (The cameras have not yet, at least according to C-SPAN.) So this is an excellent sign.
According to Noel Shepeherd, who always does his homework, the networks and newspapers buried this high energy story when they had nothing else to talk about on a lazy Friday summer-afternoon.
On Friday, NewsBusters wondered how much attention media would pay to the Republican revolt that occurred after Speaker Pelosi adjourned the House for a five week vacation without allowing a vote on offshore oil drilling.
It turns out that if you rely on the evening news programs of the three broadcast networks, you didn’t hear about this extraordinary event at all (photo courtesy AP).
And, if you’re one of the few people that still reads newspapers, the one thrown on your driveway Saturday morning likely also ignored this story, or buried it well off the front page.
Conceivably the worst of the network offenders was the “NBC Nightly News” which actually addressed the fact that Congress adjourned without a vote on drilling, but completely ignored the GOP revolt that ensued afterwards (from closed captioning):
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