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I haven't seen a lot of conservatives running to the defense of the Dixie Chicks' right to free speech.
Mary Anne — (archived)

OK, that's a silly example. And it doesn't mean a conservative needs to buy concert tickets to support that right. But still -- I haven't.

Though many of them have apparently looked at the DCs' photographic display on the right to bare arms and everything else.

You think that organized protest is "wanting to throttle the life out of the opposition"? Well, where have you been? Of course it is, and it has been since it was first used. People who protest, who go out of their way to make a statement, generally want to win.

Boycott can be very effective if it's got enough oomph and direction behind it. The fact that the boycotts of talk radio personalities was unsuccessful is a tribute to your vaunted "free market" philosophy.

Or it's a tribute to however much the sponsors thought they were getting out of the talk shows as opposed to what they thought they'd lose. It could be that the people boycotting were a portion of the population that the sponsors were willing to write off anyway. Target marketing means being willing to take a calculated loss.

Regards--
Mary Anne

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