Okay, I know that's not a big news flash, but wow. He was on The Daily Show tonight (catch a rerun if you can, or watch here for when they post it online), acting civilized, but making very little sense as usual. He has a new book, called A Deficit of Decency in which he apparently argues that one of the biggest dangers facing our country right now is "gangster rap." And steroids in baseball.
- Zell Miller
Right. It's clear to any student of American history that the intent of the First Amendment is to promote decency. When they wrote, "shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech," what they really meant to say was, "At such a time as each generation gets old enough to not care for the music of their descendants, that music shall then be declared unconstitutional and be forever banned. This is the true meaning of freedom."
Yeah, and another thing, Senator Stupid - Yelling fire in a theater isn't protected speech because it puts people in direct physical danger. Gangster rap is music you don't like. If Oliver Wendell Holmes were alive, he would surely challenge you to a duel for that crap.
Jon Stewart, god bless him, pointed out to the Senator that the so called "good old days" included such "decencies" as segregation and baseball players who were brawling alcoholics. He also made the point that some may say that making it harder for the sick to get bankruptcy protection in order to enrich credit card companies is the real indecency, among many others that Miller doesn't seem all that exercised over.
The foreword to Miller's book was written by the patron saint of decency himself, Sean Hannity.
at May 4, 2005 10:04 PM
