Those pesky journalists …

As an editorial board member and an op-ed columnist, I would like to take offense at this Kentucky lawmaker’s attempts to bar my kind of people from legislative sessions. But, then again, being excluded from tedious state legislative sessions is probably a gift.

A lawmaker ridiculed in editorials and cartoons last year for his positions on environmental legislation is pushing a bill that would curtail the presence of the journalists he blames the most. …

The legislation he is pushing would list editorial writers and cartoonists as lobbyists. Since lobbyists aren’t allowed in the House or Senate while lawmakers are in session, those journalists would essentially be banned from the chambers

Yeah, screw the First Amendment!