What's The Matter With Kansas? The Assassination Of George Tiller For One

Here we have a clip from an upcoming movie, "What's the Matter with Kansas" based on the book with the same title by Thomas Frank. Kansas used to be a center for populist activity, but has been turned into a land with religious intolerance that helps foment the brutal violence like what we saw yesterday when Dr. George Tiller was assassinated inside his church.

The N Word At A Palin Rally, The Hate Continues And Increases - Update

With eight days to go, the spectacular end of the McCain/Palin ticket promises an explosive end. For the minority that votes for them, beware the racists in your midst. Today at one of Palin's rallies one supporter increased the level of hate by screaming "and he's a ni**er," clearly catching the VP candidate off guard. Unfortunately, like all other screams and shouts, she said nothing to denounce the racist in front of her, despite showing that it threw her for a moment. Okay, I've got to admit that this video doesn't say that after closer inspection, it says this.



It is sad to see this, but perhaps these few brazenly racists' acts can alert the people who erroneously believe that racism is a thing of the past and compel them to do something about it now and in the future. Racism still exists and it is still rampant in certain parts of the GOP and the far right. That was clearly put on display with the plot to assassinate Obama and kill over a hundred African-Americans in Tennessee. Thankfully that was broken up. Here for this video, the woman shouted "Redistributor." It is still wrong and comes from misguided Republican talking points, but not as bad as the N word.

Colin Powell Out For Obama And Against Hateful Bachmann

Not only did Colin Powell come out officially for Barack Obama, this post-interview shows him condemning the antics of the McCain campaign and that of right wing nut and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

Sarah Palin Spiraling Out Of Control

Many conservative pundits have jumped on the anti-Sarah bandwagon, calling either for her ouster or just plain lamenting her as the VP nominee choice. From the Katie Couric interviews to the scandals that cloud her self-imagined reformer image, it seems that she is hiding away from the bad news because it "depresses" her. Like Obama said at the debate, this isn't about the hurt feelings of politicians but Palin clearly doesn't get it. Instead, she uses her rallies to stir up hatred among her base filled with racists and bigots. Today things got really bad on the trail.

From Joe Killian:

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.

Screams and shouts are turning into violence now. Perhaps it is sporadic, but the evidence of it is scary enough. This doesn't happen at Obama rallies and Barack nor Joe Biden would stand for it. They have class and dignity unlike the Alaskan that stands at the helm of this right-wing ship.

Speaking of Alaskans, the Beluga whale population that lives in the waters off of Anchorage scored a major victory against the Governor today. See, Sarah Palin cares more about oil and gas than saving a species of whales. She tried blocking their endangered status but fortunately the NOAA determined that the whiles deserved the protected status despite the Governor's attempts let the whales fend for themselves. Perhaps the area that they live in, Cook Inlet isn't a pro-America part of the country that Palin loves so much.

Hopefully this one victory against Palin along with the all important one on November 4th.

Olbermann Calls On McCain To "Suspend" His Campaign

No, not the actual campaign for President. We are talking about the hateful rhetoric and allowance of the nasty comments from their crowds. Americans as a whole are sick of this negativity and Olbermann expresses it in brilliant fashion.

The People Sarah Palin Attracts

Forget about hope and change from this "hockey mom." When you go to a Sarah Palin rally, expect only the lowest common denominator to be culled from the audience, like this fine fellow who takes the "terrorist" cue from the VP nominee:

Prove It Senator McCain!

As Senator McCain's poll numbers have dropped, the negativity of his campaign has increased and so has the level of hate that can be seen in his supporters. The covert racism of his and Palin's statements ("He's not one of us," "Pals around with terrorists," etc) has stoked the overt "Kill Him," "Bomb Obama," and people that bring Curious George dolls with Obama stickers on them to rallies. Hate begets hate and although McCain wished solely for the intensity of his base to increase (it did), it also provoked a negative reaction in the press and for the undecideds that are crucial for him to sway back into his corner. By the end of the week, he had to tell a woman in his crowd that Obama wasn't an Arab (why that would be bad, well, speaks volumes in and of itself) and he got booed for it.

So by the time the Sunday talk shows rolled around, the media that has started falling out of love with " The Maverick" media-hating McCain called him out on all the hate. When he went on CNN yesterday it was still a fancied topic and he was asked point-blank. His excuse for it? Another baseless attack of course!

From Crooks and Liars:

In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash Monday, John McCain actually said the following with a straight face:

BASH: Now, whether or not, since I know you've heard this during your rallies, since you have been talking about Ayers -- and your running mate has, also -- we've heard people in the crowd screaming things like "Terrorist!," "Traitor!," when you talked about Senator Obama -- and worse. When you hear that do you...

MCCAIN: I've heard the same thing, unfortunately, at Senator Obama's rallies being said about me. There's always a fridge element that's in politics in America. The overwhelming majority of the people that come to my rallies are good and decent and patriotic Americans. And if they're worried about this country's future, that's correct.

But to somehow -- to somehow intimate that of the thousands of people -- 17,000 people were just with us in Virginia. And to somehow intimate that the overwhelming majority of those people, with rare exception, are somehow not good Americans or are motivated by anything but the most patriotic motives, is insulting. And I won't accept that insult.

