blog.news-record.com - 10/17/2008
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Newspaper stories from Palin's rally from myself and
Joe Killian. -=-=-=-=-=-=- There are certain things that get...
me really concerned when I hear them from someone I’m working with. Joe Killian (who blogs for the paper here and on his own time here ...
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Report from Palin rally
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Wait, that is actually just old school racism!
Feministing —
via Pam's House Blend.
So, I am sure by now most of you have caught a glimpse of some of the videos capturing hate and vitriol towards Barack Obama at the McCain/Palin rallies. If you are like me, they probably make you sick, embarrassed and even frightened for what the Republicans have come to stand for. When people tell you racism doesn't exist anymore please refer them to the picture above and the countless examples of wing-nuts screaming, "terrist" and "commie" at some of the McCain/Palin events. Epithets such as "terrorist," show us the fear and anxiety that lies at the intersection of race, ...
We Do Not, I Say, We Super-Do-Not See A Correction
Sadly, No! —
It has been an eternity1 since we wrote a 17-page letter2 to Confederate Yankee detailing the journalistic malfeasance that he continues to flagrantly perpetrate, yet we have heard not a single word to explain or extenuate the blatant disingenuousness and total disregard for facts that. . .uh, uh, uh, stupoundingly bamblastic craptigency of the most flagrant and blatant kind!
Hell’s bells, are we steaming!!!
Secret Service: Media Claim of “Kill Him” Unfounded
Don’t have any proof of rage-filled bigots at McCain-Palin speeches, even ...
John McCain is very, very proud of his supporters
This Modern World —
“And to somehow intimate that the overwhelming majority of those people, with rare exception, are somehow not good Americans or are motivated by anything but the most patriotic motives is insulting. And I won’t accept that insult,” Mr. McCain added.
More. And via the Sadlynauts, a sampling of those “rare exceptions”:
What part of "comedy" do you not understand?
The Reaction —
By Carl Here is the Jon Stewart piece from Boston: Here is the reaction of Mary Katharine Ham at The Weekly Standard (click at your own risk): The media has devoted hundreds of stories of late to the tenor of audience comments at McCain-Palin rallies, fretting about "rage" and "incitement" by the campaign, but the only account of Stewart's appearance is a one-sentence mention in the Boston Globe, and his abusive Palin comments are not included. Now, admittedly, ...
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McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally
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Hillary Hatred Lives On
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Today in Florida
It was completely unnecessary. It was, unfortunately, completely
predictable. TPM’s Hillary hatred knows no bounds, not even all these months
after the ...
Sarah Palin: Rally 10/25/08 (video)
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Guess Who Came to the Palin Rally?
thedailybeast.com 10/31/2008 — "Though neither Political Cesspool nor Randall Terry have any known contact with the McCain-Palin campaign, their presence at the recent Palin rally presents one of the clearest portraits yet of the far right's attempts to exploit the Republican ...
Venue changed for Palin rally
columbiamissourian.com 10/23/2008 — SPRINGFIELD A rally with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is being moved to a larger site in Springfield. Friday morning's event was initially scheduled for an arena at Missouri State University. But the party says all 4,000 tickets ...
Obama: The Sarah Silverman project —
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The New York Times looks at the Sarah Silverman project to get young Jews to go to Florida to convince their grandparents to support Obama. "This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has ...
Palin: Anchorage paper not happy —
First Read 10/14/2008
It's not good when your home-state paper’s editorial page puts your name and "embarrassment" to the state in the same sentence. "Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She ...
Palin Takes the Fight to Biden’s Hometown —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/14/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Scranton, Pa., on the presidential race.
GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin didnt let her itinerary stop her attack lines Tuesday, even if it meant going after her Democratic counterpart in his hometown ...