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Oct. 7th, 2008 at 11:18 PM

Worse, 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."...

... The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

This isn't funny anymore. The whole thing is kind of terrifying.

ETA: And of course no major media is covering this. Colour me surprised.

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waldorph.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 7th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)

I think she prefers the right-wing media who are all jerking off to pictures of her. Seriously, they're just disgusting.

I can't decide if I'm glad major media is ignoring her because I don't think she deserves the attention, or if I want them just to crucify her.

This isn't funny anymore. The whole thing is kind of terrifying.

Yeah...I'm about ready for her to go back up to Alaska and pretend I never saw her.

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 8th, 2008 01:25 am (UTC)

The whole thing leaves this sour taste in my mouth. I guess I just expect better of politicians. I mean sure, I expect the mud slinging but you know, there are just lines you don't cross. I don't even live in America, but this election matter because, well, because America is meant to be the best in the world.

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