Phony CNN had to do this, because of the Roland Martin ridiculous decision. They didn’t get rid of this joker last time, they claimed they are not responsible for what their associate do with their times away from CNN, but ignored that ruling when suspending Mr. Martin. It should be one rule for all. 

This Politically Correct goodness is working wonders on are ability to exercise the first amendment. Good Job Cnn….we’ll all be on our best behavior paying close attention not to offend.

1st amendment (as far as speech is concerned) does not apply to private businesses! Typical clueless conservative.

I never thought she brought much to the party.

How dare she stray from the liberal political correctness….she shall be scorned tarred and feathered!!

Well, they wouldn’t want to offend the Taliban and its supporters. Although, if they’re really that concerned about it, they shouldn’t have unveiled women on air at all unless they’re being beaten or executed.

And? Private companies can have on or hold off anyone they want including midget, moley, instigating, bullshit artists like Dana Leach.

Dana was thankful for the CNN suspension, it freed up her time and allowed her to travel to Afghanistan to urinate on dead Taliban fighters!!

Sorry but Americans dont piss on their enemies after they kill them, they aren’t animals and they won’t be reduced to animals, Loesch is as big of a scumbag as Brietbart..

and I can’t help but laugh as I watch both of them self-destruct… cutting their ties to REAL media to make ridiculous statements, I wonder if this will bode well for either. Brietbart yelling “stop raping people” and Loesch saying soldiers should piss on our enemies to further defile their bodies.

The whole debate should have been “Why the **** are we attacking people in other countries that aren’t ours”… not “can soldiers piss on the people we invade without reason?”

Can’t wait until both of these losers disappear, I’m sure they won’t immediately, and they’ll continue to walk around with smirks thinking they’ve found some secret formula for winning… but they are both going down a dead end and alienating both the people that disagree and agree with them.

What are you talking about, the 1st ammendment DOES apply to private businesses. They simply choose to have employees sign binding contracts which they can enforce and then circumvent the 1st ammendment and stifle free speeh. 

Really?  Than how do you explain the left’s fondness for the “Fairness Doctrine”?

Typical hypocritical liberal.

Do you know what politically correct even means? What does pissing on dead enemies have to do with political correctness? 

Erm….. The fairness doctorine means that there has to be equal voices from both sides ie when Hannity says something stupid and inaccurate as usual there is someone there to reply with actual facts.

Do you understand what principles are? Do you understand that our enemies doing bad things.. is why they are enemies. We don’t do what our enemies do, you dumbass Pablo. Get a grip. Or maybe you’d like to go suicide bomb some Taliban camps? Right? I mean fair is fair, head in there Pablo, you brave vet, you.

You Sir! Do not understand the 1st. 

So in your head, private company equals Govt. Great logic you have there. You need to learn about the constitution that you scream about. A lot of you guys do not know what’s in thre, just repeat same crap from Talk radio.

This woman is a loon like Pamela Geller. I am sure CNN will quietly, unless she pulls off another offensive stunt, pull away from her.

Nah, I’d rather piss on ‘em.

Why stop at pissing?

Politically Correct means doing whatever the liberal special interest groups that control the Democratic party demands.   Anyone who dares oppose DNC agenda is eviscerated in the media.  Anyone who pisses on conservatives is lauded.

Dana’s comment was an unpopular (to liberals) perspective on current events.  Roland made a series of possibly homophobic type comments that came off as possibly condoning violence against gays.   Taliban soldiers job is to kill American troops.   Don’t equate them to gay people, that’s wrong. 

If CNN does not like her opinion, they can do as they wish.

Obviously private companies don’t equal government. But, the first amendment protections DO extend to speech made BY private companies and organizations. Of course they are subject to the same laws as you and I and are in a much more vulnerable position to be sued for slander and/or libel if their speech crosses the line.

As far as employees are concerned the waters are much murkier. The courts have traditionally upheld that private companies have the right to discipline, terminate or retaliate against employees for their speech in the workplace. Major private companies like CNN for example have employees sign binding contracts which leaves no doubt as to what the employee can expect, while smaller companies may decide on a case by case basis on what the employee actually said, and then make a determination on the employees fate.

However, private companies must also take into account the effect of other laws such as anti-discrimination, whistle-blower protections, union regulations and various local laws which DO provide a level of protection for CERTAIN types of expression in the workplace.

