26th May 2004, 1:38 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...ow_booed_6
Doctorow turns a graduation commencement into an anti-Bush spiel. And quite a few students were unhappy about it. So they booed him into silence. Now he's whining about being unable to speak freely.
Why is it that liberals feel it is okay to criticize anything and everything they feel like, but when someone counters them with criticism, it's "supressing free speech"?
I suppose 'free speech' is now a label that applies only to liberal viewpoints.
Or, more accurately, will liberals ever realize that free speech is only protection from government retaliation, and that when you say something stupid, as Doctorow spent twenty minutes doing, there are bound to be negative consequences?
Doctorow turns a graduation commencement into an anti-Bush spiel. And quite a few students were unhappy about it. So they booed him into silence. Now he's whining about being unable to speak freely.
Why is it that liberals feel it is okay to criticize anything and everything they feel like, but when someone counters them with criticism, it's "supressing free speech"?
I suppose 'free speech' is now a label that applies only to liberal viewpoints.
Or, more accurately, will liberals ever realize that free speech is only protection from government retaliation, and that when you say something stupid, as Doctorow spent twenty minutes doing, there are bound to be negative consequences?
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