McCain-Palin's Attacks On Media Have Spawned Unprecedented Crowd Hostility Toward Press

[Fuzz]

Dana Milbank -- the Washington Post reporter who wrote this morning's piece about the Palin crowd's disgusting abuse of reporters at a rally yesterday -- tells me that the McCain camp's repeated attacks on the media have spawned crowd hostility towards the press that's running at a "degree of intensity" he's never experienced in covering presidential politics.

As Milbank wrote, one Palin supporter hurled an unspecified racial epithet at an African American sound man, and told him: "Sit down, boy."

I checked in with Milbank to get a bit more on what happened yesterday, because the ugliness unleashed by McCain-Palin's nasty crowd-riling tactics are becoming a story in this campaign.

"None of this is new, but the degree of intensity is different," Milbank says. "It's taken an uglier turn. I've been doing this for years, and there's never been anything quite like this."

Milbank says that after the Palin attacked the New York Times and Katie Couric in her stump speech yesterday in Florida, he and other reporters were pelted with boos, with some saying things like "screw you" and "fucking liberal media."

"McCain has so overtly taken on the media -- they're doing it to rile the base," he continued. "And lo and behold, the base is good and riled."

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. What they've done is to legitimize the droolers in their misbegotten rage and

their subhuman intellectual grasp of the world around them.

[Fuzz]

3. And it's working and getting worse. Doesn't take much.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Yup. Cause and effect. The GOPhers will always get those 2 mixed up! n/t

[wtmusic]

2. Brownshirts on the march. nt

[dbt]

4. That'll work.

Much as the Media Borg DESERVES hostility for the way it has given bu$hler and most every other Republic a free pass on EVERYTHING for the past eight years, it's probably not wise to antagonize the poor thing. Especially if you are trailing in every imaginable poll.

:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

8. Yep This is winning strategy.

:evilgrin:

[Lorien]

6. "Librul media"= anyone who shines a light on what they really are:

proudly ignorant, hateful, uneducated, fearful, racist mouth breathers. ANY story which isn't designed to aggrandize their anointed ones becomes suspect in their tiny world view.

[riverdeep]

7. Before this is over, they will have summoned every demon lurking in the hearts

(such as they are) of the Palin/McCain supporters. It's more ugly than you can imagine. And they feel wronged that they have to stifle their base impulses in public, that it is political correctness.

[Winterblues]

9. What did Clinton say, "It's not wise to pick a fight with those that buy ink by the barrel".

Or something very similar to that.. but does anyone regard McCain as being even a bit wise?