"They ARE terrorists!" -- Another McCain crowd member speaks up

[calmblueocean]

I was just listening to the "Terrorist!" clip from McCain's speech yesterday, and realized that as the shouting dies down, you can hear another audience member shout out: "They ARE terrorists!"

Hear for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjf0NlfO73M

Of course, McCain says nothing.

This is proof that the delusional, hate-filled view of Obama and apparently Democrats in general as "terrorists" is not isolated to just a single loud man at one rally. It infects the whole Republican community.

That's a story the mainstream media should be talking about. Because you can't hear that ugly McCain crowd, screaming in full-throated voices, calling Obama a terrorist, and egging each other on, without being truly afraid for our country.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Dana Milbank skewered them for this in the WAPO today...n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. This may end up backfiring horribly for them.

Somehow I don't see this going over well with independents or undecideds.

[old mark]

7. Eventually, even the big media guys will have to note

that this is going on. It will come back on McCain and hurt him.

mark

[ShortnFiery]

3. They probably 40 y.o. still live in their parent's basement. Bigots: disgusting but usually DUMB

[texasleo]

4. wow, did not notice the second one.

[meowomon]

5. McCain has no honor.

[liberal N proud]

6. McCain rallies are starting to sound like radical revivals

McCain being the preacher sounds off and is echoed by some radical from the audience.

He is going to incite violence with one of these little pep rallies of his. These fuckers attending these meetings and shouting out like that are radical and scary.

Much more scary than the people that McCain is trying to associate Obama with.

[NYC_SKP]

8. McCain/Palin crowds are ALWAYS ugly, they're just getting worse.

Have you noticed all the booing, all the negativity generally, in crowd responses?

Of course over the last two days they're going over the line--expect Obama hung in effigy later this week.

While Obama crowds have consistently been positive, upbeat, and I've seen times when Obama gently scolded them if they did boo.

Like night and day, these candidates and their fans and backers....

:donut:

[Tarc]

9. So we've got audiences calling him a terrorist, calling for others to "kill him!"

and a catcall of "sit down, boy!" make to a black cameraman covering Palin's fundraiser the other day.

In desperate times, desperate people show their true selves. Today, we see the Republican Party as a bunch of reactionary, racist inbreds.

[Juche]

10. Good

Who gives a shit if the radical republican base doesn't like Obama? They made up their minds a long time ago. Actions like this only serve to alienate the undecideds away from McCain and towards Obama.

If you were still undecided (for whatever reason, don't know how thats possible) and McCain picked a flipping moron like Palin as his VP and his audience called Obama a terrorist, would that make you more or less likely to vote for him?

The more radical and ignorant the GOP becomes the more people will abandon it.

[barnabas63]

12. No, NOT good...

..because Palin will incite someone to violence with this kind of talk.

[Juche]

15. True

That is a risk I didn't consider.

It is pissing me off thinking what the police did to non-violent protesters at the St Paul RNC convention but this kind of stuff is happening freely.

[barnabas63]

16. I think this will catch up to them shortly...

...the blowback has started!

[no_hypocrisy]

11. The regressive employment of the term "terrorist".

Terrorist today is what communist was in the Fifties. Or Jew/Auslander during the Third Reich. Someone not like us who hates us and wants to hurt us.

When * first started using "terrorist in 2001, my gut reaction was "Get ready. The club will be expanded from racial profiling to anyone who isn't in lockstep with this administration."

And unfortunately I was cynical enough. Pretty soon any of us can be labeled terrorist with a broad enough interpretation, morphed into "enemy combatants" and denied our constitutional protections and rights. Lose our citizenship for not being one of them.

Ayers has progressed and developed from the Sixties. So did Jerry Rubin, who went on to Wall Street. Would McCain and Palin call Tom Hayden, a member of the Chicago Seven, a "terrorist" if Obama had crossed paths with him?

[2CheeseEnchiladas]

13. Sounds like a KKK meeting

[bbrady42]

14. Did you see him and Cindy trying to hide their smiles?

Like they thought it was funny but knew they shouldn't get caught laughing.