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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, October 06, 2008

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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12 Comments:

  • Gee, you think that if Obama had agreed to do those townhall meetings that McCain wanted to do we'd be seeing this?

    By Blogger Lew Scannon, at 9:29 PM  

  • ...because it was no town halls that made McCain go negative.....

    That's pretty funny.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:37 PM  

  • Where the hell is the US Secret Service when people at a political rally are calling for the murder of the opposition candidate???

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:59 AM  

  • I was wondering about that, too.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 7:00 AM  

  • Looks like the hillbillies have found a voice.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:47 AM  

  • No hills in Albuquerque, NM, or Fort Myers or Clearwater Fla.

    These are the racists McCain is proud to call his supporters.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 7:51 AM  

  • And people wonder what happened in Germany, c. 1936....

    By Blogger -epm, at 8:17 AM  

  • It is easy to see how coded racism gets out of control.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:19 AM  

  • Who says it not very much IN control... of the McCain campaign's manipulation.

    By Blogger -epm, at 8:23 AM  

  • That's the connection, but you know what I'm saying. They definitely want people thinking it, but not shouting it out on national TV.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:34 AM  

  • Oh. OK. I'll buy that. I think we're saying the same thing, then.

    By Blogger -epm, at 8:44 AM  

  • I see the conundrum that all politicians must face when they get high enough.

    The intelligence of the populace can be represented by a pyramid, much like the food chain. The populace can then be made to act or react to whatever programming it is given- lies or the truth.

    I suspect it's much easier to deal with the morons at the bottom of the pyramid with lies they are eager to believe than truths they are not.

    And hey, they lies keep the politicians rich, so, it's a win-win situation.

    By Blogger Will Von Wizzlepig, at 6:24 PM  

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