Video - The McCain-Palin Mob

Meet Your Fellow Citizens
Brilliant at Breakfast — And these people are allowed to vote? McCain/Palin: Because American Idiots Need Representation Too.

Obama as "terrorist"
Jonathan Martin's Blog — A sad video taken by an Obama backer outside a McCain visit yesterday in Ohio featuring Republicans saying Obama is "a terrorist," among other things. Party activists of the sort who show up at rallies always tend to be more partisan, but it's difficult to imagine even the most hard-core conservatives saying that Al Gore or John Kerry were terrorists. It's a testament to how powerful those viral emails about Obama have been and just how much some on the right are blissfully happy to believe untruths about the man.

The Dispossessed
The Poor Man Institute — Via.

'Bloodlines'
Ben Smith's Blog — As the reality that Obama could become president sinks in, the ire directed at him is amping up, as in this striking video taken by a liberal Ohio blogger outside a McCain-Palin rally in Ohio. As Jonathan Martin notes, there's a special edge to the anti-Obama sentiment. Despised as John Kerry was, it's hard to imagine Republicans calling him, personally, a "terrorist," and speculating about his "bloodlines." And while the vitriol may help, a bit, in rallying the base, it's also probably not something independent voters are going to find terribly attractive. ...

Deranged McCain/Palin mob in Strongville, OH; campaign caters to this base with new ‘Ayers’ ad
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding Sigh. As I’ve said before, the IQ of these conservatives is dropping like an anchor. Tim Russo at BloggerInterrupted interviewed some of the ignorant yahoos at a Bible Spice rally in Strongville, OH and the ignorance—added on top of the proud bluster, is incredible: A sample of the comments: ”I think he (Obama) is a one-man terror cell.” ”He’s got the bloodlines...look at the name.” ”There have been more personal interviews with Sarah Palin than Barack ...

INSTAPUTZ EXCLUSIVE!!!
INSTAPUTZ — We have obtained video of Old Punk's family reunion: [via Ben]

McCain-Palin Rally Attendees: "Obama Is A Terrorist"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — File this one under the "give 'em enough rope" column. A pro-Obama blogger in Ohio caught McCain-Palin supporters as they streamed into a rally and asked some of the most salient questions of the day. Like, "is Obama a terrorist?" Check out the responses:

McCain-Palin Rally Attendees: "Obama Is A Terrorist"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — File this one under the "give 'em enough rope" column. A pro-Obama blogger in Ohio caught McCain-Palin supporters as they streamed into a rally and asked some of the most salient questions of the day. Like, "is Obama a terrorist?" Check out the responses: More on Video On HuffPost<br style="clear: both;"/> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' ...

"He's Got The Bloodlines"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — McCain-Palin supporters at a Palin rally tell us what they think of the "terrorist" running for president.

that one, the terrorist
skippy the bush kangaroo — blogger, interrupted, interviews some attendees of a mcmuffin/o'connell rally: and they all think obama's a terrorist...

Snowjob: The McCain/Palin Terror Ties
The Latest on Air America — Earlier today the McCain release a new web ad. We won't run the name of it here. It's about Senator Barack Obama's "murky" ties to a grassroots activist. The activist in question was once a terrorist. When? Before Obama was out of shortpants. What else does McCain/Palin have? Nada.Â We're not linking to the ad. Easy clicks are not as valuable as the truth, and since there's no semblance of the truth in McCain's new ad, we're not going there. It's better just to talk about it. We do provide video below, but it shows you the truth--Palin's quotes about her own terrorist ties. While Obama does not have any ties to terrorists, both McCain and ...

Look at These Idiots
I Am TRex — The bottom of the barrel voters have been found. And they’re sooooo not pretty. (via bloggerinterrupted) UPDATE: On my second and third viewings of this video, it strikes me that all of these people speak in the same kind of mangled syntax as Gov. Sarah Palin. Any time their sentences stretch to more than five words, their subject/verb agreement goes right down the shitter. Jeebus. I understand they’re discussing an emotional topic, but for god’s sake. No wonder they love Sarah Palin. They all speak the same word salad ...

Obama, ACORN, Terrorist, Etc
Seeing the Forest — Obama, ACORN, Terrorist, Etc McCain supporters: This is a window into the next several years if McCain becomes President. ----> Scroll down to see comments. Posted by Dave Johnson at October 9, 2008 9:04 AM Spotlight Share this post: [image] StumbleUpon Toolbar Stumble It! del.icio.us Bookmark this on Delicious

McCain’s Vile Campaign Unmasks The Republican Base
Firedoglake — It's easy to see why McPalin keeps talking about Ayers and why their minions keep saying "Barack Hussein Obama." And it's clear now that those shouts of "kill him!" and "terrorist!" were not an anomaly. But I'm sure Peggy Noonan ...

