{"id":1415,"date":"2007-04-25T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2017-06-06T07:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:41:41","slug":"corporate-media-trying-to-avoid-impeachment-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/corporate-media-trying-to-avoid-impeachment-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Media Trying to Avoid Impeachment Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dave1.jpeg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/dave.thumbnail1.jpeg\" alt=\"dave.jpeg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>BaltimoreChronicle.com<br \/>\n COMMENTARY: by Dave Lindorff<br \/>\n Dropping the First Shoe<br \/>\n The mainstream corporate media, which has so far been largely ignoring the issue of impeachment, will have to go to extra lengths of censorship to block out the popular movement now, with a bill on the floor of the House, and with impeachment resolutions passing in the Vermont state legislature.<br \/>\n Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has dropped the first impeachment shoe, filing a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich, defying the leadership of the Democratic Party, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who have been struggling mightily to prevent impeachment from occurring during the waning years of the Bush presidency, on Tuesday filed three articles of impeachment, claiming that Cheney violated his oath of office and the Constitution, for deceiving Congress and the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about alleged but nonexistent links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and finally for making threats to invade Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the rest of the committee&#8217;s members will have to decide whether go hold formal hearings on the charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/042507Lindorff.shtml\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-related-oped"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Corporate Media Trying to Avoid Impeachment Issue &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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