Meet the Base
Rising Hegemon — Of your modern GOP: 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."

Morning Thread
Eschaton — McCain/Palin taking off the gloves hoods: 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."

The Terrorists Among Us: McCain and Palin
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... and Palin are actually condoning ugly lynch mob cries of terrorism and assassination against Barack Obama. We have, after 8 years of a terrorist attack that George W. Bush could probably have prevented by reading a warning about Al-Qaeda hijackings and putting out a red alert at airports, a presidential and vice-presidential candidate of the party of violence condoning talk of terrorism and assassination. If this were not a democracy that is still flexible enough to include the pushing at the envelope of incitement to commit criminal acts, McCain and Palin would be ...

Early Morning Swim: Presidential Debate Preview Edition
Firedoglake — ... not gonna happen.  Are these character smears coming too late? Obama increases lead in NBC/WSJ poll. And CNN poll. And key battlegrounds. Dow dropped to below 10,000 yesterday. NYTimes on the bailout: "a pebble tossed into a churning sea." Uh, weird? Palin will be calling Obama "Osama" in Florida again today. Maybe they'll be another racial incident!

The Tone Being Created
Political Punch — ... The Tone Being Created October 07, 2008 8:02 AM"Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness," writes the Washington Post's Dana Milbank ."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 ...

McCain/Palin Crowd Getting Ugly
Politics Daily — ... Jake Tapper of ABC News and Dana Milbank of The Washington Post are reporting that the tone being set by McCain's pit bull, Sarah Palin, has crowds turning ugly at campaign events. From WaPo: ...

Stay Classy, Palinites
Balloon Juice — Charming: McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.” 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 ...

'Saracuda' Smiles While Baiting the Mob
Taylor Marsh — ... If Governor Palin was a man she’d never get away with the halting, rambling political tricks that have now become her stock in trade. If she were a man, her recent performances would get her yanked from the trail. But it seems because she’s a woman she gets a pass. What her fans are revealing should not. ...

Quote of the Week: First Nominee
Hit & Run — ... the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday. All of the coddling and complaining doesn't stop negative stories. It leads to stuff like this: In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and ...

War on the Media
Blah3 Feed — I believe it's only a matter of time before something happens at one of these rallies. This ain't good. 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. ...

Frustrated Palin Supporter To Black Reporter: "Sit Down, Boy"
TPM Election Central — ... Sarah Palin's frequent attacks on the media are now stoking so much outrage among her supporters that they've now taken to abusing reporters: ...

Her Bile Bubbles Over
Talking Points Memo — From WaPo ... McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more." 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 ...

presidential campaign or lynch mob?
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... 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. - wapowhat does this say about the type of campaign they're running? what does it ...

Dana Milbank would like Sarah Palin to stop fighting and accept defeat graciously.
Althouse — Dana Milbank witnesses Sarah Palin's strengths and surrounds them in ugly disapproval: "This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." The crowd replied with boos.Milbank doesn't repeat the charge that it's somehow racist to talk about Obama's association with Bill Ayers, but he does immediately start talking about how it's racist to make anything out of Obama's ...

Gloves off
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The impression Dana Milbank captures of yesterday's Palin rally -- a yell of "kill him" from the crowd, a racist slur directed at a cameraman -- are not images the McCain campaign can afford to project. ...

The Rude Pundit — ... "So you can have your Muppet-sounding idiot VP bitch out there in front of crowds, talkin' smack about me and gettin' people to yell, 'Kill him,' and you can try to convince everyone I'm a ...

"Sit Down, Boy"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The McCain-Palin campaign stumbles across what Steve Schmidt really wants to say to Obama: 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 ...

Palin Rallies Begin Whipping Up Racist Frenzy
Oliver Willis — Yes… Yes… Give In To The Dark Side… Sarah Palin’s been unleashed. 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 ...

"Sit Down, Boy"
Hoffmania! — ... McCain-Palin's new base: Sheer racist ugliness. 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 ...

