Letters to the Editor

• The Meaning of Free Speech

  [Read the article: Cheney, Cohen and Colbert: The rhetoric and the reality of free speech]
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  Amazingly, this example is used to advance the notion that we dont have free speech in America.

  Cohen says that "anyone can insult the president of the United States" without fear of any consequences. Tell it to the Dixie Chicks, who were subjected to a nationwide radio boycott after singer Natalie Maines said she was ashamed that Bush was from her home state of Texas.

  Last time I checked people criticizing the Dixie Chicks is a quintessential example of Americans EXERCISING THEIR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS. Just because you don't like what they have to say, doesn't nullify their right to criticize the Dixie Chicks and urge that they be boycotted.

  To criticize that or compare it to un-free society is nothing less than absurd. Last time I checked, free speech is a two-way street,

  Permalink Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:43 PM