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To: patlin

You said..
“You haven’t read the case have you? Because had you, you wouldn’t have posted such an uneducated response. What Trump is saying and what Scalia said are the exact same thing, there are no restraints now, the media has become the 5th column of the government establishment, doing the bidding of the establishment.”

I read it. I disagree. Read my reply to another why I oppose this. Scalia assumed people don’t have egos. I don’t want government deciding what’s responsible speech and what isn’t. You like it because you see enemies being punished. And you’ll find no supporters of the NYTs here. But you’re making the same arguments that the left use when pushing for bringing the Fairness Doctrine back


132 posted on 02/29/2016 7:51:10 AM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more" Anthem by Rush)
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To: LMAO
This isn't government dictating speech, it is holding the media accountable as it used to be before the constitution's 1st Amendment was thrown to the curb. Freedom of speech does never gave the press the right to write whatever they want, there are things called ethics and morals. Sullivan threw out those two critical aspects of the 1st Amendment ... just look at what is on tv today and tell me that, if the decision in the Sullivan case had been the opposite, we would not have 24/7 smut, profanity & slandering ... and that is just in advertising.

And so if it takes a law to overturn Sullivan, as the 16th Amendment overturned the Pollack ruling, I will be right there supporting our Constitution

161 posted on 02/29/2016 8:12:05 AM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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