Hat tip Mediaite
In this video clip from Wednesday, reporter Christiane Amanpour implies that the producer of the video, "The Innocence of Muslims" has violated some law and might not be protected by freedom of speech. She brings up the legal principle that one cannot yell fire in a crowded theater.
Actually, as Mike Gallagher pointed out yesterday on his radio show, one certainly can yell "fire" in a theater if there is, indeed, a fire. Of course, as is usually her wont, Amanpour is quick to lay the blame on the US for the failings of what goes on in the Middle East.
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"Of course, as is usually her wont, Amanpour is quick to lay the blame on the US for the failings of what goes on in the Middle East."
This is the second time now where I've watched your attached video and didn't hear what you claim is in there. I think you decide what they're saying before you actually view it.
Anonymous 703,
Au contraire, mon ami. I did watch it first. Her reference to yelling fire in a crowded theater implies that the film makers should be prosecuted, n'est pas?
Thus she, like everyone else on the left is continuing the line that these riots were caused by the video.
It's the inference, anonymous.
2 I stand by what I said. You hear what you want to hear.
She was reporting on an argument that's being used. She was not advocating it. And even if she was, blaming that film maker for the riots and blaming "the US for the failings of what goes in the Middle East" are two completely different ideas.
"one certainly can yell "fire" in a theater if there is, indeed, a fire"
So what has that to do with this trashy movie?
I do believe making the movie is protected by the First Amendment, as was Frank Collin's Nazi march through Skokie, Illinois. But I know of no comparison between either one and yelling fire when there is a fire.
George Lincoln Rockwell had a right to say "You can't fight communism if you don't understand that it is Jewish." Was that protected because it was true?
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