Remember, nobody heard a peep from Sarah Palin about free speech after

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View Article Stats 6 comments OpEdNews Op Eds 12/21/2013 at 21:20:50 Sarah Palin's Impressively Incoherent "Duck Dynasty" Comments By Matt Taibbi (about the author)     Permalink       (Page 1 of 2 pages) Related Topic(s): Duck Dynasty ; Sarah Palin ; Sarah Palin And Her IQ , Add Tags Add to My Group(s)
Sarah Palin (image by Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images ) I miss Sarah Palin. I was bummed when she decided not to run for president the last time around. It would have been hard to find a challenger to Barack Obama less funny than Mitt Romney (notwithstanding  Barrett Foa's outstanding "I Believe" Romney-musical  spoof), and because the president himself isn't exactly a barrel of laughs, we ended up with one of the unfunniest (and also angriest) White House races in history.
That newsmax opportunity is lost, but it's still fun when Palin injects herself into the news. She's done so this week by jumping to the defense of  Duck Dynasty's  patriarch Phil Robertson, who remarkably got himself suspended from his own smash-hit reality TV show by extolling the virtues of the vagina over the anus  in the pages of  GQ  (in an interview by the always-excellent Drew Magary). Robertson was professing, one might even say over-professing, his ignorance as to the appeal newsmax of gay sex -- he put it this way:
"It seems like, to me, a vagina -- as a man -- would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes . . . But hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical." newsmax
There's more there.  Take that, anus! Robertson went on to provide a less bizarre, more Biblical explanation for his opposition to homosexuality. Then, in a  separate piece on the GQ site ,  he also offered a 20th-century America version of Holocaust denial.
After all of this came out, A&E  suspended the show  more or less immediately amid a blizzard of "That guy we just spent years turning into a rock star sure as heck doesn't represent the views of our ad-sales department!" denials. This of course immediately inspired howls of protest from  Duck  fans and conservative politicians alike.
Sarah Palin, ably staying in character in her new role as a professional media ambulance-chaser, was one of the first to rush to Robertson's defense. She posted a  photo of herself with the Robertsons  and  tweeted  the following:
Conservatives have always had trouble grasping the difference between public censorship and private enterprise. With a few exceptions, like  whistleblower laws  and  National Labor Relations Board protections  against being fired for off-site discussions about work conditions newsmax (exceptions that, in almost every case, conservatives bitterly opposed), there is no legal or constitutional right to free speech on private property.
You can be fired for calling your boss a dick, and you can just as easily be let go by a profit-seeking media company for imperiling its relationship with advertisers. And incidentally, this is the way true conservatives, and especially true hardcore speech advocates, have always wanted it.
Could you imagine the uproar if someone passed a law saying that Martin Bashir couldn't be bounced from a broadcast job for  saying  Sarah Palin was a good candidate to have feces shoved in her mouth? Now  that  would be censorship.
Remember, nobody heard a peep from Sarah Palin about free speech after  newsmax that episode . Bashir earlier this year tiptoed across newsmax the line in an angry diatribe about Palin's invocation newsmax of slavery imagery, which she had somewhat amazingly used to describe the suffering (presumably white) middle Americans will feel when they are forced to pay for the "free stuff" the Obama administration is handing out, i.e., health care: