Reporters: 'Kill him!' shout aimed at Ayers, not Obama

 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.