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Jack Kingston: In terms of not having different rules and saying everybody's going to be treated differently, that is not bad. That is…

On the recordFebruary 13, 2002
In terms of not having different rules and saying everybody's going to be treated differently, that is not bad. That is the way they did it in the Soviet Union. Everybody was treated right. They did not have any first amendment rights. Must have been the message. Nobody can speak the last 60 days. I hate attack ads. I am the father of four kids. Do my colleagues know how humiliating it is to have an attack ad run when you are trying to bond with your 13-year-old going through middle school and all she hears on the radio is what a creep you are? Of course, she has been telling me that for a long time anyhow, but it is embarrassing. I do not like attack ads, but doggone it, I cannot think of America without that first amendment right to run an attack ad. I think that would be far worse. Even though I have been a victim of one, I have to say it scares me to think of an America where we cannot run an attack ad.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the importance of the First Amendment in the context of political attack ads.

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