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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (177487)	9/4/2001 7:56:15 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Well the the United States Supreme Court has not extended the protection of free speech to lying and making false accusations." Yes they have. That's my point, Tom. You're wrong. One more time: If I call President Bush a chimpanzee, or portray him as such in an editorial cartoon that runs in Newsweek, I am technically lying. President Bush is not a chimpanzee; he is a homo sapiens. But if I wish to parody President Bush as a chimpanzee in, say, the New York Times op-ed page or in Newsweek, I have a First Amendment right to do so. You appear to have no idea how the First Amendment has been historically interpreted. Falsity alone will not ensure that a libel or slander suit will be successful. The Supreme Court for 200 years has held that free speech must be protected, even to the point of protecting falsehoods (on certain occasions) or to the point of allowing the KKK to set up a cross during Yule season in downtown Cincinnati. All that may change in the next five years, however.