How ugly will America get? I'm a cockeyed optimist. But this is worrisome. Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:
Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into
ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts
and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's
questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream
media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press
area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled
obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial
epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him,
"Sit down, boy."
ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts
and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's
questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream
media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press
area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled
obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial
epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him,
"Sit down, boy."