Are you now, or have you ever been, a desperate right wing hack?
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Hilzoy, after spending far too much time reading The Corner: [The revisitation of the Ayers non-story] is delusional. It would be interesting to ask, for instance, why so few of Obama's law students have come forward to talk about his attempt to transform them into Maoist cadres, or why the lawyers in his firm have not mentioned his commitment to cultural revolution, or how he has managed to conceal his desire to nationalize the means of production from, well, everyone. Was he secretly plotting to get asked, unexpectedly, to speak at the Democratic Convention, take a chance on running for President, and succeed, back ...

Bill Scher: Economic Crisis Beats Racial Divisiveness
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Perhaps the first sign that racism may not play a determining role in the general election was when the McCain campaign gave up on Michigan. President Bush lost the severely economically distressed state in both 2000 and 2004. But some thought Sen. John McCain had a chance of tying Sen. Barack Obama to the scandal that cut short Kwame Kilpatrick's term as mayor of Detroit. (They're both black, y'know.) But working-class Michigan apparently isn't as racist as some hoped. The McCain campaign last week abruptly pulled out of Michigan, telling the Washington Post that since Michigan is an "economic basket ...

Senator McCain: Encouraging the Very Mentality He Condemns
The Moderate Voice — Watch the first video, if you didn’t watch it earlier, when Shaun posted it. Next, in the second video, see the type of dangerous idiocy the first one yields. Now, answer my suggested question from the other day: Judged on the merits of Ayers’ and McCains’ current behavior, who should we view in the better light? The destructive youth who became a peaceful, productive citizen/professor? Or the irrascible youth who became a U.S. senator and presidential candidate? ...

John McCain Forwards Obama Is a Muslim Terrorist Email
Open Left - Front Page — Here's a bunch of Republicans at a Palin rally saying Obama's a terrorist. And here's McCain's new web ad calling Obama a terrorist. One of the most idiotic parts of our political dialogue is this pretense that the Republican Party leaders are disconnected from their base, a conceit held not only by journalists but also by high level Democratic elites. While most of us get that we're playing in a partisan system, and the other side thinks our leaders are terrorists, a lot of people are 'surprised' and 'disappointed' in how ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 09, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Wachovia Bank lending 8000000 to republican party This is outrageous and it should be the headline story on BuzzFlash and the MSM. Once this is televised - if it is - it should finish John McCain AND the Republican Party on Election Day-as it should be!!! FACING SOUTH INVESTIGATION: How did Republicans get an $8 million bailout from failing ...

Faces in the Mob
The Republic of T. — You’ve probably already seen this, but it’s something as many people as possible should see. So, I’m doing what I can. I’ll just add one thing. These are the people who have kept George W. Bush’s approval rating in the double digits, if ...

And you thought the pancake box was racist?
At-Largely — Remember how I stumbled into the Values Summit and their mob-like chants and rants? Well get a load of this mob of folks in support of McCain - from blogger interrupted. ...

Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * The Dow closed down another 679 points today. It closed below 9,000 for the first time since June 2003, and is now at its lowest points since May 2003. * Krugman added : "The money markets are frozen; the TED spread is 4.14%. G7 meeting tomorrow, IMF-World Bank over the weekend. Now is the time for major action -- an announcement of coordinated capital injections, liquidity measures, and more. If we've had nothing except vague assurances by Monday...." * McCain spent the day smearing Obama for knowing Bill Ayers . It comes a day after his campaign assured us ...

John McCain's Fans
Politicol News — This speaks for itself. http://feedproxy.google.com/blogspot/Rnyd

If It Walks Like A Duck and Talks Like a Duck Dept: The McCain-Palin Mob
Greatscat! — If It Walks Like A Duck and Talks Like a Duck Dept: The McCain-Palin Mob

Kill, Baby, Kill!
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, Featured Stories, Sarah PalinA restless feeling has set in at McCain/Palin rallies this past week. The numbers continue to look bleak for the Republican candidate, and the fans are getting anxious. To hear them tell it, this hockey game hasn't had nearly enough rough stuff, and they're letting the home team know about it. Here's Politico: The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among ...

