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Old 10-07-2008, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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This at the same speech in Florida where someone in the crowd yelled "Kill him!" about Obama.

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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Old 10-07-2008, 10:16 AM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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Lovely. Sounds like a great bunch of people. Just gross.
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:18 AM
 
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I guess Palin has energized the base.
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:22 AM
 
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Racists, bigots, evangelicals, trust-fund babies.

The Republican base.
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:25 AM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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waitingforthetypicalpostof "How is calling him boy racist"?
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Seriously, is anybody surprised? She probably welcomes it, good christian that she is. Hallelujah.

*rolls eyes*
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Omaha
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It's obvious that Palin and McCain are spreading their message on a campaign of hate, not of the issues. They should speak out against what their supporters are doing because this is getting more and more frequent... I'm not saying Obama's crowd is a group of angels, but it seems they just chant "yes we can" when met with hardship rather than resort to calls that these particular reporters were subject to.
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:29 AM
 
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Doesn't it bother the thinking Republicans that these are the images America and the world sees of your party?
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Doesn't it bother the thinking Republicans that these are the images America and the world sees of your party?
Yes it does (as someone who has voted Republican in past elections).

Call me naive, but I would think this behavior is not something that Palin and McCain would condone. They both should have taken the opportunity to elevate discourse and asked the crowd(s) to tone down the anger. But then how do you do that and then turn around and call your opponent a terrorist? Or say that the evil press is out to get you?
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Old 10-07-2008, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Omaha
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Yes it does (as someone who has voted Republican in past elections).

Call me naive, but I would think this behavior is not something that Palin and McCain would condone. They both should have taken the opportunity to elevate discourse and asked the crowd(s) to tone down the anger. But then how do you do that and then turn around and call your opponent a terrorist?
I still give them opportunity to call it out. The media has and it wouldsay a lot of them if they could show that level of respect to the reporters who are simply trying to do their job and actually spread their message.
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