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Friday, October 31, 2008

Election 2008 Backwards Day in Sarah Palin-land

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:33 AM

Check out this bizarre logic coming out of Sarah Palin's mouth: The media is threatening her First Amendment right to free speech, by saying that she's running a negative campaign. Um... what? This is a woman who went to journalism school, right? So she would have studied the First Amendment, and should know that she gets her right to free speech, and then the press does, too. And if they call bullshit on her campaign, so be it.

Not in Palin's world:

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told [conservative radio] host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment right and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

Because in Palin's world, if the media "elite" say you're going negative, that means your right to go negative is taken away...

 

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Is it even possible for a private individual/private organization to violate someone else's First Amendment rights? I thought only the guv'ment could do that.
Posted by Graham on October 31, 2008 at 12:40 PM · Report
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Graham: Yeah, really, this is similar to how people often misuse the word "censorship" when really it's just Walmart refusing to sell your CD or whatever.
Posted by no one in particular on October 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM · Report
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i literally felt as though my brain was twisting just now, trying to follow that republican logic.

though my brain couldn't complete that maneuver, i still remember high school in a rural area, where "logic" amounted to a toxic bitch like limbaugh or palin saying a thing loudly and often enough.
Posted by old lady on October 31, 2008 at 5:23 PM · Report

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