First Amendment-Challenged Constitutionalist Puts Foot in Tweet
Dr. Laura, a radio show host (whose show I've never listened to, and for better or worse will never be able to listen to), recently came under fire for saying some inflammatory stuff. In light of the response, she quit her program. Sarah Palin offered Dr. Laura support by tweeting the following:
[Say what you will about Palin, I'm guessing basedon this that you can't accuse her of using a ghost-tweeter . . . but younever know.]
I noticed that Marc Randazza posted about Dr. Laura's decision, in an interesting post arguing that allowing people to come after Dr. Laura with pitchforks because she uttered a word that was off-limits unduly empowered the word. I don't comment on political stuff much but I was surprised that Randazza did not mention Sarah Palin's comments in his post. Her comments may have come after Randazza's post (and I know Randazza is not big on Twitter anyway) so I forwarded him Palin's tweet along with a few comments.
True to form, Randazza takes Palin to task for her First Amendment challenged comments and gives her a necessary lesson in the First Amendment. Check out his post: "Dr. Laura, Bible Spice, and the First Amendment." Also check out a related post ("The First Amendment, Simplified") from Scott Greenfield, who includes a gratuitous reference to me in his post. (I thanked Scott in the comments, and Scott responded that this is the beauty of a gratuitous reference - he needn't be thanked for it. This is true, except when you consider how hard it can be to spell my name (unless you cut and paste, which I'm guessing most people do)!)
Anyway, I'm glad Scott and Marc gave Ms. Palin a much needed lesson in the First Amendment. Also, congrats also to Randazza and the crew, who recently completed the 2000 post milestone.
Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")
Sarah Palin
SarahPalinUSA
[Say what you will about Palin, I'm guessing basedon this that you can't accuse her of using a ghost-tweeter . . . but younever know.]
I noticed that Marc Randazza posted about Dr. Laura's decision, in an interesting post arguing that allowing people to come after Dr. Laura with pitchforks because she uttered a word that was off-limits unduly empowered the word. I don't comment on political stuff much but I was surprised that Randazza did not mention Sarah Palin's comments in his post. Her comments may have come after Randazza's post (and I know Randazza is not big on Twitter anyway) so I forwarded him Palin's tweet along with a few comments.
True to form, Randazza takes Palin to task for her First Amendment challenged comments and gives her a necessary lesson in the First Amendment. Check out his post: "Dr. Laura, Bible Spice, and the First Amendment." Also check out a related post ("The First Amendment, Simplified") from Scott Greenfield, who includes a gratuitous reference to me in his post. (I thanked Scott in the comments, and Scott responded that this is the beauty of a gratuitous reference - he needn't be thanked for it. This is true, except when you consider how hard it can be to spell my name (unless you cut and paste, which I'm guessing most people do)!)
Anyway, I'm glad Scott and Marc gave Ms. Palin a much needed lesson in the First Amendment. Also, congrats also to Randazza and the crew, who recently completed the 2000 post milestone.
By the way, I always cut and pasted your name, but when I did this post, I thought "how can I be friends with a guy and I can't spell his name from memory?" So, I resolved to remember it.
I mean, if I can remember how to spell "Nagheenananjar", I can remember how to spell Balasubramani (and I just did that from memory!)
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Ha..
Nice work .. I joke that it's a litmus test of sorts :-)
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