'Nutrition mullahs' strike again

Tony? Not a tiger after all. SpongeBob Squarepants? Not a sponge.

Nope. They and their cartoon pitchman friends are goats.

Scapegoats, to be precise.

The radical Center for Science in the Public Interest is going to court to force cereal maker Kellogg Co. and cable TV network Nickelodeon to cut back on the advertising of foods the center claims are bad for kids. The goal: no such ads when 15 percent of the TV audience is 8 years old or younger.

So Tony is a drug pusher? SpongeBob is another Joe Camel? Come on.

This is worse than political correctness run amok. These people want to force their views of the world on the rest of us. They want to criminalize any foods they deem unhealthy. They want to silence makers of legal products they don't like.

They're no better than the radical clerics trying to force their brand of religion on the world.

It's Orwellian. It's scary. It's the nutrition mullahs.