Ethics

That Famous Worldnutdaily Objectivity

By Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily has an article about challenges to state laws preventing people from wearing t-shirts or buttons supporting a candidate into polling places. John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is challenging those rules in Virginia and I agree with him completely. Such rules stifle free speech on the flimsy and ridiculous premise that someone wearing a campaign shirt or button amounts to campaigning at the polls (most states have a rule forbidding campaigning within a certain distance from the polling place, which is why no one can hand out literature within, say, 100 feet of the front door of the place). We have similar disputes going on here in Michigan and I'd like to see groups like the ACLU challenge those rules and get them overturned. But look what the Worldnutdaily does at the bottom of that article, relating it to entirely false claims that have nothing to do with this:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).