‘Saracuda’ Smiles While Baiting the Mob
07 October 2008 8:33 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
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| by Paul Szep |
If Governor Palin was a man she’d never get away with the halting, rambling political tricks that have now become her stock in trade. If she were a man, her recent performances would get her yanked from the trail. But it seems because she’s a woman she gets a pass. What her fans are revealing should not.
Yesterday it was widely reported that someone at a McCain rally yelled “terrorist.”
Later, it was reported someone in one of Palin’s crowds yelled “kill
him.” Today we get the foundation of those Republican chants. It matters
little that McCain can’t control his fans, while Sarah Palin doesn’t even try. It matters that Sarah
Palin seems to enjoy baiting the mob.
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.”
“Treason” yelled another.
McCain-Palin is one YouTube clip away from a wash out. Their crowds seem to know she’ll do nothing about it, which is the same as inciting more.
When I first posted the graphic at the top people were aghast. Today it’s more apt than ever.
Right now “Sarahcuda” has one job. To take down Barack Obama
any way she can, with McCain very happy someone else is doing the job.
But if you want to know how dangerous situations are set up for politicians this
is it. When the man being targeted is the first African American candidate in
U.S. history a moral person of conscience would know that when you set a wide fire more than
one person will get burned.
The McCain-Palin crowds are turning ugly. It’s a potentially dangerous situation. Palin’s over the top, incendiary campaign rhetoric isn’t helping. In fact, she’s baiting the mob, with a smile.