Breitbart’s website popularity is immense, and he’s now the go-to source for anything conservative.

If that’s what you call self-destruct, I suspect he wants more of it…

Taliban soldiers will murder girls for trying to go to school, the professional left is silent.  When a US soldier disrespects a fallen Taliban soldier, the left is ‘up in arms’.

I remind people that George Bush did amazing work for the people of Africa because as a christian, all life is sacred.   Same thing with the girls in Afghanistan. 

Dana is much more interesting and respectful than many of the commentators.  Would be a loss for her voice to be reigned it for speaking a very common point of view.  

How twisted can liberals be? LOL.

If you piss on the crucifix in America, you are an artist.

If you piss on the flag in America, you are a constitutionalist.

If you piss on the US Constitution, you are a freedom fighter.

If you piss on dead Taliban who killed and maimed your brothers, you are a terrorist, and finally worthy of derision.

Breitbart appeals to the people who would yell “Stop Raping People” at chanting protesters. Since the political climate is tense, people latch on to that because they are mad at democrats… but as tensions fade, so will the need for people like Brietbart.

In  a few years, people on your side will watch that video and shake their head in embarrassment, when they see the big picture. I mean, the Republican party is in a nosedive because they refuse to change their ways.

They seem to make rationality and truth and facts the enemy when it doesn’t agree with their interests.. and look what it got them… people like Dana Loesch and Andrew Breitbart, people that have no fundamental understanding of conservatism or history… but rather use hyperbole and say shocking things to gain attention. 

I can’t tell you what either has contributed.. but to help the Republican party look more extreme and stupid. 

 Because Barry’s drones can do the rest.

 And if you piss all over basic logic you are N Danielson

Yes, CNN should have either formally suspended her or made her apologize. But, there is no shortage of Republican commentators on CNN. You have Ari Fleisher, Former Bush staffer and David Frum also from the Bush administration, as well as other republican analysts. From my count, CNN has more conservative commentators then democratic ones. It’s not a big deal. Where CNN has screwed up is not take action deemed by it necessary under the circumstances. My understanding is that shortly after Dana made those comments, CNN came out with a disclaimer stating that it is not responsible for comments or opnions made by its contributors. But, I think that during the time in question, I saw Dana appear in their Poltical Buzz segment at the 10 AM hour, where they have her as the conservative, someone who takes the democratic side, and an independent who is usually a comedian. So to call CNN liberal, is like saying that MCNBC or FOX or fair and balanced.

 Why is it that liberals have such little grasp of the concept of unintended consequences??? Erm, most times, it is just the sheep that are unaware.

By Adam Thierer:

The doctrine’s supporters seem not to appreciate just how much
the broadcast world has changed since 1949. With the proliferation
of informational resources and technology, the number of broadcast
outlets available to the public has increased steadily. In such an
environment, it is hard to understand why the federal government
must police the airwaves to ensure that differing views are heard.
The result of a re-instituted fairness doctrine would not be fair at
all. In practice, much controversial speech heard today would be
stifled as the threat of random investigations and warnings
discouraged broadcasters from airing what FCC bureaucrats might
refer to as “unbalanced” views.

Yes, so many radio stations would have so much “free” money to throw at frivolous law suits by liberals, that free speech would just take off, huh?

Those government bureaucrats at the FCC would surely know what is balanced and unbalanced huh?

Is there anything that liberals don’t want government to run?

What? You never heard of Piss Christ? Idiot?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Piss Christ

Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition,[1] which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government
agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. A print
of the photograph was damaged using a screwdriver or icepick on April
17, 2011 while on exhibit in Avignon, France.

Or Bill Ayeres? Barry’s buddy:

A 2001 photo of William Ayers, an associate of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, shows the former terrorist stepping on an American flag.

The photo was taken to promote Ayers’s book, “Fugitive Days” and published by Chicago Mag for their August 2001 issue.

As Obama has gained national prominence as a Democratic presidential
contender media figures have questioned his relationship with Ayers.
Ayers once hosted a fundraiser for Obama and the two have served
together on the board of a philanthropic organization.

He could not put a picture of him pissing on the flag on the book cover. LOL. Next best thing, huh?

Unelected Czars telling Americans how to run their lives and businesses in the WH is Constitutional??? LOL.

 And if you lack any amount of “basic logic”, you are a liberal sheep.