Crossing The Line
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — This sent chills up my spine: "Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin 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. Is this really the kind of sentiment that McCain and ...

Rallies as Lynch Mob
Matthew Yglesias — Ladies and gentlemen, the future of the conservative movement: 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 ...

The Party of John McCain
Shakesville — ... , another audience member shouted, "Kill him!" when Palin once again referenced Obama's "friend," Bill Ayers. She accused Obama of "launch[ing] his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist." Meanwhile, the campaign ...

Pretty Hate Machine
Obsidian Wings — ... and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out "terrorist." And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out "kill him", though it's not clear whether the call for murder was for Bill Ayers or Barack Obama. It didn't seem to matter. These are dangerous and sick people, McCain and Palin. Whatever it takes. Stop at nothing. The Washington Post: McCain had said that racially explosive attacks ...

Eric Schmeltzer: McCain's New Strategy Incites Violent, Racist Reaction
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Your running mate, twice yesterday, got the reaction that can only be expected when you do everything you can do to peddle lies in an attempt to convince so-called "low information voters" that Barack Obama somehow doesn't fit in with the rest of us, and maybe even condones bombing American institutions. ...

Democracy in America?
HorsesAss.Org — From the Washington Post: 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 ...

The Daily Racism Debate
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... Item: A Palin crowd is whipped into a frenzy; a racial epithet is shouted at a black cameraman, who is then told to "Sit down, boy."  Seriously. ...

The hate also rises
Orcinus — ... 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. Hard to say whether the "him" was Ayers or Obama, but the difference is only one of degree. And then there's Dana Milbank's report today: Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill ...

The Rise Of The Moostapo
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Sarah Palin is amassing an army of horny, angry middle aged white people who will bravely shout racist things at black camera people.  ...

"Sit down, boy"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Coming on the heels of John McCain whipping up a crowd of supporters who called Obama a "terrorist," and Sarah Palin getting her audience to yell "Kill him!" (apparently about Obama), we now find out that Sarah Palin's mob of supporters yesterday turned on a black journalist and yelled "racial epithets" at him while telling him to "sit down, boy." From the Washington Post: 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. ...

Out of Control
Talking Points Memo — ... The media keep talking about how McCain's slide in the polls is "out of his control" because of the economic collapse (see Dana Milbank today for one example). That's silly, and sets people up to somehow feel sorry for poor, poor John McCain. His position in the polls is completely within his control, just as it is for Obama. If McCain actually had a plan on the economy outside of cutting taxes and FURTHER deregulation, if he focused on how to fix it every day, rather than on Bill Ayers and terrorists and Rev. Wright, if he talked about the issues that matter to most Americans, ...

Video: Couric goofs on Palin
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... of Dana Milbank’s highly nuanced gloss on guilt by association in this morning’s WaPo. For a former regular on “Countdown,” he’s suddenly very sensitive indeed to rhetoric ...

Palin and McCain: Appealing to the Worst in Americans
Comments from Left Field — ... Sarah Palin and John McCain had the choice of which side of the American psyche they would appeal to. And they made that choice. ...

Hullabaloo — ... should be unsurprising that the McCain campaign is stopping reporters from mingling in their crowds - maybe it's for their own protection. But riling up your base and demonizing your opponent to this degree - calling him un-American, for example - is bound to have consequences. Especially when we're about to head into a protracted economic downturn and it will be blamed on liberals, gays, Hispanics, Arabs and black people, not necessarily in that order. ...more: Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In ...

Smear, Smear, Smear-- It's All They've Got
DownWithTyranny! — ... As Dana Milbank pointed out in today's Washington Post fascism is alive and well at Palin rallies. Obama has pulled ahead of McCain in ...

Strange Fruit
BlondeSense — Sit Down, Boy! That’s the epithet one Sarah Palin follower hurled at an African American sound man during her Florida rally yesterday. According to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post – thousands turned on reporters, shouting obscenities – and at Palin’s urging no less. She had just finished blaming Katie Couric for her own disastrous interview, telling everyone the “mainstream media” were ‘out to get her’ (and by inference every other ‘red-blooded ‘murican’). She punctuated this with her patented series of nods and winks – ‘doncha know!’ So of course the mob surrounding her ...

