Kopple Coddles Terrorists

Looks like Moscow is up in arms over Nightline interviewing dispicable terrorist Shamil Basayev. And they should be because this guy should not get a prime ABC night time slot in which he can spew his hate. It's Jay Leno, David Letterman, and a guy that commanded people to shoot children in the back. Nightlines response is the worst part though:

Freedom of speech is never an issue when a popular person expresses an acceptable point of view, Koppel said at the end of Thursday's "Nightline."

"It is of real value only because it guarantees us access to the unpopular espousing the unacceptable," he said. "Then we can reject or accept it, condemn it or embrace it. No one should have the authority to make that decision for us. Not our own government; and certainly not somebody else's."

What do you mean embrace it? Embrace the taking of civilian hostages at a gradeschool and then machine gunning some of them when they tried to escape? And I love how Koppel calls this soulless terrorist "unpopular." I guess he is kind of like Amarosa in Koppels twisted mind. I think Nightline needs a little ethics on who they give the bully pulpit to. I have a feeling they would jump at the chance to interview Osama. And would probably call him "unpopular" as well.