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Even the original reporters on the story are saying that the idiot who yelled "Kill him!" during a Sarah Palin rally was referring to unrepentant domestic terrorist and Barack Obama supporter Bill Ayers -- not to Obama himself.
After all, Palin had literally just mentioned Ayer's name in her speech when the man shouted from the crowd.
Reporters from the Washington Post and the New Republic -- both reliably liberal publications -- say the true target of the despicable outburst was obvious:
I took “kill him” to mean Ayers–not Obama. It’s just a far, far likelier explanation given the context. That’s still an ugly thing to shout–but on the other hand Ayers probably would have gotten the death penalty had his bombs actually taken a life...
But as far as Obama's more enthusiastic supporters are concerned, the truth doesn't matter. They complain that the "campaign is turning ugly," while simultaneously spreading rumors like this one, which purposely evoke America's ugly -- and long gone -- history of lynching. (And while wearing t-shirts that read SARAH PALIN IS A C*NT, calling on Palin to be "stoned to death, old school" and comparing John McCain to segregationist George Wallace, among other things.)
In fact, McCain's attacks on Obama would be much fiercer if Obama didn't happen to be African American.
That's because the compulsive use of other race-based hoaxes and misinformation has kept more than a few grievance mongers gainfully employed for decades, and left even a man who survived years of torture now terrified of being labeled a "racist."
This knee jerk habit of relying upon bizarre racist fantasies (the Tawana Brawley and Duke Rape cases, the rash of hoax "nooses", a judge's declaration that the astronomical phrase "black hole" is "racist") is now so commonplace that average, ordinary, decent Americans of every race are becoming immune to real racism.
Now Obama's campaign manager is calling something Palin has said "beyond the pale." Great. Is that "coded racism" too? What next? Palin's white blouses are "coded racism?" Oh wait -- that really happened.
Alas, liberals have been playing the race card for so long, the only one left in the deck is the Joker.
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Oh good, it's good to find out it's okay to shout "kill him" and "off with his head" just as long as we shout it about the right person.
Way not to read, Karen. No one is saying "it's a good thing to shout 'kill him'" about anyone -- the point is that <i>no one</i> was saying they wanted <i>Obama</i> killed. Is that simple enough for you, or do you need someone to draw a picture?
Karen
What part of "idiot" and "despicable" did you not understand?
So what do you think about Obama supporters calling on Sarah Palin to be "stoned to death, old school"? Don't tell me -- that's "different" somehow, right?
So that makes it better?
Ohforchrissakes...
NOBODY IS SAYING THAT MAKES IT "BETTER." THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, "GAIL," IS "NO." THERE. HAPPY?
Why do I think "Karen" and "Gail" are the same O-bot? And why do I think someone else -- maybe someone called "Tina" or "Jane" -- is going to pop in with "So why are you defending this person?" Dang. I just took some antihistamines and suddenly I can think like a person of lesser brain. Don't do drugs, kids...
Most thinking and hearing people KNEW who that was aimed at. It is the left trying to claim more nonsense.
This is what security staff are
for. It doesn't matter what was
said or about whom. The indivual
should have been taken away, thoroughly checked out, and banned from future gatherings.
Maybe they couldn't find the guy? It's not always easy to find someone who shouts in a crowd. But yes, I agree that security should at least given the guy a talking to. It's generally not a good idea to say words like "kill" around presidential candidates. The guy was either stupid or drunk, or both.
I'm not convinced that a person shouting out "kill him" about Bill Ayers is so very despicable. I mean, it was incendiary and hostile, but despicable? I think a bunch of domestic terrorists putting together a nail bomb to set off at an army dance is despicable. Leaving babies to die after a failed abortion is despicable.
I'm not convinced that a person shouting out "kill him" about Bill Ayers is so very despicable. I mean, it was incendiary and hostile, but despicable? I think a bunch of domestic terrorists putting together a nail bomb to set off at an army dance is despicable. Leaving babies to die after a failed abortion is despicable.
Bill Ayers is the original American home grown terrorist who deserved the same fate as Tim McVeigh.
