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

[No Weatherman]

You need to buy a book on logic.

You racist.



On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:31 AM, g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 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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