Conservatives Engage in CENSORSHIP (as Defined by a Fellow Conservative)

In response to my last post, a fellow blogger and I had the following exchange (relevant parts only):

El Loco:   I don't think the original comment was a personal attack, but rather, a bad joke. A really ill-conceived bad joke. But again, that stuff happens when you're a public persona.

Offensive? Yes. But lets move on to something a little more substantive, shall we? If the right is so bent out of shape, it can boycott Letterman's sponsors, and it can use the power of the remote to watch something else.

Oh, wait. I forgot you call that censorship and not free speech.

Conservative Blogger's Response: No Loco, we call it censorship if NOW (the group not the time) all of a sudden would ask for Letterman to be fired, the way they fired Imus.

He can say whatever he wants, and he can be boycotted, there are responsibilities for your actions.

Unless my fellow blogger suggests that it's only censorship when NOW does it, and I know she's too smart to suggest that, it appears that Conservatives are engaged in censorship.  Via The Raw Story:

In spite of Letterman's apology, conservatives have launched a Web site calling for his job. The site, FireDavidLetterman.com, appears to mimic the layout of The Drudge Report. The group responsible is planning to protest outside New York's Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday afternoon.

Emphasis added.  If you feel compelled to check out their site, by all means.  But it only goes to show that, for some people, freedom of speech only applies if you say stuff I don't find offensive.

The moral of the story?  There are way too many people with waaaaay too much time on their hands out there right now.

Comments

[Louis Pagan]

This is a way of enforcing censorship subtlety: you can say what you want, but we'll make sure to shut you up afterward.

[La Ventanita]

Loco, no sabes cuanto he pensado en ti. Man not even two days after I wrote that, the fire Letterman chants started. And even though we know that censorship is a different thing altogether, this is public censorship. This is as bad as lefties calling for FoxNews to be off the air.

I wish they'd just let it go. I can accept the boycotts, they are after all a consumers advocate action against many things. But just as I was against Imus' firing (even I didn't agree with his comment), I'm not in agreement of firing anyone unless they openly call to kill someone.