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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (156712)12/24/2002 4:03:14 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1580072
 


You responded with "Criticizing someone else's comments is perfectly legal under freedom of speech." Which of course was my point. You can criticize Bush, Lott or Patty Murray and it isn't an abuse of their freedom of speech. In fact the constitutional protection of your right to freedom of speech protects your right to make such criticisms.

D. Ray took it one step beyond criticism. He was outraged that she would make comments like the ones she made, and implicit behind his outrage was the suggestion that she not be allowed to speak to those hi school children. In other words, he wanted her censored.

And that's a common refrain by the conservatives on this thread whenever someone suggests something that is not in keeping with their view of the world.

To add insult to injury, D. Ray, Harris and HMALY chose to interpret Ms. Murray's comments in the most negative light possible; that she was praising OBL when, in fact, she was pointing out that by doing public improvements, OBL knew he would garner the support of the people no matter how radical his thesis. She was suggesting that the US be equally as clever and do the same.

So not only did they want to censor Ms. Murray but they slandered her as well by purposely misinterpreting her intent. In many ways, slander can be worse than censorship because misinformation in the form of slander can spread quickly and ruin a person's reputation.

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