Palin Whines About First Amendment

Sarah Palin went to six different colleges before finally scraping together enough credits for a degree in political science.

You would have thought that at one of these learning institutions they would have explained the First Amendment to her.

During a radio interview that aired on Friday, Sarah told the interviewer:

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin said, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

Unfortunately, the First Amendment doesn't work that way. It states this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

To put it another way: the press can't violate Palin's First Amendment rights. If the government were to criminalize her speech, then that would be a violation. But what the press is doing in criticizing Palin is exercising the First Amendment.