Friday, October 31, 2008

Please make her go away...

First it doesn't appear she has ANY idea that she is a) not the top of the ticket and b) what the positions of the top of her ticket are



Second, she now says that by calling her out on her "negative" campaigning the press is violating her first ammendment rights.

Salon's Glenn Greenwald calls her out

"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."


According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. In the Palin worldview, the First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials such as herself would not be "attacked" in the papers. Is it even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?

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