A couple of weeks ago, The Rascal opined that threats of an organized boycott of advertisers on Fox News Channel does not serve the cause of free expression in the media.
Now, some of our liberal friends are launching another boycott effort, this time against advertisers on Ann Coulter's Web site. It's a bad idea.
What's worse is that the guy pushing this anti-Coulter effort says it "is not a call to boycott." Well, it damn well is a threat to boycott, which is pretty much the same thing.
Look, I think Ann Coulter is awful. But to boycott her advertisers, or to threaten to do so, is bad for all of us. It only makes advertisers afraid to touch anything that involves controversy.
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