Journalists for censorship

One of the more unsettling bits of fallout from the saga of “Innocence of Muslims” has been the spectacle of liberals, including media liberals whose very livelihood depends upon freedom of speech, suddenly becoming ambivalent about the First Amendment.  Like a kid who comes up with elaborate excuses for why he didn’t fight back when the school bully slammed him up against the lockers, they’ve been constructing tortured intellectual rationalizations to mask a very simple reality: they’re willing to accept the premises of Islamic blasphemy law, because the consequences of defying it can be fatal.

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