You wrote “she thinks it protects politicians from criticism” – none of Palin’s children are in politics. Palin is denouncing Letterman’s tasteless, demeaning attacks on her children; we have video embedded in a previous post of her interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show and her radio interview with John Ziegler. Palin has actually been incredibly good-natured about being called “slutty airline attendant” and a bimbo and trailer trash, etc. Please cite your source of Palin saying that she expects the First Amendment to protect her from any criticism – judging by the thousands of ridiculously critical (and nasty) essays, blogs, news stories out there about her, I would be interested in your source to prove what you asserted. Please cite your source that she wants or has demanded or has requested that Letterman and/or Couric lose their First Amendment rights. Good luck with that, bud. I have a tremendous amount of text sources and video and audio documentation to quickly prove you 100 percent wrong, with one hand tied behind my back.

Mandating or suggesting that Letterman’s and Couric’s should be denied their Constitutional right of free speech because they’ve said stupid, irresponsible things is not ever presented nor suggested in the essay… I’m missing your point here, except that you’re inventing/fabricating information contained in the essay. Criticizing their philosophies is not the same thing as having the government silencing them. They have the right to be stupid… I have the right to call them on it. It goes both ways, although leftists think it only applies to themselves.

In response to your question, yes, I do know quite a bit about America’s founding fathers and our Constitution, and am learning more by the day. Thank you for inquiring.