Rick:

I was simply stating an hypothesis not making a claim.

Ed:

Your position is tautologically true as stated. However, people use information provided by the media, MSM and others, to develop their preferences. The purpose of any PSYOP/Propaganda campaign is to form impressions that last only as long as necessary, i.e., in the voting booth next Tuesday. Buyer’s regret is irrelevant on the 3rd of November. Look what the DUI charge did to the Evangelical vote in 2000. I bet a lot of the folks who stayed home regretted it on Wednesday morning. The DNC/MSM combine achieved the goals of any PSYOP campaign. They changed perceptions long enough to have a major effect on the electorate.

Reference to post above. I have to reconcile what I wrote with what I meant. [In other words I did not write very clearly] What I was trying to say is that the suppression of alternatives to the MSM would be a bi-product of appointing judges who would construe hate speech laws as trumping the first amendment. Kerry need not take any specific act to reduce the influence of alternative information sources. All he needs to do is make sure that opponents run afoul of hate speech laws.