Paline incites riot against media at campaign stop

Oct 07, 2008 07:02

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 ( Read more... )

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layweed October 7 2008, 14:13:44 UTC
Yeah. Because Katie Couric's unfair gotcha journalism is the reason you came off looking like a complete idiot on national television. WTF. You can't even really "spin" a television interview like you could a print one, what you see is what you get.

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quinatorte October 7 2008, 14:16:35 UTC
One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

No words. No words except to say that I saw red when I read that.

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butterflyrei October 7 2008, 14:18:18 UTC
Me too

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hirolin October 7 2008, 14:19:49 UTC
Same here.

Sadly, I'm not surprised at all.

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louise8402 October 7 2008, 14:35:35 UTC
I was pretty relieved that they were that tame. I use to live about 45 mins from there in the Lutz/Land O'Lakes area and I can't even tell you how fucked those people are.I quit my job at Dunkin Donuts bc one of the customers referred to me as the "pretty nigger girl"

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cosmologists October 7 2008, 14:17:38 UTC
This, paired with the book-banning (and others), is making Palin seem like the villain of some sort of anti-intellectual dystopian universe. Awesome. :|

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ladyelleth October 7 2008, 14:25:05 UTC
That RL troll theory is sounding more plausible every single.fucking.hour.

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motorghost October 7 2008, 15:55:08 UTC
icon love ♥

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ladyelleth October 7 2008, 17:22:30 UTC
Click.

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Palin has taken off her heels, and put on her white sheets jazzypom October 7 2008, 14:25:18 UTC
The GOP aren't running a campaign, they are stoking the country for a race war. I do hope all people of colour take note: and vote Obama.

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Re: Palin has taken off her heels, and put on her white sheets quinatorte October 7 2008, 14:26:38 UTC
Seriously. This woman is like Hitler with a vagina. Titler.

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Re: Palin has taken off her heels, and put on her white sheets zoostation October 7 2008, 14:46:23 UTC
No, she's not. And I wish all the comparisons to Hitler ever made would stop.

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Re: Palin has taken off her heels, and put on her white sheets quinatorte October 7 2008, 14:48:30 UTC
Yes she is. And too bad, they won't stop. Suck it up.

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