Rockefeller wants Fox News, MSNBC ‘Off’; also supported DISCLOSE Act

Updated on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 11:25AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Some politicians just can’t stand it when media get in the way of their business. If you’ve been in Washington for almost half a century, you might just come to view the United States sort of like a big old plantation where the serfs toil and labor on your behalf. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) appears to be caught up in that mentality because he thinks the Federal Communications Commission should nix Fox News and MSNBC.

Ryan G. Murphy, Digital Media Editor for the Radio Television Digital News Association reported Rockefeller’s remarks. Rockefeller  said, "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future."

If Rockefeller stopped there, it'd be bad enough. But he just kept talking.

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GOP and Democrats fire up Congress with accusations as Main St. jumps off Democrat bus

Top story today is the healthcare duel in Congress. So many different stories crossed the desk today. I took the day off because I knew the proceedings would drag out and I preferred not to watch Democrats act like “totalitarians,” as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told Sean Hannity Sunday night. I’ll be tuning in throughout the evening and posting mini-stories about the debate.

Blogger says Big Labor helped Pelosi do the whipping on unpopular healthcare bill
Union representatives openly admitted helping with the healthcare bill, and a blogger at a top Democrat supporter website said on Sunday Big Labor helped Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) do the whipping for the votes on healthcare. The blogger wrote, “Just a few members to watch in the final votes. The outcome is now really not in question, but it'll be interesting to see whether Pelosi's continued whipping and labor's continued lobbying, have an effect.”

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