One good thing about this election being over on Tuesday? No more sound bites that make me feel dumber just for reading them:
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."
No sweetie, that's not what the First Amendment says. The First Amendment gives you freedom of speech, so that the government can't put you in prison for what you say. Notice that you weren't arrested for smearing Obama. The First Amendment doesn't say that the media can't question your statements. The Constitution is just so MEAN, I know. And reading it is elitist too.
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