Crossing the line

I'm not exactly sure where the line is, but when your crowds are shouting "terrorist" (McCain) and "kill him" (Palin) about your opponent, your strategy for xenophobic hate has probably passed the acceptability point.

For decency's sake. I hope the media picks this up.

Later: Milbank describing a Palin appearance in Clearwater, Fla.

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

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