Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Right to Defame?

“It’s ironic that people who so passionately defend the Second Amendment want to trample the rights guaranteed to a filmmaker under the First,” Stefan Friedman, a rep for Soechtig, told Deadline on Tuesday. [More]
Self-righteous indignant little fake whiner, aren't you spokesflack Stefan?

What's ironic is the antis were the ones who  coined the "Even the First Amendment has restrictions" argument as a way to attack the Second, conveniently avoiding any pesky differentiation based on prior restraint arguments. And why looky here:
Our speech might not be protected if it falsely damages someone’s reputation...
Bummer being hoist on your own petard, ain't it...?

[Via Keith B]

1 comment:

GaryM said...

And I'd bet the spokes weasel doesn't even know what "Hoist on your own petard" means.