Alan Grayson Wins Muzzie For Latest Attempt to Quash Free Speech
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 5:11 AM
Rep. Alan Grayson won the latest “Muzzle Award” for his attempts to jail his critics at “My Congressman Is Nuts”.
The popular democrat asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate and jail his critics for 5 years for producing a website that parodied his campaign site.
FOX News reported:
Outspoken Florida Rep. Alan Grayson topped the “Muzzle” awards on Tuesday, earning the dubious distinction for asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate a Web site that parodied his campaign site.
The annual award list, created by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, is presented on April 13, Jefferson’s birthday, to remind people of the third president’s unavowed commitment to free speech.
The center says the awards are handed out for “some of the more egregious or ridiculous affronts to the First Amendment right of free speech.”
Topping the meter was Grayson’s effort to seek a monetary fine and five-year prison sentence against a group of Orlando-area Republican activists led by Angie Langley, who launched the Web site “mycongressmanisnuts.com,” a parody of Grayson’s official Web site “congressmanwithguts.com.
Grayson wrote a complaint to Holder in December alleging that the Web site violated federal law because Langley is not actually a constituent of his and the site targets him solely, even though it claims to oppose or endorse several candidates.
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NC Cop commented:
HE’S CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS!!!!!
Greg commented:
He is a good counterbalance to Ron Paul
Corporal vere commented:
Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Neither Grayson nor Obama nor the CBC are loons. They know what they are doing with the STFU campaign.
Without free speech it is impossible not only to appeal to outside opinion, but to form a mass movement, or even to make known your arguments.
Auntie Em commented:
Is this guy for real?? I think he may be retarded.
Melvin Winter commented:
Parody: FBI Storms Capitol Building, Reveals 2008 Election Was Giant Sting Operation http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/04/fbi-storms-capitol-building-reveals.html
Dave In Houston commented:
He’s popular? With whom? He probably comes from a safe Democratic district, but everywhere else he’s regarded as a loud, pompous and potentially dangerous twit.
Ruebacca commented:
Tail-gunner Allen.
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Politicians who take themselves too seriously, and haven’t a trace of a sense of humor, should be avoided at all costs as those traits define narcissists and fanatics.
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yonason commented:
SPEAKING OF QUASHING FREE SPEECH …
http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/son-of-hamas-founder-speaks-out-against.html
Why people think Hanity is a Conservative I don’t know. Probably the same people who think Glenn Beck is.
wanumba commented:
Well, one hopes that this has been a profound lesson to Americans that it’s a civic duty to pay attention to candidates and to run for office. The thuggy idiots we have now are a harsh reminder that if decent people don’t step up, the total jerk wins.
Stephen Monteith commented:
I can’t believe no one had that URL before.