Liberal fascism at its finest

Readers of this blog know that I am no fan of the Tea Party- which, I believe, along with other Republicans who choose to create the artificial crisis of the debt ceiling controversy at a time when confidence in the economy was low- is directly responsible for the current historic drop in the stock market.

But John Kerry- long a prime exemplar of the "liberal" fondness for seeking to suppress any voice that differs from leftist orthodoxy- has come out with a particularly blatant example of that tendency.

He says that the media have a "responsibility" not to give the Tea Party equal time with its opponents.

Now, nobody on the right gets equal time with the left. The unselfconscious irony with which "progressives" mock the bias on Fox News (not altogether without cause) ignores the fact that the whole rationale of Fox News was to create at least one spot on the dial free of the equally egregious left-wing bias of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC.

Kerry's comments, I think, are another manifestation of the general "liberal" conviction that any viewpoint with which liberals disagree ought to be suppressed.

On the other hand, I happen to agree with this statement by Sen. Kerry. Even kooks have a right to be heard- but that doesn't make them anything other than kooks.