McCain was speaking today in New Mexico, doing his usual personal attack on Barack Obama, as the stock market plummeted (you can see the ticker next to McCain on the screen, an apt reminder of what McCain and his fellow Republicans represent), and McCain asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear a supporter yell "Terrorist." McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting.(via americanblog)(huffpo has video)
but there was another incident at a Palin rally, where someone in the audience yelled
"Kill Him!" in response to her incendiary comments about Obama. seems to me that they are not only getting increasingly ugly, but are actually whipping their audiences into a violent frenzy. don't think so? here's another incident:
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." (via WaPo)
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