Why Ozzie Guillen Is NOT Protected By The 1st Amendment

Reblogged from Baseball Nerd:

You've read the remarks by now:

"I love Fidel Castro. I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that (expletive) is still there."

That's from a subscriber-only article in Time. Ken Rosenthal has written that in the context of how Fidel Castro is viewed in South Florida, the Marlins need to do more than have Ozzie Guillen apologize at his news conference tomorrow, that they need to suspend him for as much as a month.

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I don't have a huge stake in how Ozzie does in Miami or how Fidel does in Cuba, but the whole "everybody's got a first amendment right to say whatever they want to" thing has always bugged me. Olbermann gets it right.

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