Dirk L'Orange is Writing...

Today, from ABC News:

"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."

You have got to be kidding me. Could this woman, who could be elected, and end up being a heartbeat away from the Presidency, be any dumber? She's making Dan Quayle look like a freakin' Rhodes Scholar.

She does not have a basic understanding the very document that she may end up swearing to uphold. She does even have a 4th grade understanding of the document that is the very foundation of our democracy. Worst of all, she has a degree in Journalism! A degree in the very field that requires the first amendment in order to exist.

Allow me to set Gov. Palin straight.

Dear Gov. Palin,

I realize you come from a small town in Alaska where the schools maybe weren't the best.... and you bounced around from school to school mixing in Beauty Pageant appearances going to community colleges here and there and finally finishing your degree, but you should consider requesting a refund. The purpose of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not... I repeat, NOT... to prevent someone like you from being criticized, you dolt. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It is to guarantee that people like you CAN be criticized without fear of the government stepping in and silencing that criticism. Another word for it is dissent or perhaps to disagree.

No one is preventing you from saying the things you're saying, no matter how subversive, no matter how asinine, no matter how irresponsible... you can still say them... your freedom of speech is protected and you are, because of your current position, even given a forum to say as much stupid shit as you want. So give it a rest already and give us all a break.... and with hope we'll all see you GO AWAY after November 4. MORON!

Posted by PoS at 7:48 PM | Permalink

Once again, you cannot trust corporations to police themselves. Every time you deregulate, something like this will eventually happen. Enron went unchecked and fucked people over. Savings and Loans in the 80's fucked people over and we had to bail them out. Hell, the 1929 crash was caused by rampant unregulated speculation... So, I'd like to thank the Republican deregulating mother fuckers for the following:PRICKS!

Posted by PoS at 10:37 PM | Permalink

I report, you decide...

Sarah Palin gets a chance to re-answer all the questions she f--ked up when Katie Couric asked them. Here she was "interviewed" by Fox News' Carl Cameron:

As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance.

Let's set aside the fact that this nearly incoherent drivel looks like it could have come out of the mouth of an eighth-grader.... oh and did I mention she was a Journalism major in college.

Freedom of the press, a privilege??? How novel.... let's see, I think I remember reading something about that somewhere...hmmm.... where was that, oh yeah... A little thing I like to call the first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Here's the traditional oath of office taken by the Vice-President

I, [Vice-President Elect's name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Posted by PoS at 11:37 PM | Permalink