I think I’m walking a dangerous path. I open Facebook this morning and I’m slammed by a million things that insult me not only as a human being but as an American, and they are all Presidential politics related. So, I’m just going to say, that I can’t not ignore this stuff and not post them to my blog, because I think people who read my blathering need to be shown this stuff. So, I’m really sorry in advance, but I think its safe to say most of the stuff I’ll be writing here for the next month will mostly either be my liberal biased political opinion or comics-related (as normal). I just can’t help it, it just gets me going, and this blog is essentially to serve my purposes and allow me to eject this stuff that literally makes me ball my fists up and feel like breaking stuff.
So: Jahfurry linked to last night’s Olbermann’s Special Comment on Palin’s terrorist accusations.
Then another friend linked to a Washington Post opinion piece where Palin followers were throwing racial epithets at the camera crew during one of her speeches.
Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, ‘Sit down, boy.’
This just makes me fucking sick. I mean seriously, are we going to allow for people to be in power who have supporters who say things like that? I really want to believe that we’re better than that as a people, but unfortunately, I tend to think that Palin is from a place where people are exactly like that racist supporter, and this stems from a Daily Show report.
The second presidential debate is tonight.
