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Federal Judge Rules NAACP Parody Not Funny
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| 05-06-2014
| Austin Ruse
Posted on 05/07/2014 11:44:38 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
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To: PaulCruz2016
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:46:09 AM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: PaulCruz2016
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:48:30 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: PaulCruz2016
Hey Judge...it is true...put humor in your life.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:49:23 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: PaulCruz2016
I don’t think it’s funny either - but it’s true.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:52:51 AM PDT
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: PaulCruz2016
1st Amendment, your ‘honor’. Protects speech of all sorts, not just the stuff you like.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:53:06 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: PaulCruz2016
I thought SCOTUS cleared the deck for the absolute right to parody anything when they told Larry Flynt it was OK to slander Jerry Falwell’s mother.
To: PaulCruz2016
So now a judge can rule what is funny? I can think of a lot of things I see and hear that are not funny to me, but I didn’t know I could take it to court.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:53:24 AM PDT
by
Rusty0604
To: PaulCruz2016
I thought this was a satire piece. Judges like this should be impeached.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:54:32 AM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: PaulCruz2016
So this moronic “judge” has found, SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, that if a parody is not funny, it’s no longer eligible for First Amendment protection? The taxpayers are supporting way too many of these loony buffoons with way too much free time on their hands. We need to fire 90% of the so called “judges” in this country.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:58:07 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
To: PaulCruz2016
NAACP supporters were confused by his ads? Their supporters must be really dumb so I guess the judges are protecting the dumb from themselves so they won’t be confused.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:58:44 AM PDT
by
falcon99
To: PaulCruz2016
It amazes me how stupid the left must think the average black person is. They argue that blacks are too stupid to get a picture ID to vote, too stupid to know the difference between the real NAACP and a pro-life group.
Yet the black community looks up to their heroes who are “fighting for them”....CRAZY
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:06:00 PM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: PaulCruz2016
I LOVE IT..
judges pouty contempt for parody be durned!
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: All
MY KUDOS to:
“National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:07:07 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: PaulCruz2016
I hope he appeals this. I like his creativity. The National Association for the Abortion of Colored People is right on the money.
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:07:19 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Fledermaus
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:08:38 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: PaulCruz2016
Freedom of speech is now ranked on a comic scale?
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:11:24 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
To: Rusty0604
So now a judge can rule what is funny? I can think of a lot of things I see and hear that are not funny to me, but I didnt know I could take it to court.The "not funny" part is the author's snark. The ruling was that he violated the NAACP's trademark.
To: fungoking
I think their main beef was not that he used satire on blacks, as much as his use of the acronym was very close to their use of letters. They wanted no ambiguity, or confusing of the issue as to what their goals are. Disney and McDonald do the same thing when parodies get a little too close to creating a separate identity. He was and is correct though.
To: Rusty0604
I can think of a lot of things I see and hear that are not funny to me, but I didnt know I could take it to court.
If you can I'm going to file against Jerry Seinfeld's Super Bowl ad.
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