Comments on: Crowd at Palin Rally Hurled Racial Epithets at African-American on News Crew

By: Fran Barlow

Fran Barlow — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:07:35 +0000

And wasn’t there some sheriff or some such there riffing on the same theme?

Hmmm ….

I can’t recall as ugly a presidential campaign as this. Even Nixon 1972 didn’t get to this. We are in uncharted waters.

Those words of Marc Antony over Julius Caesar come to mind when I think of McCain and Palin.

Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny:
…
I come not, friends to steal away your hearts,
I am no orator, as Brutus is:
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man
That love my friend, and that they know full well,
That gave me public leave to speak of him:
For I have neither writ nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir mens blood. I only speak right on:
I tell you that, which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths
And bid them speak for me:
But were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your Spirits, and put a Tongue
In every wound of Caesar, that should move
The stones of Rome, to rise and mutiny

All: We’ll mutiny. We’ll burn the house of Brutus …

By: WL

WL — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:21:57 +0000

KDT – You are right – not of that particular obscenity. However, there are videos of the “terrorist,” “treason,” and “kill him!” remarks. I’m sorry to have to tell you this, because surely it will be a shock to you.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:50:10 +0000

I am a 55 year old,”white” woman from the Florida. I have NO problem supporting Barack Obama, even though I didn’t vote for him in the primaries (I didn’t vote for Hillary either). Not ALL southern whites are products of generations of inbreeding. The person that yelled out “Kill him” in Clearwater, probably was. They are incapable of sane, rational thought. It’s not their fault, it’s genetic. It’s the reason they continually vote against their own best interest.
To KDT: There is plenty of video and audio evidence of the incident in Clearwater. I heard it myself.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:49:23 +0000

Thanks for the input, Karl, but Milbank is credible and the idea that a Republican in Clearwater shouted the n-word at a guy on a news crew is entirely too plausible.

By: KDT

KDT — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:32:19 +0000

Come on guys, act like journalists and not like contributors to the society page. Where’s the audio? video? eyewitnesses? Other than Dana Milbank (find out about him on Wikipedia), no one recorded or witnesses this event. Not the Secret Service agents who were there, not the press. No one.

Please…. Do a little homework next time before you print something as fact, or read about it and cite it as “proof” to support your beliefs (whatever those may be).

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:07:14 +0000

If McFailin is elected I’m buying guns.
Did I really say that?
Yup.

By: OH

OH — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:51:27 +0000

Barack Obama the Winner will be President. You nervous nellies, STFU, why dont you keep your pessimism to yourself. What is the point of expressing your pessimism. Let the red scum states vote for Loser McCain, there are plenty of states in the union, there are I assure you plenty, plenty of non-racist Americans.

By: Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:35 +0000

The only 2 qualities McCain & Palin have to offer America is their White skin & empty heads! The person I feel most sorry in the presidential campaign is McCain’s wife. HE’S SUCH A PROFOUND LOSER and she thinks SHE did something to deserve his evilness. Maybe SHE’LL end his run for the Whitehouse…with a castiron frying pan!

By: Walter F. Wouk

Walter F. Wouk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:39 +0000

The more “the bint” babbles, the less John McCain says. If I were Mc Cain I’d watch my back because Sarah’s “gonna” step on it.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:04:28 +0000

If this happens again, I say, news media LEAVE!!!

Do not give them any coverage!

We’ll see how long they put up with not having their campaign covered.

Or, focus only on the nastiness coming out of the crowd and Palin. Don’t report anything else.