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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:50 PM Mar 2012

Rush Limbaugh/Free Speech talking point

In the event you are hearing people decry the actions taken against Rush Limbaugh as an attack on free speech, please deploy the following two rebuttals: 1. "Free Speech," i.e. the First Amendment, can only be attacked by the government. When ordinary citizens go after someone like Limbaugh, that is also free speech; and, 2. The conservative Supreme Court has deemed money = free speech with the Citizens United ruling, so by voting with our money and voices against Limbaugh's sponsors, we are following the letter of conservative law.

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Rush Limbaugh/Free Speech talking point (Original Post) WilliamPitt Mar 2012 OP
Good points. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #1
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