Palin beyond the pale
Can we agree that this is out of hand? Dana Millbank reports from Florida that Palin's crowds are racist and homicidal, and she incites them (italics added):
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."Again:
... in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
Can we agree that a candidate who incited crowds to racial hatred and to calls for assassination on another (possibly not coincidentally, also black) candidate and who does not say a word of condemnation has crossed a line which no one should cross?
1 Comments:
Yes, definitely -- that crowd crossed a big ol' line. And the McCain/Palin camp was right on their heels rushing to cross the line too by not condemning those actions.
Remind me not to go to Clearwater any time soon. :)
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