Everyone that believes in free speech should be appalled at this!

[rclouse 0]

I always listen to Michael Savage on my drive hom. I think he is a racist, crypto-fascist but yet I can't miss my daily fix.

It's NPR for me!

Hey, it's not just for commie-pinko libtards like me. Even the Bush-voters in my lab listen to NPR.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Oh I listen to NPR too -- whenever SAVAGE starts frothing at the mouth so much I think it's coming through my speakers I switch over to give my head a rest from his haranguing.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Oh I listen to NPR too -- whenever SAVAGE starts frothing at the mouth so much I think it's coming through my speakers I switch over to give my head a rest from his haranguing.

I listen to Savage as well as Rush Limbaugh. Simply - it amazes me that such people are actually popular and can attract a serious following. In that sense its like watching a cartoon because the expressed views are so outlandish - but like Deviant pornography I think its something people listen to when in the back of their minds they should be reproaching themselves for "knowing better". Although a better analogy would perhaps be WWF wrestling - everyone knows its fake, but people who really get into it seem to forget that its all scripted.

In answer to the OP post - yes it is reprehensible to stifle free speech for political gain. However, this is not unprecedented, nor is it unique to one of the major mainstream parties - it representative of the business of politics at large - which for many many years has been (in the main) dishonest and downright dirty.