Apparently, Neil Cavuto got quite a bit of pushback after he raged at and cut the microphone of Democrat Julian Epstein over the weekend. Cavuto read some of the emails he had received about it on the air today. Many were appalled at his behavior, some supportive. Cavuto was not only unapologetic, he doubled down. Oh, and guess which blog was prominently featured in a graphic mashup of the reaction?

Cavuto said:

These issues surround us my friends, and to minimize their threat or slope them off as individual incidents, each bearing no resemblance to the other, makes a mockery of us all. That is why I got angry. That is why I interrupted Julian who is otherwise a friend. This is foolish, and that is why after repeated attempts to get him to shut up about making this a political discussion I simply decided to cut his mike.

Now some of you found that rude. But I found subjecting you to the same old tired back and forth talking points on what are now systemic assaults on our civil liberties, well that would be even ruder. So I did something I never do, I lost it, but for good reason.

This isn’t just a scandal my friends, or a series of scandals, or even scandalous behavior. I have no idea how high up this goes, any of this goes, only that it goes and goes and goes. Part of a business as usual pattern of assaulting the liberties we’ve apparently taken for granted. Realize what’s going on here, and whether triggered by a Patriot Act initiated under a Republican President, or one put on by spying steroids under a Democratic President, the results are frightening. Rifling through our taxes, collecting our phone records, spying our e-mails, our associations, our friends, our families, our lives. Now if this is not worth getting hot and bothered, frankly I don’t know what is.”

…Either we have (liberties) and enjoy them, or we do not. And the next time someone reduces it to a left/right thing, you bet I will cut in. And if they refuse to step back when I warn them, you bet I will cut their mike.

It's more than a little ironic for a host to defend preventing someone from speaking in the name of liberty. Furthermore, the “same old tired back and forth talking points” are a staple on Fox News and Fox Business Network: Obama is bad, worse and worst. Cavuto didn’t mind when Michele Bachmann accused Obama of deliberately letting Americans die in Benghazi because he thought it would help his re-election effort; had no problem when Fox Business Network’s Gerri Willis called Obama’s initiative to provide pre-school for all children “immoral” and Cavuto, himself, has said that Obama's intentions looked "sinister" and suggested that he was a bigger threat tof our country than China.

So beware of crossing Cavuto. But you’re probably only at risk if you’re a Democrat.

The video for this segment is below. As for the website featured in it, if you guessed it was News Hounds, you were right. You can see us starting at about 1:30 in the video.