Political Quotes

“I believe it is the Volunteer State. The Butternut State, I never heard that. Dadgummit, Mr. Speaker, here I am again bringing attention to yet another example of our woke telecom companies targeting conservative speech. I am very glad though that they did not censor my good friend Mr. Buck's new book ``Crushed,'' which is actually on the best seller list, I have heard. I am fired up about that, brother. DIRECTV, of course, is co-owned by AT&T and TPG, and they have taken ``Newsmax'' off the air as we have heard. DIRECTV says this was purely a business decision, but nobody believes that, Mr. Speaker. Big media corporations don't exactly have the best record of protecting conservative speech. Last year, Democrats in Congress wrote letters to AT&T and other telecom companies demanding they deplatform ``Newsmax''--which is really just a fancy way of saying we are going to deny your First Amendment rights, Mr. Speaker--along with ``Fox News'' and ``One America News'' because of so-called disinformation. After these letters were sent, DIRECTV dropped ``One America News,'' and now it appears to be doing the same thing to ``Newsmax.'' This fits a disturbing pattern, Mr. Speaker, of these woke corporations using their market dominance to censor conservative networks to appease Washington politicians and further their demands on woketopia.…”