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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You need controversy to keep people glued to the TV set. Sometimes it needs to be manufactured.
Better to let them rant until they stop to take a breath, turn their head and close their eyes.
Then pounce!
I’ve just started watching O’Blowhard again after many years.
The bits with the babes and him, I find a bit....creepy. He gets a little wierd, when with the women.
Not that I mind the view! I just turn the sound down and enjoy the scenery.
Either that or her hormones are wacked after giving birth.
I watched the piece and had the same conclusion you did. I agree with your strategy. I almost turned the thing off -- I do like listening to the lunacy of certain arguments, not people talking over each other.
Kelly was right. Judges should make their rulings based on law not what they deem ‘moral’. Liberals judges do it all the time and BOR rants against it. He apparently thinks they should do it as long as he agrees. He’s wrong.
I respect BOR’s right to be wrong.
True, but the law in this case didn't require the father to pay the court fees of the Westboro loons. That bit was discretionary, and the judges decided to stick him with bill. ...and Megyn was fine with that. I'm not.
Megyn's a (virtual) 1st Amendment absolutist, so her position was far from surprising. I suspect she'll be agreeing with the opinion of the SCOTUS libs in this case.
I remember that interview between BOR and Jerry Rivers. I half expected that Jerry would punch BOR in the face. While I have little respect for BOR, Jerry is a moron.
Kelly was mistaken. There are time, manner and place restrictions recognized on free speech, so the call by the appellate court was by no means an obvious one. BOR was correct (a broken clock is right twice a day): the court took a close call and turned it into a gratuitous swipe at a grieving father’s expense. It was mean-spirited, not dispassionate.
Kelly nailed him and left him sputtering on all points.
Blowhard OR always tells his guest they will get the last word and then, typical of many females, he “sums it up” with his take before cutting to the commerical.
Wished I had found your tagline quote for my About Page!
> True, but the law in this case didn’t require the father to pay the court fees of the Westboro loons. That bit was discretionary, and the judges decided to stick him with bill. ...and Megyn was fine with that. I’m not.
According to Megyn’s argument the payment of the court fees happens automatically, unless a losing party files some documents. Apparently the father was late with the filing, so the ruling against him was not discretionary.
Populists are only right about half the time or less and can't understand why lawyers and judges do what they do. It's his biggest pet peeve and he's always wrong about it.
All conservatives should applaud the Fourth Circuit decision and hope it is upheld by the Supreme Court.
Put aside the vile nature of the Phelps crowd and the fact that they are attacking the family of an American hero.
Focus on the PRINCIPLE involved.
If the courts establish that a tort claim for the fuzzy harm of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” overrides the First Amendment right of citizens to engage in political speech, even harsh political speech, then in most cases going forward this principle will be used by LEFTISTS to SHUT UP and IMPOVERISH conservatives, and to even a greater extent, INTIMIDATE conservatives from speaking.
Keep in mind that the courts and the trial bar are predominantly liberal.
Are folks paying attention to all this ridiculous spewing about the Tea Party protesters issuing hate speech, and how “hurtful” it is to African-Americans to hear these protesters, and how it reminds them of the Civil Rights struggle, and so forth?
Now imagine instead of merely spreading their lies through the mainstream media, they were to use lawsuits filed in liberal districts with liberal juries, such as in San Francisco, Manhattan, or the District of Columbia, alleging that this “hate speech” constituted “intentional infliction of emotional distress” which trumped the First Amendment right of Tea Partiers to engage in political speech.
The PRINCIPLE of political freedom is much more important than the vile nature of the Phelps crowd in this particular case, and we should all hope that the Supreme Court strongly affirms the right to free political speech under the First Amendment.
They were both full of it. She claimed Alito was “far right”, and O’Reilly has some real creepy problems with women in general.
As for Phelps, he's 81 and (statistically at least) not likely to be with us too much longer. Don't be fooled by his anti-gay rants, I predict once he reaches his final destination he'll move in with Satan and Saddam Hussein. A most sinister menage a trois it will be.
I'd be happy to return the phavor to the Phelps Phamily and join in any protest of Phred's phuneral. How delicious would that be?
http://www.conservapedia.com/Fred_Phelps#Phelps_and_Democrat_politics
"Phelps ran for governor of Kansas as a Democrat in 1990, 1994, and 1998.[9] Phelps received 31% of the vote in Kansas's 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate.[10] In 1993 Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka. and 1997. [11][12] He supported Al Gore in the 1988 primaries, but turned on him in the 1992 election where he staunchly opposed Gore, Bill, and Hillary Rodham Clinton."
“Better to let them rant until they stop to take a breath”
I have found that many of them have oxygen tanks strapped to their backs and it gets pumped into their lungs so that they don’t have to take breaths and can just keep running their mouths. :-)
Do I have to duck?
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