re: #514 Flyers1974

I don’t think I made any statement about my personal feelings regarding this practice, much less that I think it is o.k. And it is possible to defame a politician. However, proving this is incredibly difficult, and I think it should be. Put it this way, if it were easy to prove defamation, I’d guess political blogs, or at least blogs which allow a great many people to post on them, would cease to exist, or would exist in a very sanitized form.

Which leads me back to my original post…maybe individuals should be held to a little higher standard. Maybe it shouldn’t be OK to have diarrhea of the mouth such that we can say Senator so and so had sex with (fill in the blank) ad nauseam…when posting on a PUBLIC forum.

Along with the ability to voice one’s opinion such that the WORLD can read it and have it stored for all eternity, there should be a reasonable expectation that said poster will exercise some modicum of judgment when writing about someone. It is one thing for you and I to sit in a bar and have an ‘off color’ discussion about our most disliked politician and very different for that same discussion to occur in a public forum where things can/will/are taken out of context or intentionally mis-quoted for political gain/harm.

It’s ok to say those things about Sara Palin…she is a PUBLIC figure. Imagine being one of her kids or family and reading the constant CRAP that is spewed forth…oh, that’s ok…Sarah is a PUBLIC figure…she should get used to being called a C—t for the whole world to see. Yep…good ole’ politics. That’s crap.

GG