[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 19 (Thursday, February 28, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H636-H637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




NPR CROSSED THE LINE FROM BIAS TO OUTRIGHT LIBEL IN INACCURATE COMMENT 
                    ON TRADITIONAL VALUES COALITION

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, like most Americans, I have become jaded to 
the fact that the news media uses the airways to promote their liberal 
agenda. But when National Public Radio made a thinly veiled accusation 
that the Traditional Values Coalition could be responsible for the 
anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill, they crossed the line from simple bias 
to outright libel.
  Mr. Speaker, the thousands of men and women who make up the 
Traditional Values Coalition are our neighbors, our fellow churchgoers. 
They are the people who responded to our national emergency by giving 
their money, clothes, food, time, and even their blood to the victims 
of September 11. But to NPR, they are simply accused terrorists.
  In the end, while the people of the Traditional Values Coalition 
practice the American ideals of charity and compassion, NPR continues 
to practice their traditional values: shameful pettiness and slanderous 
lies.

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