Demagogue

Courtesy of Pandagon, we learn that the American Family Association is trying to organize a nationwide boycott of companies that advertise on ABC's highly rated show "Desperate Housewives." (Something tells me Eugene's wife won't be participating.) AFA's Donald Wildmon calls the show “one of the most vulgar and tasteless programs on television.”

Freedom of choice -- what to read, what to watch -- is one of those good 'ole fashioned American values. But Wildmon balked at the idea that individual Americans would simply exercise their own viewing decisions, and he used this ridiculous analogy to explain why:

Will they also tell us that if we don’t like drunk drivers on the highway to stay off the highway?

So I guess Wildmon considers a TV show viewer to pose the same danger to others that is posed by a drunk driver.