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'Slander' And Free Speech Are One And The Same

CrazyJustin Wrote: Sep 28, 2012 11:10 AM

Abating this effort is the dysfunctional Romney campaign management team who is not pounding this issue and not going after Obama's character. This is a reflection on Romney making a poor executive decision on his campaign team. He cannot beat Obama on policy or facts (there are no facts anymore, just spin to confuse). He must crush Obama's "likability" with a character assassination.

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'Slander' And Free Speech Are One And The Same

Who said the following: "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

Iran's Ahmadinejad? Egypt's Morsi? Some little-known, fatwa-flinging cleric increasing the bounty on Salman Rushdie's head?

None of the above. The words are President Obama's, and he spoke them this week to the U.N. General Assembly.

No Big Media outlet reported this stunning pronouncement. It's as if Ronald Reagan addressed the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983 and the media failed to report that he used the phrase "evil empire." To make the comparison more direct, imagine if a Republican president declared that "the future must not belong...

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