Someone in the audience yelled out the words, "kill him!" after the main speaker criticized the opposition party's presidential nominee. Many others harassed members of TV crews and print journalists, showering them with insults. Still another member of the audience yelled a racial epithet at an African American sound man before sneering, "Sit down, boy!" Was this a Ku Klux Klan cross-burning? No, just one of the latest Sarah Palin rallies. Read on for this Washington Post account of the boorish behavior, bordering on a hatefest.
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But the behavior didn't stop there. Even the McCain campaign dressed down a uniformed Florida county sherriff for whipping a Ft. Myers crowd into a frenzy by invoking Obama's middle name, Hussein, which some believe is a coded racial epithet. The FBI is now investigating the sherriff of Lee County for participating in a political rally while in uniform. Here's that story, in the News-Press of Ft. Myers, Fla.
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Finally, the New York Times condemns the McCain-Palin attack tactics on the campaign trail, the ugly behavior and rhetoric that has come to characterize their events and most importantly, for trying to change the conversation on the issue that matters most, the economy.
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