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Originally Posted by SirFozzie

I wish there was a icon to go with . Is Sarah Palin seriously trying to say that reporters saying that she's attacking Barack Obama are violating her First Amendment rights??????

If the words are true, Palin has gone below Dithering Danny Quayle on my list of.. well.. I won't say what.. She might think I'm infringing her right to free speech:

Political Radar: Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First Amendment Rights

ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

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."

Edit: Oh good! There is!

(this might get to rolleyes territory)

Apparently she hasn't read the entirety of the First Amendment. I seem to recall something in there about freedom of the press.