[Vision2020] We've All Misunderstood the First Amendment in the World According to Palin

[Paul Rumelhart]

Criticizing someone's public statements threatens their rights?

Do what you can to keep this person out of the most powerful position in 
the most powerful nation on earth.  Please.

Paul

Saundra Lund wrote:
> <groan>
>
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-fears-med.html
>
> Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First Amendment Rights
> October 31, 2008 11:25 AM
>
> 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." 
>
> However she feels about the way her story has been told in the press, Palin
> told WMAL she is not discouraged.
>
> "It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm a practical person and
> plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I
> see them, just like most Americans.  But this has not left a bitter taste in
> my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the
> elitism there in Washington," Palin said.
>
> "What this has left me with is a very energized and positive feeling about
> America, because there are enough Americans who are desiring the positive
> change that John McCain's gonna usher in."  
>
> Plante then suggested that in her next sit-down interview, Palin should tap
> the reporter on the knee and ask, "So who you votin' for?"
>
> Palin laughed and said, "Yeah, maybe that just would say it all."
>
> "I'm gonna try that," she said.
>
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