Congresswoman walks out on General's testimony, media shrugs


	Congresswoman walks out on General's testimony, media shrugs

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7-31-2007 2:53 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7db7ba92-1767-4aba-9254-9d02b802dd56/5040309F-C405-41A1-ABD4-C81FEE0EB571/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi" style="font-size: 11px;">newsbusters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi"><A href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/30/oh-bodya-kansas-congresswoman-walks-out-generas-positive-iraq-testimony" linkindex="16" set="yes">As noted here at NB yesterday</A>, Kansas Congresswoman Nancy Boyda <A href="http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=633" linkindex="17">walked out</A> of a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Friday after hearing General Jack Keane testify about the potential impact of a bill meant to micromanage troop deployment. Keane also testified about progress being made in the counteroffensive that has come to be known as "the surge."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi">Boyda walked out because the objections to that bill, and the descriptions of an improving situation in Iraq, were apparently too much to bear. She said as much when she returned.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi">In case you're wondering (by this time, you shouldn't be), <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=boyda&srchst=nyt" linkindex="21" set="yes">the New York Times</A> and <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?sb=-1&st=boyda&" linkindex="22">the Washington Post</A> have nothing relating to Boyda's walkout or subsequent statement.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/07/31/follow-national-media-ignore-congressowomans-walkout-generals-iraq-testi">A few of the Google news links above are to <A href="http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_212101335.html" linkindex="23" set="yes">the Associated Press story</A> on the situation, which appears to have been carried almost nowhere.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5040309F-C405-41A1-ABD4-C81FEE0EB571/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>