2008 Deference, Deference…
posted by October 31 at 12:49 PM
onSarah Palin expects deference from the media—and if the media persists in calling Palin on her lies, distortions, corruption, etc., then we may have to revisit this whole “First Amendment” thing. It may not have much of a future because, you see, if the First Amendment means anything it means that Sarah Palin can slime her opponents without being called to account.
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I. HATE. YOU. SARAH. PALIN. I hate you hate you hate you hate you. You are a demonic scourge on America. Please go back to Alaska and stay there forever.
OH MY GOD.
Has she ever fucking read the first amendment? Does she know what it does? Does she know that "freedom of speech" is right next to "or of the press," or that it applies to Congress passing laws, or FUCKING ANYTHING AT ALL???? Could she be more of an idiot?
Man, some of the posts on this site are hilarious.
Awful, vile, stupid, ignorant, hateful moron of a woman. The fact that so many millions of people actually look up to this evil bitch shows that American society, whether we elect
Obama or not, is truly fucked.
I think we've discovered the plot line of that Joe the Plumber porn flick.
Huh, she still hasn't released her medical records?
She's actually invoking a right that is as powerful in American political culture as well as it is fictitious: the right to feel comfortable, aka the freedom from fear. It doesn't exist. But it's a way of conflating hurt feelings with the violation of civil liberties. So, for instance, if a homeless person asking you for money on the street makes you feel uncomfortable, all the sudden they've violated your rights and can be forcibly removed from public places and even locked up in jail. Palin is making a similar argument about how she should be free from things that make her uncomfortable-- in this case criticism. It's a specious argument. But it's not novel.
One of the best things the First Amendment does is give people all the rope they need to hang themselves with. Witness the short happy political life of Sarah Palin. Or witness the First Amendment giving the GOP all the sandbags it wants to sink itself.
Why a power mad ignoramus like Palin ever even get's elected at all is a sign of how sick right wing religious nut cases are.
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