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Sarah Palin:"Criticism Threatens My's 1st Amendment Rights"

 
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One more time that Sarah Palin creates the United States Constitution the way she wants it to be; rather than the way the Founding Fathers created it.

In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

[link to blogs.abcnews.com]

Salon's Glenn Greenwald explains why this argument is frighteningly wrong:

If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press. Thus, when the press criticizes a political candidate and a Governor such as Palin, that is a classic example of First Amendment rights being exercised, not abridged.

This isn't only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice here to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it's inherently unfair when they're criticized. And now, apparently, it's even unconstitutional.

According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. The First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials would not be "attacked" in the papers. It is even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?


[link to www.salon.com]

Mark my words, Sarah will soon be screaming "Anti-Semitism" because she flies the flag of Israel in her Alaska State Govenor's Office.
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10/31/2008 09:37 PM
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Somebody get a butterfly net, for her own safety she needs to be put in a padded room.
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One more time that Sarah Palin creates the United States Constitution the way she wants it to be; rather than the way the Founding Fathers created it.

In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

[link to blogs.abcnews.com]

Salon's Glenn Greenwald explains why this argument is frighteningly wrong:

If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press. Thus, when the press criticizes a political candidate and a Governor such as Palin, that is a classic example of First Amendment rights being exercised, not abridged.

This isn't only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice here to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it's inherently unfair when they're criticized. And now, apparently, it's even unconstitutional.

According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. The First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials would not be "attacked" in the papers. It is even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?


[link to www.salon.com]

Mark my words, Sarah will soon be screaming "Anti-Semitism" because she flies the flag of Israel in her Alaska State Govenor's Office.
 Quoting: Whiny Rightard Crybaby 539712

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SARAH PALIN IS CORRECT. IT'S FREE SPEECH STUPID!!!! STOP QUOTING YOUR DUMB FREE PRESS BULL. THE PRESS IS MANAGED, NOT FREE. PERIOD.

GET A BRAIN DOOM AZZ.
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SARAH PALIN IS CORRECT. IT'S FREE SPEECH STUPID!!!! STOP QUOTING YOUR DUMB FREE PRESS BULL. THE PRESS IS MANAGED, NOT FREE. PERIOD.

GET A BRAIN DOOM AZZ.
 Quoting: Sarah for President 534986


uh, go find your brain and remind it that free press is a part of the first amendment.

and if you can't find your brain, please don't vote.
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10/31/2008 09:53 PM
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OMG, she really does want to shred The Constitution more than Bush.

That bitch is batshit insane.
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OMG, she really does want to shred The Constitution more than Bush.

That bitch is batshit insane.
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Oh go eat an egg.

You are so so jealous of Sarah! :-)
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10/31/2008 10:08 PM
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Re: Sarah Palin:"Criticism Threatens My's 1st Amendment Rights"
SARAH PALIN IS CORRECT. IT'S FREE SPEECH STUPID!!!! STOP QUOTING YOUR DUMB FREE PRESS BULL. THE PRESS IS MANAGED, NOT FREE. PERIOD.

GET A BRAIN DOOM AZZ.
 Quoting: Sarah for President 534986


Err, umm.... the amendment is designed to protect the fourth estate/press and people FROM the government; NOT protect the government from the press and the people. (a governor is part of the government, last I knew. Does SP realize that ? She thinks the government needs to be protected from the people and the press ? Dumbbell.)
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Somebody get a butterfly net, for her own safety she needs to be put in a padded room.
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The more that comes out of her mouth demonstrates her fundamental lack of knowledge and ability to think. And it doesn't seem she's even interested in "learnin' nothin' ". She just needs to go and pick out some lipstick or something -- do something she truly knows something about.
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She's a total idiot. Putting it kindly.
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Her high school records list her IQ at 83. In view of the often astonishingly vacuous statements she has made, that number seems accurate.
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Holy shit, quoting Salon to validate your point?


Salon?



Please go play in traffic, you will be doing the human race a favor.

And do it in a liberal town, please. Might get two for one!
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This cow spent how long in media college??

LMAFO

what a complete airhead
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Re: Sarah Palin:"Criticism Threatens My's 1st Amendment Rights"
Palin is right. She says "questions" they change it to "criticize". That alone proves her point.
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OMG ... how humiliating for her. So embarassing
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Holy shit, quoting Salon to validate your point?


Salon?



Please go play in traffic, you will be doing the human race a favor.

And do it in a liberal town, please. Might get two for one!
 Quoting: Apocalypse Troll

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You people are the real sheep. The media says she is dumb, so you go about saying she is dumb. Knowing nothing about her past or her accomplishments. You just take what the MSM is selling as fact. Sheeeeeep!!
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Re: Sarah Palin:"Criticism Threatens My's 1st Amendment Rights"
SARAH PALIN IS CORRECT. IT'S FREE SPEECH STUPID!!!! STOP QUOTING YOUR DUMB FREE PRESS BULL. THE PRESS IS MANAGED, NOT FREE. PERIOD.

GET A BRAIN DOOM AZZ.
 Quoting: Sarah for President 534986


this is freedom of speech too:

palin is a moron. moron = a person of borderline intelligence in a former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.

the GOP loves morons. that's why they constantly run them for office. and i am dying for you to tell me how qualified mccain is. i got some details for you.

palin is a moron, moron, moron. how does this "free speech" feel? angry yet?


Bush:
Yale GPA 2.35 B.A in history.

Obama:
Occidental College (Los Angeles) - 2 years studying Politics and Public Policy.
Columbia University (New York) - B.A. Political Science with a specialization in International Relations.
Harvard Law School - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude (4.0 GPA), Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review.

Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899.

Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester - Business Administration.
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - General Studies.
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - Journalism.
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester.
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism.
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Re: Sarah Palin:"Criticism Threatens My's 1st Amendment Rights"
SARAH PALIN IS CORRECT. IT'S FREE SPEECH STUPID!!!! STOP QUOTING YOUR DUMB FREE PRESS BULL. THE PRESS IS MANAGED, NOT FREE. PERIOD.

GET A BRAIN DOOM AZZ.
 Quoting: Sarah for President 534986


The Founders intended the press be free. CORPORATIONS have determined that the press will not be free. They manage the press according to their whim.

Thomas Jefferson, on the necessity of a free press (1787)
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.





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