"We're trying a few new things here on the Evening News.

One is something we're calling 'freeSpeech'.

Expressing your opinion is very American, one of the many privileges of living in this country.

We want to encourage more civil discourse. So we're giving people a forum to express themselves, unfiltered and uninterrupted.

And the lack of civil discourse is precisely what our first freeSpeech is all about.

Morgan Spurlock is the author of Super Size Me, and, tonight, he's got a beef about going to extremes."

On Katie Couric’s first CBS Evening News broadcast, she introduced the FreeSpeech segment by referring to the freedom of speech as a “privilege” we “enjoy” here in the most wonderful country in the free world, the U.S. of A. ...

MAHER: And they said, we -- ex -- that's my point. They said, "We'll send over a list of acceptable topics," for our segment on free speech. And, Katie said, at the -- she introduced this on her first broadcast by saying, "Expressing your opinion is one of the privileges of living in this country." Well, sorry again, but I thought it was a right, and not a privilege. I thought -- and, again, I only bring this up because they're treating it as a privilege. And, if CBS News doesn't get the difference between a privilege and a right, we're in a lot of trouble in this country...

"Remember, freedom of speech is a privilege" (11+ / 0-)

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by kismet on Tue Sep 05, 2006 at 03:55:40 PM PST

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she will never hear the end of that.

CO-04: Say no to bigots in Congress like Marilyn Musgrave.

by OLinda on Tue Sep 05, 2006 at 05:11:24 PM PST