There's a reason only Rachel and Thom Hartmann will touch this meme.....

[veganlush]

20. ed's fine, we need someone who can talk to the blue

collars too, but he's not the brightest bulb in the room. He doesn't understand boycotting, he thinks it's a free speech issue and it's NOT. Free speech protections means the Government can't contain or control speech. It has nothing to do with people deciding to bring market forces to bear, through free will, in the form of a boycott.

Someone needs to explain the difference to him and others, for example Sarah Palin. It IS NOT a free speech issue. A boycott is just advertising in reverse, done by people with a point of view banding together. When Coke says buy our product instead of Pepsi, they are calling for a boycott in a manner of speaking. Free Speech issues involve the GOVERNMENT attempting to impede speech.

Boycotting Limbaugh is just a matter of members of the free market making their choices. Just like when a vegan shops for food, he's taking into account the costs that aren't reflected on the price sticker (confinement, torture of innocents) and he's voting with his wallet and boycotting cruelty.