Political Quotes

“according to its own mandate, the Armed Forces Network is supposed to provide political programming that is characterized by fairness and balance, and should provide ``reasonable opportunities for the presentation of conflicting views on important controversial public issues.'' Now, the Bush administration's Pentagon has ignored that mandate, choosing to air Rush Limbaugh as its only daily political programming. This is the same man who spent weeks condoning and trivializing the abuse, torture, and rape of Iraqi prisoners. Should this be the only political voice that our soldiers hear daily around the world? On Monday, our soldiers were finally supposed to hear a differing voice, liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz. However, the Pentagon called to inform Schultz minutes before his debut that they were pulling his show. Why? They did not give him an answer. Schultz tried to explain this decision to his listeners, saying on Monday that the Pentagon does not want dissenting voices or any other kind of speech unless it is going to be promotional for them. Madam Speaker, perhaps more than anyone else our troops abroad deserve to hear all political opinions from home. Remember, this is a democracy. ____________________”