Palindroid S.E. Cupp defends Christine O'Donnell's ignorance of the First Amendment

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The video that everyone has seen by now shows O'Donnell clearly not understanding BASIC constitutional law when she embarrassed herself in a recent debate with Chris Coons:

CHRISTINE O'DONNELL (R), DELAWARE SENATE CANDIDATE: Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

(LAUGHTER)

CHRIS COONS (D), DELAWARE SENATE CANDIDATE: Back to Roe versus Wade --

O'DONNELLL: (INAUDIBLE) separation of church and state is in the First Amendment?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwSljJAzqg

So, on Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources on CNN on Sunday, Palindroid Sarah Elizabeth (S.E.) Cupp actually stuck up for O'Donnell's foolishness by repeating what Rush Limbaugh said about the subject. She then offered the "Poor Little Me" card for O'Donnell, who is avoiding the media (except the GOP News Channel Fox "News"), for being picked on for crap that bubbles out of her cakehole:

KURTZ: So, isn't it fair for the press to point out that a candidate who talks about the Constitution seems pretty unfamiliar with the First Amendment?

CUPP: No. I mean, first of all, what she was saying was that the words "church and state" are not in there. She's absolutely right. And what she's arguing is that --

KURTZ: Come on.

CUPP: No. That's factual. It's not in there.

And what she was saying was a counter-response to this new liberal idea that the Constitution protects freedom from religion, when really it protects freedom of religion. And the idea that worship should be private and sort of kept to yourself, that's what she was reacting to.

But the liberal media jumped on that and said, oh, she has no idea what she's talking about, she doesn't know about the Constitution, she's a right-wing extremist. This is why.

And by the way, it's not just reporters. It's these debates. The way that the moderators, whether it's George Stephanopoulos or Wolf Blitzer, are handling these questions are making even, you know, the most sort of unfamiliar and politically unengaged viewer very aware that there is a bias in the media. I mean, it's blatant.

KURTZ: OK.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/24/rs.01.html

A better explanation about this issue is summed up nicely:

The First Amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The phrase "separation of church and state" is usually traced to President Thomas Jefferson. In a letter in 1802, he referred to the First Amendment and said that it built "a wall of separation between Church & State". (http://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.html)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101902501_2.html?sid=ST2010101903659

This, of course, seems to be over the heads of clowns like O'Donnell, Limbaugh, Cupp and whoever else hasn't bothered to understand our freedom from superstition.

As for Cupp not understanding the Constitution, she also is part of that pitiful crowd that think there is a "War On Christmas" and that somehow the "liberal media" is taking away Christianity. Poor little ditz...

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1. So than Cupp is saying that the constitution insists that everyone have a religion?

"And what she was saying was a counter-response to this new liberal idea that the Constitution protects freedom from religion, when really it protects freedom of religion. And the idea that worship should be private and sort of kept to yourself, that's what she was reacting to"


Kurtz should have asked her if she believe the Founding Father's in writing the first Amendment and her interpretation was saying you must have a religion. You must believe in God. We don't care how you believe in God but you must believe in God.

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2. S.E Cupp? She's some myopic lapdancer who kept her old working name

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3. She reminds me of Ann Coulter.

(Sorry if that made you vomit)

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5. She wants some of that idiot money that Coulter gets with her book sales

Stupidity sells.

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4. Whenever I see or hear about her

I instantly think about the brutal interview she had with Cenk on the Young Turks where he basically destroyed everything she had to say and then she hung up on him halfway through. Dont let her looks or the fact that she is on Fox fool you, she is an amateur of the highest level, unable to explain anything she says to someone who doesn't already agree with her. She is a joke with no future, she went up against a progressive lion and got smacked the fuck down in a big way.

Seriously, anyone want to see a good video on how to humiliate a conservative check out the Young Turks interview, it is hilarious.