Crowd at Palin Rally Hurled Racial Epithets

Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing out this article...it is a good follow-up to our recent article on Sarah Palin's race baiting: McPalin finally play the race card/Governor Palin takes to lying like a pig to slop



Crowd at Palin Rally Hurled Racial Epithets at African-American on News Crew
Jon Ponder Oct. 7, 2008


Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi’s depiction of Sarah Palin at the GOP Convention as “Gidget addressing the Reichstag” is becoming more apt by the minute. Earlier, Trish wrote about Palin’s incitement of verbal violence at a rally in Clearwater, Fla., when a Republican voter in the crowd shouted, “Kill him,” apparently in reference to Barack Obama.

Now the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank says the anger among the GOP rank and file in Clearwater was also directed toward reporters covering the event generally, and an African American sound man in particular

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.” Given the racist bent of their base, and leaving aside their constant lying about Barack Obama, his associations and his record, John McCain and Sarah Palin are playing with rhetorical fire.
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McPalin finally play the race card/Governor Palin takes to lying like a pig to slop

Governor Palin surrounded by supporters at a Saturday rally

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor

On three separate occasions Saturday (and likely more by now), Sarah Palin played the race card, saying "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America." He is "palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

Her reference to Obama's relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, is an out and out lie; not her usual clueless blatherings, but a willfully confected prevarication. They were on some boards in Chacago together, but no one recalls them being "pals." Obama was still a kid when the Wearthermen threw their last bombs, and has denounced their actions on numerous occasions. By saying he is "not like us" she not so subtly suggests the Hawaii-born Obama with a Nigerian father is not really an American at all. Of course, John McCain wasn't even born in the United States. But never mind that.

Playing the race card in front of her almost exclusively white audiences is a clear demonstration of just how desperate the McPalin campaign has become. Unfortunately, even in a tight race, character assassination takes more than four weeks. Perhaps it is time for some more interviews with the Governor.

Palin's debate performance, as pathetic as it was, has clearly emboldened the campaign. This is not particularly shocking when you recall Senator McCain's track record on racial matters: he opposed a National Holiday to honor Martin Luther King, and later refused to call for for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol.
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