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(9,916 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,105 posts)is the place where everybody makes their living off of it but somehow the speaker does NOT have that right?
peggysue2
(10,819 posts)a total cop out. During an evening where Freedom of Speech and the Press are honored, the very act of demurring to a bunch of serial liars and wannabe fascists is disgusting. The organizers of the event have learned NOTHING.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)?Verified account @SteveSchmidtSES
The one thing no autocrat can tolerate, and this is especially true of our dime store Mussolini and his factotum, is to be Laughed at. Nothing cuts deeper than truth that pierces the lies and pretensions with laughter. Autocrats and their followers are always victims. Ask them.
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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 to peaceably assemble; and to petition the government for a redress of grievances 1/3
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Steve Schmidt
?Verified account @SteveSchmidtSES
The first amendment protects the right of speech. That includes comics, reporters and plain old everyday citizens. There is no right in America to not be offended. The WHCD should be a celebration of the first amendment and its absolute indispensability to the American republic.
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?Verified account @SteveSchmidtSES
Trump has debased his office, our institutions and our culture. His top staffers are his accomplices in that debasement. They are certainly not victims and media executives should show absolute fidelity to the free speech rights of a comic whose work stands on its own merits
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Hekate
(90,519 posts)The OP is an extract -- not just this one, but all the others I have seen you chastising in recent days. I don't mind reading more, but why do you feel the necessity to tell someone they've "forgotten" something?
What am I missing?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)It's a reminder to posters that it is a kindness.
Hekate
(90,519 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)Because of my setting Twitter blanks out a lot of video, makes stills of others, turns animated gifs into stills, and disables links on its site. Sometimes (rarely) I will turn cookies on momentarily to see something there.
If a poster can take 60 seconds typing or enhancing a post and save 600 readers 6 seconds each then that one minute reaps one hour of reward.
KatyMan
(4,175 posts)Most people that have access to DU at work don't have access to Twitter, and it's very frustrating to not be able to read a tweet because it's blocked.
thank you!
Glorfindel
(9,714 posts)I appreciate your taking the time and trouble.
PJMcK
(21,988 posts)Thanks, in advance.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)It's a reminder to posters that it is a kindness to post the text as well as the link.
central scrutinizer
(11,635 posts)I use the last line as my sig line:
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.
- "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
Hekate
(90,519 posts)ailsagirl
(22,883 posts)dem in texas
(2,673 posts)he's my fav. Wish he had a show on MSNBC Would he be as good as Keith O?
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)However, folks need to understand that the 1st Amendment guarantee of 'free speech' means that the government can't prosecute you for speaking your mind. But... the right of free speech does NOT guarantee that there won't be repercussions form your 'free speech'. If you decide to cuss out your boss in front of co-workers, don't be surprised if you are fired. If you knowingly tell lies about someone you are subject to civil suits. If you play an on-line game and they decree no swearing and you decide to swear anyway, do go crying to your lawyer that your First Amendment rights have been violated.
And even if you are POTUS, the 1st Amendment won't protect you from defamation civil suits.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,740 posts)Amazing to watch the way this guys mind works
NoMoreRepugs
(9,361 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,558 posts)From what I've read, he was genuinely chagrined and remorseful for what happened to America on his watch, so to speak. That being Sarah Palin, of course.
That he is starting to look like a liberal is more a matter of context and backdrop than a shift in his politics.
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)oasis
(49,317 posts)WH underlings laugh benind his back.
Firestorm49
(4,028 posts)Great one, Mr. Schmidt.
Ill have to use that line any time I can.
LMAO !!!!!!
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)The more I read about the WHCD flap the more I think it is grossly overblown. Wolf has been mischaracterized on much of this, including the convoluted "joke" about Sanders remarkable skill in applying eye shadow. Indeed, I think some in the press are smarting, not because of the Sanders comment, but because she took the press behind the woodshed for their role in bringing us Trump in the first place. The Sanders comment was just a handy vehicle for getting back at Wolf - egos being what they are.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The feigning of outrage over some slight and pouting about it like a child. All, of course to deflect from what is really said. Its from the urban dictionary.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)But it fits this situation like a glove. Thanks for the info.