Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

George Will Mocks 'Depressing' GOP Response To Rush Limbaugh

TPM Livewire:
"It would've been nice if they had shared that with the larger public, the Republican leaders," Will said on ABC's This Week. "Instead, Mr. Boehner comes out and says, Rush's language was inappropriate. Using a salad fork for your entree, that's inappropriate. Not this stuff. I mean, and Rick Santorum says well, what he says was absurd, but an entertainer is allowed to be absurd. No. It is the responsibility of conservatives to police the right in its excesses, just as the liberals unfailingly fail to police the excesses in their own side. And it was depressing, because what it indicates is that the Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they're afraid of Rush Limbaugh."
If Santorum and Romney don't have the courage to stand up to an "entertainer" they aren't fit to be President.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Atheists challenge Ireland's new blasphemy law with online postings - washingtonpost.com

washingtonpost.com:
"LONDON -- Atheists in Ireland are risking possible prosecution with an audacious online challenge to the country's new blasphemy law.

Under the law, which went into effect Friday, a person can be found guilty of blasphemy if 'he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion.'

The penalty is a fine of up to 25,000 euros, or more than $35,000."

Resist