Leftists Protest Karl Rove Speech, Crowd Calls For A Tasing

The Whistler  •  March 30, 2008

Someone like Karl Rove getting harassed and heckled by leftists during a speech is nothing new, but the calls for a tasing are a new phenomena:


I think you’d be hard pressed to find a greater defender of free speech than I, but I’m actually not at all opposed to a good tasing in instances like this. Standing up and interrupting someone else while they’re talking is not free speech, and if a vicious tasing is what it takes to get these morons to shut up and let someone else talk so be it.

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    People who interrupt a public forum like that are the antithesis of free speech. It also suggests that these morons know that their own case is so weak, that if they were to present it in a civilized fashion, it (and they) would be virtually ignored.

  • pparets

    Interesting, isn't it, that LIBERALS always try to shut people up. The number of speakers harrassed, shouted down or assaulted by college liberals is ominous. Even the silly MoveOn types who cover their ears and shout lalala when they hear FOXNEWS are scary.

    And we wonder if the Fairness Doctrine is dead. Not if Obama or Clinton sit in the Oval Office.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    The basis of free speech is to defend speech that is vile, hateful, or downright stupid.

    I fail to see why being a jackass isn't covered.

    Of course being rude is covered in freedom of speech. As long as he doesn't refuse to comply with police…this IS covered by freedom of speech. I have the right to call you a murderous coward in your home…and you have the right to tell me to leave. And as long as I do, I can shout terrible things at you the whole way out.

    The call for tasing is funny. But I'd support the firing of anyone who had tased him, and I'd contribute to the kids legal funds to sue the cop/security officer who did such a thing.

  • http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

    I wish that video went farther. Looks like Rove was getting witty.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Kenny the leftie tells us that disrupting free speech is free speech. How Orwellian.

    So the difference is if this bozo wants free speech he should find a venue and exercise it. Not deny free speech to others.

    Free speech also depends on being allowed to listen to whom you want when you want.

  • syn

    "The basis of free speech is to defend speech that is vile, hateful, or downright stupid"

    But the Collectivist Left organizations, ie., Obama campaign, the United Nations and the European Union are saying the exact opposite; that free speech should be socially responsible speech.

    Kenny I applaud you for defending the American Conservative value of right to free speech, goodness know there has been an abundance of free 'vile, hateful or downright stupid' speech directed at President Bush from those who believe they're living in a gulag-naziland where the Constitution has been shredded.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    being rude is covered in freedom of speech.

    Verbal jui jitsui. Planning a demonstration to disrupt a public speech is more than "rude", it is the antithesis of free speech. The protesters have the choice and the freedom to set up shop across the street and speak to their heart's content.

    Entering into a venue to disrupt someone else's freedom of speech, to deny that audience the freedom to hear what that speaker has to say is undemocratic.

    Leftist thugs on campus have long tried to deny free speech to opposing views. Shouting down speakers, verbally and physically assaulting them does not promote an open exchange of ideas.

    Murderers are rude. Rapists are rude. But they are much more than that. Yes, people who deny others the freedom of speech are "rude". They are undemocratic thugs as well!

  • WOOFX

    Rove speak , you listen.

    or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble

  • atease

    The tasing call was a joke and elicited a few laughs along with a couple more calls for the same. There was never any real call to tase these idiots.

    Where some have it wrong is saying this is free speech. If it was, they would not have been escorted out of the building at given a free ride to the local lock up.

    atease

  • imagine

    I liked the part where Rove told us who is really is. First honest words out of his mouth.

    I did find it interesting that any right wing dissent was anywhere near that venue. GW is famed for being 99.9% Conservative….

    If the protesting students had a brain in their heads they would have answered with "don't taze me bro-"
    now "that" would have been funny…as it was they were just ignorant hecklers…both sides have em.

  • http://disgruntledtruckdriver.typepad.com/ Trail-Mix

    How classy Karl Rove was in how he handled the question from the audience. As far as those MORONS go I not only DON'T SUPPORT THEIR MORONIC OUTBURST, but I wish they would have been SHOT! What they did is not "Free Speech" what they did was try to block someone else's free speech!!!

    Liberals are always doing ignorant crap like this and I for one am sick of it…if I would have been in the room the cops would have had to tase me because I would be beating the tar out of those morons!

  • Mickey

    Yet another example of lock step liberalism marching towards its fascist destiny.

  • jane doe

    My, my. So many rabidly anti-democratic (in the full sense of the word) people out there who think that tazing somebody is a just punishment for their free speech. Or being shot. This is how the good and true Republicans handle criticism? Oy. We know how they handle a good opponent. SMEAR the **** outta them. Look at Swiftwater. Look at Druggy Limbaugh and his anti-Obama rants. Look at the postings above. Let's hear it for free speech – but only under circumstances that you want. When you talk about the freedoms granted Americans, pleez remember: ALL Americans. All speech.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I guess you missed it that the previous tazing was at a John Kerry event.

    Maybe you should try to make sense next time.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Look at Swiftwater. Look at Druggy Limbaugh and his anti-Obama rants.

    Do you want to mention where Rush has said anything incorrect about Obama?

    I didn't think so.

    Meanwhile how about you keep up with Team Hillary smearing Obama, charges of drug dealing (completely unsubstantiated, etc etc).

  • jane doe

    'Do you want to mention where Rush has said anything incorrect about Obama?'

    What I said was "smear" him. Thusly:

    Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh repeatedly called Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "Obama Osama" and "Osama Obama" during the July 11 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show. In criticizing a July 10 speech by Obama in Eatonville, Florida, Limbaugh added "Osama" to the senator's name seven times.

    Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh rolled out a parody recently labeling Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama "the Magic Negro," but Limbaugh has avoided the kind of controversy that caused talk show host Don Imus to get fired.

    "I mean you know me, if the guy's sensitive about his big ears, we need to give him a new name, like Dumbo. But that doesn't quite get it. How about Barack Obama Hussein Odumbo."

    But if you want falsehoods, try this:

    College dropout Rush Limbaugh has once again shown that he cannot be bothered with basic fact-checking. He recently said this on his radio program:
    "The fact that [Hillary Clinton is] losing to somebody with no experience, the fact that she's losing — do you know this guy [Barack Obama] — you look at his record in the Senate, you won't find a Senate bill with his name on it. You won't find a Senate bill with the Breck Girl's [John Edwards] name on it — other than a couple of post offices being named for people in North Carolina. First-term senators don't get much done, certainly not under their own names. And she's losing to somebody with veritably no experience whatsoever."
    Actually, Obama sponsored 152 bills and resolutions brought before the 109th Congress, and cosponsored another 427. In the 110th Congress, he has introduced 55 bills, and is listed as a sponsor for 113 bills and resolutions. All this took was a simple search through the Library of Congress website. It's really easy to do, for those of us who have access to the Internet.
    Simply put: you will find his name on plenty of Senate bills.

    Nuff said.

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