CNN’s Chris Cuomo took to Facebook to address his tweet saying that hate speech was not protected by the Constitution following the attack on a “Draw Muhammad” event, a claim that was torn apart by media outlets on the left and right alike. (RELATED: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Doesn’t Understand The Constitution)
“I got beat up for this tweet that I made,” he said in a Periscope video. “It was a clumsy tweet. I was caught up in a back and forth.”
“Here’s the bottom line: of course hate speech is almost always protected by the First Amendment. It doesn’t say that in the First Amendment, but the case law does. It’s always about the case law in understanding the Constitution. It’s all about how it’s interpreted by our justice system.”
“So I created confusion that I was actually trying to clarify,” he concluded. “That’s the irony, but that’s on me.”
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[h/t Mediaite]