[IMR 4350]

Allowing people you disagree with on the air only so you can make fools of them is a form a censorship, especially when your oppositions position is scripted and your response is scripted for laugh effect.

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Allowing people you disagree with on the air only so you can make fools of them is a form a censorship, especially when your oppositions position is scripted and your response is scripted for laugh effect.

But mocking people isn't killing them or putting them in prison or burning their books -- especially if there are other shows, channels, and networks.

A free society does have room for clowns to domineer on television for an hour or so a week since there are plenty of other media outlets that will disagree.

I don't really go with the argument "if so-and-so had absolute power, so-and-so would exercise absolute power." Most people don't want absolute power, so the point is moot, IMHO.