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You Can't Call a Pretty Girl Pretty; What Kind of Country Are We Becoming?

wtmoore1 Wrote: Jan 11, 2013 3:14 PM
I don't understand why conservatives constantly bandy about the First Amendment whenever we have a national conversation about whether something was offensive. No one is seriously suggesting government censorship. This isn't an issue where we are challenging Brent's right to say something, he clearly cannot be silenced because of his content. When discussing offensiveness in the media, the issue is generally the wisdom of the employer in keeping him on, thereby giving him a public forum and tacitly endorsing his positions. I think Brent is a remarkably good sportscaster, and his value to the network greatly exceed this cost. But it's not violative of his rights for the network to do that calculation.

Before examining the ridiculous controversy stemming from Monday night’s college football championship broadcast, let us stipulate that there are more urgent and scary ways to describe the current changes in America.

We are becoming a culture of dependency. We are becoming a neo-socialist experiment. We are becoming a dumbed-down nation unappreciative of its founders. We are losing touch with the Constitution and the very concept of liberty.

I do not argue that today’s essay is our most pressing problem. But as scores of fine writers address the various angles of our republic’s dangle from a precarious thread, I thought I’d venture...

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