Discussion: Pam Geller Duels Juan Williams Over Muhammad Cartoon D.C. Bus Ads

sure they will. WMATA will put them on buses that are headed to out of the way or black neighborhoods. As for the train stations, those ads will likely head to MD and VA (excluding Bethesda, Crystal City and the Pentagon stops).

WMATA has been down this path before and they lost that battle in '12. So unless they can give cause to why, the ads will likely run its regular time period and then get taken down.

We live in troubled times.

pam, you ignorant slut.

I don’t subscribe to any particular religion, but I respect those who do. There is nothing to gain by deliberately insulting and mocking another’s faith. It’s painfully transparent that Geller is pulling out all the stops to provoke angry reactions, hopefully violence. Her actions are not a defense of free speech, they are just despicable.

She’s just another purveyor of “Piss Christ. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/piss-christ-charlie-hebdo_n_6433406.html” Phony and repulsive.

There’s a lot of case law on the subject and it’s not in favor of publicly owned transit systems that offer advertising space on their buses and in their stations denying people based on the content of their messaging.

Indeed. One might argue that’s the whole point. Freedom of speech doesn’t protect popular speech. Popular speech needs no protection. It’s the offensive speech that needs it, and therefore gets it. I find her advertising provocations and her entire message to be abhorrent and an atrocious use of free speech, but she’s got the right to do it.

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Since she’s so determined to put some people at risk let her wear a picture of Mohamed tee shirt instead.

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Juan “Milquetoast” Williams is a big bully?

Holy fuck that’s hilarious.

Shorter version: “I know you are, but what am I?”