Joe Scarborough Attacks Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters & ABC For debating a serious issue. Scarborough brings in the political expert Danny Bonaduce, who says that O'Donnell should be 'strung up for treason' and 'aiding and abetting the enemy'. He then goes on to seriously defend that point.
These guys are afraid of Rosie moving the Overton Window. That's why they are so anxious to censor her. They don't want people who are not on the web much askng the sort of questions that she poses. They want the ideas she expresses to continue to remain alien and shocking to as many as possible. They are not so much afraid to the ideas as they are of the discussion of the ideas.
The GOP uses Savage and Ann Coulter for the same purpose. Their over the top statements makes the GOP's more radical policies seem almost mainline.