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"Free speech" is about the government not being able to prevent people from speaking their mind. It has nothing at all to do with the Beck situation. I'm not a member of the government, I'm a consumer contacting a corporation I am loyal to in order to explain that their support of a show like Beck's is making me question my brand loyalty. In what way am I limiting free speech? I'm not.
Anyway, regardless of how hardliners view it, there are limits on free speech. I've posted about this before, about defamation, about false accusation, and about directly putting people in danger. These are all reasoned limits on the right, and all three are routinely broken by Glenn Beck (and to a lesser degree other pundits). As a consumer, I have every right to judge his show as dangerous and act accordingly.
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