A sure fire way to spot a liberal is that they almost always believe that free speech is risk free.
Whoopie just got a valuable lesson in free speech. Although I doubt she knows it.
"A sure fire way to spot a liberal is that they almost always believe that free speech is risk free"
A liberal believes that he or she can say anything that is necessary to vent their spleen because they are justified to an unlimited degree due to the fact that their ideology is good. To a lib, if it takes the "shock value" of mentioning a hyper-vulgar noun referring to a woman's vagina (mentioned over and over), so be it. The end justifies the means. If it takes hyper-vulgarity to get people's attention and get them to "think like we do" all well and good.
BUT...because conservatives are the God-believers, the holy rollers, the uncool ideological "bad guys", everything they say or do is suspect because it contributes to the "bad goal" of wrong ideology (no special rights for priviledged groups, no Socialism, less government, more freedom, moral values, etc etc etc)..
Is this a psychotic way of living? Of thinking? Why of course...but these people are emotion-driven and governed only by "the end justifies the means" so they see two different standards for the "good guys" (do whatever it takes) and "bad guys" (you creeps! You don't deserve to be free! We have the right to be bigoted toward you because you all are bigots to us!!!)
How else could you explain the fact that candidate Bill Clinton continually criticized both Reagan and Bush Sr.in 1992 yet two years later said that it ought to be against the law for a president to be criticized?
These people act like self-absorbed, deranged, spoiled-brat children.
Bud