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Why won’t government regulators leave corporations alone, Stephen Colbert wondered during last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. Why shouldn’t Product-American’s be afforded the same rights as the rest of us? ”The First Amendment protects not only speech you like, but speech you don’t like,” he reminds. “Therefore government regulators must not persecute products just because they don’t fit some beurocrats narrow definition of ‘fireproof’ or ‘potable.’”

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I love Mediaite and the work of its editors and columnists. But I’m taking a gander its “Media Influencers” list- it’s Festivus contribution – and I really have to disagree with it’s perspective. This is more along the lines of “people we have heard of” rather than what people have done. So in the sprit [...]