More on suppression of speech, expressly for foam-at-the-mouth knuckle-dragging

One of the more insidious forms of suppression of speech by the right 
wing are SLAPP and "product disparagement" lawsuits.  There is nothing 
inherently rightwing about SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public 
Participation), but they are used by rightwing organizations or business 
far more often than by the left.  Product disparagement suits are almost 
exclusively the province of the right, the most infamous instances being 
the suit brought against Oprah Winfrey by the Texas cattle producers, 
and a case brought by Washington state apple growers against CBS and an 
environmental group (NRDC - rabid extremists, to be sure) over the 
chemical Alar.

Foam-at-the-mouth knuckle-dragging troglodyte conservatives pooh-pooh 
this aspect of suppression of speech, trying to explain it away as 
something else.  It is, of course, suppression of speech that ought to 
be protected.