Limbaugh didn’t attack the troops.
“Fighting fire with fire” requires that we buy into the liberal premise that people deserve to lose their livelihood for expressing disagreement with the conventional wisdom of the crybaby asking for the firing (whether that “wisdom” be liberal or conservative).
There were several on this board suggesting we make an attempt to get Garofalo fired from 24 for the crime of being liberal. That’s no less ridiculous than trying to get a conservative fired for being conservative.
This is a surrender of our principles. Free speech is worthwhile.
SnakeDoc
Tell that to Don Imus.
I agree with your premise, but the only group that actually enjoys free speech is liberals. What they say is free, what we say is hate.
And while it's important not to surrender our principles, it's equally important not to surrender the battlefield. And, by ceding to the liberals, and their partners in crime in the ubiquitous media, the ability to say whatever they want, while editing every word that comes out of our mouth, is equally self-defeating.
Limbaugh didn’t attack the troops.
Tell that to Sen. Harkin of Iowa who discussed this as written record on the floor.
“There were several on this board suggesting we make an attempt to get Garofalo fired from 24 for the crime of being liberal. Thats no less ridiculous than trying to get a conservative fired for being conservative.”
You don’t understand the purpose of letting off steam. It is not only to be expected as part of human nature, but also a healthy thing. You do it yourself. Everyone does it.
The right to free speech does not include the right to be immune from its effects. The government is enjoined from administering “punishment” for speaking out, but the people are not.
I see it this way: If we are not allowed to react strongly (or weakly, for that matter) to Letterman’s offensiveness, then we have no right to free speech ourselves. If “free speech” means we cannot be discerning in our tastes - including the right to protest loudly and try to get an offensive boor fired - then the first amendment is truly dead.
we buy into the liberal premise that people deserve to lose their livelihood for expressing disagreement with the conventional wisdom of the crybaby
Pedophilia and NAMBLA should be shouted from the rooftops!
I'm done.