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At least he’s honest about taking bribes.

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Nagger please!

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You haven't lived until you've tried the Montana Cowgirl. Guaranteed to make Old Faithful erupt over and over IYKWIM

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PW;

Odds are the first "writer" just printed a crazy Internets chain email from his (or her) aol InBox.

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EQ: A recent Tundra Grifter investigation shows your post is remarkably similar to PsycWench's (above) which appeared before EdgyDrifter's (also above but below hers).

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No, no, it's totally different things. If you DON'T print exactly what he said, it's CENSORSHIP. If you DO print exactly what he said, it's CENSURESHIP.

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Yeah, but Andy Jackson and his ilk did their darnedest to fix that.

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Great, another Richard Cohen story...

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Do they even cover the First Amendment in schools anymore? If Wonkette had a dollar for every time someone has invoked it inappropriately, wed' never have to look at Newsmax in the sidebar again.

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From the article: <i>A Gazette investigation in August also showed that Lenington apparently plagiarized two letters to the editor — one of them titled “Why I Hate Barack and Michelle Obama” — that he submitted to The Gazette and several other newspapers. </i>

Words do not suffice.

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<i>“I feel that The Billings Gazette is censuring my First Amendment Rights..."</i>

The First Amendment only limits what the <i>government</i> can do. But, just like mommy blogs, the newspaper can censor whatever they want.

When I worked for Boulder County government, they could not restrict in any way what I said or did. But they could fire me for, say, using county property for non-work activities. Browsing porn, perhaps. Or sending racist emails to the newspaper. OK, it was browsing porn.

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dear shitferbrains, I'm pretty sure that if The Billings Gazette was censuring your "First Amendment Rights" you wouldn't actually be in any trouble and would still have a jerb. It's the fact that no one did censure your racist clap trap that you're gonna become one of those moochers and takers

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'there are more lesbians, queers, Indians, Mexicans and n——— than the rest of us!”

Umm, maybe once you count up all those people, you and your ilk aren't actually "the rest of us"

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Lenington finishes his letter with "I am at your disposal." You got that right, buddy.

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