Milbank: McCain-Palin's Attacks On Media Have Spawned Unprecedented Crowd Hostility Toward Press
TPM Election Central — ... Dana Milbank -- the Washington Post reporter who wrote this morning's piece about the Palin crowd's disgusting abuse of reporters -- tells me that the McCain camp's repeated attacks on the media have spawned crowd hostility towards the press that's running at a "degree of intensity" he's never experienced in covering presidential politics. ...

They're turning ugly
Daily Kos — Diarist NowAndZen says they're turning into a mob, and that's definitely a good way to put it. 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 ...

A Red Flag for the Secret Service?
The Moderate Voice — ... Rhetoric such as the type heard today in Florida may be the catalyst that can fan the smoldering coals of hate and race in our country. It is the responsibility of the Secret Service to protect the nominees from threats to their person and their families. When does political speech cross the line between motivating activists and provoking individual action that can cause personal injury? ...

“FIRE!” and Crowded Theaters
Comments from Left Field — ... all day has been Dana Milbank’s piece in the Washington Post detailing exactly what the pitbull in lipstick looks like when she’s finally taken off the leash. ...

McCain/Palin Ticket Not Appealing to Our Better Natures
Discourse.net — Dana Millbank Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame at the Washington Post: 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.” ‘Attaturk’ at Eschaton ...

Squandered
BlueOregon — ... ), but we can say that the McCain/Palin ticket has driven itself into the ditch.  Yesterday, as Palin launched smears at Obama, a member of the crowd screamed "sit down boy!" at a black cameraman and "kill him!" about Obama.  This is the erstwhile ruling party of the country, relegated to putting cheap racism into the mouth of an ingenue so green and from such a remote corner of the country that they hoped she'd escaped their taint.  It represents one of the most remarkable collapses in American political history--1860 and 1932 ...

Classy
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin 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.Are you feeling the Christain Love yet? But just like a Ginshui Knife™ commercial, Wait! There's More!: Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her ...

Dishonest, dishonorable and despicable, part 2
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... 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.' ...

Media bubble extends past Palin, to her crazy supporters
Daily Kos — ... crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility  Monday. Unfortunately for the campaign, her mob-like supporters are doing their best to "reach out" to the media: In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts ...

Remainders: Make or break
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... and Contra supporter with a history of anti-Semitism. Chuck Todd calls the debate "make or break" for McCain. The Fix lists five things to look for (although Brokaw says he will ask follow-ups). Sign of the times: The Arizona GOP worries that it could lose its advantage in the state house -- even with their guy at the top of the ticket.. Charlie Crist reminds Palin trail reporters what access is like. Dana Milbank pens a devestating dispatch from Palin's Fort Myers rally. Pew makes a word ...

Campaign Promotes Epic Stupidity: Attack the Media
Firedoglake — (Note: Jane is on CNN tonight, for debate coverage.  You can see her in the right hand CNN widget, starting at 8pm EST.)  Sarah Palin says the gloves are off (and as some dude at Eschaton points out, so are the hoods) ...

Unleashing the hounds
SteveAudio — ... the public relations industry. The intellectual community goes along. Issues are marginalized. The focus is on personalities, on Jeremiah Wright's sermons, Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, or whatever it may be. In that terrain, the Republicans have a big advantage. They also have a formidable slander and vilification machine which has yet to go into full operation.And here it comes, via Morse at Media Needle, Greg Sargent of TPM, and especially Dana Milbank of the Washington Post: Sen. Lindsey Graham, a McCain confidant, told ...

Campaign 08: Ayers Attacks Backfire
The Nation: Top Stories — Sarah Palin was on the verge of inciting a race riot in northern Florida yesterday. At her rallies, the Republican faithful hurled a racial epitaph at a black sound man, and screamed "kill him" and "treason!" at Barack Obama. "Boy, you guys just get it!" Palin responded. This reaction, presumably, was what Palin had in mind when she urged John McCain to "take the gloves off." The McCain campaign initially took her advice, sending out three emails about Obama and ...

