Palin Rally: "Kill Him" Yelled Again

Via Politico, The Scranton Times reports another threat against Barack Obama at a Sarah Palin rally Tuesday:

Chris Hackett addressed the increasingly feisty crowd as they await the arrival of Gov. Palin.

Each time the Republican candidate for the seat in the 10th Congressional District mentioned Barack Obama the crowd booed loudly.

One man screamed "kill him!"

At previous rallies, McCain-Palin supporters have shouted "Kill Him!" as well as "Treason!" "Terrorist!" and "Off With His Head!"

The latest violent call came on the same day that Brave New Films has come out with a compilation of these moments, urging supporters to "tell John McCain to end the politics of hate."

Comments

[hmorris]

11:40 AM on 10/20/2008

Just so happens no one else can collaborate the story....

http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

So if republicans have strategically placed their "plants" in the neighborhoods Obama is walking around in....maybe these obscenities allegedly being yelled are done so by Obama supporters?????

[LeviCro]

01:43 AM on 10/16/2008

doesnt the secret service grab these people... isnt Obama under their protection? I didnt know you were allowed to make death threats to ANYONE.... is that a terrorist act? are these people Terrorists?

[MissingAmerica]

12:54 PM on 10/15/2008

I'm so ashamed of the GOP in this election. John McCain claims he is an American hero who loves his country, but his actions speak louder than words. So much has come out about Palin and she has only been in the spotlight for 6 weeks! Neither one of these people are making any effort to stop the hateful rhetoric and are, in fact, fueling it by both their action and inaction.

The bottom line is that these two people do not represent the America I have grown up in and loved for over 6 decades. I see in them those whom they say we should fear. I guess on one hand they're right, because I see them as no better than those we are supposed to be fighting. The only difference is that their terror is within and being masked as patriotism. That hypocrisy makes their brand of terrorism even more frightening.

[Aesthete]

03:57 PM on 10/15/2008

How has the Republican party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, an embodiment of American democratic ideals, allowed themselves to slip into territory governed by hate-crazed nutjobs? And all this at a time when America is attempting to bring democracy to Iraq. If McCain, whom I don't feel is personally a racist, can allow these elements to take over his candidacy, then he is not a leader.

[Fordham03]

10:51 AM on 10/16/2008

I agree with you completely. McCain is so desperate to be president that his ethics have gone down the drain. Choosing this woman is a catastrophe. She's attractive and that masks her small-town, ignorant, right-wing arrogance. She's Bush in a dress. It's hard to know who is more ambitious--she or McCain.

As for what she whips up at these rallies; the secret service should swoop down on these idiots as soon as these words come out of their mouth. And why doesn't she (who loves the microphone so much) chastize them. She doesn't and that makes her dangerous. Don't laugh, this is how the Nazi party whipped up crowds in Germany. Good Germans came under their spell and the rest is history. We can't give in to the worst of our natures. They both do this because they can't talk about the issues with clarity and intelligence, so the plan is attack, attack, attack.

She's disarming because people look at her face instead of listening to her words. McCain sells his POW status and the fact that he was a Navy hero, but that doesn't make his voting record the last 25 years correct. He's been behind Bush all the way.

We need a change of direction and that's Obama. It's an ironic thing that the black man is the one who is calm, intelligent, and talking about uniting this country. The choice is clear. Vote Obama.

[honestpolitician]

12:47 PM on 10/15/2008

Just think about what the other countries are saying about Americans when they see this....it's embarassing!!! Kieth Olbermann(MSNBC Countdown) along with other major tv stations could not have been more clear when they said that McCain and Palin should be controlling their crowds...
it's disgusting and should not be tolerated.

http://politicaladattacks.blogspot.com/

[sleek]

12:16 PM on 10/15/2008

GOP = NSDAP

[robbie44]

11:36 AM on 10/15/2008

The McCain campaign likes to pour buckets of chum on their mob from the shark cage,whipping it into a frenzy of hate .Only regretting it when the shark pokes (or rears as some would say)its head through the cage.

[anibravo]

10:42 AM on 10/15/2008

This is heartbreaking and makes me ashamed to be an American. We truly have not come that far as a country as we might have hoped. It is clear that racism and igonrance is still what drives a great number of people. It is scary the type of people the McCain/Palin ticket are attracting. Welcome to the good ole USofA.

