"On Topic" With Doug Krile: Special Comment

Olbermann put the words together again tonight. In another Special Comment. This time, it's on free speech, Newt Gingrich-style. I'll be looking for a video clip. In the meantime, do it the old-fashioned way, read it.

...This was the annual Loeb First Amendment Dinner in Manchester, N.H. — a public cherishing of freedom of speech — in the state with the two-fisted motto “Live Free Or Die.” And the arsonist at the microphone, the former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was insisting that we must attach an “on-off button” to free speech. He offered the time-tested excuse trotted out by our demagogues since even before the Republic was founded: widespread death, of Americans, in America, possibly at the hands of Americans. But updated, now, to include terrorists using the [...]

UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the video. They always do. Good work, guys.