One last thought about Kurt Vonnegut

Every celebrated bigot has friends and sycophants who will vouch for his purity of spirit, so why should we believe the Vonnegut posse any more than the cronies of David Duke or Louis Farrakhan? The proof is in the transcripts, where the vicious evidence is overwhelming. His friends' impulse to defend him may be understandable as a matter of loyalty, although former Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant surely turned many stomachs when he assured Vonnegut, "Solidarity forever, pal." Salon

One last thought on Don Imus

In 1986, Imus appeared before a Senate subcommittee to argue for repeal of the McCarran- Warren Act, which allowed the State Department to bar foreign visitors whose views were unacceptable to the government. ""All citizens are entitled to hear absolutely any idea anyone from anywhere may care to express,'' he said. ""And where did I get the notion there was such an incredible entitlement? I got it from the junior civics course that was given in the seventh grade at Public School 35 in Indianapolis.''

Imus called censorship ""a disease that's been around a long, long time, like Legionnaires' disease, maybe, or Altzheimer's.''