Wimpy Advertisers Shouldn't Have Caved To Beck Pressure

Marketing/media guru Charlie Warner: As much as I despise racist remarks, right-wing hate mongers such as Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter, and over-the-top liberal hate mongers such as Keith Olbermann, and as much as I feel these venomous snakes are poisoning the TV atmosphere and polluting the public debate and debasing the agenda on issues of public importance, I don't want to silence them. I don't want to restrict their freedom of speech.

Restricting their freedom of speech would be worse for the country in the long run than the damage their poison does in the short term. And we don't want to go down the slippery slope of having advertisers decide which speech or which political opinion to support.

If we encourage advertisers to withdraw their support from conservatives such as Beck and O'Reilly because some people don't like their views, then it follows that we should encourage advertisers to withdraw their support from liberals Olbermann and Rachel Maddow because some people don't like their views either.