Gov. Palin has a history of attempting to quiet speech that she disagrees with.  Back in Alaska…   (link)

Palin has acknowledged she twice raised the issue in 1996 of how books could be removed from the shelves, but said it was only a “rhetorical question” and that she did not ask for any books to be banned.

Palin’s church at the time, the Assembly of God, had been pushing for the removal a book called “Pastor I Am Gay” from local bookstores, according to the book’s author Pastor Howard Bess, of the Church of the Covenant in nearby Palmer, Alaska.

“And she was one of them,” said Bess, “this whole thing of controlling information, censorship, that’s part of the scene,” said Bess.

Can you imagine what she would attempt to do “if [she] and Senator McCain are so blessed as to be chosen to serve?”  Well, you don’t have to wait…she gave her opinion about the press this past weekend.

As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance……. got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press………..and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege.

I guess Gov. Palin believes that freedom of speech and freedom of the press is a privilege not a right.  Our Founding Fathers have something to say about that and they said it in the first amendment of the Constitution.  Read it!