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Vickie proposed that we\u2019re not talking about “free” speech when we talk about banning political ads, because the ads have to be paid for. But that isn\u2019t what\u2019s meant by free<\/emphasize> speech, my friends. Free speech means the freedom to speak – and that\u2019s what the House of Representatives stopped. <\/line>The opposite or converse of free<\/emphasize> speech is not paid speech. The opposite of free speech is no<\/emphasize> speech, the abridgement of speech – and that\u2019s what happened Wednesday night while you slept. That\u2019s why Vickie and all of you other supporters of this bill that has such a great sounding name, need to join me on this. The freedom to speak, in whatever form, 60 days before an election, was stamped out by Congress. <\/line>Vickie spoke for a lot of people about these political ads, saying that whenever you see something that you know is paid for time time, like an infomercial, you don\u2019t trust what you hear. To illustrate the absurdsudity of this non-thinking way of judging who\u2019s telling the truth, I JIPed a George W. Bush speech. <\/line>A lot of people probably do think any time a person is buying commercials – especially in the political realm – they\u2019re just saying whatever they have to on TV. But these infomercials work. Look at these silly electronic things that are supposed to give you rock-hard abs. People are buying them! <\/line><\/p>\n

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Vickie proposed that we\u2019re not talking about “free” speech when we talk about banning political ads, because the ads have to be paid for. But that isn\u2019t what\u2019s meant by free speech, my friends. Free speech means the freedom to speak – and that\u2019s what the House of Representatives stopped. 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