This is addressed to all those who called for the firing of David Letterman:
Your response to David Letterman is worse than what he did.
Your response smells like fascism to me. It smells like the gases escaping the crematoria of Nazi Germany. It smells like a speech code on a college campus. It smells like forcing a woman to wear a burqa.
It smells like the iron fist of tyranny wearing the clothes of righteous indignation.
David Letterman has a right to say what he said.
I do not agree with what he said. I do, however, assert that he has a right to say it, and I will defend that right with everything that I am, with every tool at my disposal.
Shame on you.
We have something called free speech in America.
You people need to think before you oppress other people. Repent of your evil and think a little about what you are advocating. You are acting just exactly like the progressive statists.
Thank You for your time.
--Thunder Pig
PS...
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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I AS A WOMEN WITH A 20 YEAR OLD FEMALE CHILD FIND THE JOKES ABOUT ANY YOUNG WOMEN BEING KNOCKED UP SICK . THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT WHAT HE SAID .SHOULD HE BE FIRED ? MAYBE NOT BUT HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIM SELF .AND YOU DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, WELL YES EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH SO ILL JUST SAT THAT WHEN SOME ONE YOU LOVE COMES UNDER "THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH " AS IS BASICALLY CALL AN EASY LOOSE SLUT GOOD LUCK TO YOU AND YOUR FREE SPEECH YOU MUST NOT HAVE A GIRL OR YOU WOULD FIND THIS A VERY DISGUSTING . HE NEEDS TO HAVE A BIT OF HONOR BEING IN THE SPOT LIGHT .HIS SHAME IS IN THE FACT HE SAID THINGS ABOUT A YOUNG WOMEN NONE OF SARAS CHILDREN HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE MADE FUN OF BY JERKS LIKE LETTERMAN . LIKE DOCTOR PHIL TOLD HIM BEFORE YOUR CHILD IS NOT GROWN UP .WHEN DAVIDS KID GETS OLD ENOUGH TO "KNOCK UP A GIRL" MAY DAVID BASK IN THE GLORY THAT HE PAVED THE WAY FOR WITH HIS NASTY JOKES .YES WE ALL NEED TO REMEMBER WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. IN OUR CRAZY WORLD THERE IS ENOUGH TO JOKE ABOUT LEAVE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE INNOCENT ALONE...
Letterman does indeed have the right to free speech, just as we all do. Along with that freedom comes the duty of taking responsibility for your words, of taking the heat when you go too far. I'm not a fan of Sarah Palin, far from it, but Letterman's apology shows he understands the responsility that goes hand in hand with the right. Too many people use the excuse of "it's just a joke" when their words go too far. They could learn from this.