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?Landmark? Teenage Nonsense

 
 
Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:23 am
Bozell's Entertainment Column -- 07/06/2007 -- ?Landmark? Teenage Nonsense -- Media Research Center

Now that the legal analysts are done assessing the judicial ramifications of the Supreme Court case of an Alaskan prankster named Joseph Frederick, one thing must be said. It is incorrect to honor Mr. Frederick as the hero of a ?landmark? student free-speech case. He is more correctly described as one of the silliest plaintiffs ever to be heard at the Supreme Court.


The ?speech? at issue in this case was the infamous 14-foot-long ?BONG HITS 4 JESUS? banner, flown as a prank outside Juneau-Douglas High School as the official Olympic torch ceremoniously passed through the capital city of Alaska en route to the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City. When Frederick refused to put the banner down, the principal confiscated it. Frederick was briefly suspended from school, and the superintendent explained that any common-sense interpretation would conclude the banner promoted smoking marijuana. It wasn?t political, he said, but a ?fairly silly message promoting illegal drug usage.?


Frederick himself insisted it was ?nonsense.? Other than tweaking the principal, with whom he had a running feud, his main reason for acting up was a typical excuse for playing the fool: he wanted his nonsense to get him on television.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:38 am
@Drnaline,
This one is kinda along the same lines from the same site. It's short so ill post the whole thing.

SOME NATIONAL MEDIA OWE ANN COULTER AN APOLOGY

ALEXANDRIA, VA --- Some leading national media are misreporting conservative Ann Coulter’s remarks about liberal Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards, including the NBC Nightly News, CNN’s American Morning, The Washington Post’s ‘Reliable Source,’ and MSNBC’s on-the-hour announcer. This is cut-and-paste reporting and it is disingenuous. In reference to this shoddy journalism, MRC President Brent Bozell issued the following statement:

“When I first heard the sound-bite of Ann Coulter’s remarks calling for the assassination of John Edwards, I was appalled. Then I read the entire quote, and was doubly appalled—at the media themselves. I have never seen a person’s words so blatantly, and dishonestly distorted. When one reads, or listens to Ann’s entire statement, it is immediately apparent that she was wishing for no such thing.”

Here is the quote being run by some of the top media:

Ann Coulter: “If I’m gonna’ say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” (ABC, Good Morning America, June 25.)

Here is the entire quote:

Ann Coulter: “But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So, I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m gonna’ say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” (ABC, Good Morning America, June 25.)

“Ann Coulter was making the point that (a) a leftist like Bill Maher made the serious statement that it might be a positive thing to have Vice President Dick Cheney killed by terrorists,” Brent Bozell continued, and, “(b) it received no condemnation from the national press; and therefore (c) she would escape negative media scrutiny in the future were she to take that line against John Edwards.

“It is an inescapable truth that Ann Coulter was dripping with sarcasm when she made her remark. It is also an inescapable truth that every TV, radio, and print outlet that has run the shortened version of her remarks is distorting her words—deliberately. Some have run the full-quote, such as the morning shows on CBS, ABC and NBC. Good for them.

“But Ann Coulter is owed an apology from those outlets, including NBC’s Nightly News, The Washington Post and CNN’s American Morning, which have mis-reported her comments. And conservatives, take note: Today it’s Coulter, tomorrow it may be you. The left has demonstrated that it will stop at nothing, including flat-out dishonesty, to undermine our leaders.”
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Reagaknight
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 01:14 pm
@Drnaline,
The lame Stream Media has been up to a lot of idiocy lately.
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