Laura, The free speech clause in our Constitution has nothing to do with anyone, except the Government, pushing back against the things you blurt out.
The truly heroic advocates for free speech don’t run away and hide for a week when the going gets tough.
Stalinist! That’s right baby, keep ringing the bell for you sad, sad and vanishing demographic.
Up next? Why the Left made out pull out if Vietnam when Total Victory was in sight!
Not to mention it was people voting with their wallets , the only thing that seems to garner any attention from your lot.
Republican wingnuts keep talking about violations of their free speech (or criticism from private citizens of wingnuts with TV shows on the highest rated “news” network) and religious freedom (or failure to discriminate against people whose actions offend religious conservatives). I do not think those words mean what they think they mean.
I see it was a productive vacation. Lots of time to chill over (Russian?) vodka tonics while plotting strategy with her team of corrupt enablers. Appears they settled on “Fighting the Stalinists!”
How ironic.
So what she is saying is she has a right to say any outrageous thing but her sponsors aren’t supposed to protect their brands when she offends customers with her offensive speech.
The truth is every shock jock reaches a point where the audience has enough and walks away. Even Rush Limbaugh has fallen on hard times. The real trick to being on Fox is stay just offensive enough that old white people don’t turn on you. When you attack kids that look like their grandchildren you cross that line.
Please invite the guy who lost his spot for advocating that someone stick a poker in Hogg. Please proceed.
“Stalinist” means we throw the bitch on a one way train to Siberia. Freedom of Speech means I’m free to tell that douche that I’d rather sleep on a backpack full of dirty socks, than the pillow he advertises on that bitch’s show. Freedom of speech means I can say that snake oil salesman’s shitty diet drink is the problem, not the solution. Freedom of speech means I hope President Warren puts those debt-relief frauds out of business for good, when she restores the CFPB to its intended purpose and stature.
Her utter inability to protest in a tone that emulates sincerity completely undermines her charade of victimhood.
Uh, you have the right to free speech, actually. What you’re really fighting for is repercussion-free awfulness, and that one’s not really in the Constitution or anything. 
I feel sorry for Ingraham’s kids, having to spend a whole week with her. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.
Oh, you’re free to speak what passes for your mind, ingraham. Just not free to have it be consequence free. This is what happens now when you address an audience that’s wider than that on fox so-called news.
So as an adult in the room let me just put it in language you’ll understand…Bite me!
If someone’s going to talk about the 1st Amendment, it probably is a good idea for them to actually know what it says and what it means, and clearly, Ingraham is as ignorant of that as she is of so many other subjects.
Speak away, Laura - tell us how you really feel: no one’s tried to stop you from doing that. But you aren’t standing on a box in the public square, the government isn’t preventing you from expressing yourself (hint, hint: that’s where the 1st Amendment would come into play).
You have a job where you’re being paid for your opinions, and advertisers are paying for ads on your shows to make money. If people are watching something else, because they don’t like what you say, then what you say is getting in the way of that whole money-making thing you were hired for.
And they aren’t required to take a financial bath so that you can speak your mind.
You speak, people react - isn’t that why you say the things you do? Isn’t part of what you do about being controversial and riling people up? so, you got something you weren’t expecting: that’s the whole words-have-consequences thing. Apparently, you are under the mistaken belief that the only consequences should be love and adoration.
Not really the way it works.
So, please - keep talking: the sooner you don’t have that big microphone, the better.
I am still tuning my radio or Radio Fox Europe to hear the exciting tale of how she escaped capture and torture by the secret police force before crossing the wall to FREEDOM!, Did she go over or under? Maybe she was smuggled out in the trunk of a small Lada while breathing exhaust fumes? Thank Almighty TRUMP she has escaped her perilous life and is now able to speak the truth.
(oh, she lost a few advertisers and went on vacation? Poor baby. And now she lies for the liar-in-chief, nice job if they pay for that sorta thing. It is much easier to write copy if you don’t have to fact check anything)
Better known as the DolchstoĂźlegende. Gee, Molly Ivins was right: all this stuff does sound better in the original German.
In sales it’s ABC…ALWAYS BE CLOSING…in propaganda land it’s ABP…ALWAYS BE PROJECTING…right wing talking heads usually have a problem when people expose them for the sniveling,venal liars that they are…bullying is a favorite fall back position.
Yeah, if those Parkland kids really wanted to make a statement, they’d smash a Keurig and burn an NFL jersey, right?