FreeDumb of Speech

When our guys are talking, speech should be free. But, when your guys are talking, the Government should keep an eye on them.

When our guys regulate speech, it is a good thing. But, when your guys regulate speech, it is an assault on the First Amendment.

That seems to be the driving philosophy for many partisans. Leftists want to regulate speech on the radio, and this idiot wants to regulate leftist speech in the blogosphere.

Notice how this conservative commentary (against regulating blogospheric speech) highlights the vapid partisanship: “Granted, there is at least some wry amusement to be had in the fact that the liberals will someday bite their own rear ends with their unconstitutional, anti-free-speech campaign-finance-reform laws.”

Um, when you say, “unconstitutional, anti-free-speech campaign-finance-reform laws,” would that be the ilk of McCain-Feingold Act, sponsored by Republican Senator John McCain, signed by Republican President George W. Bush, and affirmatively voted on by then-Senator, now-will-he/won’t-he-run-(hmm-we-just-don’t-know) Republican Fred Thompson?

I’m not saying the Ds are any better, because they’re not. But, neither party can claim high ground on First Amendment issues. It’s mostly just a lot of mucking around in the low ground.