Posted on 04/01/2010 9:00:17 PM PDT by Talkradio03
Megyn Kelly goes up against O'Reilly tonight and it gets heated over the appeals court decision ordering the father of the marine that was killed to pay the court fees of the Westboro Church...From Foxnews (Video)
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NO, no and hell no.
I support free speech, but I thought that the First Amendment was to protect citizens from the gov’t, not to protect heinous behavior like Phelps’
This is worse than yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. What about any rights the father has????
Slander, instigating violence. ughhhhhhhh
And if he’d done this at my murdered soldier son’s funeral, I’d have shut him up myself.
True she did not have an example, yet O'Reilly probably would have been had pressed to have provide another instance of the guy he was criticizing being a 'loon'. Therefore, I would have tossed the ball back in his court. If he did I would have said "you got me" and if he failed I would have at least have reached an equilibrium.
Mandated reimbursements are common after appellate court cases so the court did what it often does. In this case, the party being awarded was more undesirable than usual making the decision more unpalletable but certainly not unusual.
Find a rock quick ~ they’re out there lurking!
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