MSM ISO GOP Love
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Dana Milbank pleads for mainstream media affection from Republicans outside a McCain/Palin rally. [ more ... ]
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Rage in the Town of Bethlehem
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Dana Milbank Washington Post Thursday, October 9, 2008 BETHLEHEM, Pa. Now, it's personal. John McCain and Sarah Palin were backstage, and Lehigh County GOP Chairman Bill Platt was warming up the crowd of 6,000 at a rally here for the Republican ticket. "Think about how you'll feel on November 5 if you wake up in the morning and see the news, that Barack Obama -- that Barack Hussein Obama -- is the...
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Is Palin Trying to Incite Violence Against Obama? by Jeffrey Feldman
Roxanne's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
McCain Campaign Amplifies Violent Rhetoric, GOP Crowds Threaten Obama’s Life The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank reported an incident at a Palin rally that should open America’s eyes to the central role violent rhetoric now plays in the McCain campaign. Milbank describes how Palin told the crowd in Florida that Obama has close associations with a terrorist who sought to bomb the Pentagon and the U.S....
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Dana Milbank Provides Funny Whine, Plus Palin Today
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
(Washington Post) The couple hundred guests, said by local press accounts to have given $10,000 per ticket, were in an air-conditioned tent. Your pool was held outside. (Temperature: 87; Accuweather “RealFeel” temperature: 106.) Guests dined on steak salad and fruit tart, sipping white and red wine. Your pool [reporters] did not. Woah! Massive seething by someone [...]
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Palin rally turns into hate-fest
appletree (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Big Sister leads the masses in the daily Two Minutes Hate Here’s Dana Milbank, reporting from a recent Sarah Palin rally: 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 [...]
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It’s getting ugly out there folks
Doug's Dynamic Drivel (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Reading through the WaPo today I see Dana Milbank’s Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame article “Barack Obama, she [Palin] told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!” This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. “This [...]
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Palin Incites GOP Crowd To "Kill Him!"
Blueweeds (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The article by Dana Milbank in todays Washington Post is a difficult must read on the dangerous series of hate speeches given in Florida yesterday by GOP nominee Sarah Palin ("Unleashed ..."). To counter dropping polls numbers, the McCain Campaign...
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Strange Fruit
My left wing (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Sit Down, Boy! That's the epithet one Sarah Palin follower hurled at an African American sound man during her Florida rally yesterday. According to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post - thousands turned on reporters, shouting obscenities - and at Palin's urging no less. She had just finished blaming Katie Couric for her own disastrous interview, telling everyone the "mainstream media" were 'out to...
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Out of Control
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
TPM Reader RW: The media keep talking about how McCain's slide in the polls is "out of his control" because of the economic collapse (see Dana Milbank today for one example). That's silly, and sets people up to somehow feel...
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Milbank Claims Pro-Palin Mob Shouted Racist Epithets at Media, Death to Ayers
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Washington Post reporter/columnist Dana Milbank started a fire on page A3 today by claiming Sarah Palin was coming "unhinged" by linking Barack Obama to Bill Ayers and "her attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness," with the pro-Palin crowd yelling racist epithets and Death to Ayers. The headline was "Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame." He proclaimed: Well, the self-identified...
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Does Sarah Palin Want Barack Obama Assassinated?
Philippine Commentary (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I agree with Andrew Sullivan that the Republican candidate for Vice President, Sarah Palin has crossed the line in her attacks on Barack Obama regarding an alleged relationship with sixties radical, Bill Ayers. He picks up on a Washington Post article by Dana Milbank describing a rally in Clearwater, Florida, in which she whips the crowd into well, murderous frenzy: The reception had been better in...
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The Tone Being Created
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness," writes the Washington Post's Dana Milbank. "In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame...
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Dana Milbank Unleashed on Sarah Palin
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Is Dana Milbank a columnist for the Washington Post , or is he an active member of Barack Obama's campaign? I think the answer is "both." Today, the highly liberal, highly partisan Milbank writes that recent McCain-Palin rallies have turned into ugly, racist gatherings, teetering on the edge of violence. He writes that Sarah Palin is inciting attendees at campaign events to behave like an unruly mob,...
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Republicans
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
This is pleasant. Dana Milbank reports on audience reaction to Sarah Palin's racially undertoned, fear-mongering campaigning in Dixie. CLEARWATER, Fla. -- "Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, "because from now until Election Day it may get kind of rough." You betcha. And the person dishing out the...
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Palin and Biden: Debating the Debate
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Come on, you don't see the chemistry? Photo: Getty Images Last night America sat down to watch Joe Biden debate Sarah Palin, in what Washington Post scribe Dana Milbank called "what may have been the most public I.Q. test ever administered." The expectations for Biden weren't high (would he commit a gaffe? Would he bully her?), but no bar could have possibly been lower than that for Palin, who...
