April 15, 2005

Liberal activists are actively promoting "The Fox Blocker," a technological innovation that attaches to your TV set and prevents it from receiving the Fox News Channel.

Inventor Sam Kimery says he wants to "protect people" from the purported conservative bias of the channel-once again demonstrating the left's inclination to stifle, rather than answer, points of view with which they disagree.

It's the same impulse that leads die-hard Darwinists to try to ban any talk of Intelligent Design, rather than rebutting it with logic and science-opposing even stickers on text books that ask students to keep an "open mind" on evolution.

And it's the same impulse that leads gay activists to try to block any criticism of homosexuality as a form of "hate speech".

While liberals smear Republicans for attempts to eliminate dissent, the pathetic effort to market a "Fox Blocker" is a clear illustration of how it's the left that's really uncomfortable with free speech and diverse viewpoints.

I'm Michael Medved.

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