Sarah Palin on the First Amendment

[toasty]

Check this out:

ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: 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."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-fears-med.html

This video actually sums up what I was going to say pretty well anyway, so I'll just post it in lieu of rambling myself...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2l1dLgQtew[/YOUTUBE]

Let along the fact that there's no state action...

[88Mariner]

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um DUH! protected speech isn't in the bible.

[Miroslav]

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I haven't watched the video, but this is stupid. The First Amendment does not say that society has to suspend their personal judgment of you based on what you publicly say.

[toasty]

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I haven't watched the video...

Let me summarize with the text of the First Amendment itself:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, OR OF THE PRESS; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[88Mariner]

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^ her quote isn't necessarily as troublesome as initially read, but when you add the fact that yesterday she demanded some San Fran newspaper to release Obama's quote on the bankrupting the coal industry (a topic for another thread), when they already had released it, seems to make a reasonable person believe that she views the press as under the authority of the executive branch; that is to say, to halt criticism of her and go full force with anti-opponent propoganda. infuckingcredible.

[ddr]

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^ her quote isn't necessarily as troublesome as initially read, but when you add the fact that yesterday she demanded some San Fran newspaper to release Obama's quote on the bankrupting the coal industry (a topic for another thread), when they already had released it, seems to make a reasonable person believe that she views the press as under the authority of the executive branch; that is to say, to halt criticism of her and go full force with anti-opponent propoganda. infuckingcredible.

which is why she is so fucking dangerous.

she thinks her words came directly from god and anyone who thinks for themselves and doubts her, is automatically on her shit list and un-American.

like i said before, she equals Hitler imo.

[88Mariner]

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^ no no no no. She doesn't believe that. Nice Godwin on that.

She's just uneducated in anything constitution. She just doesn't understand government. PERIOD. THAT is the travesty here.

[DIDI]

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And she wants to run for president in eight years Please guys stop her now!! For the sake of the whole world. !!

[Corven]

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the article from NYT probably shed more light on Palin's religious views

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/us/politics/25faith.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

can't imagine what would happen if she does somehow become president in 8 years time

[sammwalk]

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can't imagine what would happen if she does somehow become president in 8 years time

I can tell you that it will make any of the current nutso threats against Obama look like a warm welcome.

[88Mariner]

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can't imagine what would happen if she does somehow become president in 8 years time

well, for starters, jesus will return.

[DIDI]

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^^^

[88Mariner]

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but do you know why he'll return?


He's going to come back from the nether-regions of space and he's gonna march right into the oval office and tell sarah, "goddamnit, knock this shit off you fool! You're fired as my agent. Obviously the retarded baby i gave you wasn't a big enough hint that I think you're a freak. Bye now, oh and, don't forget to donate to my fund on sundays. that rule still applies whether you're pissed at me or not. sucker."

[Corven]

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but do you know why he'll return?


He's going to come back from the nether-regions of space and he's gonna march right into the oval office and tell sarah, "goddamnit, knock this shit off you fool! You're fired as my agent. Obviously the retarded baby i gave you wasn't a big enough hint that I think you're a freak. Bye now, oh and, don't forget to donate to my fund on sundays. that rule still applies whether you're pissed at me or not. sucker."

[Steve Graham]

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i guess in ms palins world seperating church and state is a thing of the past