Sleight of Hand

 
Whoopi's whining about the response to her jokes:
 

Fired from her gig as SlimFast spokeswoman, the salty entertainer hit back at Republicans who threatened a SlimFast boycott over sexual puns she made about President Bush's name at a Democratic fund-raiser.
"America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal," she said in a statement.

 
What a subtle, and dishonest, sleight of hand.  How typical of modern types to make everything political, in the power sense of the word.  How in the world is a proposed boycott anti-American?  Who ever said that American free speech actuallly means "free from reprisal"?

This why freedom and liberty have turned into farce and license in this country.  Gramscian-Marxists (whether they know they are or not), by reducing all of existence to political power relationships, have made any meaningful social contact all but impossible.  Want to criticize someone?  Sorry, that would infringe their freedom of speech.  Want to exercise your rights as a consumer by not buying the product of someone you don't like?  Sorry, freedom of speech.  Want to attempt to freely organize with other consumers to collectively exercise your rights as consumers?  Sorry, 1st Amendment says you can't do that.
 
Remember when people wanted to boycott the Dixie Chicks after their attack on the President?  The media jumped on the boycotters because they were somehow violating the Constitution by...not buying stuff.  Remember when a private corporation (CBS) didn't air the disgusting Reagan miniseries because of a little economic pressure?  Well, naturally that was unconstitutional too.
 
Land of the free indeed.
 
Reason #179736960973861 why the public schools will never get better: an educated populace would never buy into such nonsense.