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[branford]

52. Even hate speech is protected in the USA.

Thank you, I'l keep my "sanctimony," but jettison any hypocrisy.

As I clearly stated, you do not have to watch FOX on you own television. I personally do not. However, neither you, I or the OP, gets to determine what people watch. To use a far more extreme example of my point, I'm reminded of the Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois many years ago. I lost many family members in the Holocaust, but I completely agreed with the ACLU that they had a right to march, despite their blatant bigotry. The answer to speech, even Nazis, is more speech, not censorship. We live by example. The OP simply proved that she had such little confidence in her purported liberal values that she feared them being challenged by the talking monkeys on Fox.

If you do not want to watch Fox when you do not legally control the television, the proper, adult response is to ask the owner to change the station to something mutually acceptable, and most people (or employers or business proprietors) will abide such a request. However, it was her employer's television, therefore they determined what to watch, and they have an absolute right to watch Fox, MSNBC, ESPN, PBS or anything else they choose. If your the boss, you can set the channel. It's really that simple.

What I find most disturbing is that the OP didn't just change the channel, a minor, very temporary act of rebellion, but she altered passwords and hid or stole the remote control so that her company could not reset the channel to their preference.

The OP eliminated her employer's choices, and substituted her own. To me, that's no better than the actions of many conservative neanderthals that most here on DU despise, including me. I do not seek to become what I detest.

I will never alter my very liberal beliefs concerning free speech because I'm offended by some morons on a cable "news" channel. The fleeting sense of schadenfreude is not worth the obvious hypocrisy.

If you excuse the OP's behavior, don't act surprised or offended when conservatives seek to deny you choices or silence your speech because they are offended.