I'm a "card carrying" member of the ACLU -(which plenty of people of Fox's ilk think is a terrorist organization)- and we've defended far worse than Fox. We've defended NAZI's and KKK'ers, among others, because freedom of speech is a core requirement of a free society. The First Amendment is under threat all over the US because people don't "get" it, or even know what it is! A few years ago a museum in Chicago (the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum) decided to celebrate their opening by commissioning a serious poll of 1000 Americans, asking them if they could name the 5 freedoms protected by the First Amendment, and the 5 main Simpson's characters. About 1/4 of respondents could name the Simpson's characters. Exactly ONE person (out of the 1000) could name the 5 freedoms in the First Amendment!!!! So Fox should be the LEAST of our worries!
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