Lisa Douglas: Why do you want to irritate your corn?
Oliver Douglas: Irrigate. It means to put water on it.
Posted on 08/24/2017 1:08:33 PM PDT by simpson96
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared confused in an interview this week about what kind of speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” Pelosi said in an interview on Wednesday with San Francisco TV station KRON.
The Democrat seemingly meant to paraphrase an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the landmark free speech case, Schenck v. United States (1919).
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic,” Holmes wrote in his opinion.
Pelosi offered up the mixed metaphor after being asked about a request she made with the National Park Service to deny a permit to Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group that has plans to hold a rally at San Francisco’s Crissy Field this weekend.
The National Park Service initially withheld the permit until Patriot Prayer’s organizers agreed to certain conditions aimed at limiting the risk of violence at the event.
“My hope is the park service would not allow these elements to use a national park to spew forth their venom,” Pelosi said in the interview.
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[What? I yell “wolf” in a crowded theater every chance I get.]
I yell “Must miss!” every chance I get!
Some of you may have been in the same theater with me. I don’t think more flan is the answer!
Watch out if the step-mother wants to hide your phone number in one of the emergency numbers.
I blame Pennypacker.
I wonder if we would be allowed to yell “IDIOT!” if she walked into the theater, crowed or otherwise?
In this case I blame Dr Van Nostrand.....
The DO look suspiciously alike.
Used to be a cop and a another guy driving a green Impala that looked like him too. I saw him making luxurious lanes with a paint roller one night.
Babs Kramer could have been his mother - nasty woman.
She spilled the cat. She let the beans out of the bag. Now we all know what an idiot she is.
Suppose there actually WAS a friggin moose, i mean WOLF, in the theater! Are we supposed to keep it to ourselves and not warn anyone??
You can yell”wolf” anywhere if there really is a wolf.
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Exactly!! Try telling people in Alaska that they can’t yell ‘wolf.’
Lisa Douglas: Why do you want to irritate your corn?
Oliver Douglas: Irrigate. It means to put water on it.
Actually, the Constitution doesn’t tell any individual American what they can or cannot do. It tells the Federal government what it can and cannot do.
However, it’s clear that Nancy doesn’t have a clue what the Constitution actually says or doesn’t say.
I bet you could yell “Weimaraner!”
Only IF it bit your sister. :-)
What an absolute dope this woman is. I would normally say that her constituents should be embarrassed by this buffoon but then I realized, she represents the citizens (and non-citizens) who reside in San FranFreako.
I believe she’s a little green behind the ears.
Ew. Sounds like she crop-dusted the entire House and Senate.
Lisa Douglas: I guess that’s why I love you. You’re always hollering, but underneath you have a soft spot in your head.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: Heart!
Thanks so much for that (way-down-memory-lane) laugh!
WINNER!
Was Rapist/Groper Bill Clinton spotted in a crowded theater again? I think it’s ok to yell “Wolf” or just “Rapist” in that case. And point accusingly.
Edward Winter played the straight man oh so well.
I remember one time Hawkeye says something like “Why don’t we just drop a nuclear bomb on them!!!”
Then, Colonel Flagg gets this perfect smile on his face and says “Hrrmpf. Don’t try to make friends with me....”.
LOLOLOL
I must have missed grabbing that image earlier!
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