Archive for October 7th, 2008
Intelligent Discourse
by Dave on Oct.07, 2008, under Minutiae
It’s not bad enough that Sarah Palin’s egregiously underqualified. Now she’s converting her base into a lynch mob:
“Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness,” writes the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. “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.’…
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