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In Fla., Palin Goes for the Rough Stuff as Audience Boos Obama
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gestures during a campaign speech on Oct. 6, 2008 in Clearwater, Fla. (Chris O'Meara/Associated Press) By Dana Milbank CLEARWATER, Fla. -- "Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this ...
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Rabid Bigots Rally Around Embarrassed McCain [Videuhoh]
Gawker — ... ) in which John McCain asks, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" and a supporter yells out, "Terrorist!" Watch as Republican presidential nominee visibly grimaces, before quickly making his peace with demagoguery and moving on. That's more of a disgusted reaction, at least, than Sarah Palin reportedly gave when one of her audience members seemed to call for the death of her political opponent: ...

Violent Bigots for McCain-Palin
Mollygood — ... McCain supporters are now screaming out "terrorist" when their candidate asks the rhetorical question "Who is the real Barack Obama?" And this happened at a McCain-Palin rally in Florida yesterday: ...

Jeffrey Feldman: Is Palin Trying To Incite Violence Against Obama?
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — ... in Chicago." Here, Palin began to connect the dots. "These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes -- remember that's what Joe Biden had said. "And" -- she paused and sighed -- "I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. 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." (link) ...

McCain-Palin Supporters Full Of Murderous Rage
RadarOnline.com — ... Sarah Palin was delivering her own version of the "guilt by association" slander. How'd that go? It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin's allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities. "Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said. "Boooo!" said the crowd. "And, according to ...

'Times' Enabled Palin's Crypto-Fascism Tour [Media]
Gawker — ... NOW the increasingly, incredibly detestable Sarah Palin is standing before huge angry frothing crowds saying "I read in the New York Times" (BOOOOOO) "that Barack Hussein Osama is a terrorist" (BOOOOOOOOO) "so let's form a posse and kill the liberal media" (YAAAAAY). And, honestly, it's a desperate campaign in self-destruct mode, but that doesn't make it less disgusting and scary, that a major party is engaging in this kind of rhetoric unashamedly before these kinds of crowds. ...

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