[robeson]

10:13 AM on 10/15/2008

Palin. "I've got nothing to lose."

[LemonMeringue]

10:11 AM on 10/15/2008

What will happen to these people after O is elected and proves to be a good president?

Will they learn? Or will they take comfort in their ignorance hatred because it's familiar and therefore comfortable?

That "bitter" remark was quoted out of context and deliberately misrepresented and misunderstood, but it was SPOT ON

(BTW, F.U. Mayhill Fowler. I will never read another word you write.)

[nunzia]

11:54 AM on 10/15/2008

Are you kidding?
If Obama wins, Limbaugh and Colter and the rest of them will solidify their hate groups even
more cohesively. They will continue to make big money off the bigotry and hate, and the "faithful"
will be more devoted to their "cause".

Obama will have to work a thousand times harder, do a thousand times better, and move
this country forward a thousand times further than any other President ever has.
And, all the while, he will be attacked and criticized with lies and threats and divisive unAmerican dirty
tricks.

We will ALL have to stay aware of this, alert to it. And fight back.

[Likipedia]

07:52 PM on 10/15/2008

And most likely, I hate to say it, we will have President Biden....

[Searchlight1968]

10:09 AM on 10/15/2008

Quite seriously, Why either of these men would want to inherit the mess Washington has gotten this country into is beyond me. What I can tell you is that the steady hand the Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden have shown us that ‘They’ would be any reasonable man’s pick against the ‘all over the board’ scatter brained attempt of a campaign that John McCain has put up this election cycle. Is he crazy, does he have Alzheimer’s, or is he just a liar?
I‘m sure all the people he‘s pissed off over the years on capital hill (be they- Republican‘s or Democrat’s) are having a field day watching his campaign unravel in such a way.. Befitting of such a Maverick

[LemonMeringue]

09:30 AM on 10/15/2008

And where is the FBI?

Can we imagine what they would do if the speaker were George W. Bush or McCain or Palin?

[LemonMeringue]

09:29 AM on 10/15/2008

Look at what the GOP running mated inspire in people. Then watch one of O's rallies.

The GOP would destroy this country in order to control it.

Remember King Solomon.

[LAB11]

09:28 AM on 10/15/2008

Any type of competition brings out the quality of judgment and character of the competitors. America is making a choice based upon the judgments, temperment and character being displayed by the candidates. Obama is winning because of the sound judgment and even temperment he shows during times of crisis and negative attacks directed toward him. McSame is displaying poor judgment and poor character. Obama is steady. McSame is erractic, desparately lurching around negatively attacking his opponent like a wounded animal.

[mocha59]

09:21 AM on 10/15/2008

I found it to be interesting that E. Hasse!back on the view said that Hannity has 'admitted' that he never actually interviewed that aka, Andy Martin ...... guy! Why wouldn't he take credit for 'saving America' anymore? ~~~~~~~ Because he doesn't want b!ood on his hands if the ha!e crimes begin. ~~~~~

People say it is freedom of speech for people to be able to perpetuate lies on their opponent and others to make threats...... OOOOOOK, fine.

So are we Americans just left to WAIT FOR THE HATE CRIMES TO BEGIN? REEEEEAAAALLLLLLYYYYY????????

So I ask once again..........WHAT IS THE GOAL OF HANNITY, RUSH, PALIN, MCCAIN WITH THEIR 'TERRORIST' AND 'MYSTERY' LINES OF ATTACK? IS IT FOR PEACE AND CIVIL REST? REEEEEEAAAAALLLLLLLYYYYYYY???????????

THANK YOU, KEITH O.!!!!!!! PLEASE REPEAT your Special Comment EVERY TIME A THREAT AGAINST A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS MADE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

[Fordham03]

08:27 AM on 10/15/2008

If this is an example of the kind of administration McCain/Palin will have, we have to reject it. I used to have some respect for McCain but he has pandered to the worst in America just to become the Republican candidate. Country First? Oh, no, allowing the pit bull with lipstick to go out on the campaign trail and tell lies inferring that Obama is a terrorist and "not like us" is shameful.

The world has always wondered how so many good Germans followed the hateful actions of Adolph Hitler. Well, here is an example once again. You can't look at the face; you have to listen to the words. Hitler used to say, "If the lie is big enough and you repeat it often enough, people will believe it."

I rest my case.

[nostalgia]

09:48 AM on 10/15/2008

your reference to the German experience is right on!