Free Speech and the MoveOn Ad
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 1:24 pm
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Betraying the Constitution: The 72 senators who voted to condemn MoveOn.org’s “General Betrayus” ad betray the Constitution’s protection of free speech, writes former Minnesota Monthly and Star Tribune magazine editor Leonard Witt in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed piece. The Senate “did abridge our freedom to speak out by sending a message to We the People of the United States of America that we should not insult a general.” He also wrote an an open letter to the New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt, who recently questioned whether the ad was “outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse.” Witt writes: “Instead of asking why The New York Times, a long time bastion of free speech, prohibits the exercise of free speech in its advertising pages, you tried to find out which ad sales person actually allowed that act of free speech to take place at a reduced price. Want to kill free speech? Then expose and punish the people at the lowest levels of a bureaucracy.”
Minnesota Court TV? With the caveat that a “courtroom is not, and must not become, a Jerry Springer program,” major Minnesota media came out in support of allowing video cameras and audio recorders inside courtrooms, “unless judges believed there is good cause to keep them out.” In a joint letter, editors at the Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, AP, MPR and local network TV affiliates urged the state Supreme Court to drop such restrictions. The court heard arguments Friday about relaxing restrictions; Minnesota is one of 16 states that prohibit such recording devices.
Blog Name Slaughtered: While acknowledging the addition of Deborah Rybak to The Rake’s “Lambert to the Slaughter” blog is a good thing, Mark Cohen at Minnesota Lawyer Blog mourns its affect on the site’s name: “I cannot help lamenting the havoc the name change wreaks on the whole ‘lamb to the slaughter’ reference. It really gets my goat. I know. I know. That was really baaaaaaaad.”
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2 Comments
Comment posted September 25, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
The Constitution is intact and functioning just as intended. Leonard Witt’s ignorance of the Constitution is lamentable but understandable, seeing as he has spent his entire career bouncing his opinions against the walls of the left wing echo chamber.
The informed reader knows that George Soros excersized his right to slime our military by directing a group he owns to use the money he gives them to buy a disgusting, hateful, anti-American ad in the New York Times and the Senate and majority of Americans are excersizing their right to reject that hateful, anti-American message, the messenger and his proxy.
Soros and or his proxies continue to be welcome to buy as many more disgusting, hateful, anti-American ads in whatever vehicle they choose (heck, I hope they do a follow-up next week!)…and We the People will continue to reject them.
That’s they way it works.
Comment posted September 25, 2007 @ 10:46 am
The Constitution is intact and functioning just as intended. Leonard Witt's ignorance of the Constitution is lamentable but understandable, seeing as he has spent his entire career bouncing his opinions against the walls of the left wing echo chamber.
The informed reader knows that George Soros excersized his right to slime our military by directing a group he owns to use the money he gives them to buy a disgusting, hateful, anti-American ad in the New York Times and the Senate and majority of Americans are excersizing their right to reject that hateful, anti-American message, the messenger and his proxy.
Soros and or his proxies continue to be welcome to buy as many more disgusting, hateful, anti-American ads in whatever vehicle they choose (heck, I hope they do a follow-up next week!)…and We the People will continue to reject them.
That's they way it works.
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