Cornered weasels are notoriously dangerous.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> RoMunn wrote:
>>> Yeah, someone needs to reassure all these folks that the government is not
>>> coming after them. I'm not sure how we go about doing that, but it needs to
>>> happen. Just because their fears are irrational does not mean they should be
>>> ignored or dismissed.
>>>
>>
>>This is where I wonder about free speech for people like Glen Beck.
>>
>>These people (Limbaugh, Hannity, but worse Beck, O'reilly) prey upon
>>people's fears and stoke them.
>>
>>At what point does that become irresponsible to the point of ban?  We
>>ban hate speech.  You can't yell fire in a movie theater.  At what
>>point does some of this stuff become dangerous?
>>
>>Swine flu is because of illegal immigration??  I mean you couldn't
>>make that up - if you did nobody would believe you, but there it is
>>right on Fox "News" (the news you choose when you don't want news).
>
> And now Fox is selectively editing Obama's press conferences etc to make it 
> appear that he is saying things that support Fox's paranoid ranting:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfy20gFChhI
> http://mediamatters.org/items/20090316

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