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Dana Rohrabacher: “Actually in the news media as well. It seems to me you actually have to be carrying a gun and trying to kill someone to…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
Actually in the news media as well. It seems to me you actually have to be carrying a gun and trying to kill someone to be an extremist on the left. And on the right you basically have to be someone who, even if your views are parallel to, let us say, 75 or 80 percent of the American people but opposed to what the liberal news media believes is a standard, basically the standard belief in our news columns, then you are an extremist if you are a conservative.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing perceptions of extremism in the media during a floor speech.

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