Here We Go Again...

I knew this was coming. As I was reading the news today at worldnetdaily, I happened upon a story about Rush Limbaugh suggesting the V Tech shooter was a liberal. Immediately following the story was a long list of reader comments, many of which called for Rush to be fired. Then, on the view this morning, right after defending freedom of speech for rappers, the vacuous women began a big "shame on you" pecking party on Rush, pointing out his former addiction to prescription medicine. I wasn't surprised by the character assassination or the hypocrisy, because we all know how badly they want to silence any voice from the right. They talk about freedom of speech for guys like Master P or Ice-T, but when a talk show host suggests that a crazy guy with a gun might be a liberal, well, "he must be silenced! And if he can't be, well, you don't have to listen to him because he's a junkie." What's interesting is that Rush knew this would happen, too. In an explanation of this to a caller on his show, Rush said, "Look, last week, as a means of illustrating on this show how the words of conservative talk show hosts are twisted and taken out of context, I blamed the liberals for the Virginia Tech shooting. I said the guy had to be a liberal, and I went through and I said, "You watch. There's going to be a website that picks this up, and a bunch of people are going to read it and they're going to be outraged that I would possibly say this," and they said, "Yeah, you got a guy that hates the rich. You got a guy that thinks the American culture is debauched. Who is it telling us all this and who is it doing all this? It's the liberals," and sure enough Media Matters fell for it hook, line and sinker." Well, as the title of one of his books goes, "See, I Told You So." The same people who defend racist and sexist speech in the arts want him to loose his career in shame for saying something that, at most, is insensitive to a dead guy. When Mel Gibson opens his big, fat antisemitic mouth, he just says, "Sorry! I was drunk!" and the lefties give him a pass, and he insulted an entire race. I'll say this again, for those of you who missed the last few posts. We must see the Fairness Doctrine for what it is and reject it, because free speech, even speech you find despicable, must be protected. Without it, there is no free and open debate. All of you leftie bloggers out there should be ashamed of yourselves for supporting this, for calling on Rush to be fired, because the next thing to go will be the Internet, and who knows if the Web Police will come for you, too?