Jacob Sullum points out that John McCain really doesn’t know what he is talking about:
For those who wondered how Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) could sponsor a “campaign finance reform” law that restricts political speech, the answer became clear during a hearing he chaired the other day: McCain has never read the First Amendment.
How else to explain the senator’s contention that radio stations violate the First Amendment when they decline to play the music of performers who offend their listeners? According to McCain, this threat to freedom of speech is a “strong argument” for limiting “media concentration”
Brandon
McCain has never liked the idea that people could criticise him. And he reacts badly to criticism. Whenever he bothers to return home, it’s mostly to receive accolades from his loyal constituents for his hero persona and national recognition.
Still, he’s not a bad senator. He’s just an arrogant jerk.
Mark Alger
>>Still, he’s not a bad senator. He’s just an arrogant jerk.
I beg to differ. He is ignorant of the contents of the nation’s founding document. Ipso facto, he is disqualified from being a senator. That makes him a bad senator–possibly the worst.