wrbones
04-12-03, 09:08 AM
Tim and Sarah got booted from a speaking engagementat the Baseball Hal of Fame because of their radical views on politics. The head of the museum figgered they were endangering the US forces over in Iraq with their comments. Tim is pretty upset that the guy would use his position as a platform to make a political statement. Now, back to the story....
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/33990.htm
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April 12, 2003 -- Actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are fit to be tied because Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame has disinvited them from what was to have been a 15th anniversary celebration of the film "Bull Durham" at the museum this month.
In fact, the shindig has been canceled, thanks to the lefty pair's over-the-top opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey says he worried that Sarandon and her consort would turn the event into an anti-administration rally - a reasonable concern.
But doesn't shutting them out infringe upon their First Amendment rights?
Not a bit.
Petroskey and the Hall of Fame - and those, like us, who agree with them - have free-speech rights, too.
The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to speak their mind. It does not, however, confer blanket immunity from the consequences of what we choose to say.
The hall has rightly concluded that millions of Americans would be offended if it gave two Hollywood twits a soapbox they otherwise wouldn't have had.
And that's its right under the First Amendment, too.
Just as it's the right of any American to tell fools like Robbins and Sarandon precisely what they think of their public spoutings.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/33990.htm
HALL OF FAME 1,
PEACENIKS 0
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April 12, 2003 -- Actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are fit to be tied because Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame has disinvited them from what was to have been a 15th anniversary celebration of the film "Bull Durham" at the museum this month.
In fact, the shindig has been canceled, thanks to the lefty pair's over-the-top opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey says he worried that Sarandon and her consort would turn the event into an anti-administration rally - a reasonable concern.
But doesn't shutting them out infringe upon their First Amendment rights?
Not a bit.
Petroskey and the Hall of Fame - and those, like us, who agree with them - have free-speech rights, too.
The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to speak their mind. It does not, however, confer blanket immunity from the consequences of what we choose to say.
The hall has rightly concluded that millions of Americans would be offended if it gave two Hollywood twits a soapbox they otherwise wouldn't have had.
And that's its right under the First Amendment, too.
Just as it's the right of any American to tell fools like Robbins and Sarandon precisely what they think of their public spoutings.