The McCain-Palin Mob
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings In case you missed it -- and it's been making the rounds the past couple of days -- here's a rather revealing clip of the McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio. As Tim Russo of blogger interrupted puts it: "I've been doing blog video for a while, and presidential rallies a lot longer. And this is the most strange, ignorant, uninformed, angry, up-to-no-good, and gullible group of people I've ever seen at a political rally. Ever." And they're the McCain-Palin ...

The Lynch Mob Politics of McCain-Palin
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG October 10 We watched an interview on "The Daily Show" the other night of patrons at a Wasilla bar responding to the vice presidential debate, and it wasn’t funny. The Sarah Palin fans were racists, homophobic and one even wished for John McCain’s death if he gets elected so Palin could become president. There was the raw smell of scary stupid ignorance in the air, and even Jon Stewart could barely conceal his disgust with what was supposed to be a comic sketch. Palin has been going around the nation inciting mobs with the kind of emotional appeals (although in a more coded form) that one used to find at ...

They need help
slacktivist — Snopes.com is necessary, but not sufficient. That's one of the things I started out wanting to say. Then I got a bit distracted as that thought was reinforced by the dismaying spectacle of Sarah Palin's unconditional admirers -- their admiration only increasing with every Katie Couric interview and every repeated, documented lie ...

They've got the pitchforks out
Blah3 Feed — I saw this earlier today and have been debating with myself whether to post it. Here, "bloggerinterrupted" hangs out in the parking lot before a McCain rally in Ohio and poses a few questions. Some remain polite, some come across as seriously dim, and others are downright frightening. I know this can be criticized for only featuring the most bizarre of McCain supporters, but after a day of watching McCain surrogates on the cabloids defending his and Palin's recent conduct, I think it's worth noting the kind of people that love this red meat. Scary, scary stuff...particularly that woman in the freeze frame below who wins some sort of prize ...

It won't stop. This is how they do things.
Daily Kos — It's clearly the right thing to do to demand that John McCain and Sarah Palin's sick incitements to domestic terrorism must stop. But it's not going to. This is how they do things. When Republicans are in power, as they are now, they use the mechanisms of government to do their political violence to the constitutional order, as they've done by "normalizing" the existence of the surveillance state, of secret government, and even of nationalization of entire economic sectors. It's when Republicans fall out of power, or fear falling out of power, that the violence they do to what used to be our system of government ...

Karen Russell: Stop The "Hate Talk Express"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — "Kill Him!" "Traitor!" "Terrorist!" "Sit Down Boy!" "Barack HUSSEIN Obama!" "That One!" "Bomb Obama!" Senator John McCain needs to put the brakes on the "Hate Talk Express." McCain must end the shameful and dangerous hate mongering erupting daily at McCain/Palin rallies. It is so bad that the Secret Service is probing death threats against Senator Obama emerging at these hate fests. Today, McCain finally calling Obama "decent" is a first baby step but it just isn't enough. The McCain/Palin hot-headed supporters are so worked up that they booed his effort to take the high road. ...

McCain Palin haters in Ohio (video)
Majikthise — Dana Blankenhorn posted this disturbing footage captured in the parking lot outside a McCain rally in Strongsville, Ohio this week. ...

The Ugly States of America: A Chronology
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 PresidentTime will tell, but as I said on last night's Unusable Signal, I think that the spectacle of increasingly ugly and hostile McCain crowds is going to hurt the GOP nominee badly with independents. Fair or not, it raises the spectre of two Americas, and decent people want no part of McCain's Ugly States of America. The fact that McCain has started to fight the fire he started is creditable, if not laudable. Creditable because, by tamping down the hostility, he risks disarming the only weapon he has left: Obama the Villain. ...

The McCain mob exposed (Part 2)
The Moderate Voice — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJghQMq49dw If you missed Pete Abel’s post Thursday (he has part 1), go back and read it. When I read Andrew Sullivan’s Weimar America post on Tuesday I thought the reader was stretching. I went back and reread it today. ...

The Brown Badge Of Cowardice
Sadly, No! — Who better to explain a certain emergent trend toward naked insanity than Confederate Yankee? ABOVE: Our Aeschylus of Asheville Battleground State of Mind I just dropped by my local pawn shop to get rid of some items ...

The Man Behind 'The McCain-Palin Mob'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — A Barack Obama supporter in Ohio with deep roots in Democratic politics -- and a 2001 sex-related felony conviction to his name -- is behind two new confrontational videos that bait ignorant people into calling Barack Obama a terrorist. The first video was released Wednesday and has gone viral. It currently has more than 1.1 million views on YouTube. Part II went online a day later and is well on its way to viral status, with more than 145,000 views. The John McCain and Sarah Palin supporters in the videos are characterized as “The McCain-Palin Mob.” The videos selectively feature voters who, upon being ...

