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The right still doesn’t understand the Constitution…

Well…the right is all up in arms today about the reaction to the homophobic, racist comments that one of the stars of “Duck Dynasty” made in an interview with GQ magazine, going on and on about how his first amendment rights have been violated since he has been suspended from A&E for the comments. Man, these folks just don’t understand the document that they wave around their heads, do they? The first amendment protects your freedom of speech…and this idiot is still free to say whatever he wants…there is no one trying to silence him…but, due to the repubs continual deference to corporations and the right of these corporations to do whatever they want to their employees, A&E has every right to suspend him…the first amendment has nothing to say about the fallout from your free speech. This is something the left has been clamoring for for decades, to try to limit the power of corporations over the constitutional rights of employees but the right just thinks that there need to be no laws, that corporations will do what’s right just because they are “nice”…something we all know is not and never has been the case. I still support the right of this homophobic, racist ass to say whatever comes into his tiny mind, but the right has to remember that words have consequences…geez…