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John Kerry: Media Should 'Not Give Equal Time' (To Views He Disagrees With)

August 8, 2011 by  

John Kerry: Media Should 'Not Give Equal Time' (To Views He Disagrees With)

On Friday morning, in an interview on MSNBC’S Morning Joe, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), was openly critical of the media’s coverage of the debt ceiling debate. Specifically, Kerry spoke of fiscal conservatives’ influence in the debate.

“The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual,” Kerry said.

“It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”

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  • Johnny Hiott

    John Kerry, just like obama, pelosi, reid and 95 % percent of congress are nothing but moral reprobates. I will add george “W”
    bush to that list too for giving us the illegal and unconstitutional “patriot act”. obama’s playbook is
    from Germany of the early 1930′s. Supress or rather outlaw free
    speech and force the news media into being the government’s own
    personal propaganda machine. In the case of the American news
    media the force has not been needed.

  • s c

    Massachusetts, you have yet another slimer in your midst (what IS it about that state?). His resume is very impressive – if you have no standards and no conscience.
    He was a disgrace to the Navy. An admiral (whose name escapes me) said he should have shot him while he had the chance. He’s a womanizer, and he needs to be around rich women to afford his corporatist lifestyle (just a hint of supreme hypocrisy?).
    I heard this loser talk about media’s “duty” to screw over America. Kerry Poppins, your dream world is about to come to an end. Start taking your la la land drugs. And when you get your “you can’t do that to ME” attitude adjustment that has been so long in coming, remember that you could have been forced to ‘stay’ in Vietnam.
    You, sir, are a disgrace in more ways than one. You and your congressional soul mate (Al ‘duh’ Gore) exemplify what is so WRONG about career politicians who don’t get tarred and feathered until late in life. Trash is trash is trash. Kerry, you’re that and so much more, aren’t you?

  • CHRISTOPHER HICKEY

    Kerry is a life long JFK wannabe. His liberal mental world is full of political fantasy, and it’s an artificial reality that he cannot, and never will, escape. It’s well past time for him to retire.

    • ComingStorm

      It’s funny, JFK would be considered a conservative by today’s standards!

      • 45caliber

        Correct!

      • bucksnort

        That just goes to show how low standards have gotten.

  • Lonnie Albertson

    Words from the mouth of this traitor have no value. Where are your medals this time Johm? Where is your amazing boat and what taxes did you avoid this time. Just another “do as I say, not as I do” elitist prog. Mass used to be a region of patiotism. Maybe the liberal education got the spelling wrong. Can you say patronism? Why is this guy still in congress? Heinz catsup buy his way back in?

  • Jerry M

    John Kerry and others like Teddy Kennedy and the RHINO Scott Brown are the main reason I wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney. No political good has ever come out of Massachusetts. You just can’t trust people from Massachusetts. There must be something in their drinking water.

    • Vagabond

      dont tarr all of them with the same brush. I met a lot of good men from Ma. in the service. I allso worked for a very good man from Fall River Ma. in S.C. years ago. 1956.

  • LuluBelle

    Did he ever pay those taxes on that yacht he bought? He needs a Tea Party Downgrade – back to private citizen.

  • David in MA

    kerry always has been and will always be an a$$hole.

  • DROB1776

    I know John Kerry served in Veit Nam, but whose side was he on?

    • David in MA

      hanoi jane’s

  • Jerry M

    Kerry is a coward and traitor to this country along with Jane Fonda. Ask the crew of his Swift boat command about him. They are the only reason he wasn’t elected President when they came forth and exposed him as the empty suit he is. Why would anyone listen to him. He has never done anything except being a “Lapdog” to rich women. He married for profit two times. The first woman wasn’t rich enough. Crawl back under your rock Kerry and stop polluting my TV screen. You are the enemy!!

    • eddie47d

      Still throwing sour grapes around Jerry. All but one of his crew supported him and
      that person was a vindictive man with a chip on his shoulder. John Kerry was on the side of the truth in Vietnam which is something so many were sorely lacking. The “other” Swift Boat Veterans for truth made many false statements to discredit Kerry. Either you are for these foreign adventures or you are not. Whether Vietnam,Iraq,Central America, Libya or any other corporate manufactured war. Seldom do we benefit yet we keep stoking these wars. When it comes to the Meet the Press interview he was right. Both the left and right throw out hype,rumors and innuendos that are irrelevant and that keeps problems from being solved. Issues get dragged out into perpetuity.

