You need controversy to keep people glued to the TV set. Sometimes it needs to be manufactured.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."