Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First Amendment Rights
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... by the mainstream media." However she feels about the way her story has been told in the press, Palin told WMAL she is not discouraged. "It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm a practical person and plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I see them, just like most Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the elitism there in Washington," Palin said. Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-f...

Palin Fears Media Blocking Her Right to Free Speech
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The Alaska Governor tells DC radio station WMAL-AM that her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters on her criticism of Obama. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."       ...

Palin Fears For (Her) Free Speech
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.” Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Free speech is a threat to free speech
The Poor Man Institute — ... Your modern Republican Party: ABC News’ Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama. Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative ...

Professor Palin
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama tends to get into a bit too much nuance when he talks law, which can get him in trouble, but not Palin: If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." Not to be a super-pedantic media type here, but the First Amendment is about defending the right of the ...

What?
Balloon Juice — Does this make any damned sense to anyone: Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his ...

Palin: Media threatening my First Amendment rights.
Think Progress — ... During an interview with conservative radio host Chris Plante this morning, Sarah Palin said that because the media have described her criticism of Barack Obama’s associations with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Right as negative campaigning, that “may constitute an attack that ...

Ooof.
Swampland — ... Sarah Palin this morning during a radio interview, via ABC: If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.        ...

Media Attacks Threaten The First Amendment?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Yes, she is that dumb.

Infwinging On Her Constitutional Wights?
Hoffmania! — ... It's important to leave Sarah Palin's constitutional rights sacrosanct while she plans how to make our irrelevant. Trying to affiliate Obama with an American-born professor with a scary Middle Eastern name isn't negative, I guess. ...

As nasty as she wants to be
Political Animal — AS NASTY AS SHE WANTS TO BE.... Sarah Palin sees her free-speech rights under fire from journalists who've highlighted her personal attacks against Barack Obama. Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative ...

The Constitution according to Sarah Palin
Martini Revolution — In the mind of Palin, the First Amendment was enacted to insulate government from the tyranny of the Free Press: Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative ...

Palin and the First Amendment: Give me a friggin' break
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings This... is... simply... ridiculous: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama. Right, so she's allowed to say whatever she wants, but the media aren't allowed to ...

First Lesson
Shakesville — ... How did she earn that honor? She told an interviewer on a conservative talk-radio show that being criticized by the media endangers her First Amendment rights. ...

Sarah Palin on the First Amendment
Hit & Run — ... I promised myself I wouldn't write about Sarah Palin ever again, but I couldn't pass this up. From an interview that aired this morning: ...

Just Quit Defending Her
ArchPundit — She’s stupid: Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks.  Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, ...

Are the media trampling on Sarah Palin’s free speech?
Rathergate.com — She thinks that they could be : Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future ...

Palin: Free Press Threatens 1st Amendment
HorsesAss.Org — Sarah Palin: “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.” That’s right, the biggest threat to our First Amendment rights is a free press.  George Orwell would be proud.  And appalled.

"Is it even possible to imagine more breathtaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?" Guess who!
DownWithTyranny! — ... "Somehow," Glenn Greenwald kicks off his column, "in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts, and he quotes from a report by ...

War and Piece — ... October 31, 2008 ABC : Palin upset first amendment doesn't protect her desire to make people think what she wants them to think. Posted by Laura at October 31, 2008 05:40 PM

Remainders: Blood-letting
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Doug Heye looks at the odd rule that could cost Democrats North Carolina. McCain hopes for base turnout in Ohio. Jill Zuckman -- who covered Dole in 1996 -- notices the echoes. Palin fears the media threatens her first amendment rights. Dem cabinet speculation! Amy Sullivan zeroes in on Hamilton County, Ohio. Tony Fabrizio and Craig Shirley draw some intra-GOP blood by blaming Rove and Bush. Boehner uses dirty language while talking about Obama's "present" ...

Sarah Palin thinks her 1st amendment rights are being attacked if the press calls her comments 'negative'
Crooks and Liars — ... Somehow, in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts: ...

OMIGAWDZ!@ THEYZ INFRINGING ON TEH CONSTITUTIONZ!@#!!one!!
Comments from Left Field — You know, Sarah Palin… ABC News’ Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama. Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered ...

Why Gov. Sarah Palin Should STFU, Already
BlondeSense — Seriously. Every time this woman opens her mouth she subtracts from the sum total of human intelligence. Her latest crime against sentience? This : ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama. ...

Palin: It All Started When He Hit Me Back!
Open Left - Front Page — ... Of course it goes without saying that Palin is utterly clueless about the First Amendment.  But what tickles me most about this is how utterly typical of the rightwing bully mentality it is.  Everything's fine until someone dares lift so much as a pinky finger in response to her bottomless venom.  ABC reports: ...

Sarah Palin, Constitutional Scholar
Matthew Yglesias — ... In case you haven’t seen this yet, it’s yet another example of a woman saying stuff that would be considered disqualifying in a state senate race: ...

By this logic, Republicans should STFU about Jeremiah Wright
Brilliant at Breakfast — Last night a group ran an anti-Obama ad featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the program running before John McCain appeared on Saturday Night Live. I don't know why Republicans feel that attacking Rev. Wright is justified, especially after their #2 standard bearer has decided that questioning the legitimacy of someone's words interferes with the original speaker's First Amendment rights: ...

Sarah Palin Doesn’t Understand The First Amendment
The Moderate Voice — ... Here’s Palin defending her attacks on Obama’s associations with Ayers, Wright, etc., and blaming the media for portraying comments like “he pals around with terrorists” as negative: ...

11/3: Caught On Tape
Blogometer — ... : PALIN: Her High School Civics Teacher Should Be Fired Liberal bloggers are accusing Sarah Palin of being ignorant of the First Amendment after she said that "her First Amendment rights may be threatened by 'attacks' from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama" : " ...

Adele Stan: Palin on "Today":Not goin' anywhere
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Far more interesting than her denials, however, was her failure to deny Lauer's suggestion that it was the decision of McCain's people to keep her from the press, and her assertion that she would have liked to talk more to the media (which she once famously derided). "You can't just assume that the voters are going to be able to guess what's going on," she said, and that means talking to the media. ...

A Psychotic Constitution
Open Left - Front Page — ... And, of course, there was Sarah Palin complaining that the media criticizing her attacks on Barack Obama were violating her First Amendment rights: ...