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June 28, 2006
Ann Coulter Finishes NYTimes Crosswords with a Pen
Her fav'rite subject is the New York Times. She's leveled supremely written and devastating attacks in her last two books (Treason and HTTTAL(BOIYM)), so she is right to the point on the NYTimes' 5th release of classified information to aid terrorists. These three cuts are awesome:
Liberals invoke "freedom of the press" like some talismanic formulation that requires us all to fall prostrate in religious ecstasy.
It's really a red harring when someone just says "freedom of the press." You never hear them get any deeper than those three words do you--like what is actually written in the constitution. And they never revere the second amendment in such a way. Could I place an ICBM in my back yard and just say: "right to bear arms!" Hardly.
The First Amendment does not mean Times editor Bill Keller could kidnap a child and issue his ransom demands from the New York Times editorial page. He could not order a contract killing on the op-ed page. Nor can he take out a contract killing on Americans with a Page One story on a secret government program being used to track terrorists who are trying to kill Americans.
Perfect analogy.
Ezra Pound, Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") and Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose") were all charged with treason for radio broadcasts intended to demoralize the troops during World War II. Their broadcasts were sort of like Janeane Garofalo and Randi Rhodes on Air America Radio – except Tokyo Rose was actually witty, and Axis Sally is said to have used a fact-checker.
Why is it called Air America? D'Aquino wasn't called Chicago Rose.
Anyway. Read the whole piece. At least she can discuss the constitution and the law in legal terms instead of rap poetic about third grade notions of the constitution.
Posted by Aaron at June 28, 2006 07:06 PM
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