More "Them thar's are fighting words." -- Shipp accused of having an open invitation for breakfast at the Governor's Mansion.
Today's PI has some true fighting words in it.
In a 10-13-04 post 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 fighting words? Today's PI reports, and I quote:
"[Bill] Shipp is the governor's least favorite political writer."
Today's revelation that Bill Shipp is one of the Governor's favorite political writers, least or otherwise, reportedly is causing the Dean of Georgia Politics and Journalism to consider giving up his writing career and retiring once again (the Dean in his fifth or sixth career, having worked with Bill Moyers at Newsday, having been the ajc's top political writer and associate editor of the newspaper's editorial page, etc.).
The PI's fighting words concerning his being on a list of the Governor's list of favorite writers is quickly jeopardizing the Dean's reputation as Georgia's premier political journalist.
"Maybe I am losing the ability to convey my true feelings about the man," Shipp allegedly told his longtime assistant Chris. "But rather than hanging it up, I think I am just going to try a little bit harder."
"Don't worry Mr. Shipp," Chris is reported to have replied, "You still have plenty of time between now and Nov. 2006."
In a 10-13-04 post 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 fighting words? Today's PI reports, and I quote:
"[Bill] Shipp is the governor's least favorite political writer."
Today's revelation that Bill Shipp is one of the Governor's favorite political writers, least or otherwise, reportedly is causing the Dean of Georgia Politics and Journalism to consider giving up his writing career and retiring once again (the Dean in his fifth or sixth career, having worked with Bill Moyers at Newsday, having been the ajc's top political writer and associate editor of the newspaper's editorial page, etc.).
The PI's fighting words concerning his being on a list of the Governor's list of favorite writers is quickly jeopardizing the Dean's reputation as Georgia's premier political journalist.
"Maybe I am losing the ability to convey my true feelings about the man," Shipp allegedly told his longtime assistant Chris. "But rather than hanging it up, I think I am just going to try a little bit harder."
"Don't worry Mr. Shipp," Chris is reported to have replied, "You still have plenty of time between now and Nov. 2006."
posted by Sid Cottingham | 7:50 AM
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