John Boehner (R-OH) Cuts Mic on House Floor While Democrat is Speaking
December 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM Leave a comment
Wow. Talk about stifling freedom of speech, on the hallowed floor of the United States House of Representatives no less, check out what happened there this morning:
During a quick pro-forma session of the House this morning, Republicans rebuffed a Democratic attempt to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday extension.
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who was serving as the speaker pro-temp, ignored shouts of “Mr. Speaker!” from Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
Moments later, the mic appeared to cut out. A few seconds after that, the video feed switched away from the House floor to a still image of the Capitol Dome. It appears someone in House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office cut the feed, as C-SPAN tweeted afterwards: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”
Watch it:
(Via.)
Boehner is afraid of the American people knowing what he and his cronies have done. They want us to be ignorant so we’ll continue to vote for them. It’s called censorship.
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