      • Vagabond

        well old eddie47d is still on the koolaid,

      • s c

        e, you missed the point – AGAIN. What matters is that Kerry, who’s just another supremely anal retentive paranoid, is a closet CONTROLLER. He dares to think that he (and his psychotic bunkies) think they’re good enough or wise enough to CONTROL every man, woman and child in America.
        I realize you’re a wingnutish knuckle-dragger, but you’ve had SO MANY chances to see the light. Kerry hates freedom.
        Since you have a use for Kerry, that means you have no use for freedom. I don’t know if you’re a slow learner, but it’s obvious that your low standards for ‘gods’ is way too low. I suspect you have the same standards for yourself. Now, tell us that you live in Massachusetts, comrade. Wouldn’t THAT be a surprise?

      • eddie47d

        SC my favorite mudslinger Again!I have never looked at you as a lover of freedom with your closeted controlled comments. You download the same comments everyday and only tweak a few words. Come outside and breath some fresh air and renew the brain cells. I mentioned my home state twice this year and my city twice also.You were too busy with your hit and run mud slinging so sorry you missed it. Whatever standards I have are at least a head above any standard you may have.

      • paintbrushbright

        eddie it’s rotten grapes for Kerry. Sounds like you was Hiding out in Canada when Kerry was mouthing off in congress about our babykilling army. He threw away his worthless medals in the view of the public. I call the medals worthless only because they were worn by him. He later picked them up and pinned them on when it came to getting votes. He has many documented lies on file with the press but his wifes money puts a nice blanket over them. If you fall for his crap then you are a part of it.

      • eddie47d

        If I could wade through your misinformation err… lies then maybe I might come up with a reply. I don’t know enough about you but you certainly don’t know a thing about me.

      • always right

        Poor retarded Eddie. he is of too low an IQ to be educated. Otherwise he’d know that his goddess, John skerry, was on the payroll of madam Binh, the negotiatior for the Viet Cong at the Paris “peace” (READ: “Surrender to the commies by the US commies, the deomocrapic party”)talks. taking money from a hostile goverment while in the employment of the US military is commonly called (at best) “sedition” and should be treason. The only reason it wouldn’t be is because the Vietman war that took over 52,000 of America’s finest was officially a ‘war’. They other thing he can’t cognitively grasp is that when a man has the Heinz fortune behind him, you can get people to say anything. The problem is, regardless of what three of his boatmates said, there was overwhelming evidence of fraudlent medals, cowardice (he hasn’t changed a bit), dereliction of duty and falsification of documents, along with lying about his duties and areas of operation. The man is just a sack of refined s—. No wonder eddie worships him. He’s seared, seared…into eddie’s memory. (Like JK claiming that he was in Cambodia on Christmas, 1968, in a place where there wasn’t enough river to operate a riverine patrol boat of the nature upon which he allegedly worked and before the US went itno Cambodia…)

      • eddie47d

        How much did Kerry make off of Madame Binh? Never heard that one. I’ll take Kerry over Calley any day. Now there is a man you need to trash without hesitation.

  • Tridntru

    Consider, the comments were aired on MSNBC. On any other outlet he would have been laughed off his soapbox. Believe I will forward Kerry a compilation of quotes by Thomas Jefferson as to a course of action when a government becomes oppressive.

  • TIME

    CFR, TLC, BBG, what else need I say, he is a member of all three can you not connect the dots, to the NWO?

    People what the bloody hell. He is not a moron he is not stupid, he has a PLAN that was given to him by his masters, a plan where YOU will not benifit from the noted plan. Wake the hell Up.

    FGS, Will you people in Mass – Vote this Nazi POS out of office already.

  • Bob C.

