Free speech

So a backwards backwoods asshole says hateful things about gays and racist shit about how happy blacks folks were under Jim Crow and when he gets put off his TV for it conservatives cry that his right to free speech was violated?  Where were they when:

• the Dixie Chicks got booted off radio for saying they were ashamed the war criminal Bush was from Texas?
• ABC kicked Bill Maher off their airwaves?
• when Helen Thomas got crucified for talking about the Israeli led Palestinian genocide?
• when some people get picked on for saying 'Happy holidays' instead of 'merry Christmas'?
• when some were calling for the firing of Martin Bashir after he said someone should shit in Quitter Palin's mouth?

Your right to say anything you want doesn't apply to private business.  Oh, you can still say what you like, but if your employers doesn't like it, then your ass is gone.  The first amendment says the government can't take away your free speech, it's doesn't say a damn thing about private business.