Sarah Palin Booed Loud, seat view. Flyers game.

Crowds getting Uglier at Palin/McCain rallies

True to Republican values, McCain and Palin are using tactics to get crowds "mad as hell" and are scapegoating the media. Nothing new for Republicans, when the news is reported on things they've said and done and it is not couched in fawning and favorable terms, they decry the media as "liberal! left wing! biased!" Only this time, their tactics of whipping up the crowd into a literal "mob" (in this case think 'lynch mob') is unprecedented. Gee, do you think it could having anything at all to do with the fact that Barack Obama is.....shh..............(black?)

Story on Talking Points Memo:

Dana Milbank -- the Washington Post reporter who wrote this morning's piece about the Palin crowd's disgusting abuse of reporters at a rally yesterday -- tells me that the McCain camp's repeated attacks on the media have spawned crowd hostility towards the press that's running at a "degree of intensity" he's never experienced in covering presidential politics.

As Milbank wrote, one Palin supporter hurled an unspecified racial epithet at an African American sound man, and told him: "Sit down, boy."

I checked in with Milbank to get a bit more on what happened yesterday, because the ugliness unleashed by McCain-Palin's nasty crowd-riling tactics are becoming a story in this campaign.

"None of this is new, but the degree of intensity is different," Milbank says. "It's taken an uglier turn. I've been doing this for years, and there's never been anything quite like this."

Milbank says that after the Palin attacked the New York Times and Katie Couric in her stump speech yesterday in Florida, he and other reporters were pelted with boos, with some saying things like "screw you" and "fucking liberal media."

"McCain has so overtly taken on the media -- they're doing it to rile the base," he continued. "And lo and behold, the base is good and riled."

Tina Fey on SNL The "Debate"

Fey nails it once again! Watch:

Union President Defends Obama Against Racism (VIDEO)

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka offers this moving defense of Obama against racial attacks. (h/t Sullivan)Richard Trumka serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, , he was elected in 1995. He previously was president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to December 22, 1995. Trumka was born in Nemacolin, PA, a third-generation coal miner who went to work in the mines at age 19. He attended Penn State U and his law degree from Villanova. While president of the UMWA, Mr. Trumka led the successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Company. It became a rallying symbol for the entire labor movement. A major issue in the dispute was Pittston's refusal to pay into the industry wide health and retirement fund created in 1950. Trumka encouraged non-violent civil disobedience to confront the company in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and relied on a sophisticated corporate campaign involving Wall Street investors. Besides his fighting aggressively against employers on behalf of his members, then-President Trumka established an office that raised U.S. mine worker solidarity with the mineworkers of South Africa while they were fighting racial apartheid.] He further served as the U.S. Shell boycott chairman, which challenged the multinational Royal Dutch/Shell Group for its continued business dealings in South Africa. Upon being elevated to the AFL-CIO, Secretary-Treasurer Trumka has focused on creating investment programs for the pension and benefits funds of the labor movement, fighting Wall Street greed, and challenging politicians to create an equitable economy for working people.

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Hey Sarah, Sarah...

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President Franklin Roosevelt once told a group of activists lobbying him, "I agree with everything you said. Now go out and make me do it."

We the People only have power if we use it.

Sometimes the Blogs' commenters are even better

than the bloggers! At least as interesting. In response to Bob Cesca's column about Sarah Palin being a "hooplehead" and in her own words a "Joe Six Pack" candidate, a commenter named Spartanmom had this to say:

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Hey, Can I be in McCain's cabinet?

I could probably handle a couple of positions.

Interior-I garden, can use a shovel, have one each, Native American and African American neighbor. So that covers agriculture, mining, Indian Affairs

Defense-My father was a Marine in WW2, My son was in the army in Afghanistan (and I had to buy stuff to send to him so I know about procurement), I own two guns (one of them is from WW1 so I have knowledge of the history of conflict)

Treasury-I pay my bills, can use Quicken (and I'm a quick study so QuickBooks should be no problem) Subscribe to the Economist (but I wouldn't play that up for fear of looking elitist)

Attorney General-my sister and her two daughters are lawyers

Commerce-I buy stuff in several states, Europe and Japan.

State-I've had a passport since 1975, I've been to three Canadian provinces, England and San Francisco. My husband has been to Taiwan and India. My daughters have been to Ireland. I've had trouble with my neighbors so I know about conflict.

Wait, never mind a cabinet post, I'm running for President."

Hawwwww!