Andrew Cuomo shows that Left has forgotten what the First Amendment means

Published January 22, 2014 5:00am ET



Everyone “knows” it is conservatives who are mean-spirited, intolerant, censors of speech with which they don’t agree, anti-gay, anti-black and anti-just about everything else, right? We know this because the Left keeps telling us so.

Which is why, in this era of increasingly corrosive language — note the overuse of the f-word in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street” — and acidic political discourse, recent comments by Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ought to shock and outrage everyone, regardless of party affiliation or ideology.

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