No.
She is merely going by the axiom “I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it”.
She said those insisting that Trig isn’t her real son, and shrilly demanding Trig’s birth certificate were pushing, and I quote, a “weird conspiracy theory freaky thing”.
At the same time, she said “Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly”.
So to summarize, she thinks they are nuts for ever believing that Trig wasn't her son, but at the same time she said they had the right to ask those questions.
That's the trouble with the 1st amendment. Anyone can say whatever they want. We don't put people into jail for saying someone’s son is not their real son.
She is merely going by the axiom “I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it”.
In your previous post, you said:
If you have the right to ask any question, you are right to ask that question.
In MY opinion, those two are contradictory. But maybe you are using "right to ask" differently. Or maybe you are saying that "fighting for your right to say it", is the same as thinking you ARE right to say it.
But I think that there are cases where "I may not agree with what you say" means "I don't think you SHOULD have said it"
In this context, we aren't talking about what questions are asked, not what opinions people express. But the principle is somewhat the same.
So I'm still confused as to what you are saying, or how you think it is different from what I said before. Because I agree with what you just said about "fighting for your right to say it" (In this case, only in the most basic sense that Palin would not push to ban speech, not that she would set up a press conference for them to attack her).
But I disagreed with your previous statement, which means that I believe the two statements above are saying two different things.
But if you are telling me I misunderstood your 1st statement, and that "you are right to ask the question" just means "you have a right to ask the question", then I guess we are in agreement, although I'd still say that as a matter of use of english, you are wrong -- those two statements are not at all the same, one saying merely you have a right, and the 2nd giving tacit approval to the question being asked.
SO I'll just go back to what I said before, and see if you agree now: Palin said that she did NOT AGREE with the question about the birth certificate, but she did believe people had a RIGHT to ask the question.