Posted on 04/07/08
The right to exaggerate
In a democracy, the right to be unreasonable is as important as any other right. You might say the right to free speech rests on it - on the right to exaggerate, to mock, to be unfair, to be wrong. Without this right, there could be no comedians, no newspaper columnists, no editorial cartoonists, no satirists, no Internet, no talk radio. And no Rafe Mair.
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