Sarah Palin committed a clear gaffe in speaking about the First Amendment. However, judging by the reaction of the left-wing blogosphere, and other commentators, you would think she issued a full-blown policy prescription calling for the First Amendment to be repealed.Just in case some did not see the manifest incoherence of the statement, law professor Jonathan Turley felt compelled to rebut Palin's "Palinprudence" (a paragraph) with four very impressive citations of jurisprudential giants.
Elsewhere, on the harder left, a stream of obscenities and ad feminem attacks have ensued. Clearly the gaffe had reinforced some already hardened positions against Palin and her intellectual abilities. (Never mind that Joe Biden has uttered a host of gaffes and has had more than one charge of plagiarism in his schooling and political career.)
Considering that McCain-Feingold specifically gave the Federal Election Commission the ability to restrict (a.k.a. suppress) "negative attacks" (a.k.a. "free speech") to so-called "media organizations", and Palin's statement about her fear for the future of free speech, it seems far more likely that her statement was a "rogue" one gone bad, about political incumbents (with help from their government-approved "media organization" friends) attempting to suppress any non-sanctioned "negativity."
In any case, Palin should clarify the meaning of her clearly incoherent remarks immediately, and Palin haters should throttle back on the obscenity-laced misogyny.
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