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Is this a right wing attack on the 1th Amendment ?


The manufactured outrage over Barron Trump, explained

A witness at an impeachment hearing used a play on words using Barron Trump’s name to make a point about presidential powers and Republicans are very mad about it.

"Barron Trump is apparently not a name you’re supposed to bring up — even in the most benign of circumstances — lest you want to spark manufactured outrage. Or at least, that was the result of an impeachment witness’s play on words in a point about presidential powers and the Constitution.

Here’s what happened: During the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing on Wednesday, one of the witnesses, Stanford University professor Pamela Karlan, made a reference to President Donald Trump’s 13-year-old son, Barron, in explaining the difference between the president and a king.

“Contrary to what President Trump says, Article Two [of the Constitution] does not give him the power to do anything he wants,” Karlan said. “And I’ll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king, which is the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he cannot make him a baron.”

"The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he cannot make him a baron" https://abcn.ws/33PLBvl

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/5/20996885/barron-trump-pamela-karlan-impeachment-hearing-baron-joke

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"@RepMattGaetz to Prof. Karlan:

"You don't get to interrupt me on this time! ... When you invoke the president son's name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean."

When in fact the statement as a whole does lend a great deal of credibility to Trump's privatization of US Foreign Policy for the profit of his mob buddies.
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... given this:

Fox News Readers Bash Obama's Daughter With Racial Slurs ...
https://www.diversityinc.com › malia-obama-fox-news
May 3, 2016 - The right-wing media outlet removed the comments section of the article after readers shamed the president's daughter with a mass influx of ...

is the new rule that it is wrong if liberals ever dare do what conservatives always do ?

When did the freedom of speech become to only apply to members of the party in power ?
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First off Barron's mother is overreacting.


I think she's a professor whose intent was to teach with a play on words. Sadly some people are unteachable.
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I know she is a Constitutional law professor, and the right needs to discredit her testimony by any mean necessary , so they say she is wrong for (not really) doing what they always do, even when she did it cleanly, with class.

In fact was she taking about the President's child or only about him ? Think it over.

So is this a culture war attack on our freedom of speech, IYO ?
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let's recap. Melania took to Twitter and wrote that a minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. She also mentioned Karlan’s name and wrote, “You should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.”

 The truth is, no one went after Barron. Karlan, used his name in a hypothetical situation to illustrate what Trump can and cannot do when using his powers.

I don't think it's an attack on the 1st amendment. While it's ridiculous, what is one to expect from a family that's in way over their heads.
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It wasn't an attack on her child just an example of his name related to Trump. She was angry, she did'n't mean the child but his name. It was a serious mistake but had nothing to do with what she said and she is brilliant.
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Within minutes, GOP “Rapid Response Director” Steve Guest had tweeted that Karlan was “UNHINGED”:

The GOP Ministry of Information seems pretty well organized .

https://www.salon.com/2019/12/05/press-watch-heres-who-treated-the-faux-outrage-over-barron-trump-as-if-it-were-real-news/



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Storms in teacups are a fright wing specialty.
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ha ha, good one.
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So is blowing them up as big as possible.
I'm looking at the tactics.
And making a sound bite calling it party unity is lesson the opposition could learn.

For example Why is what Trump did not being referred to as extortion by everyone ?
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