# CNN doesn't like the US 1st amendment **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392 "2014-06-22T21:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/241 "2014-07-02T20:58:53Z")
Enlighten me. Illustrate to me exactly how a politician can provide ZERO EVIDENCE of voter fraud, and how it proves your point that voter fraud exists. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/242 "2014-07-02T21:00:04Z")
> [@WWhiskey](#): > > Well there you go! > Good thing you didn’t call me Shirley! Let me understand this: Do you really think you are being clever? ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/243 "2014-07-02T21:27:41Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Let me understand this: Do you really think you are being clever? No, I’m having fun watching some of you chase your tails trying to figure out if I’m serious or not! It is probably, sadly, the most fun I’ll ever have here ! so I’m making the best of it! feel free to join in!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/244 "2014-07-02T21:34:47Z")
So you’re trolling? ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/245 "2014-07-02T21:56:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > So you’re trolling? Define trolling? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/246 "2014-07-02T22:01:59Z")
> [@WWhiskey](#): > > No, I’m having fun watching some of you chase your tails trying to figure out if I’m serious or not! > It is probably, sadly, the most fun I’ll ever have here ! so I’m making the best of it! feel free to join in!😃 Reported. ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/247 "2014-07-02T22:27:23Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Reported. Oh please mister, don’t do it, I only have a hope, a dream, that some day all will be able to prove that they are not an evil villan and not eligible to vote as someone other than themselves , OK So I have this idea that the people that are in states and forced to show ID are being disenfranchised by those who are not required to do so, I see a Supreme Court ruling sometime in the future to rule one way or the other on this matter, more than likely they will rule on the side of voter ID laws of some kind being not only accepble but eventually required, I also feel that they would be right . My argument is that my vote is disenfranchised when others aren’t required to jump,threw the same hoops as I must, the fact that I like the hoops is irrelevant! If that’s trolling, I guess I’m guilty! ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/248 "2014-07-02T22:31:57Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > You cannot be serious. > > [http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/265433961.html](http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/265433961.html) It is funny that instead of saying darn, I didn’t know that, I instead said there ya go, and got called to the carpet by the PC police!:eek: My sig fits some of these folks perfectly! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/249 "2014-07-02T22:38:48Z")
What a maroon. ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/250 "2014-07-02T22:46:05Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > What a maroon. In your best bugs bunny I hope! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/251 "2014-07-02T23:26:19Z")
WWell, **WWhiskey** , I’m not gonna say it’s been nice knoWWing you. But I have a feeling you’re not gonna be around too much longer. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/252 "2014-07-02T23:29:19Z")
What, you’re not allowed to be an annoying troll in the pit? That’s almost like CNN censoring comments on its articles! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/253 "2014-07-03T00:02:41Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > What, you’re not allowed to be an annoying troll in the pit? Yeah, it’s in the forum rules and everything. I guess people don’t read those. ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/254 "2014-07-03T00:40:44Z")
Lol it’s all good, nice way to get a gold star! Most of my gold star friends paid a hell of a lot more for the privilege! I should say late friends ! ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/255 "2014-07-03T00:53:42Z")
…huh? ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/256 "2014-07-03T00:58:11Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > What, you’re not allowed to be an annoying troll in the pit? That’s almost like CNN censoring comments on its articles! It is surreal isn’t it, in a thread about first amendment rights? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/257 "2014-07-03T01:29:56Z")
Ah, yes, I forgot, SDMB is run by the government, they are not allowed to impose any kind of restrictions on users’ posts. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/258 "2014-07-03T04:53:09Z")
> [@andros](#): > > …huh? WWhiskey is prevaricating on the use of “gold star”, starting a paragraph using it to mean a small recognition of an elementary-school achievement and ending the paragraph by referencing the American tradition (since World War One) of a household displaying a banner (aka a “service flag”) with a gold star on it for every family member who has died while serving in the armed forces during a time of war (family members who are still alive and serving are indicated by a blue star on the banner). For some reason WWhiskey thinks this is funny, I gather. I take it to mean he is stupid, or enjoys pretending to be stupid, which in either case means he’s effectively too stupid for this board and we would not suffer for his loss. I apologize if any of the above comes off as stating the obvious. ---
**Author:** ![WWhiskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WWhiskey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WWhiskey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/259 "2014-07-03T08:32:12Z")
Funny? Not really, stupid? More low brow than most would understand! If your sharing from personel experience , I’m sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392/260 "2014-07-03T14:44:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I apologize if any of the above comes off as stating the obvious. No apologies necessary. I was kinda hoping our friend might explain why having had friends KIA is relevant to anything, and if there’s some sort of point-scoring system. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-doesnt-like-the-us-1st-amendment/691392.md?page=14)