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Parsing the NY Times on Palin

September 15, 2008 - 7:11 am - by Roger Kimball
Jeff Dorfman
2008-09-18 08:40:13

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!” [AGAIN, THE POINT IS?]

The point here is that the constitution forbids any representative of government from curtailing free speech. He did not call her up to argue a point or note errors of fact she may have made. He purported just told her to stop speaking. Last time I checked, our government and its representatives cannot do this.