But yesterday, when Bolling talked about a high school’s art exhibit on police brutality––with one image in particular showing a bloodied man with a giant police badge in his back––he started out by saying, “I get the idea of free speech, but…”
Bolling said it was in really bad taste, in contrast to his pretty firm stand on free speech just days ago when it came to cartoons of Muhammad.
Well, the Fox host noticed the criticism and responded on The Five today to the hypocrisy suggestion. He pointed out he did bring up the First Amendment yesterday and made this distinction:
“You have the right to draw and display vulgar
stuff. You have that right. But I have the right to suggest it shouldn’t be in a high school art project. That’s all I’m simply saying. I do still stand by the First Amendment.”
Watch the video below, via Fox News:
And you can contrast what Bolling said about the Muhammad cartoons with what he said about the police brutality artwork below, also via Fox:
[image via screengrab]
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