Senator Files Complaint Against CNN After 'Ambush'

Roll Call via Drudge Report ^ | Thu May 11 2006 12:21:05 ET | Unattributed

[thegreatbeast]

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is filing a formal complaint with chamber officials regarding what he considers an “unethical” broadcast of an interview with him by a CNN reporter Tuesday.

ROLL CALL reports: In an incident that could have repercussions for TV journalists’ access to the chamber, Stevens is furious with CNN correspondent Joe Johns for an interview conducted outside the weekly GOP policy luncheons, but far away from the usual bank of TV cameras set up for such interviews next to the storied Ohio Clock.

[thegreatbeast]

It would help if Stevens didn't have so much to hide. Light doesn't become him.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

If you open your mouth and jibber jabber...it's your own fault.

Anyway, if I was a Senator from Alaska, all I would be saying is that the country is suffering without my state's oil......and why does Congress always impose hardships on the American people.

[Howlin]

Anyway, if I was a Senator from Alaska, all I would be saying is that the country is suffering without my state's oil......and why does Congress always impose hardships on the American people.

Exactly.

Every single time I saw a microphone.

[TomGuy]

The McKinney 'you can't use that tape if I wasn't sitting in this chair' defense.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Isn't he the "road to nowhere" sponsor?

[50sDad]

"I had not idea that highly poisonous pit viper was going to bite me when I put it in my pants!"

Hey, guy. It's CNN! What were you thinking?

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[Texas_Jarhead]

bridge to nowhere and yea he is

[Finalapproach29er]

Stevens is a coward and a crook. IMO

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks.

[Abcdefg]

I despise everyone in Alaska who voted for this POS.

[Bonaparte]

Isn't he the "road to nowhere" sponsor?

In more ways than one --

Stevens to David Schippers: "I don't care if he raped a woman on the White House lawn, stood up and shot her. We're not removing him from office."

[Biblebelter]

Ted Stevens=Bobby Byrd crossdressed as a Republican

[bondjamesbond]

The McKinney 'you can't use that tape if I wasn't sitting in this chair' defense.

There are established rules for media behavior in this building. It does not serve the public interest to have Senators being ambushed in the hallways.

Frankly, I hope the Senate hands CNN their collective ass over this one.

[stephenjohnbanker]

brother!!

[EricT.]

Frankly, I hope the Senate hands CNN their collective ass over this one.

I'm looking at this one like a Raiders/Broncos game. I don't care who wins, as long as one of them loses.

[thegreatbeast]

Stevens to David Schippers: "I don't care if he raped a woman on the White House lawn, stood up and shot her. We're not removing him from office."

Thanks, I'd forgotten who said that.

[Radix]

Stop whining!

[Radix]

Come on, everyone secretly loves the Raiders. They changed modern sports.

Now the only reason that I don't hate the Broncos entirely is because I have met a few of their fans.

I'll bet a dollar you are a KC fan.

[bondjamesbond]

I'm looking at this one like a Raiders/Broncos game.

As Henry Kissinger famously said of the Iran/Iraq War, "It's a shame they can't both lose..."