arrest, who believes that all other things being equal had it been a white professor an arrest wouldn't have taken place. i'm sure there may be people out there who do. and again, this comes from history. it comes from experience. it is not provable. but it's strongly -- it's a strongly held belief. >> is there anything to be done about the kind of -- you can laugh at glenn beck and rush limbaugh, but they are inflaming things and making them much, much worse, other than being punished at the polls which they clearly will be by the under 35 generation that elected barack obama in the first place, what do you do about that? it's not just harmless stupidness. it's really dangerous incitement. >> it is dangerous incitement and i don't know what you do about it because i'm not a believer in some sort of new fairness doctrine. you know, i believe in free speech. i believe that there is a

marketplace of ideas and rotten, putrid ideas ought to, you know, be discarded. but i take your point. it is a problem. here's one thing i've been curious about. where are the principled conservatives who believe in individual rights, who oppose intrusive police power for example or the abuse of police power? wouldn't it be smart politically for a few conservatives to come out and on the side of professor gates and say, you know, he may not have acted well but the man was in his own house and shouldn't have been arrested. >> if they're ever going to recover they have to learn that. eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist of "the washington post" thank you so

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