Sarah Palin doesn’t have a clue what the First Amendment means. In her mind the Amendment was written to protect politicians running for office, government employees, and high profile public servants from the criticism of news and media organizations. And I thought it was to protect individual citizens from the abuses of authority by government agents who might try to censor them.

According to ABC News, Palin made the remark in an interview that reporters criticizing her criticizing Obama were infringing upon her Constitutional right to criticize. Here’s a snippet:

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”

So the Constitution is there to protect elected officials from media criticism. That’s your (potentially) future vice president speaking.

I love Salon.com’s analysis.

Oh, and just in case you think Salon.com, ABC News, and I have colluded to make this up, here’s the audio. You can hear it straight from the moose’s mouth.

Do you really want to vote for somebody that belligerent?