{"id":1114,"date":"2008-10-31T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T06:10:37","slug":"sarah-palins-constitutional-frights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin’s Constitutional Frights"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/object>It’s five days before the election and Sarah Palin has still never held a press conference. But that hasn’t stopped her from bashing the media of which she is so fearful. And the story is getting even scarier.<\/p>\n

Having a pet newspaper<\/a> is apparently not enough for Palin. Now she’s afraid<\/a> that any criticism of her is a violation of her Constitutional rights:<\/p>\n

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, 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.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one is infringing on her right to call Obama out, and she does it every day. It’s pretty much all she does. But the fact that she thinks the First Amendment exists to protect her from the media, or anyone else who disagrees with her, is an appropriately scary notion to come up in a Halloween day interview. She is arguing that she be permitted to bark out all manner of scurrilous slurs with abandon. However, she regards it as unconstitutional for anyone else to exercise their own freedom of expression in response. What she is advocating is nothing less than the infringement of the First Amendment rights of her critics.<\/p>\n

This is a recurring theme for Republicans. If they are accusing you of something, you can bet they are doing it themselves. The strategy is to identify their own faults and then accuse their opponent of engaging in them. The accusation doesn’t even need to be true. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, admitted to this tactic<\/a>. So whether it be negative campaigning, voter fraud, or questionable associations, the McCain camp is knee deep in hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Is this an example of an unconstitutional attack by the mainstream media:
\nSarah Palin Got Pranked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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