Posted on 08/27/2009 7:20:07 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Sarah Palin takes to the digital pages of Facebook in praise of embattled and boycotted TV host Glenn Beck:
FOX News' Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House.
Monday night he asked us to invite one friend to watch; tonight I invite all my friends to watch.
Palin thus ensures that the current Beck controversy will continue for at least another week. And I continue to be impressed and befuddled by two features of this controversy. The first is the degree to which Beck's supporters are largely unwilling to defend or engage with what Beck actually said to start the boycott. (Namely, that Obama is a "racist" with a "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.") The vast majority of what you hear from Beck supporters is that the left has been mendacious in handling the boycott campaign, by listing among the boycott signatories some companies that never advertised with Beck to begin with. But even if this were entirely true (it's partially true), it misses the point: The factual question of whether the boycott is calculating is unrelated to the interpretive question of whether what Beck said is defensible. And what Beck said was, I submit, stupid and indefensible. Does anyone disagree?
The second surprising feature is the degree to which this is wrongly described as a free-speech issue. This is a pretty big, basic misunderstanding of how free speech works. Free speech is a "negative" right: It prevents the government from silencing you. But it doesn't guarantee you the right to a soapbox or a megaphone or an audience. And it certainly doesn't guarantee a gigantic corporate paycheck for speaking your mind.
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(Excerpt) Read more at correspondents.theatlantic.com ...
Obama chose Sotomayor, he sided with Gates and he listened to Wright for 20 years.
“the death panels”
Sarah Palin was the first one on the Right side to distill this bill down to its bitter core. She is a leader and a visionary. She’s a person worth listening to and a person worth following.
Just love seeing Sarah making liberals squirm.
This Clarke guy is just evious that Beck has a bigger megaphone.
If we were neighbors and we both stood on the sidewalk offering political views. I would draw a bigger audience and Clarke would sue me for having more people in my crowd.
Really?
my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Combine that with:
Obama stops seeing his grandmother at Christmas, Obama stops taking his grandmother's calls, Obama only sees his grandmother "supposedly" "just" before her death.
Combine that with:
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting …. (this is attributed to the arrest of a prominent black professor, who happened to be Obama’s friend.
I'll go to his article and post my comment to him, not you.
Semper Fi
Hey lib, she does things on principle. She believes in Beck and also shows loyalty for those who are good to her, which Beck has been. Obama is a racist and so is his wife.
Well, Obama's new FCC Diversity Czar appointee - and by extension Obama - disagree with this. The appointee wants to make rules for radio shows, punish them monetarily for non-compliance, and turn the license over to a minority should the station default on the penalties - which I understand are supposed to be 100% of the operating budget.
The appointee, who is black, (I forget his name) is a fan of Chavez.
This was all on Glenn Beck's most interesting series this week. The man is doing a GREAT job!
The Senate Finance Committee on the “Death Panels”...We put them in before we took them out. (h/t John “I was in Vietnam” Kerry)
Of course Obama is a racist. And to suggest that conservatives are ignoring that issue, or don’t know what Beck said, is a lie.
Absolutely disagree. Both of Obama's autobiographies betray an intense loathing of white people, although he prettifies and shades his racism with the words he uses. His disgusting knee-jerk reaction to the Gates-Crowley kerfuffle was pure racism.
Basically this Clake guy is doing is suggesting a fairness doctrine but doesn’t have the manhood to come right out and say so.
Sarah Palin takes to the digital pages of Facebook in praise of embattled and boycotted TV host Glenn Beck:
embattled and boycotted??
I don’t think Glenn is either of these, dude.
The LAST place Sarah Palin will look for advice is from the extremist Leftists who clutter up the pages of the Atlantic with their rabidly ignorant, hyper politically bigoted lying propaganda.
*Enough of GOP weenies*
The kid who wrote the article for the Liberal The Atlantic
is a Republican?, am sure he and the magazine would find that interesting.
The American race that only sees love of liberty as its only racial membership criteria is his mortal enemy, and the enemy of all his urban scumlovers.
Sarah becomes more and more influential. Entire sub-republics are set up around this amazing woman's genuine love of individual life and "collective" liberty. Protect her. She is very important. Defend her family and supporters.
Let the scumlovers know they are outnumbered and out-flanked.
And laugh as you see them get all "wee wee'd up".
The Truth is always going to be attacked from the left. A boycott is a good sign your on target.
Pray for America and Gov Palin
If Obama didn't throw his “white half” under the bus, he'd still be looking for a job washing dishes.
Boycotted, perhaps...embattled, um, I think that’s the dims, bless their hearts.
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