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Laura Ingraham displays her vast knowledge of the first amendment
2001400ex
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Someone should tell her she works for a private business and is supported by ads from businesses. And her boss has the right to tell her to take a week off and her advertisers have the right to spend their ad dollars where they choose.
In a segment that focused on free speech, Ingraham told viewers that “something alarming is taking place.” The “intolerant left” has driven out “any dissenting voice,” leading to a “contraction of free speech,” Ingraham argued. She called the phenomenon the “totalitarian agenda in action,” noting that the “free speech clause of the Constitution doesn’t just apply to speech that elites deem acceptable.”
“It exists to support speech that is by its nature offensive. Offensive to people in power, offensive at times to lawmakers, offensive to Facebook, and even offensive to the cool crowd that thinks that abortion is just a sacred right and that Trump is a dangerous dictator,” Ingraham continued.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/laura-ingraham-blasts-left-apos-091823468.html
In a segment that focused on free speech, Ingraham told viewers that “something alarming is taking place.” The “intolerant left” has driven out “any dissenting voice,” leading to a “contraction of free speech,” Ingraham argued. She called the phenomenon the “totalitarian agenda in action,” noting that the “free speech clause of the Constitution doesn’t just apply to speech that elites deem acceptable.”
“It exists to support speech that is by its nature offensive. Offensive to people in power, offensive at times to lawmakers, offensive to Facebook, and even offensive to the cool crowd that thinks that abortion is just a sacred right and that Trump is a dangerous dictator,” Ingraham continued.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/laura-ingraham-blasts-left-apos-091823468.html
Comments
Free speech is a concept that can exist separate from the government. What she is saying about the left is accurate of course. Visit a campus or hang out on facebook
All I see on Facebook are posts about the government coming to take our guns. HTH
The first amendment is free speech without the persecution of the federal government, but I'm sure you already know that. The first amendment does not protect you from the social consequences from your speech, which I'm sure you already know that. The left has used social outcries as a tool to thwart free speech that defers from them on a public forum. The far left is a minority group but they are the loudest and have a far wider media outlet.
This is what will always bring down the left. While Hollywood, and the skinny jean hipsters fornicate all over political correctness, Joe and Mary six pack watch in silence, then use their voices at the polls.
Both sides are fucked up in that manner.
Media is not confined to just TV. In any way whatsoever. That's why I chuckle when people bitch about the "liberal media". So many people get their news from brietbart just like many people get their news from Huffington Post. It's all bullshit, just different sides. And maybe I have the wrong friends, but 90% of what I see on FB is conservative.
And your FB ads are generated largely because of who your fiends are.
You can actually check your setting preferences to see how Facebook thinks you lean politically. This can impact your ads as well.
Actually I'm not talking about ads. The ads I see are mostly for 18 year old Honda quads.
I'm talking about posts my friends share. Although most of my friends are from Montana, Port orchard and Spokane, which clearly aren't exactly liberal hotbeds.
@2001400ex I guess I must be stoopid, I always thought the Bill of Rights were amendments to the Constitution - but now I am finding that they are just out there not attached to anything
Surf the internet sometime. My mother-in-law gets her information from The Federalist Paper's facebook Memes. Sorry, numbers is right on this point. If you think the left is just a few dufus hipsters and some academics and movie makers, you're as out of touch as you accuse them of being. And if you think that Fox news is the only outlet for tin foil hat wearing, xenophonic, reactionary, redneck simpletons, again, you're out of touch.
He's also right about the 1st amendment: she's the one who brought in the constitution. Not numbers. Trust me, Laura is a smart gal. She's Dartmouth educated and doesn't struggle with language like Sledog and his kids. If she said "constitution" and "free speech" in the same sentence, that's what she meant.