{"id":2258,"date":"2013-05-27T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/05\/27\/dick-is-dick\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:05","slug":"dick-is-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Dick Is A Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13490,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/on-air\\\/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace\\\/2013\\\/05\\\/26\\\/sens-graham-durbin-talk-doj-irs-scandals-rare-interview-americas-veteran-former-sen-bob&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/on-air\\\/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace\\\/2013\\\/05\\\/26\\\/sens-graham-durbin-talk-doj-irs-scandals-rare-interview-americas-veteran-former-sen-bob&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nSen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), Majority Whip and the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate Leadership, was a guest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace\/2013\/05\/26\/sens-graham-durbin-talk-doj-irs-scandals-rare-interview-americas-veteran-former-sen-bob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News Sunday<\/a> along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>Part of the discussion surrounded having Attorney General Eric Holder investigate Holder&#8217;s own role in the DOJ&#8217;s targeting of journalists. Graham said there should be a Special Counsel appointed to investigate the matter. Durbin disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>From the transcript of Durbin&#8217;s remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>But here is the bottom line: the media shield law, which I am prepared to support, and I know Senator Graham supports, still leaves an unanswered question which I have raised many times, what is a journalist today, 2013?<\/p>\n<p>We know it&#8217;s someone who works for Fox or A.P., <b>but does it include a blogger? Does it include someone who&#8217;s tweeting? Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection?<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is obvious to me that Sen. Durbin has about as much respect for my First Amendment rights as he does for my Second Amendment rights. It really isn&#8217;t that surprising coming from a statist such as Durbin.<\/p>\n<p>My response while I&#8217;m still entitled to any measure of First Amendment rights is that Dick Durbin can go straight to hell and take the rest of his ilk with him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), Majority Whip and the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate Leadership, was a guest on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,773],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dick-durbin","tag-first-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}