[SolidSupplySide]

The former President husband of someone whom everyone knows to be a candidate for US President trying to intimidate a national network is not quite the passage of a law by Congress - but it is more than just your average private citizen applying pressure.

Did President Clinton lose his right to free speech? If only average private citizens have free speech, how high a level can a person reach before he no longer has free speech?

If there is, God forbid, a Democratic Senate next year with Senator Clinton in a position of even greater power, there are many things she could do to use the power of the federal government to punish ABC.

Your imaginary punishments a year from now are not censorship. In a year, no one will remember this program. Heck, I hope I'm still in the running for my football pool Sunday night. Go Colts! Cover the spread! Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, I am unlikely to watch the program.

[wideawake]

Did President Clinton lose his right to free speech?

No, he's using it right now in a very irresponsible fashion - a fashion which is a veiled threat to other people's freedom of speech.

As another poster pointed out, the Senate minority leader is now threatening their broadcaster's license.