1) minor point: your use of the word "squealing". If we are going to use your [apparant] definition of squeal, then get prepared to hear it a lot. This board is pretty much wall-to-wall squealing.

2) from the story it sounded like Rush and Drudge did most of the squealing [and now our Mr. Brosz].

3) before you claimed that this [where left-wing ideas were shouted down] never happened and challenged me to come up with examples. Thanks for the help - I am very lazy about web-research.

4) seriously though, you have to decide whether it is good or bad to shout someone down. Before, you said it was bad. Since, in this case, it was a left-wing idea (civil liberties?) that was shouted down, the villains in the story are the one who got shouted down and anyone who answered the reporter's questions about it. Who's "level of hypocrisy" were you trying to portray?