Free speech is protection from the government - not your employer

Rosie’s idiotic remarks about Don Imus getting in trouble for his “nappy-headed ho’s” comment:

JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER: I think people who have a public voice just need to be conscious then of what they’re saying and the effect that it can have and understand that there’s going to be consequences if they say things like that.

O’DONNELL: Right, you just worry if the consequences, you know —

BEHAR: Because you could be next.

O’DONNELL: -impede upon- which is all right. If that happens, it happens. But the point of the story is, if it impedes on free speech in America, democracy is at stake. Because democracy is based on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. So we really have to worry about that in this country.

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: And we should be concerned and responsible with our freedom too.

O’DONNELL: Right, but it’s not a freedom if you outlaw certain words or thoughts, because then the thought police come and then before you know it, everyone’s in Guantanamo Bay without representation.

Clarification for the Rosie O’Donnell and the people applauding her: free speech is protection from the government, not your employer. MSNBC and CBS have every right to fire Mr. Imus.

And we’ll just ignore the Guantanamo remark. Not even worth it.

Mikey