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.
