You can assume that those of us in the newspaper business are free speech junkies. We know our Thomas Paine and our Pentagon Papers and why “unpopular” speech must be protected and how vigilant we must be to avoid the slippery slope of a censorious society. But having said all that, there is still something viscerally assaulting to hear the bilious likes of Bubba the Love Sponge Clem declare: “The First Amendment prevailed today.”