Like everyone else talking about it, no candidate can be responsible for everything being said with thousands of people around them. Yet the tone of the candidate and what they condone plays a major part. Barack Obama goes after McCain, but nothing resembles an ad hominem attack, everything is based on issues and ideas (or lack thereof). Obama inspires hope (he's attacked for that too) and a better way forward. You do not hear McCain being called a terrorist, or for him to be killed, or for camera operators that share his skin color to be screamed at with racial epithets.

It is possible for him to be associated with George Bush. It is possible for him to be called out for screwing the middle class by voting with the President 90% of the time. It is possible for him to be called out for lying about his record. There are many things we can yell out about McCain at an Obama rally. Yet nothing will ever come close to the racism on display at any given McCain or Palin event. Unless someone wants to prove it with actual videotape, no one is going to believe it.

McCain Manager Plays Grimy And Tired P.O.W. Card To Excuse The Racial Hate Of His Supporters

As John McCain continues to struggle on the campaign trail with a pathetic "comeback" speech today, his campaign manager is using the same P.O.W.erless tricks that have contributed to the candidate's demise. Over the last week, McPalin and Co. have gone more overtly with the most despicable campaign tactics out there. Especially with Sarah Palin, key words are used that incite racial hatred and bigotry towards Barack Obama. They clearly cannot compete when it comes to important issus and solutions, so this is the level that they revert and regress to. When the campaing is asked to defend the hate speech of what is left in McCain's corner, Rick Davis goes for the P.O.W. card yet again. Not only that, but he adds an extra heap of hilarity on top.

From RawStory:

After inflammatory speech at events for Republican presidential candidate John McCain made headlines this weekend, Democratic lawmaker John Lewis compared McCain to 1960s segregationist George Wallace.

Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday asked Davis if McCain and Palin bear any responsibility for their supporters calls of violence when attack ads and stump speeches call Obama a "liar" and a "terrorist."

This is how Davis responded: "Barack Obama should apologize to John McCain directly for the kinds of comments made by Joe Lewis yesterday and that should be the end of this sordid affair."[...]

Davis called Lewis' comparison "outrageous" because McCain was undergoing oppression in a prison camp at the time of Wallace's hateful speeches.

"Where was John McCain when George Wallace was spreading his hate and segregationist policies at that time?" Davis said. "He was in a Vietnam prison camp serving his country with his civil rights also denied. Nobody knows sacrifice like John McCain does."

Well Rick, I'll tell you where John McCain is right now with the hate he is helping to foment, right smack in the middle of it all. At this point, I don't care where John McCain was when Wallace was in power (though by the way his famous segregationist speech was in 1963, before McCain crashed his plane and was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese). Davis doesn't know his history and is obviously clueless that the talking points that were devised of in the summer are not working with an electorate that is paying attention here in the fall.

Watchout Right-Wingers, McCain's Website Is Filthy

You gotta love the rabid right wingers for trying to play a game they ultimately will not win. The "influential" right-wing blog tried to claim that Obama holds extreme views by taking screen shots of some comments on his website. Well the problem is for them that for every one of our bad apples, there are throngs on the right that just love to hate.

From AmericaBlog:

UPDATE: Jed finds more on other McCain sites, including a reference to Obama as a n*gger.

Some folks on the right thought they'd pull an "I gotcha" on Obama by trying to find kooky things visitors have written on Obama's blog. So, I thought I'd take a look at John McCain's campaign Web site and do a search for words like "fag," "bitch," and "Jew," for starters. What I found wasn't pretty. It's interesting to note that each comment has a "flag as offensive" button next to it, so that readers can inform the moderator that the comments are offensive. Either McCain's readers don't find any of this offensive, or McCain's staff was informed and didn't care.
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Obama is the anti-Christ (there's a long debate on this page of McCain's site as to whether Obama really is the anti-Christ): Obama is the devil and the anti-Christ: Hillary as "bitch." This one is particularly odd as it seems to be something posted by McCain's own staff - they quoted an article calling Hillary a "bitch": Obama is a "Muslim fag": "I wipe my ass with the Muslim book of hate, the Quran":

And there is plenty more on AmericaBlog as well as the JedReport. As many are saying, idiotic comments made by supporters do not necessarily mean that the candidate feels the same way. Of course, despite all of the hate McCain supporters have for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, nothing is more offensive than McCain's policies that will continue the horrendous reign of George Bush.

Liz Trotta "Jokes" About Obama Being Assassinated

This is the horrifying face of the American Right-Wing:



If you think something is wrong with wanting someone to shoot Barack Obama, sign the petition to get rid of this hateful, spiteful woman.

Coultergeist

A funny presentation of the terrible things that can't stop coming out of Ann's mouth:

Elizabeth Edwards Talks About Her Exchange With Coulter

Elizabeth talked with Wolf Blitzer on CNN about the well publicized confrontation with Ann Coulter. Ann makes it about money, but Elizabeth wants the hate speech to be toned down. I can't agree more.