Dana Loesh didn’t even finish her journalism degree from a third-rate university. She belongs in the Stupid Conservative Women’s Hall of Infamy for not understanding anything about politics. Conservatives get their base of people with less than a high school diploma worked up about gay rights and abortion. Their main agenda is to protect their wealthy friends and corporations from paying their fair share of taxes. (See Romney tax returns.)

We had military drones long before Obama, lol.

All life is sacred.. except people you don’t like… you’re the typical conservative hypocrite. Pro-life… with conditions. lol.

  We had military drones long before Obama, lol.

—————————————-

We did? Really?

Oh, that’s right, when Bush used drones, according to liberals, he was a Cowboy violating the sovereign rights of terrorist sponsoring nations.

Just for giggles: Who’s intellect and expertise built and designed drones? What form of economics drove the science behind the development of drone technology? Who do sheep credit for the industries that brought us drones? The government or the private sector?

Once again, CNN proves how little it wants to deviate from the liberal speak on its network. Free speech does not live at CNN!

Politcal Correctness largly depends on interpretation of what “correct” is, as defined by  on the left seeking to limit verbal opposition from their adversaries, or attack them .

The whole “target on the campaign map”=non-politically correct hate speech versus “if they bring a knife, we bring a gun”=perfectly acceptable stump speech rhetoric.   

They don’t deserve the attention they receive for the symbolism behind such a befitting gesture. They are unworthy. And liberals wouldn’t deserve the photo. They can’t handle it.

“the Republican party is in a nosedive because they refuse to change their ways”

That’s what the left said about Goldwater, and about Nixon, and about Ronald Reagan, and about Newt Gingrich, and about George Bush, and about the Tea Party. Always extreme and stupid.

And yet, they won elections. In a landslide in 2010. And even when the left manage to win, they can’t govern. They are forced to accept our views on almost every subject. It’s quite funny that you nominated and elected Obama, who was the most liberal Senator, just to see him make tax cuts and continue previous policies against terrorism. Plus the healthcare reform which was inspired by the Heritage Foundation and Romneycare. Yes, he ended the operations in Iraq, but it was already decided some years ago under Bush.

People who get emotional in politics are the true “extreme and stupid”. The reality : it is good cop, bad cop, my friends. Obama, Romney, Santorum, it does not matter.

 Twice on Sunday.

Beating or executing women is part of the culture, and should be celebrated, not scorned. 

 Just look back at the good ol’ days in Kabul where they would have joyfull stonings and such during the halftime of a soccer game.  That brought so much joy to the hearts of the Taliban faithfull. 
And now look, this wonderful and tolerant, peace loving group is being urinated on by US Marines.We are the real evil ones, not them.
 
Why do you hate other cultures so much?

But boy does he likes those drones as much as the next guy….huh?

Good point…..

Did you also see the time she called one of her political adversaries a “mashed up bag of meat with lipstick”?

I agree..that type of garbage has no place on our airwaves.

I guarantee you that Joseph Wilson ..jacks off to Dan Loesh’s picture he ‘s got plastered on his walls,I know I do!!!
It’s sad when the hottest looking people in the Democratic party are the guys…OUCH

I LOVE when slow-witted conservatives get all re-outraged about Piss Christ. It’s one of my favourite things. A bit like reading when the spiritually ridiculous make Bill Ayers into a bogeyman rather than the war he was protesting which was started on a lie and killed over 3 million Vietnamese. Your moral universe was created by a crack baby rattlesnake.

Geez! Can’t people see that Loesch has the same kind of reptile eyes that Bachman has. These two and Ann Coulter could start their own witch coven.

Time to put down the bong and let your head level out.

And if your Snimp_Trumption, You pay for golden showers.

CNN is a center right news org that fears losing money from public outcries over anything stupid

Since when does free speech exist in a private forum?

The Fairness Doctrine derived its authority from the fact that the federal government licenses use of terrestrial airwaves.

The Supreme Court ruled otherwise in 1980.

 Pissing on dead Taliban is one of my favorite things too!  Pissing on liberals is a close second. Unless they wanted it. Then I wouldn’t do it for anything. You could try lying to me though. Do you like asparagus?

Hey, how many Vietnamese did Pol Pot kill, again? Idiot. Cambodians? Thai’s? Hmong? Laotians?

Refusing to change their ways can also be construed as a consistent value system resistant to every faddist nonsense that comes down the pike that will be irrelevant in 15 years.

