Regulating and intimidating free speech out of existence

Published September 5, 2010 4:00am ET



Bill Clinton once told an audience in Philadelphia, “You know one of the things that’s wrong with this country? Everybody gets a chance to have their fair say.” It was intended as a humorous response to a crowd of hecklers who was giving him fits as he tried to deliver a speech, but it’s not hard to imagine that Democrats have taken that sentiment to heart of late.

Seton Motley notes a letter sent to book publishers Simon & Schuster by the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee accusing the company of making an in-kind donation to Republicans with the publishing of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders which is about Republican House candidates.  In a letter to the publisher, Democrats allege that the book is an “in-kind” donation and make ominous statements (given the party’s current control of Congress and its investigatory/regulatory power) about ensuring that the marketing of the book is “legal.”

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