Opinion : 'The View' for men offers evidence there is no constitutional right to be heard

We were playing one of those “tell your secrets” board games.

The question I had to answer: Which of your five senses would you prefer to live without first, if you had to choose?

My wife knew what my answer would be: Hearing.

There is way too much noise in our world – and in our American society.

We didn’t have Sunday school today (Dec. 26), so I got home early. Just in time for “The View for Men.”

I do not mean that annoying TV show that features the four loudest women in the world – who spent too much time this week discussing their undergarments.

By “The View for Men” I mean the Sunday football talk shows. The men on those stations fill an hour with conversation as mindless and loud as Barbara Walters and her gal pals. At least Terry and Howie were not discussing underwear.

There should be a special award for whoever it is who created the “mute” button on the remote control.

I just wish we could invent one for real life.

Imagine how society could benefit from that.

Some goof is at a store, ball game, or government meeting, blabbing incessantly about something about which he – or she, I must be an equal-opportunity goof-disser – and all we have to do is click. And silence. We hear nothing.

But, you may say, that’s not constitutional.

To which I reply: No. People, do, indeed, have the right to say what they want, when they want, how they want.

They do not have the right to be heard. That’s a privilege that can only be earned by working, thinking, studying and living enough to have something worth sharing with the rest of us.

So exercise your right to free speech. And I will exercise my right to push "mute."