Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Palin Trolling for Brownshirts

Filed under: Presidential 2008 — by Will Kirkland @ 8:57 am
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The standard of Republican viciousness brought to birth by Newt Gingrich with his infamous GoPac memo of 1996 is reaching new depths with Sarah Palin’s attacks on the media and her slathering on the “he’s not one of us” rhetoric. The permission granted by the party leaders to express your inner thug is being met by their sorry fans.

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 sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.

Going for the Hate

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