Pete Domenici: “I believe bad laws are made in unordinary times. I believe bad laws are made when things are not going well and somebody…”

“I believe bad laws are made in unordinary times. I believe bad laws are made when things are not going well and somebody decides that they know why they are not going well. That is why I am reluctant to say Congress, over the scheme of history, would not act in some almost aberrational way to limit speech if things just were not going right and it was their decision there was just too much going on out there in the political arena. Those kinds of things have happened in our history. They have happened and you look back and say, how could it have happened? Historians say all of these different things came together at the same time and, of course, some people thought they knew precisely why and they acted accordingly. Now, I also commented about the media collectively as being the big user of this freedom and, indeed, I think that is a fair statement. Frankly, I do not think anybody individually within that collective media would question this statement. They are not always right either. They are not always right in their conclusions, individually and collectively. Even if they are not disposed to be philosophically one way or another, they are frequently wrong. And yet their wrongness is protected by the Constitution.”