When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh's style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But it was a perfect example of an inconvenient truth. The right wing has long used ugly, incendiary speech the way baseball play...

Why can Rush Limbaugh talk for hours every day on the radio and no one can call up their local station and demand a chance to respond? Because Reagan's thugs removed an excellent policy that had insured freedom of speech and had prevented companies like GE from buying tones of media outlets and turn...