Where the Assault on Conservative Free Speech Is Heading

FETTERMAN: Saying that Pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to “steal” the election, unquote, that’s a lie. And that… You do not have the right; that is not protected speech. The second those tweets went up, they should have been deleted. That’s not de-platforming someone, it’s deleting lies that are yelling “fire” in a crowded theater when there is none. And there’s a difference. That is not protected speech. No one — Republican, Democrat, whatever — has the right to say those kind of incendiary lies.

RUSH: Who gets to call ’em lies? Who is this magnificent personage sitting somewhere who gets to proclaim that whatever Trump said about Pennsylvania is lies? But more importantly, Lieutenant Governor Fetterman, who the hell did you people do for four years if not lie about Trump colluding with Russians to steal the 2016 election, when everybody knows it was Hillary Clinton that did exactly that?

You guys still haven’t conceded the 2016 election. Oh, yeah, Hillary may have, but you haven’t. You’re justifying everything you’re doing to Donald Trump on the basis of a lie that you can’t stop telling, and nobody is deplatforming you, and nobody is taking your tweets down — and nobody’s even suggesting that your tweets, Lieutenant Governor Fetterman, come down.

Oh, the New York Times report?

Oh, I’m sorry. The New York Times reporting it legitimizes it? No. The New York Times reporting it does nothing but slam the reputation of the New York Times. “The second those tweets went up from the president they should have been deleted.” I could say the same thing about the never-ending lies from James Clapper, from John Brennan, from Comey, from Hillary Clinton.

I mean, the list is never-ending, the number of who consistently lied. Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page, that whole FBI cabal — and yet nobody made a move to take your tweets down or to suggest the New York Times not be able to report what they were reporting because they didn’t have any evidence. They lied about the fact that they had evidence. But this is exactly what they do.

If you dissent, you’re a domestic terrorist, folks. If you dissent from whatever it is the Democrat Party today believes, they are claiming they have a right to shut you down, to delete your tweets.

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