The Power of One
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture — Dana Milbank of the Washington Post often writes with a good deal of attitude, and his Tuesday column was no exception. In his report on Sarah Palin’s campaign speech in Clearwater, Florida, laced with mocking Palinisms (“darn right,” “betcha”), he wrote that “the self-identified pit bull has been unleashed, if not unhinged.” The “unhinging,” in Milbank’s assessment, came when Palin charged that Obama still has some explaining to do about his relationship with 1960s Weatherman bomber William Ayers. Milbank also wrote that Palin blamed Katie Couric for her ...

Taunting Prospects
Politics Daily — ... the opposition, and they positively disgust independent voters. Still, the controversy remains. Do we have a simple case of lax crowd control? Or is the pattern reflective of a mob following marching orders? ABC News weighs in today with, "Is Negative Rhetoric a License to Taunt?": As the rhetoric at Palin rallies has ratcheted up, so too has the language of supporters in the crowds coming to see her. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank described a recent Palin rally in Florida: Palin's routine ...

Let McCain Be McCain
Jon Swift — ... think the McCain campaign had already learned its lesson when it excessively coached Sarah Palin. Trying to get her to read newspapers and study the issues of the day was a disaster. Americans saw right through their attempts to make her seem like someone she was not. But once she was free to be herself and no longer constrained by the idea that she actually had to answer questions posed to her, Palin was able to wink herself into the hearts of the American people. Americans love the unleashed Palin and I'm sure they would love an unhinged McCain, too. ...

How Ugly Is It?
Swampland — News reports from John McCain rallies of recent days have suggested there is a growing intensity, anger and just plain ugliness to the crowds that are showing up to hear the candidate and his running mate. Stories have included references to racial epithets and even calls for violence from McCain supporters. And, of course, much of it directed at the media. How bad is it? I happened to catch part of Rush Limbaugh's show yesterday, and he was ...

Les Francis: Playing with Matches: John McCain's Game Plan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The same day I read Dana Milbank's column in The Washington Post, in which he reported on a Sarah Palin swing through Florida. A couple of items in that column caught my attention. One was the observation that: ...

Frank Rich Gets Hysterical Over Palin
JammieWearingFool — ... . What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar -like rage at McCain- Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by ...

Frank Rich Versus Reality:
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... in which one reporter claimed that one crowd member allegedly shouted kill him, likely referring to, if anyone, Bill Ayers, and also mentioning that "a male member of the crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, yelled 'treason!'" "the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets,'" links to a story in which one member of one crowd slung a racial epithet at a cameraman. So, of the hundreds of thousands of people who have attended McCain-Palin rallies, we have a grand total of four whose conduct is said to taint the campaigns. Heck, I can find four similarly unpleasant comments on a ...

McCain's Pandora's Box
Crooks and Liars — ... What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “ ...

Robert Greenwald: Tell McCain to End the Politics of Hate
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Instead of discussing the real issues plaguing Americans, McCain and Palin have turned to fear-mongering and race-baiting, stoking the ...

“Nobody Yelled “Kill Him” About Obama at a McCain or Palin Rally”
protein wisdom — ... I took “kill him” to mean Ayers–not Obama. It’s just a far, far likelier explanation given the context. That’s still an ugly thing to shout -– but on the other hand Ayers probably would have gotten the death penalty had his bombs actually taken a life. If I thought people were actually yelling that about Obama I would feel very differently. Patterico goes on to note that the original reporter for this story , the WaPo’s Dana Milbank, ...

Nobody at that Palin rally yelled that they wanted to kill Obama
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... ...was unclear . Certainly he'll have to publicly set the record straight in the pages of the Washington Post , now that all these people have taken what he's written and used it to concoct huge lies about the political party he can't stand. After all, his reputation is on the line, isn't it? Ha ha, just kidding. The WaPo probably gave him a raise. P.S. And even if that guy had called for the death of a politician he doesn't like, would he really be setting a precedent? killbushshirt2.jpg kill_bush.jpg kill_bush_sights.jpg busheffigy.jpg ...