Coleen Rowley: Wrong Lesson from McCain's "Town Hall"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — McCain's visit last Friday to the Lakeville (Minnesota) High School just 12 miles south of our home wasn't so much a bad reflection of Minnesota as it was a study in paradox. Unfortunately, the McCain campaign event, mishandled from start to finish, also furnished the worst lesson imaginable for those Lakeville high school students on how our country's constitutional democracy is supposed to function. Paradox #1: The "Straight Talk Town Hall" was a complete contradiction of terms. McCain's "Town Hall" was simply not open to the people of Minnesota. Even people who lived in the residential housing ...

Endorsement Season Has Begun-- And It Looks Very Bad For McCain
DownWithTyranny! — McCain acknowledges he has no chance to win the richest of all electoral prizes, California's 55 electoral votes. Although he's occasionally flown into the state to collect checks from wealthy reactionary donors, he doesn't bother campaigning in the Golden State. And the first congressional district, which includes the lush, rolling hills of the Napa Valley wine country has gotten so Democratic in its voting habits (PVI is D+10) that this once GOP bastion doesn't have any serious Republican electoral efforts. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”:

McCain-Palin's People
Hoffmania! — McCain's proud of them. We're running against a lot of this. We MUST ALL VOTE and send these subhuman cowards back to their caves.

McCain Adviser Suggests NoVa Not 'Real Virginia'
44 — The Wingnuts are seeing their 90's power grap being yanked away from them and they're throwing a tantrum. After controlling the White House for the last eight years and controlling Congress for ten of the last twelve years they've proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that conservatism is a failed ideology and now they're panicking. The breathtaking ignorance that presides over most McCain/Palin rallies is incredible. The GOPer base is in rare hate-filled form. There really is no wonder the crowds have turned into near lynch mobs. Between the hate filled rhetoric of McCain and Palin and the ignorance of the crowds, it would only take the ...

Librul Bias
Booman Tribune — If Obama wins its because the media hasn't talked enough about Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Obama's drug dealer and Tony Rezko. Why, for example to quote the lawyer for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., haven't we seen an interview with Sen. Obama's grad school drug dealer -- when we know all about Mrs. McCain's addiction? Are Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko that hard to interview? All those phony voter registrations that hard to scrutinize? And why are Sen. Biden's endless gaffes almost always covered up, or rationalized, by the traditional media? And of course, let's not forget the horrific, horrible horror that is ...

What Does G.O.P. Stand For?
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, John McCain, Featured Stories, Sarah Palin This figurative question has been asked quite a bit in the wake of last Tuesday's historic election. What does it mean to be a member of the Grand Old Party? That you favor small government to large? That you cling to guns and God more than your Democrat neighbors? That the issue of abortion trumps all else? Perhaps all three reasons apply. Whatever the reason for Republican affiliation, a clear side-effect of this political condition became apparent in the waning days of the campaign, and has taken hold of the party faithful: ...

Morans for Mavrick: The Returnage
Firedoglake — Special Ed links to a video purporting to show how pig-ignorant Obama voters are. Of course the questions asked are the really important ones about policy and Iraq and the economy and.... oh wait: 57.4 could NOT correctly say ...

Please Don’t Make It This Easy
Oliver Willis — Rick Moran: So Oliver might want to become better informed before he wildly accuses mainstream conservative outlets of promoting “conspiracy theories.” The Obama is a Muslim - wasn’t born here - fake birth certificate - is a terrorst - crew are relegated to the fringes of conservatism with most mainstream conservatives condemning the idiocy. Andy McCarthy on National Review Online, July 6, 2008: Our Jim Geraghty seemed to pooh-pooh the birth certificate controversy about a week ago, but according to the above cited report (at a site called DougRoss@Journal) and a new one from ...

Repeat Of McCain-Palin
Oliver Willis — You remember those McCain-Palin rallies where the GOP saw their crazed crowds as something of a boost to the failing campaign? And then people began yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” and the like, and it became a liability? As Ben Smith notes, this is becoming a mighty likely result of the astroturf campaign that’s targeting House members. The protest isn’t organic, but the people it attracts are super-fringers likely to say crazy stuff. And the minority leader John Boehner took a break from his tanning bed to cheer them on. ...

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