More on Liberals and Free Speech

Liberals love free speech. At least, that's what they always say. But when it comes to practicing it, they tend to like more regulation. Whether you are talking about campus speech codes, workplace harassment laws, or the Fairness Doctrine, those speech-lovin' liberals love to limit speech that they find offensive.

Notice, they don't mind speech that might be offensive to Republicans or conservatives. So, for example, when Don Imus discusses hanging Dick Cheney, there's nary a peep from those speech monitors.

But what if a conservative radio talk show channel in San Francisco calls for the torturing and killing of a black man? Oh, wait. That didn't happen.

That doesn't matter to Spocko, who started a campaign against San Francisco's KSFO for having the audacity to air conservative shows. Spocko says his beef is against "violent" talk, but the talk he cherry-picks could only be considered "violent" in the most restrictive, prudish sense of that word. Keep in mind that the same people who call George Bush Hitler and laugh at the prospect of the vice president wetting his pants at execution are upset about conservative hosts using milder metaphors.

I had read about the Spocko campaign a couple of weeks ago but wrote it off as the usual moonbat screeching about how important free speech is unless it's something they don't like. But then I found this story at the New York Times.

Originally, I shrugged it off as more involved citizens doing what one should do when one dislikes business practices (and no, it isn't asking the federal government to crack down on the business): petition the business. After all, I'm not Media Matters, who thinks advertisers shouldn't be allowed to state which shows they want their ads to run on.

But then I found Noel Sheppard's blog about the incident with KSFO and discovered that, once again, liberals just can't tell the truth about anything. Sheppard's blog is quite lengthy, but he puts the quotes Spocko pulled to send to advertisers in context. Suddenly, they sound outlandish but not the type of racist, violent crap that Spocko painted them to be.

Indeed, Media Matters is positively giddy about the attack on KSFO. But search as I might, I couldn't find any corresponding condemnation for the Don Imus discussion.

But then, after watching the moonbats at this post on CSPT excuse Democrat churlishness, I'm not the least bit surprised.