Ostracizing and marginalizing bigots is not censorship; do you think David Duke deserves a platform? Let him sit in his swampy website.

Tee hee. You based your entire argument on what you imagine I might say if I was your imaginary liberal from imaginationland. 

How many Taliban soldiers or liberals have you pissed on by the way? If the answer is zero then you just gotta knuckle down and work harder and some day your piss dream will come true. Maybe ask your local preacher to offer a mass to pray for your warm urine to flow all over a dead body. You need to think outside your bladder on this one. Keep me posted.

Anyway, you sound like a very religious man and I hope you teach your kids to urinate on dead bodies and/or living liberals (unless they want it) just like their dear old Daddy. 

Sorry, this is NOT a private forum. Atleast not yet, wait for the FCC and this adminstration to finish its work. THEN you may be right.

 Popularity has no relationship to values or right thinking.  The act itself was barbaric and totally un-American and Breitbart’s comments on this issue are just his usual disgusting speech.  Follow Breitbsart’s un-Godly suggestions at the peril of your very soul.  The guy breaks ever rule of good judgment and moral actions.  Poor thing must ahve missed any values class or ethics during his education.  Besides, his blab puts our military at risk and of course he cares less about that so long as he can spew his hate speech.  The poor thing needs our pity due to his uncouth behavior. 

Strange, I never heard Goldwater, Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and either George Bush say such a disgustingly un-Godly thing.  In fact, they would totally repudiate the act and the hate speech about it.  They would do so because they are moral human beings and since it increases the likelihood of problems for OUR military.  All are patriots and would NEVER stoop to this disgusting shame on our party.  Besides that, it is totally un-Godly and defies the rules in Scripture and particularly the rules in the military code.  It also puts our military at high risk and that is the shame of Breitbart that he shall never live down.

 ”(to liberals?)  What does political point of view on ideology have to do with moral and legal behavior?  As a life long Republican, I find the comment totally disgusting.  It has nothing to do with liberal or conservative point of view.  It has to do with the Military Code of Justice and the values of our country.  End of discussion.

She does have a right to condone illegal behavior and I have a right to call her out on it.  CNN also used their right as an employer to expect even it’s guest commentators to follow actual moral ideals laid down by the company.  That is called freedom of a business to set the rules for behavior of employees – even guests – while they are working at their company!  I used to be a Nursing Supervisor in a big university hospital and I had a long list of rules THEY gave me as a guide for my work.  Guess what, I followed them gladly.  It is called being grown up and accepting responsibility.

The “We’re better than they,” or “We don’t sink that low” type comments totally remove emotion from a highly emotional situation. Obviously you’ve never been shot at by people trying to kill you.  Who gives a rat’s a** if the dead enemy get urinated on?  So what?  If doing that improves our soldier’s fighting  moral, then go for it.  Are you as concerned about the Taliban bombing innocent citizens, chopping off heads, or killing our troops?   Making such Rear Echelon Puke type comments tells me that you don’t know what reality is all about.

(5 year military vet)

 Why are we talking about Dana Loesch?? The website she is an editor for, Big Government only receives
around 250,000 unique hits a month? Daily Kos gets nearly 700,000 unique
hits a day and I don’t remember the last Daily Kos story on Mediaite.
No one reads Breitbart except the media who report on everything he
does. Very few people even care about his website no one goes to.

I do not agree with the Fairness Doctrine. Nice try there. Now let’s come back to YOU not understanding the very first amendment of our Constitution.

The 1st restricts actions by the Government. Read it…

“Congress shall make no law……”

A private company can censor you…period!

“Obviously private companies don’t equal government. But, the first amendment protections DO extend to speech made BY private companies and organizations. ”

You do not seem to understand what I said. Yes…it applies to private companies, but it applies to private companies when the GOVERNMENT tries to censor them. It does not apply to INDIVIDUALS when the PRIVATE COMPANIES censor them.

Govt>>>censor>>>Private business? (NO)
Govt>>>censor>>>Individuals? (NO)
Private businesses>>>censor>>Individuals? YES!

CNN is not owned by the US Government.

Unpopular to liberals?

When was it ever considered honorable for US military personnel to piss on dead soldiers of an opposition army or movement? 

