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Palin's Deep Thought*

by Steven D
Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:43:13 PM EST

The media is now a part of the Government, and it wants to deprive you of your first amendment right of free speech.

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."

Another one of the those things she says that reveals either complete ignorance of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights or a cynical belief that most Americans don't know what the First Amendment protects us from: government interference with our right to free speech. For example, using Secret Service agents to remove protesters from public rallies is a violation of the First Amendment. Reporters claiming Palin is making negative attacks against Obama is not.

Actually, Governor Palin is really just angry (but in a mavericky way) that the media isn't completely in the tank for the Republican Party like it was for George Bush in 2000 and 2004.

* "Deep" is a relative term.

Palin's Deep Thought* | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (4.00 / 2)

Time to fall back to the original meaning of Maverick, an orphaned calf...as in the herd & its ma left it behind.

by mainsailset on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:48:14 PM EST

My Deep Thought* (4.00 / 4)

40 years sidetracked, here we come, again.

by BooMan on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:48:15 PM EST

Re: My Deep Thought* (4.00 / 2)

40 years its been since RFK predicted a black man as president. My new favorite quote from Ronald Goldfarb's daughter:
"Rosa sat down so Martin could march. Martin marched so Obama could run. Obama is running so our children can fly"

by mainsailset on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:55:39 PM EST
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Re: My Deep Thought* (4.00 / 2)

Great quote. Great picture above, too...!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:23:20 PM EST
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Re: My Deep Thought* (none / 1)

that is one of the best pictures ever..

by americanforliberty on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 05:17:58 PM EST
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Re: My Deep Thought* (none / 0)

Please, please, please let it come true on Tuesday!

And yeah: Coolest. Pic. Ever.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 08:04:50 PM EST
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Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (4.00 / 2)

by Second Nature (denn1214 at gmail) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:58:25 PM EST

Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

what did people do with all their brilliant ideas before Youtube?

I love the guy's moose ears.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:11:26 PM EST
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Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

That was fantastic!!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:27:05 PM EST
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Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

Fantastic! Big smile on my face now.

by ask on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:46:27 PM EST
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Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

That was beautiful. Go Blues.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 07:31:39 PM EST
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hrmph. (4.00 / 2)

I'd LOVE to see the Media presenting people calling Palin out on HER associations with clinic bombers, witch hunters, and secessionists. Talk about hating America...

by martini on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 05:39:50 PM EST

Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

She's got air and rocks underneath that beehive. Terrible.

Recommended by Hideo Kojima

by robertdsc on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 03:53:06 PM EST

Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

Either Palin is an even dumber bimbo than she plays at being, or she's a genuine fascist who is willing to lie about the First Amendment and by doing so damage America's most precious Constitutional protection, the one that underlies all other freedom. With Palin and Stevens, we now know which part of the country is not filled with "real Americans."

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:49:15 PM EST

Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 1)

There is a third possibility. Perhaps she is a really, really, really, really dumb fascist bimbo. It could happen.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 04:51:46 PM EST
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What people are forgetting (none / 0)

In a a rush to paint Palin as stupid, people are forgetting this is a person who majored in journalism AND was a broadcaster. She knows exactly what she's saying and what she's hoping to achieve by playing the victim in this situation.

~~~THIS SPACE FOR RENT~~~

by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 07:01:23 PM EST

Re: What people are forgetting (none / 0)

Fabooj I always enjoy your comments but I think Palin suffers from a mind devoid of curiousity. Same as being stupid in the end.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 07:34:12 PM EST
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Re: What people are forgetting (none / 0)

Oh, she IS stupid, and I suspect that she knows she's stupid. Instead of seeking knowledge, however, she'd rather seek power to make the intelligent suffer and go on shopping sprees for herself and her spawn.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 08:08:14 PM EST
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Re: What people are forgetting (none / 0)

Trust me, majoring in journalism is no guarantee that a person has a usable intellect, OR knows what she is saying at any time, and being a broadcaster only means you can read from a teleprompter, which is all she has really proven capable of in this campaign. In fact, she even had to have a teleprompter for her arrival at the airport when she flew back to Alaska for her son's "deployment ceremony".

If she even had a clue what she is saying she wouldn't say most of it!

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 11:06:27 PM EST
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Re: Palin's Deep Thought* (none / 0)

You know you have been effective they start to complain. Everyone thought Obama was wrong when he told the 537s on our side to stand down. Obama refused to use negative personal attacks. If Obama and the 527s had answered mud with mud MSM would just say everyone does it, but with only one side doing it that side got branded with it. That brand stinks and Palin knows it. I hope they learned a lesson.

by AustinSax on Fri Oct 31st, 2008 at 07:02:26 PM EST

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