4 Hours To Katie… ‘Free Speech’ To Star Limbaugh, Maher (& Wal-Mart Shoppers?)

Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Rudy Giuliani, and Bill Maher are some of the notable names who have agreed to appear on the new Free Speech segment of the CBS Evening News, Drudge flashed on Sunday night. At the time, a source said “scheduling of ‘guest editorials’ are still in flux.”

On his radio show today, Limbaugh said he agreed to appear because it was “an opportunity for me to express our views, my views, without debate, without somebody coming on afterwards to refute it.”

“They’re going to do this every night, and some nights it’s going to be a Wal-Mart shopper. Some nights it’ll be a professional academic. Some nights it’ll be a pundit. It’ll be full of people that you know or you don’t know,” he added. “…On Friday they’re going to do comedians…”

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