redstate.com - 10/23/2008
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I lay this at the feet of the mainstream media. For weeks they
have cooked up tales about Republican verbal violence. They let
Barack Obama get away with claiming someone called for killing him
at a Sarah Palin rally -- an outright lie that the media let get
by.
This morning, Jim ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 10/24/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Call it a circular firing squad, or internal
dissension, or simply the natural evolution of a campaign...
that is disappointed with how the endgame is playing out. There's a faction within the McCain campaign has begun to whisper about Gov. Sarah Palin ...
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11 Days Out, And The Whispering Begins
pajamasmedia.com - 10/24/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
October 23, 2008 MCCAIN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED
IN PITTSBURGH: A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at...
an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said. . . . Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry ...
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blogs.abcnews.com - 10/23/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: The McCain-Palin campaign’s
efforts to reach women is about to get a...
celebrity boost: Elisabeth Hasselbeck is set to join Gov. Sarah Palin on the campaign trail. “The View” co-host said Thursday the McCain campaign...
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Hasselbeck to Campaign for Palin
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'Get In Their Faces'
Politics Daily —
... Today a story is out about actual violence related to the campaigns this year. Last night, a woman in Pittsburgh had an Obama supporter "get in her face" during a robbery. According to the victim, the attacker, upon realizing she was a McCain supporter, beat and kicked her, and carved a B in her face (B for Barack). You can expect the media won't draw the connection with Obama's words. Obama would never incite or condone violence. He's a Democrat. ...
MORNING READ
News —
... . If the report is true, the actual violence is worse than the verbal abuse by Republicans toward Democrats that the press has "cooked up," writes RedState's Erick Erickson . Though the beating was political, it's unfair to conclude something about Obama supporters based on the actions of one nut, writes Hot Air's ...
Pretty Disgusting
The Anonymous Liberal —
... the story with a post headlined "Change, the 'Direct Action' Way — McCain Supporter Beaten and 'B' Branded in Pittsburgh." John Hindraker at Powerline took the story at face value and commented: I also think that a great many voters, some of them heretofore uncommitted, will see this incident as symbolic of a race in which every voter who has not jumped on the Obama bandwagon has been subject to various forms of harassment and bullying.Erick Erickson at Redstate also took the story at face value and instantly knew where to ...
BREAKING HARD AND FAST- White Woman McCain Volunteer Not Robbed, Attacked, Mutilated, and Assaulted By Swarthy Member of Obama Thugocracy!!!
Balloon Juice —
Yesterday, Drudge had another multiple siren alert about a McCain volunteer being robbed in Pittsburgh by an Obama supporter who then allegedly assaulted her, mutilated her, and then carved a backwards ‘B” into her face because he was enraged by a McCain sticker on her care. Memeorandum looked like this:
Red State kicked it up a notch, in case you missed the point:
Today there is a new, more violent twist. A McCain supporter, a 20 year old college Republican volunteer, was savagely ...
10/24: The Freak Show Ruled By Matt Drudge
Blogometer —
... that a 20-year-old PA female was robbed and mutilated by an African-American male who wanted to "'teach her a lesson' for being a [John] McCain supporter." Several prominent conservative bloggers are using this incident as an opportunity to criticize Barack Obama . Erick Erickson blames Obama for the assault, while ...
SATURDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... RedState's Moe Lane wonders whether Biden would have asked a male interviewer to say who wrote his questions, which is a tactic he used with West. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Kicking Infighting Up a Notch - Steve Benen, Political Animal [image] 'Diva!': The McCain-Palin Split Widens - A. Sullivan, Daily Dish [image] 'Go More Rogue' - Josh Marshall, TalkingPointsMemo [image] The Palin Problem Mutliplies - Taylor Marsh [image] Palin Goes 'Rogue'? - R.S. McCain, The Other McCain [image] Best ...
SUNDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... someone who can shake things up, and the best candidate to do that is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R). The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's most influential newspaper, backed Obama partly because it had concerns over the judgment of John McCain, seen in picking a less-than-ready Gov. Palin, writes Amy Chozick at Washington Wire. The endorsement stings because Palin is such a popular governor in her state, writes Donkelephant's Justin Gardner . FROM THE BLOGS: [image] The Obama Temptation - Mark Levin, The Corner [image] National ...
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Palin Rally: "Kill Him" Yelled Again
huffingtonpost.com 10/14/2008 — Via Politico , The Scranton Times reports another threat against Barack Obama at a Sarah Palin rally Tuesday:
Chris Hackett addressed the increasingly feisty crowd as they await the arrival of Gov. Palin.
Each time the Republican candidate ...
No One Ever Said 'Kill Him' About Obama
weeklystandard.com 10/14/2008 — A look back at the original language used by Palin at the rally in question makes it nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right.
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Ooooooh, Barracuda!
blogs.abcnews.com 10/28/2008 — Allies of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are now trying to throw McCain aide Nicolle Wallace under the proverbial bus, and as they do so those in McCain’s circle are wary of the impact on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., himself. Since...
AP: Palin put kids on state tab
swamppolitics.com 10/22/2008 — by James OIiphant
The Associated Press is moving a story that says that as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin charged the state some $21,000 in expenses for her children's travel as she conducted official state business.
But Alaska law is unclear ...
Sarah Palin, the AIP, and the Extremist Fringe
themoderatevoice.com 10/23/2008 — So McCain and Palin want to smear Obama with guilt by association over his non-relationship with Bill Ayers , eh?
Well, perhaps more attention ought to be paid to Palin’s long and ongoing relationship with the extremist Alaska Independence ...
Palin's Medical Records II
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/20/2008 —
According to the NYT today , the Palin campaign has refused to give any interviews or provide any documents with respect to Sarah Palin's health records. Like her refusal to hold a press conference in the campaign, this makes Palin uniquely ...
McCain Campaign Tensions Swirl Around Palin And Former Bush Aides
themoderatevoice.com 10/25/2008 —
As the battle between presidential wannabes Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain heads towards its final week, one candidate remains the subject of continued media scrutiny, cryptic and at times disrespectful references by ...
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday Oct. 23rd, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 10/23/2008
CNN: Enemies won't test me, McCain says
Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy positions could encourage America's enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama administration, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.
CNN: Gov. Sarah Palin, Todd Palin to ...
Outsourcing takes center stage in Indy —
First Read 10/23/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones INDIANAPOLIS -- At his last campaign event before heading to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother, Barack Obama hit his rival for proposing more tax breaks for companies that outsource U.S. jobs.
The rally here on ...
'Ohio, will you hire us?' —
First Read 10/23/2008
From NBC/NJ's Matthew BergerTROY, Ohio -- Palin told voters Thursday not to dismiss her opponent’s critique of foreign policy as just a “rhetorical flourish,” Obama did a day earlier.
“I question dismissing Joe Biden's moment of truth telling as ...
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