{"id":168681,"date":"2021-02-24T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168681"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:44:02","slug":"house-minority-leader-mccarthy-defends-free-speech-from-democrat-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-minority-leader-mccarthy-defends-free-speech-from-democrat-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader McCarthy defends free speech from Democrat censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-minority-leader-mccarthy-defends-free-speech-from-democrat-censorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2377977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2377977\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2377977 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21055610095400-668x437.jpg\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., comments to reporters as Congress preps for its first votes on the Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)\" width=\"668\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2377977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., comments to reporters as Congress preps for its first votes on the Democrats\u2019 $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:36 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, February 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doubled down on his efforts to defend Americans\u2019 right to free speech. While speaking on the House floor Wednesday, he called out the Democrat push to censor conservative voices.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmaker went on to suggest they are the real threat to Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights. McCarthy compared Democrats to the Chinese communist regime, which silences speech they disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy went on to criticize the Democrats for attempting to bring the socialist agenda to the U.S. He said these standards have no place in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats\u2019 action this week makes it clear that the greatest threat to free speech today is not a law from Congress, which is bound by the First Amendment,\u201d stated the minority leader. \u201cThe greatest threat is politicians who bully private companies to silence dissenting views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leader McCarthy Defends Free Speech Against Censorship From Democrats\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9TILUsaoD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy also cited the mainstream media\u2019s coverage over the last four years and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s public disdain for President Trump during his time in office.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/democrat-lawmakers-trying-to-shutdown-oan-how-to-help\/\">Democrat Lawmakers Trying to Shutdown OAN<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274148,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21055610095400-668x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Minority Leader McCarthy defends free speech from Democrat censorship","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21055610095400-668x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Minority Leader McCarthy defends free speech from Democrat censorship","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}