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07 Oct 2008 09:49 am
"Sit Down, Boy"
The McCain-Palin campaign stumbles across what Steve Schmidt really wants to say to Obama:
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 ethos of Palinism - its contempt for elites, its hatred of a free press, its pathological secrecy, its demonization of "the other", its bullying of anyone in its way, and its cult-of-personality - is authoritarian. And somewhat chilling.
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Palin supporter tells black guy to "Sit down, boy"
Excerpt: I guess Palin's supporters in the base are showing their true colors. To quote my boy JZ, When your only supporters are unabashed racists, it's over. From WaPo: McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor,
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