[Maelstorm]

This guy is wrong. Obama is/was clearly racist especially in the way he rushed to the defense of Prof Gates especially in the way he did it assuming the white cop had acted stupidly but this is not the first time he has shown racist overtones. Sarah is refreshing, she doesn't care what the press thinks and I'll stand with her and Beck and any one else who doesn't give lip-service to beast in Washington DC. Liberalism wins when it can make the rules to suit it. Too many like this individual are blithely going their way giving lip-service to the beast. Below is a great video of Sarah urging everyone to "Resist Enslavement to big government".

[Mr. K]

Sarah Palisn should not take ANY advice from the media, and they must have brass balls for making suggestions...

[listenhillary]

Who is Conor Clarke and why should I care what his opinion is?

[Bahbah]

Sarah Palin, as usual, is right on the money.

[cripplecreek]

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.

LOL It gives you as big a megaphone as the people who are willing to listen and as big a paycheck as a corporation wants to pay.

[Paradox]

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.

I've been trying to explain this exact thing to liberals for over 20 years, THEY are the ones who get this wrong. No conservative that I know thinks this is a "free speech" issue, which is why they have started their own "negative boycott". This guy is beating up strawmen.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Enough of GOP weenies always explaining why taking a stand is wrong.

Please Mr. The Atlantic author guy with all due respect.

Shut up, sit down, and stay out of the way.

[Cheetahcat]

Lets see 22 years in the Church of Wright tells me this Guy is Wrong!

[Bahbah]

Obama is a "racist" with a "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture

Read his book.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Obama Racist? Next you'll be trying to say he's a leftist commie fascist. You'd be right.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Sarah can give a rats behind what the media thinks of her. She was right about the death panels and she is right on the money with Glenn Beck. Sarah has every right to state her opinion, she doesn’t sit at home saying “Gee I wonder what the media will think of me if I support Glenn Beck” I think we all know how Sarah feels about the commie press

[cripplecreek]

Beck must be silenced ping.

[Carl LaFong]

Did you hear that, Sarah? Conor of the Enchanted media wants to instruct you on what the first Amendment means and tell you how to act. He (She?) is just trying to be helpful, after all.So shut up ,sit down and take your media beating like a good little girl.

[Drill Thrawl]

And what Beck said was, I submit, stupid and indefensible. Does anyone disagree? Yes I disagree with you and I agree with Glenn. I have believed that The One is a racist since the spring of last year. You don't sit in a racist church for 20 years if you are not a racsit.

[Mad Dawg]

Of course he’s a racist! I can’t believe anyone questions that.

He’s also, strictly speaking, a bastard, or right next door to one.

He’s the president. We owe him a hearing, but that’s it. I hear him. I disagree. I am a free man, for the time being.

[American Constitutionalist]

I support Glen Beck in what he said about Obama being a “ Racist “ .... because Glen was just voicing out load what most of us know and think of Obama ( in which, is true ).
It is absurd to think that there are no black people who deep seated hatred of white people, or discriminate because of the white person's skin color without even knowing that person.

[nomoremods]

Title should read “Why Sarah Palin Shouldn’t Listen to Conor Clark”

[EDINVA]

From the article: “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.”

Exactly, a huge audience does.

So explain how it is that truly hateful Olbermann has a show? And dunce Matthews has a show? and sleazierthanhell Maher has a show?

If the very words of Obama in his own book about disowning his mother’s race were reversed, and he’d spoken of disowning his father’s race would he not be called a racist by this very same writer ?? Beck nailed Obama and the left can’t handle it.

[Max_850]

Let's start with Barack Obama throwing his Grandmother under the bus calling her a typical white person who cringes when black people are nearby.

How about sitting in Rev Wrights pew for 20 years listening to his Black Liberation Theology preaching. Rev Wright marrying you to Michelle and being godfather to your children. Apparently you think quite a bit of Rev Wright.

How about the Stupid White Cop and Innocent Black Professor routine.

How about in your book talking about learning to fool white people. How even though you learned Black Militism from Frank Marshall, you also learned to hide your true feelings, talk smoothly and make your moves towards whites carefully and with calculation to make them think you are something other than what your are?

Still think Glenn was way off base in saying our President has a dislike/distrust of White people.

You are also discounting that his father and grandfather grew up in Kenya when it was a British Colony and were treated poorly by the Brits. Hence his hatred towards the Brits and why he snubbed PM Brown and the made sure the Queen was not invited to the D-Day celebration.

Open your eyes people.....

[FrdmLvr]

I strongly disagree with his assertion that Beck was wrong to say 0bambi is a racist. Beck’s assessment of 0bambi having a deep seated resentment of white people and white culture seems correct to me. Anyone who can’t see that 0bambi is driven by race and is resentful of white, traditional, middle-class American values is not paying attention to 0bambi.

[eclecticEel]

And what Beck said was, I submit, stupid and indefensible. Does anyone disagree?

Care to share any reasons for this statement? I submit that Rev. Wright does indeed hate white people - and can make a damn good case to that affect. Either we conclude that Zero agrees or at least at one time did agree with his mentor, or we conclude he was just playing the political opportunist and doing what he needed to do to make it up the greased ladder of Chicago 'rat politics.

Pick your poison.