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Do you support censorship?

CNN paid Pat Buchanan, who is a hard core racist, for years to co-host Crossfire and be a talking head on their news shows. Was CNN encouraging Buchanan's ideas or Robert Novak's ideas, or Tucker Carlson's? Or were they just giving them a place to air them? If you did not call on a boycott of CNN when they employed and were paying Buchanan, Novak, Carlson et al, then it is not logical for you to call a boycott of Fox because they employ O'Reilly and Hannity. Those guys are not worse than the CNN right wing pundits, they are the same.

The one thing worse than a bad idea is forced suppression of those ideas. You are saying you want censorship. I'd rather Bill O'Reilly be where he is so millions of people can see what an idiot he is. I'd rather an anti-semite be on the air and exposed as a racist then be off the air in a closet somewhere. You can't make freedom of speech a partisan thing, a selective thing. I suppose by your logic you'd want the New York Times to fire David Brooks too, along with any other conservative columnists who might sometimes be or sound anti-semitic. You are taking too hard a line.


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