Would you guys be so quick to support any other soldiers pissing on OUR dead… or is that somehow “different?”
Either we can take the high road and show the world that we are worthy of respecting or we can act like a bunch of stoned and drunk frat boys and STFU when the world ignores all our moral posturing.

Is that how you’d feel if it were your son being pissed on… and photographed while having it done to his body?

If you’re going to disrespect war dead, seems smart to keep it to yourself and not take trophy photos. 

(Army brat whose drill sergeant father served for 30 years and in country during three wars)

So, two wrongs make a right? 

If an employee’s speech is being restricted or punished because the employee is expressing a religious or other belief that is different from the PRIVATE COMPANY or from other co-workers while allowing other employees to express themselves regarding religion or other beliefs, then that PRIVATE COMPANY has created a “hostile environment” for the employee whose speech is being punished or restricted and that is discrimination. They cannot do that.

For example–this employee is called into his supervisor’s office and is told point blank; “We don’t want you to talk about your Catholic religion anymore, everybody else who works here is a Baptist”. He then walks back out to his job and is confronted with the other employees talking about how great it is to be a Baptist, while he is not allowed to talk about how great it is to be a Catholic. This PRIVATE COMPANY has effectively created a hostile environment for him to work in and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has defined a hostile work environment as a form of discrimination.
 
While it is not a “First Amendment” case per se, that PRIVATE COMPANY cannot CENSOR>>>>that employees speech, while allowing other employess the right to express themselves.

If you are in the military, I hope you are not in a position of leadership because you need to re read the military code of conduct.  Urinating on a dead enemy is immoral and illegal.  Taking a picture of and promoting this kind of disgraceful behavior is stupid, and puts all American’s in the field at further risk of retaliation.  We are the United States of America, and our soldiers are supposed to be the best trained in the world.  We are not supposed to be the bad guy.  These soldiers need to be punished.   

They’ll have to take my bong away from my cold dead fingers.Seriously, I think that conservative women are bred in a camp somewhere. At least most of them are not as hideous as some lib women. My dog still runs out the door when Pelosi comes on the tube.

That is just plain religious discrimination though. EEO covers that. You could even sue under the 14th. Not so much the 1st. You are also changing the goalposts here. The discussion was strictly on speech as in the case of Ronald Martin and CNN. He has no case (if he wanted to) bringing a 1st amendment infringement. You do not have the right to say whatever you want as an employee of private company X. Hell….your clothing, how you dress could be considered your expression, or speech and companies can force you to wear their uniform. 

P.S. Let’s say a Muslim wants to work for a private company and they (company) have a strict dress code, employee can not sue them to allow it (wearing of a hijab or burka) under the 1st even though it’s related to their religion. Remember the Muslim workers for Hertz last year?

I take it you skipped school the decade they were describing the various meanings of “public” and “private.”

We have been waiting for almost 4 years! Just like all those guns we were told Obama was going to ban!  Guffaw. 

Speaking of censorship, my original post was censored by the moderators here at Mediaite and was not posted as I originally intended, so I will try to clean it up for the censorship police here at Mediaite.

Yes, it would have to be brought under discrimination, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they censored his speech. And yeah, I probably did try to nudge the goal post a little my way.
As far as Roland is concerned, I agree 100%. There is no way he can bring a claim under the 1st. or anything else for that matter. He is basically SOL. Being that CNN only suspended him, he will probably be brought back after an extended exile, if at all. What really pissed me off about the way CNN handled it though is that it appeared that they caved under pressure from GLAAD. They (GLAAD) ‘actively encourage’ the media, writers and other creators to use IT’S terminology when referring to LGBT’s. Seriously, “IT’S” terminology. If they ever came and hung out with me and my gay buddies, we would be skewered alive. We say that word that rhymes with “tag” and about a dozen other slang words that are not in “IT’S” terminology (which I won’t mention here for fear of being censored again) and laugh and joke while doing it. It’s called Free Speech, and I for one, own my words when I say them, not GLAAD.

P.S. I do remember that case with the muslim and a few others that were related to employees wearing pins on their lapels. They were all SOL too. Companies should be able to enforce a dress code and a hygeine code as well.

Evil woman

Hi Mari…I’m constantly see you embarresed by the party you claim to belong to.  At any point in the last four years have you been disgusted or embarressed for the administration or anybody on the left?

Well stated! ;)

She is NOT the editor for Big Government.

She IS the editor for Big Journalism.

Do your homework, chief.