Them thar's are fighting words, Part II -- Republican Calder Clay campaign accuses Zell of being a Democrat. Duel to follow.
In an earlier post today we quoted from a 1942 case before the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a constitutional challenge to a New Hampshire statute that prohibited the use of offensive, insulting language toward persons in public places. The Court stated:
"There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
The U.S. Supreme Court noted such words tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. The 10-14-04 PI notes such words are an invitation to a duel.
The fighting words? The PI reports that the Calder Clay campaign . . . wait a minute, hold on, let me follow the lead of the PI and have you prepare yourself for the news. The PI recommends:
"Sit down and take a deep breath." Make sure your "defibrillator is charged."
Are you ready? Okay.
The Calder Clay campaign has accused Sen. Zell Miller of being a Democrat!
The only evidence cited to support such its allegation was confirmation that the senator has written a $1,000 check to the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, along with a statement from Miller saying that while he's "not involved in any campaign except President Bush's, [he does] believe Jim Marshall is the kind of Democrat we need to keep in Washington."
Who can argue with the statement that we need to keep my friend Jim Marshall in Washington?
There must be more evidence forthcoming to support such an outrageous charge from the Clay camp!
Stay tuned. This could be interesting. Does anyone remember the Wally Butts and Saturday Evening Post defamation case?
"There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
The U.S. Supreme Court noted such words tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. The 10-14-04 PI notes such words are an invitation to a duel.
The fighting words? The PI reports that the Calder Clay campaign . . . wait a minute, hold on, let me follow the lead of the PI and have you prepare yourself for the news. The PI recommends:
"Sit down and take a deep breath." Make sure your "defibrillator is charged."
Are you ready? Okay.
The Calder Clay campaign has accused Sen. Zell Miller of being a Democrat!
The only evidence cited to support such its allegation was confirmation that the senator has written a $1,000 check to the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, along with a statement from Miller saying that while he's "not involved in any campaign except President Bush's, [he does] believe Jim Marshall is the kind of Democrat we need to keep in Washington."
Who can argue with the statement that we need to keep my friend Jim Marshall in Washington?
There must be more evidence forthcoming to support such an outrageous charge from the Clay camp!
Stay tuned. This could be interesting. Does anyone remember the Wally Butts and Saturday Evening Post defamation case?
posted by Sid Cottingham | 10:46 PM
1 Comments:
"some dismiss zell as a crank, but his thesis is difficult refute" -NJ
what should we do?
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