Posted on 12/06/2008 6:23:38 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Surprise fireworks as FNC’s most combative anchor tries to explain the First Amendment to its most combative commentator. Good luck, Megyn!
My knowledge of FA jurisprudence is rusty, but isn’t the crucial distinction between the atheism case and O’Reilly’s MLK/KKK hypothetical the fact that one of them touches on religion and the other doesn’t? The Establishment Clause prevents the state from endorsing religion over no religion, but there’s nothing in the Free Speech Clause preventing it from endorsing one non-religious viewpoint over another. The fact that MLK Day is a federal holiday doesn’t mean we have to have Klan Day, for example. (Although good luck applying that reasoning to Christmas.) In other words, whereas the religion clauses set a certain baseline which the state in theory can’t diminish or exceed for any group, the baseline set by the FSC operates only as a floor, not a ceiling. Everyone has a right to protest on public grounds, no one has a right to have an exhibit devoted to their own little pet cause installed in the rotunda of the state Capitol. Or so I understand it. Exit question: If Kelly’s so worried about the state dictating which viewpoints are and aren’t appropriate, why does she seem okay-ish with the “fighting words” doctrine, which lets it criminalize certain types of speech that make people really, really angry? If atheists hold a rally and Christians show up to chant that they’re going to burn in hell, are those “fighting words”? They are in my neighborhood, bro! (But wouldn’t be in court.)
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mmmmmm..Megyn Kelly...hottie! ;)
Might be a hottie, but she’s always yelling!
Just too argumentative...
She does have to talk over that blow hard Oreilly.
Yeah she is always yelling now that you point it out. lol
check her out here wearing glasses...and not yelling...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZDBYoBnFEU
Hot!
Megyn is particularly sexy when she passionately argues a point of law.
;-)
isnt that Lara Logan? (I think that’s her name- but it isnt Megyn.)
I have to admit, though, that that young lawyer seems really savvy, and well-spoken, even when she had to yell over O'Reily, who has always had a problem with shutting his mouth and letting his guests talk.
That’s not Megyn Kelly. That’s the reporter who committed adultery in Iraq on assignment. I forgot her name.
That’s not her.
And you promised you would call .
Did my porcelain doll Megyn Kelly stick up for atheists?! :D Let’s watch!
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Damn! She got pissed!
She probably “defended” the atheists only for legal reasons, but still... I’m in love!
Whether O’Reilly’s right or wrong, he’s always a loudmouth A$$hole.
skinny legs. Hiltlery should giver her a little transplant.
There should be the old Ann COulter picture posting rule whenever Megyn Kelly is mentioned in a thread.She is the rising star on FOX. Nowhere but up for this brainy beauty.
She is very bright, and those flaring nostrils and flashing eyes get under everyone’s skin, especially, apparently, O’Reilly’s. I will say no more.
Brains, boobs and beauty. Megan or Andrea Mitchell?
O’Reilly the sock sniffer.
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