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On the recordSeptember 20, 2019
I appreciate the privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. And I come to this floor to talk a little bit today about what is happening to our Nation, our society, our culture, our Constitution. And these are topics that have been debated in this Chamber for a long time, but some things have happened that never happened before. And so I would start first with: It seems to me our leader seems to be a high respecter of the credibility of the New York Times. So I put together a document here that I thought might be interesting to him, and I would go through just a few of them, the articles that have come up in the New York Times, that have had to be retracted. Let's see: There are the articles about Russian meddling in the election that had to be retracted. They had to apologize for ruining Wen Ho Lee's career and life. And the New York Times admits that one of the reporters engaged in frequent acts of journalistic fraud, widespread fabrication and plagiarism, and found problems in at least 36 of the 73 articles written by a single individual since he had started. Further, the Times admits--that is the New York Times--that Judith Miller took journalistic shortcuts, and that New York Times' editors, ``failed to dig into problems before they became a mess.'' They did become a tremendous mess. Remember, that was the allegation that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Sep 20, 2019

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