You’d think that Keith Olbermann–a guy who spent years agitating against his own country’s war effort by repeating enemy propaganda in order to discourage Americans for pure partisan advantage—and Arianna Huffington– the doyenne of a website whose comment sections are famous for particularly venomous hate speech– would tend to be First Amendment absolutists.
After all, there actually have been times in American history when wartime powers granted to the government allowed for jailing people who engaged in such things. Woodrow Wilson, for instance, jailed a man in a small town about 15 miles from where I live for speaking out against War Bonds.
But Friday night, the media’s biggest hater, who spews invective on a nightly basis in barely controlled rage, and the media’s oddest figure, who has argued from every side of the political fence, got together and decided that Glenn Beck is a clear and present danger to the survival of our democracy, and that he meets the “exception” to the First Amendment.
And it’s “paranoid” for Beck to say the Left in this country has totalitarian tendencies?
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