Tim Walz Gets First Amendment All Wrong

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Tuesday night, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) took part in a Vice-Presidential debate moderated by Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan. In one of the debate’s most memorable moments, Walz was asked whether he lied when claiming he was in China during the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989. After attempting to avoid directly answering the question, Walz eventually conceded that he misspeaks occasionally—even calling himself a “knucklehead.” 3:30pm- Congressman Dan Meuser—Representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap last night’s Vice-Presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz. Rep. Meuser also reacts to the recent House hearing and newly released Senate report into the near assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA. He explains Department of Homeland Security Alejandro “Mayorkas is the biggest coward there is on earth” adding he shouldn’t just be impeached, he should be imprisoned for his failures at protecting the U.S. border—specifically citing the revelations from a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report which indicated that there are an estimated 425,000+ convicted criminals who have entered the U.S. unlawfully via the southern border and are not in federal custody. 3:40pm- During Tuesday night’s Vice-Presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz defended his calls to censor speech by proclaiming: “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.” But as Emma Camp of Reason points out: “It would be nice if everyone on a presidential ticket understood how the First Amendment works, but unfortunately, that seems to be too much to ask of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz…It's a common misconception that shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre isn't protected by the First Amendment—a myth that originates from a hypothetical used in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1919 Supreme Court opinion in Schenck v. United States. Holmes wrote that ‘the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.’ Not only was this a purely hypothetical example used to explain Holmes' opinion, but the ruling itself was largely overturned 50 years later in Brandenburg v. Ohio.” You can read Camp’s full article here: https://reason.com/2024/10/02/yes-tim-walz-you-can-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theatre/