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Always To The Right on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:43:05 PM
When a few unruly McCain-Palin supporters show their anger at
campaign rallies, it's national news. It's an epidemic of
"Weimar-like rage" and "violent escalation of rhetoric," according to New York Times columnist Frank Rich.
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It's the "re-emergence of the far right as a power in American politics," according to Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne.
It's a mass movement of GOP crowds "gripped by insane rage," according to newly minted Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman.
Too bad they don't give out global awards for the Blindest Eyes in Punditocracy. We've just hit a trifecta.
Speaking of "violent escalation of rhetoric" you never hear about:
•Obama supporters in Philadelphia sported "Sarah Palin is a
(disgusting vulgarism referring to female genitalia)" T-shirts and
yelled, "Let's stone her, old school" over the weekend.
•An Internet artist has designated Palin an "M.I.L.P." — "Mother I'd
Like to Punch" —and published a drawing of a man's fist knocking a
tooth out of the Alaska governor's mouth and the glasses off her face.
•"ABORT Palin" graffiti has sprouted on the sidewalks of Seattle,
and "Abort Sarah Palin" bumper stickers are spreading in Web stores.
•Palin-bashing Madonna performs before an audience of thousands, screeching and threatening to "kick her a**."
•Getty Images publishes a photo of a man pointing a fake gun at the
head of a cardboard cutout of Palin on display at the Brooklyn
Waterfront Artists Coalition building.
And no one blinks. Not a peep from the Obamedia. But when Palin
simply spotlights Obama's longtime relationship with Weather
Underground terrorist Bill "We Didn't Do Enough" Ayers?
"Inciting violence," frets NBC reporter Ron Allen. "Concerned... for
Sen. Obama's safety," agonizes ABC reporter Terry Moran. "Beyond the
pale," cries Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. As if the
no-holds-barred Obama campaign has ever had a rhetorical pale to stake.