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Republican  Representative Peter King, NY

Republican Representative from New York, Peter King says: ‘We can’t allow’ more coverage of Occupy Wall Street. Does Rep King think he was anointed as a censor unto himself.  It is my belief that the media is not controlled by politicians (no snickers allowed here) in our Democracy of the United States.  The most conservative of them all, and the one which is most apt to be slanted or just not truthful, is Fox News (Fair and Unbalanced by their word; Unfair and I
balanced according to many viewers)


“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”

It would be amazing, indeed, if the majority of the public got heard by the mentally deaf representatives it elected to represent them. 
Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
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.

Should I believe that Rep King has read the Constitution he swore to uphold?  Should I respect Representative King for his attempt to control those who do not agree with him by  attempting to control the media?  Does anyone other than I believe this man is a megalomaniac, too full of himself to be of any further use to his country and his constituents?