Reply #49: the ad wasn't the problem

[salin]

speaking out against it - when the primary actors related to the ad were previously in the employ of two campaigns - that is the problem. :eyes:

Sorta the obnoxious speaker has first amendment rights - but the person who calls that speaker on the content of the slurs is the one who gets attacked as being PC (as if the second has no first amendment rights.)

However, Dean isn't clean in terms of barbs towards other candidates - and I think that the reaction his campaign has when things like this ad that go FAR over the bounds (imo) - gets a bit of a huffy reaction by those who percieve their candidate to have been attacked (though not at the same visceral ugly level) by the Dean campaign. Just add that to state that I get where the reaction from diehard supporters of candidates is going from. Sadly I think sometimes some reactions are so conditioned that there is no longer consideration from situation to situation just all lumped together. Such is often the case when passions for particular candidates (seen it in all camps at DU) run so high... the skills of discernment often get temporarily less refined.