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

[g. crabtree]

Didn't one of our most esteemed on again, off again members make the same argument?

"I worry about the V. Of course, I've been unable to post without one pest or another for about two years now, but it seems that since its worked so well against me, various forces have decided to try it on everyone else. I lament what seems to me to be the loss of free speech in Moscow."

It appears to me that this fellow feels that his freedom of speech is being denied because he can't say any damn fool thing he wants without some peon who is nowhere near as smart or as cool as he is questioning him or, worse yet, disagreeing. This person has informed us that he is very intelligent and many of the regulars on this list have expressed their concurrence. With all this in mind I should think that Mrs. Palin would be promoted to at least the level of philosophy professor with all the respect and deference that lofty title entails.

g



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: "Saundra Lund" <sslund_2007 at verizon.net>
Cc: "'Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] We've All Misunderstood the First Amendment in the World According to Palin


> 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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