It seems professors have become incredibly stupid over the years.
And the networks won't run religious ads! Gee what country are these professors living in? I'd hazard a guess television network executives are more afraid of the ACLU and AUSH than they are of religious Christians.
"the power of the right in America to chill and deter free speech."
"It seems professors have become incredibly stupid over the years."
Dishonest too. This liar knows full well that the purpose of the ad, AND its pre-planned "refusal" by the networks was to publicize the "chilling" effect of the RedState Right now that the eeevil Bush has siezed power once again.
Like the dance ABC did around "Saving Private Ryan," this whole episode is a choreographed dramatic charade to slyly smear and slander the good Christian Americans who voted for GW Bush.
If I'm wrong, then the question is, how could an ad that didn't run, instantly turn into such a well-publicized, coordinated and carefully presented message?
The further evidence is that CBS apparently appended an editorial comment about the Constitutional Amendment in defense of marriage, implying that such an amendment even in the proposal stages, was a source of fear and censorship and the end of civilization as we know it.
I didn't believe this non sequitur even was committed, at first, but now understand it to have been a typical bit of CBS overkill, capitalizing on an artificially created opportunity.