I Guess I'm About to Violate Sarah Palin's 1st Amendment Rights

And I suppose that you're also violating her 1st Amendment Rights by reading this. Or at least aiding and abetting* my terrible hate crime upon the Constitution. So, I highly recommend that you just stop reading now before you get yourself implicated in this anti-American activity.

While exercising her 1st Amendment Rights on a conservative radio talk show, Constitutional scholar Sarah Palin very aptly pointed out how that most sacred of all U.S. documents protects her rights to make unsubstantiated and smear-mongering partisan claims against her political opponents.

And — more to the point — speaking out against, fact-checking or criticizing her statements in any way might cause her to feel compelled to not make such statements in the future.

Ipso facto, such activities are an infringement upon the Bill of Rights. Check and mate, monsieur comrade…

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"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."

Can you imagine the horror of that? A country in which politicians are held to a standard of honesty and decency, and members of the press are allowed to express opinions and print facts that aren't mandated by the state?

The citizenry would get to have total control over how they want their government run. There's a word for that!

Totalitarianism.

* Thanks for correcting my spelling, Mr. Sark. As always, I suck. However, I don't appreciate your attempt undermine my Consitutional right of Freedom of Spell.