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Originally posted by Not Me
AG's position was simply to quibble with me that Al didn't specifically say 1st Amendment therefore, he could not have possibly been thinking he was somehow standing up for the 1st Amendment.
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You're a troll, and I generally don't respond to your kind with more than just a pithy one-liner. As my one-liner went over your head, I'll spell it out more clearly: Hank is right; you are wrong. While the First Amendment and freedom of speech are related, in that one is a very narrowly written way of securing the other against a very particular kind of encroachment,
they are not the same thing. Thus my analogy to a particular NFL rule that is conceptually different from "fair play" as a general concept.
Franken's actions could be in defense of freedom of speech, in the same sense that I would personally kick the ass of anyone who came into my church to campaign for Howard Dean in the middle of Mass. The right to speak is not the same as the right to hijack another's audience; you have to win an audience some other way.
