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On Fox News Sunday, Sarah Palin stated that she has videotape of people from a CBS affiliate in Alaska trying to gin up a false controversy about Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller. Palin calls the CBS people "corrupt bastards."

.Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air. Does all this sound heavy handed? It is. It is an interference with Dan Fagan’s constitutional right to free speech. It...