Fox Anchor Greta Van Susteren Tries To School Sarah Palin On Free Speech

Via Mediaite:

In a Facebook post, Palin declared that “free speech is an endangered species.” Monday night on Fox News, Greta Van Susteren attempted to explain why invoking the First Amendment in this case does not actually make any sense. Palin said she would leave it to the lawyers to decide whether it’s a “free speech rule of law or not,” and would herself focus on the larger question of “whether we’re allowed to express our personal opinions without threats of intimidation and mockery and criticism and loss of jobs and revenue.” “I think people loosely use the term ‘free speech,’” Van Susteren said, without saying which “people” she was referring to. She added that “if the market wants to be such that people don’t want to watch someone, so be it.”

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Obamacare: Sign Up Cuz It's Hot

A new video that encourages Obamacare enrollment has the wingnuts howling. Via Talking Points Memo:

The video, done by a President Obama impersonator, parodies Snoop Dogg's hit "Drop It Like It's Hot." "And if you need that new healthcare, sign up cause it's hot," the performer sings in the video. An innocuous parody? Hardly. Rove, the former right-hand man to a president who donned a flight suit and landed on an aircraft carrier before delivering a nationally televised speech, said he worries about "something that seems to aim at glorification of the commander-in-chief." "[The video] disturbingly gets too close to the line," Rove said. Van Susteren agreed and said the video is "sort of insulting to young people because it says get Obamacare because it's cool, not because substantively it is a good program for you, it's important for your health."

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Posted in: Greta Van Susteren,Karl Rove,Obamacare,wingnuts