    Look, I don‘t believe in equal time, that is I do not believe in telling someone they HAVE to let someone tell lies to their group of listeners just to be within the law, …and to maintain their free speech? (only the losing collectivists are yelling this) It’s a right, it can’t be regulated (face it, someone is lying, so that’s just messed up), freedom of speech is also freedom of not being forced to say something you don’t agree with, or listen to.
    people have a human right to communicate, and since more and more aren’t watching the main stream media anymore, what he is really talking about is silencing the private people on the internet
    like us, or he at least wants that end, this being a step in that direction.

    This whole; they need to give us equal time bull crap has always been about us giving them time on our medium, (by force) and not the other way around. Another way to see it is you google something, and instead of getting what google knows you want to see through your user profile, you get a bunch of commie crap instead… how’s that go down with the morning coffee.

    The answer to bad speech is more speech, not forcing the people you don’t agree with to be quiet, or force them to spread what you believe to be lies like this collectivist wants, or “equal time” as the people that are simply working at a slower pace want to accomplish the same goal.

    As for “absurd notions” lol
    I’d say thinking (and telling people) you can spend your way out of debt is pretty absurd.
    Kerry should consider that before calling the kettle black

  • Bigred43

    John Kerry is a moron! It sickens me that in a recent election I supported him. Thank God for the Tea Party, If anything saves this country from the destructive path we’re on, it will be the Tea Party. We wouldn’t be living with a downgrade if the Cut, Cap and Balance had been taken seriously! Pay our congress at the state level and have them working for US!

  • CJM

    Would someone please stuff a rag in Kerry’s mouth…he certainly needs one. Who does he think he is, anyway. This traitor should have faced a firing squad years ago; how did the military miss the opportunity? Kerry, you have the right to speak your mind and so do we…and the people rightfully peg you as a despotic tyrant. Shut up, go home, be silent, we don’t need you in politics OR in the USA; perhaps you would feel more at home in China or Russia.

  • Thor

    If memory serves, this same gentleman was at some of those ‘peace rallies’ of the late 60′s, early ’70′s where there were chants rising up from the righteously indignant crowd like, “All we are saying is ‘give peace a chance,’ ‘the voice of the people will be heard’ and ‘Mr. President, hear us! and ‘evolution or revolution!” Looks like the pendulum of indignation has swung back to the right…and he don’t like it! This kind of thinly veiled deference to censorship is a ‘telling sign’ that progressives are afraid of something. Fear always makes them over-react, which makes it a cinch they will violate principles they think we have forgotten they rose to power on. Liberal Democrats and progressives have dominated politics in this country for a century and only in the last quarter of this century have Republicans had enough clout to control both houses of Congress. It is clear they sense the rising undercurrents of the righteous indignation of the people, the Tea Party is the tip of that massive political iceberg and they really don’t know what to do about it–except to try to ‘abort’ it in its infancy. They have built a politico-economic Titanic…everyone knows what happened to it.

  • JimRed

    Equal time to conservative viewpoints? Get real- they don’t, and never have in my lifetime! All Kerry is doing is verbalizing the feelings of most progressives who reject even a hint of opposition.

  • http://n/a John Beach

    The blatant hypocrisy of the statement is ludicrous. Stand before a media microphone and explain why Congress is Congress? Congress can be congress any time it wishes to be so, and it IS responsible regardless of what any media take or slant or bias with regard to reporting about it is or who, in or out of congress, asserts whatever that is or is not considered by others to be logical or absurd. No wonder the people hold Congress in contempt. They are often worthy of it.

  • Charles

    Please Mr. Kerry, please. Your fear over the possibility of loss of power is coming through very clearly. Where in the Constitution do you get your support for this?

  • Elisa

    Any politician who has been in Washington for six years or more should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on rail! They – and they alone are to blame for the mess we now find ourselves.

    • come-and-take-it

      So tell me why we can’t get term limits. It would accomplish the same thing. We don’t need master of our destinies, we need public servants and statesmen.

