The Wizard of Beck. David Brooks on the Influence and Power of Right Wing Talkers.

blackadder said

So, should Beck and Limbaugh be silenced, or should people be able to reason for themselves and recognize idiocy when they see it?

I think David Brooks is a slick charachter who works very hard to come across as thoughtful and balanced. He comes across as a voice of reason and logic and centrism on domestic affairs but he's also an apologist for liberal interventionism.

He often speaketh with forked tongue himself but he's much more sophisticated.

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I thought this is america? You can watch sex on TV, and after 12 oclock on certain televsion stations, its no hold barred on cursing and even nudity. But we cannot have the choice to listen to whomever we want to on the radio? Noone is forced to listen to Rush, Beck or Michael Savage. If you do not like what they say, then do not listen. This is America, and they have the right to free speech just as we do, and to silence them, is to piss on the our founding fathers who built this country and instated the right that we all have the right for free speech. It's part of what our soldiers die for, its part of why we are most hated, because we are aloud to say whatever the hell we want to. If you let the government silence Conservative talk, then its only a matter of time before we are all silenced.