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Article: Media Matters Troubled by Lack of News Coverage of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel's Speech
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 17, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America
is deeply troubled by the lack of news coverage of a speech critical
of the Bush administration given by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) on Nov.
15 in response to remarks by the President days earlier that those
who have accused the White House of manipulating intelligence in the
run-up to the Iraq war are sending "the wrong signal to our troops
and to an enemy that is questioning America's will."
Sen. Hagel reacted by saying that the administration's attack on
war critics is "not democracy nor what this country has stood for"
and that "(t)he Bush administration must understand that each
American has a right to question our ...