      • Brad

        As an oh by the way, there perks need to end i.e., you only get paid when doing the peoples business, you go onto regular medical that comes out of their own pocket. This is big, they don’y get a single dime in retirement, they pay into the system just like we do and finaly they should have to pay into SS just like we do every single pay period. End every single perk and lets see how fast they get things done in Washington. Finaly enact term limits 6 terms in the house and two in the senate, just my two cents…

      • David in MA

        There are term limits, it is called the voting booth!
        kerry, to my knowledge, has never done anything for Massachusetts.
        Why he keeps getting re-elected is beyond my intellegence.
        If he is re-elected to keep the DEMONcRATS in power in MA.there are a lot of brain dead people in MA.
        THAT policy is outdated, expecially where the person (kerry) has not
        done anything for MA. He even tried to avoid paying taxes on a $Million+ yatch. BTW, Did he ever pay them? Did that crook up in Harlem pay his taxes on his house in the Dominican Republic, is he still using an apartment for his headquarters that is subsidized? Is it true obozo and friends have taken BILLIONS of dollars for their own pockets?(http://tdarkcabal.blogspot.com/)
        AMERICA NEEDS THE TEA PARTY & AMERICAN’S HAD BETTER SUPPORT IT!

  • ComingStorm

    This is scary… this shows the left’s desire to control information. Thank God for the alternative media. Stay alert and on point America, the crypto totalitarians of the left want total control but first they need to take away your 1st and 2nd amendment rights. We must guard our beloved Constitution with our lives!

    • JimRed

      Guarding the Constitution with our lives is an honorable thing, but I’d prefer to guard it with THEIR lives!

      To approximate an old saying (I’d give credit if I could recall who) “no one ever won a war by dying for his country; you win by making the other b@$t@rd die for HIS country”.

      I wonder how many progressives are willing to die for Marxist ideology?

      • come-and-take-it

        It was Patton. Another, perhaps more relevant quote by T.Jefferson was, “On occasion democracy must be renewed by the blood of patriots and tyrants”. I like the tyrants part. John has volunteered.

      • Vagabond

        JimRed the person who said that was General Georg Patton. one of if not THE greatest Generals ever. I didn’t serv under him but I had friends who did. and I was told there were a lot of grown men who cried that day. and these were battled hardened veterans. had john kerry served under Patton Patton would probaly have kicked his ass up between his shoulder blades instead of meerly slapping him as he did that coward he slapped in the hospital. and he was 100% correct when he slapped him. there were just too many lilly livered people looking on who wanted to make points,

      • Stickwoman Red

        Yes, it was Patton! Great American! As for John Kerry and the rest of his party, they all need to be voted out in 2012! I am a Tea Party Patriot and am not a racist, nor a terrorist, or a hobbit, but a real hard-working American who is disgusted with Congress and the White House impostor! Every old guard Democrat and establishment GOP must go! All the newbies into Congress, like Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Allen West and the rest need all of us to vote in more like them so we can take control and really flip the switch and get America on the right track!

  • James

    Kerry is showing his true colours, one of a progressive and against our constitution. We live in a time that all that are evil are raising their ugly heads. I always wondered why I never trusted Kerry—-thank
    you for publishing this.

    • David in MA

      What does kerry’s position say about the women he marries?
      Will ugly betty throw this jerk out?

    • always right

      don’t call these people “progressives”. If you do that you’re letting them set the standard, redefine the language (like “gay”) and then letting them lead you into that redefined language. There’s nothing “progressive” about socialism nor communism. There’s nothing on the left that would qualify as “progressive”. Try “foam-flecked loonies”

      • newspooner

        AMEN!!! You are sooooo correct. I never use their false terms (gay, liberal,progressive, etc) when labelling them. And we must not let them redefine marriage. Society in general, not government, has defined marriage for centuries. Let them call the union between (or among) people of the same sex SOMETHING ELSE, NOT marriage. If we let government get away with redefining marriage, then it can get away with redefining anything, and all liberty will be quickly lost

  • charles a pembroke

    Of course kerry doesn’t.No communist does.Is he kidding about news media being fair?The msm is so lop sided for the dems.No wonder I’m going crazy.He can’t really beleive what he said.I’d like to squeeze his neck til his eyes popped out.

    • John /West Virginia

      Charles, I agree this numb nuts is just like obama, every time he opens his grand canyon size mouth he is liying. He should have tried
      to be an actor, most of hollywood want’s to be in his position. If he would have been shot in Vietnam we wouldn’t be talking about him.

