Apparently, some Obama supporters were chanting during the Palin rally, a legal but obnoxious activity. They were escorted out by the police. Reporters who were watching the protestors were yelled at by Palin supporters to stop watching the protestors and pay attention to Palin.
I guess it's no longer, accordign to Palin supporters, to look around the world at whatever you feel like watching?
Anyways, after the rally a reporter went to find the protesters who were evicted. According to Mark Binker's blog, this is what Joe Killian reported happened to him.
I sidled up to one of the Obama supporters and asked why they were there, what they were trying to accomplish.
As he was telling me a large, bearded man in full McCain-Palin campaign regalia got in his face to yell at him.
"Hey, hey, " I said. "I'm trying to interview him. Just a minute, okay? "
The man began to say something about how of course I was interviewing the Obama people when suddenly, from behind us, the sound of a pro-Obama rap song came blaring out of the windows of a dorm building. We all turned our heads to see Obama signs in the windows.
This was met with curses, screams and chants of "U.S.A" by McCain-Palin folks who crowded under the windows trying to drown it out and yell at the person playing the stereo.
It was a moment of levity in an otherwise very tense situation and so I let out a gentle chuckle and shook my head.
"Oh, you think that 's funny?! " the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. "Yeah, that 's real funny…" he said.
And then he kicked the back of leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground.
Earlier, when she was asked about her supporters shouting "Kill him" at a rally, Palin denied it happened and said of course she would have condemened it. I'll be wtaching to see if she condemns this act of violence. But I won't be holding my breath.
Of course, Palin might not hear about this , either. Apparently her handlers are not allowing her to watch the news because it might make her depressed. Depressed at press coverage of a campaign? This is the person the right wing is trying to pretend is capable of handling the pressure of being President? Someone who is too fragile to even watch TV news?
Give me a break.
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I'll bet her handlers are not worried about the state of her mental health as much as they don't want her to know how badly the campaign is going.
See, she's not really a partner in this. She's a puppet who they want to perform in a certain way, and knowing they're losing big time might put a damper on her perky Miss America patter.
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