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(46,337 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 04:17 PM Oct 2012

WND writer wants journalists who debunk right-wing talking points "tried for treason."

"Treason?"
Just how stupid can the right-wing get?

WND's Erik Rush: Try (And Presumably Execute) Journalists for Being Too Pro-Obama
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Erik Rush uses his Oct. 24 WorldNetDaily column to mark Free Speech Week ... by advocating the trial and punishment, "no matter how severe," of journalists for "treason" for doing things like pointing out that President Obama did not go on an "apology tour."

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2288768

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WND writer wants journalists who debunk right-wing talking points "tried for treason." (Original Post) Archae Oct 2012 OP
They really have no clue Lindsay Oct 2012 #1
So let me get this straight - they're celebrating free sppech by annihilating anyone who disagrees. Initech Oct 2012 #2
My mind hurts... Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #3
They're not called World Nut Daily for nothing. Lone_Star_Dem Oct 2012 #4
Crazy people who get violent when their delusions are questioned. Ikonoklast Oct 2012 #5

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
1. They really have no clue
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 04:27 PM
Oct 2012

about that "freedom of speech" thing, do they?

(Nor about much of anything else, come to think of it.)

Initech

(100,081 posts)
2. So let me get this straight - they're celebrating free sppech by annihilating anyone who disagrees.
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 04:32 PM
Oct 2012

Yeah just try it the first time, douchebags. See how far you get. Free speech works both ways you know.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,184 posts)
3. My mind hurts...
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 04:34 PM
Oct 2012

It is "treason" for journalists, guaranteed free press under the first amendment of the US Constitution, to question an unelected presidential candidate for his (uninformed) position about the actions of the President of the United States?




Whaaaaaaaaaa?

If anything deserves the Billy Madison treatment, it's this.

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