This Is How It's Done, Bitches

I was horrified last night to see Keith Olbermann apparently buying into the idiot meme of the week that Wanda Sykes crossed the line at the White House Correspondents Dinner by calling Rush Limbaugh a traitor and wishing his kidneys would fail.

The outrage here is not that somebody in a prominent venue finally called Limbballs out for treason (by his own jingoistic definition), but that Democratic politicians are such cowardly weasels that comedians like Sykes have to say the things our political leaders should have been bellowing for years.

There are two parts to Freedom of Speech: First, defending to the death the right of someone to say freely and loudly everything with which you passionately disagree, and second, exercising your right to freely and loudly refute what they just said.

Silence gives assent. Thank you, Wanda, for refusing to assent.



Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....