  • annie

    There is something very sick and very insane about kerry. He made his mark while a “swift boat” member and those GI’s he was suppose to help spoke out loudly and clearly. They told of kerry’s despicable treasonous acts during and just after Viet Nam. Then he comes home and publicly testifies in front of congress and denies and disparages ALL of those veterans he served with and ALL American military.

    Now, here he is again, putting on display his treasonous and criminal behavior. It is unimaginable that anyone – especially a member of congress – would blame the tea party for what was kerry’s and ALL those members of congress and this current presidents FAULT. They – kerry, congress and obama – are completely at fault for this fiscal and economic crisis.

    • Vagabond

      attaboy girl givem hell. and you are so right.he thinks because he married into the heins fortun he knows it all. thats why I quit useing hiens products,

  • GiveAwayJimmie

    Kerry, news media gave you ” time ” with all of your absurd notions —during your elected life—-now we still must listen to you–blaming the Tea Party for all debt and credit downgrade!!!!!

    Guess it is OK for you (Kerry) to put forth “absurd notions” (not lib/progressive fault)—–just because we are in charge—must blame someone else!!!!!!!

    As you know—if you can have the news media–”tell a lie” enough times——it becomes the truth!!!!!

    • always right

      “John KErry, reporting for duty”! (or was that “jhon kerry, reporting for doodies”?) What is humorous is that this is one of hte jerks pushing the “fairness doctrine”. These people are certifiably insane, one and all.

  • George

    “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for
    people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”. Chomsky

    It is easy to see Sen. Kerry does not believe in freedom of expression.
    The Proletariat must remain uninformed.

    • Nancy

      Another dictator like Obummer!?!? If they are so right and good, what does it matter if someone disagrees?

      • Jana

        Hmm, By his own comment then, HE should be banned from the news media even listening to HIM.

        It’s so odd that he is so dumb that he cannot see the absurdity in his own statement. The funny thing is he is so serious when he says it too.

      • slapjack

        Term Limits will at least protect America from the simple minded voter who keeps these idiots in DC. Two terms and you are done forever. if yo’ve been there for two terms your gonna get a bus ticket and a boot in the butt immediately.

    • Vagabond

      George once again john kerry has opened his size 10 mouth and stuck a size 12 shoe in it. I would think ny now everyone would have realised john kerry is one of the psuedo elites who think the rest of us are incapable of thinking for ourselves.why the paople of Ma. keep him in office is beyond me. unless it’s as one told me years ago about I can’t remember his name but he was running for president and one of the people I was talking to said they just wanted to get him out of Ma.

      • slapjack

        I seriously thought they were gonna stuff Teddy Kennedy and display him in the Smithsonian. Mass has a real shortage of sane minded PATRIOTS. As for Kerry who cares if his ship goes down so long as he’s strapped to it.

    • wandamurline

      Wow…us tea parties terrorists must really be getting under these commuists’ skins. Of course, Kerry doesn’t believe in free speech, and because of the tea parties, we now KNOW WHO is responsible for this fiscal mess we are in and Kerry is one of the ones that is responsible…that is why he wants to stop free speech…he doesn’t want Americans to know the real truth … and that is that his kind of politician is old news and needs to be flushed down the toilet….he is scared and like the Demorats do…they start mudslinging and getting the new word from the DNC each week to use against us. All they have is words…they have not submitted a budget that was due over 800 days ago, they have not submitted any new ideas of how to stop this collision that America is headed for…all they have is tactics to scare people and name calling. They should change their party to the “Do Nothings”.

      • Vic

        “Do Nothings”? You’ve gotta be kidding! They are stealing from us, ripping us off day and night, sucking our blood like TV vampires could only dream, all that under the fog of their rhetoric and you’re saying “do nothings”?

    • sylviam

      Well George, I think JOHN KERRY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON in the first place, but for his to even try to tell the TRUTH is a major mistake, HE does not know the truth musc less speak it.
      KERRY, stood in UNIFORM OF OUR MILITARY in Washington DC. and give a big speech on how VILE our military men were in VIET NAM, He and HANOI JANE did this while HE was still in the MILITARY why wasn’t HE AND HER TRIED FOR TREASON because he should have been. He faked a wound to get a PURPLE HEART, so HE could get HOME SOONER because HE WAS BORED.
      GOD BLESS AMERICA

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