The main stream media is up to its usual lying. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I don`t know why you folks all seem so surprised at all this. It`s the same same'ol that has been happening forever. It might change if conservatives ever learn that they that they have to challenge all that crap when it happens and tell the ones saying it flat out that they lie. They might even bring their mothers into it by saying if she caught them lying like that when they were kids she would have washed their mouth out with soap. By the way you misspelled the caption under the great ones pic. It should read DOPE.
Who knows if the person who shouted
" Kill him " was not an Obama supporter posing as a Palin supporter?
The left is capable of anything.
Well stated, Kathy. The "race card" has been played so much that it is now worthless. I think that most people hear cries of racism now and roll their eyes (thanks to Al Sharpton and friends).
What this proves is that for the left, words and actions don't matter. They decided long ago that it's the emotion you can stir in people's minds that wins elections, not facts.
Liberals can only win when they're able to exploit the ignorance of the average voter.
What this proves is that for the left, words and actions don't matter. They decided long ago that it's the emotion you can stir in people's minds that wins elections, not facts.
Liberals can only win when they're able to exploit the ignorance of the average voter.
Obviously it's no big deal to wear "Sarah Palin is a **nt" t-shirts and post pictures of yourselves wearing them on the internet, but to yell out something rude at a political rally is nothing short of a neo-Nazi revival.
Wonder what kind of tripe the Code Pinkos holler out? Or the Anarchists?
I am SO sick of the double standard. I really am.
Obama is baiting and smearing his way through this election: even if he issued a weak "Tsk-tsk" a while back, he has to know what's out there, and in his name.
American's won't be able to say they weren't warned when "But You're A Racist" politics gets elected, and becomes the ordinary discourse of national and local politics. Political correctness is a muzzle, not a bullhorn.
S.Taylor
Canada
"What this proves is that for the left, words and actions don't matter. They decided long ago that it's the emotion you can stir in people's minds that wins elections, not facts.
Liberals can only win when they're able to exploit the ignorance of the average voter."
'Cause when O referred to McCain's policies as putting lipstick on a pig, he was really calling Palin a pig, right? No conservative ever thought to exploit that deliberate mis-reading of obvious political jargon to stir people's emotions. No never. Not us. We're superior conservatives. Jeesh.
Pot meet kettle.
You blind uber-partisans don't get it do you? You don't realize that you are all - both sides - idiots and it is you more than the politicians themselves that are drive voting numbers ever down. You both pull the same stupid stunts. All principles may be sacrificed if it means scoring points against the other side.
The majority of Americans (and the same could be said roughly in Canada) were attracted to McCain and to Obama for their perception that they would both try to speak for them, instead of for the extremists on either side.
McCain and Palin have gone to great lengths to show middle America that they don't deserve to be trusted. Obama has been smoother about it, but he's trying hard as well to dispell the image that he's a post-partisan.
Stupid is as stupid does. And that goes double for the partisan monkeys who support them.
Ted, didn't hear Obama chide his audience when they started chanting "Palin, Palin" when he paused between "You can put lipstick on a pig" and "it's still a pig." But hey, Obama's not partisan, right?
Sorry, it's not 'uber-partisans' that are the problem but those who claim the middle ground while frozen in terminal indecision. And I find it difficult to take political advice from someone unwilling to discern any differences between the candidates.
I am not an Obama supporter but this type of behavior is TOTALLY unacceptable!
How do we know the idiot shouter wasn't an agent provocateur, a plant by the Obama camp?
Methinks Sarah Palin needs a new outfit for her next trip on-stage:
A large grey T-shirt, with bright flourescent green letters saying:
"Sarah Palin is a mother"
in large print and underneath
"5 kids and a
grand-kid on the way!"
How does a fierce attack against Obama
help McCain? If people vote for McCain
because he's angry at Obama that's
using convoluted logic.
If Obama has committed a crime McCain
should say what it is. If not then
fiercely attacking him because of
past association with a home grown
terrorist is guilt by association. The
trouble with that line of attack is
people are trying desperately to salvage
what's left of their financial lives.
Bringing up something from the past has
nothing to do with solving that. Should
McCain prove the two are intertwined he
is smart indeed.
Kathy is, as usual right on the money. I have been working on the media illusion very intensively and have come up with a good model of the media’s role. It’s here if you are inclined: http://breathofthebeast.blogspot.com/
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