Forced to Be Civil?
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture — ... blogger “Scarecrow” at Firedoglake. “Inciting others to violence is a crime, a dangerous felony, and it is time for our media to stop treating this incitement as just another gradation of ‘negative campaigning.’” Not everyone was convinced that “the rising rage at McCain-Palin rallies” (as CNN described it) had been reliably documented. The week’s news cycle had begun with a puckishly worded, impressionistic campaign journal by the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, in which he described how ugly the mood was at a Palin rally in Clearwater, Florida—but John Leo ...

John Leo: THE HATE RALLY THAT WASN'T
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... My friend E. J. wrote: "Are we witnessing the reemergence of the far right as a power in American politics? Has John McCain, inadvertently perhaps, become the midwife of a new movement built around fear, xenophobia, racism and anger?" Maybe I can help out here with answers to these questions. The answers are "No" and "No."The founder of the current wave of far-out Republican rage is Dana Millbank of the Washington Post. Covering a Sarah Palin speech in Clearwater, Florida, Millbank informed us that "Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness." ...

“Kill him” Allegation Turns Out to Be Bogus
The Sundries Shack — ... Remember that story about the person who yelled “kill him” that made the MSM spazz out and led Congressman John Lewis to compare John McCain to a recist Democrat Governor? Dana Milbank, the Washington Post reporter who was once a favorite of Keith Olbermann until he breathed a word of disagreement against His Egoness and was kicked off the show forever reported that it happened and the remainder of the MSM and the Obama campaign ran with it like their pants were on fire. The entire narrative this week has been about the “atmosphere of hate” that John ...

We Demand A Correction, Etc.
Sadly, No! — ... Unfortunately, many also know in their shriveled hearts that the notorious, original “kill him” incident, as reported by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post, happened on Monday, October 6, in Clearwater, Florida. ...

"Kill Him!" Or Not?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... reported at a Palin rally. Dan Milbank's report of the same thing being yelled at a Fort Myers rally is the other instance of those exact words. ...

In 2008, GOP's Wedge Issues Fall Flat
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... One of the toughest punches was thrown by McCain running mate Sarah Palin when she told a crowd in Clearwater, Florida: "This [Obama] is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America... I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." ...

Race, Wedge Issues Fall Flat For GOP
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... One of the toughest punches was thrown by McCain running mate Sarah Palin when she told a crowd in Clearwater, Florida: "This [Obama] is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America... I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." ...

Secret Service Rejects Dana Milbank’s Claim regarding Press Treatment at Palin Rally
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Milbank attended an early October rally in Clearwater FL where he also reported a slew of slurs by Palin supporters and was among the first to report that someone at a GOP rally yelled “Kill him.” ...

Missouri attorney sues McCain/Palin for $6 mil over “reprehensible campaigning”
Flopping Aces — ... reads the above, and hears that “kill him” as directed at Obama. The same goes for AmericanBlog. The way I see the timing, it appears to be directed against William Ayers, not Obama. But you know the “it’s all about me, Obama” crowd. Never the less, the Secret Service takes any such idea as serious… as they should. And, according to another left wing blogger, Radaronline, and based on Dana Milbank’s WaPo article, they are investigating. Portraying ...

No, Silly Media, The Police Aren’t Worried About a Horde of Angry Republicans on Election Night
The Sundries Shack — ... The problem is that there’s no basis for any of it. Much of the MSM’s fear came from a story where a supporter at a rally was reported to have yelled “Kill him!” when Barack Obama’s name was mentioned. The Secret Service ...

The Obamercial: Half Campaign Ad, Half "60 Minutes"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... message (and counter the McCain-Palin he's-not-like-you message). It's the stuff of classic campaign commercials, reminiscent of, say, Ronald Reagan's " ...