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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:27 PM
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How to Fail at Understanding Your Rights, By Sarah Palin
Palin tweeted:

Dr.Laura:don't retreat…reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")

Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!


Lady, this isn't how it works. Your failure to understand the constitution is disturbing, but not surprising. The constitution gives us all the right to free speech. That's a great and powerful thing. However, the constitution does not give us immunity from the ramifications of the things we might say. I have the total and unrestricted freedom of speech to walk into my bosses office right now and call him a ball-gobbling ass-spelunker. What the constitution doesn't do is protect me from the fallout from saying something stupid.

Why is it that people can't seem to grasp this very simple principal? Your 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms does not give you the right to commit crimes with said arms. Your first amendment rights grant you freedom of speech. They do not grand you immunity from the stupid shit you may say. It's all pretty simple, isn't it?
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Spyderama Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:32 PM
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1. Let's Expose the Truth
Only Babygate will stop this abomination.

<http://palinbabygate.blogspot.com/>
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:37 PM
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2. Honestly, who gives a shit?
That's just a bunch of tabloid media and the sort of thing responsible for why the MSM is the way it currently is.

The issue here is that Sarah Palin is a FUCKING IDIOT who does not understand how the constitution works but who tries to use said document as a political club.

Babygate isn't goign to have any effect at all on this abomination. It's just more stupid tabloid blogging that deflects from real issues.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:38 PM
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3. Is tweeting advice on how to quit "Queeting"?
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:46 PM
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5. I think you just coined a new term!
I like it!
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:44 PM
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4. K&R! Nice succinct slam!
What does that crap in brackets in the 1st one even mean?
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:48 PM
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6. Translated...
I think what she's trying to say is that there are, in her odd little world, some sort of constitutional obstructionists trying to deny Dr. Laura her right to free speech.
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:53 PM
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9. This bit...
trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair"

So, she's supporting her for saying the n word 15 times in 3 minutes (or however many times it was)?
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 03:26 PM
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11. I think she's trying to say that Dr. Laura's 1st amendment rights are being supressed
Pretty much the crux of the issue here. Dr. Laura's rights were not suppressed and she was allowed to say what she wanted. The problem she ran into was that in this case, she offened a ton of people while exercising her rights and torpedoed her career.

Palin can't figure out the difference between being allowed to speak freely and having to face the outcome for speaking freely if and saying something horrible.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:50 PM
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7. You could've stopped at "how to fail" (by Sarah Palin)
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 02:53 PM
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8. So is this bit of Palin advice the same...
for Park51? Should they not retreat, but rather reload?

I wish someone would tweet the twit and ask her.

I really would like someone to call her out on this.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 03:08 PM
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10. Lady Blah Blah is a fucking dunce
One of these days she will disappear.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 03:36 PM
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12. I can only think of one reason why failin quitter would make such a statement...
she was dropped on her head as a child.
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Sheepshank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 04:09 PM
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13. I'm thinking Palin's little isms may be used against her
not unlike the "drill baby drill" ephitet was played against her.

......Don't retreat, Reload.

It will come back and bite her and she won't feel so clever. mark my words, and the boomerang effect will be happening in the very near future...just watch...keep watching.
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