Reply #23: "Freedom of speech" doesn't mean "freedom from losing sponsors" [View All]

[Hobarticus]

If a sponsor decides to take their support away from Limbaugh or Imus or anyone, they're not "silencing their freedom of speech"....they're making a business decision. I think you're way misguided as to what freedom of speech means.

Limbaugh and you and I have every right to walk down to the street corner and run his piehole, for free.

Buisnesses have a right to decide if they care to sponsor his radio show. If they get enough negative feedback from enough people, they can pull their sponsorship. That's their right.

His sponsors aren't required to support his show, in order to protect his freedom of speech. That's a ridiculous assessment of one of our basic principles: I have freedom of speech, as long as someone else foots the bill for me to be on the radio? Ohhh-kay.