That McCain-Palin Mob
Via virtually everyone comes links to these worthy videos at Blogger Interrupted that Tim Russo following a Sarah Palin rally:
- The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio; and
- McCain-Palin Mob Part 2 – Woman’s child says of Barack “you need gloves to touch him”
(I link to his page so that you can see his commentary as well as the videos.)
To be honest, I could only watch so much of each one because I find the politically idiotic and hate-filled too upsetting to endure for long. YMMV, of course.
Most of the commentary I've seen about these episodes talks about the stupidity of the yobs, their manipulability, their willingness to believe anything their Sarah tells them. Remember, these are the sort of people yelling "Kill Him!" at her rallies.
But what I think is most interesting, and most telling, is this. For most of the time on video, Russo asks everyone he films one question: "Is Obama a terrorist." What's interesting is that quite evidently all of these people think so — watch for yourself — but none of them will admit it while the camera is on. None of them want to say it aloud where other people not of their own ilk might like to hear it.
These are the children who steal candy bars from other children and say "the candy bar was stolen" in order to maintain their deniability, to avoid admitting having done something that they know was wrong. These are the Bush minions who smirk at "mistakes were made" and think otherwise. These are the parents of children who say "So you think he was better off eating that cookie himself?"
They know that what they are thinking is wrong, but they want to avoid admitting it to themselves. (Yes, as a gay lifestylist, I believe I'm somewhat adept at spotting the language people use to deny the truth about themselves without lying–exactly. This is all closeted language.)
These people are scary, but they're universally called the "salt of the Earth". Well, remember how receding conquerers used to foul fields with salt so that those remaining could not survive off their own fields.
In: All, Current Events, Raised Eyebrows Dept., Splenetics
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on Friday, 10 October 2008 at 11.23
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Hey! Those were my bunker mates! They've made it onto the web!
Tsk, tsk. I've told them many times: DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS!!!
>>>>They know that what they are thinking is wrong, but they want to avoid admitting it to themselves.
The discomfort comes more from an inability to articulate their discomfort with Obama. His connections with Ayers, Rezko, and Wright are unsettling, but it is unsatisfying to express this in vague terms when faced with a camera. This is the age of the home run, and we desire the bright line of the one line: Obama is a terrorist! Obama hates whitey! Obama is a crook! We take some comfort in the certainty of a barroom hyperbole, and we search for that in defining our beliefs.
on Friday, 10 October 2008 at 14.58
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Jeff, what makes Palin their darling is the same thing that made George W. Bush and Dick Cheney their heroes. Palin is someone the rest of us find obviously unqualified, grotesguely ill suite and therefore completely unacceptable. She's their sharp stick in our eye. They care more about sticking it to us than they care about what happens to our country.
In short, Palin, like Bush and Cheney, is a spite job.
RSF, what you describe comes off as a pack of intellectually stunted, paranoid-personality bullies — unfortunates who lack any concept of being able to disagree with someone about policy without calling names and spewing hate and lies.
Rather than draw on barroom hyperbole for lame, groundless attack phrases, those on your side of things would do better to start seeking truth, with all its less than fully satisfying nuance.
on Friday, 10 October 2008 at 17.28
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Actually, Fred, I don't think the people in these videos would have any difficulty articulating their discomfort and unease with Obama as presidential candidate except that they've been taught not to say "nigger" on camera. For awhile they were stuck with the lame "I just don't feel comfortable voting for a black man at this time", but now they can used the much more energetic "I couldn't vote for a terrist!" as an excuse, because calling anyone one doesn't like a terrorist seems to cause much less disapprobation.
on Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 09.16
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>>>>…they've been taught not to say "nigger" on camera.
Nice little tactic, to equate criticism of Obama with using the n-word. I guess we should all be quiet and not raise any concerns about someone with few qualifications and poor judgement with whom he associates.
>>>>Rather than draw on barroom hyperbole for lame, groundless attack phrases…
There is legitimate criticism to be done on Obama. When you stick a camera in people's faces, they tend to head for the most extreme statement they can muster to compete with the other OJ Simpson moments in electronic media. Obama chose to associate with Ayers and then back away from him in less than convincing ways. This is the price that he pays.
on Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 15.12
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But the point here was that with the camera stuck in their faces and the question "Do you think Obama is a terrorist?" lingering in their ears, these Palin Brown-Shirts didn't say the most extreme they could think. Indeed, they refused to say for the camera the things they were shouting minutes before at the Palin.
Of course there's legitimate criticism of Obama's positions. If we happen to hear any of it we'll talk about it.
on Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 23.22
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>>>>Of course there's legitimate criticism of Obama's positions. If we happen to hear any of it we'll talk about it.
I chuckled.
There is already evidence that markets are dropping in response to a possible Obama experiment in better living through government fiat.
>>>>these Palin Brown-Shirts didn't say the most extreme they could think.
I'm glad there is no hyperbole or extremism on the Left. By the way, didn't the brown shirts come to a bad end?
on Sunday, 12 October 2008 at 02.12
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RSF wrote, "Nice little tactic, to equate criticism of Obama with using the n-word."
That's not what Jeff did, and I think you know it. Jeff alluded to the kind of yahoo who stood in front McCain, sputtered, struggling for something suitably despicable to say (and maybe to remember her script), and then uttered the stupidly erroneous, "He's an Arab."
I wonder if that dumpy dame rode to the McCain event. If she did, she can probably thank the Saudi King for being able to buy the gas to get there. And yes, he really is an Arab — one a President McCain, should America's rotten luck hold, will have to kow-tow to. (And you can bet McCain will kow-tow, too.)
I'm still waiting for an awkward moment at an Obama event in which an African American steps up and asks the candidate, "That McCain guy, ain't he just an old honky?" While anything's possible, I expect to have a long wait.
Somehow, Obama manages to campaign without generating that kind of low-grade business. McCain would do well to learn the secret and apply it to his circus act.
on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 at 01.32
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>>>>Obama manages to campaign without generating that kind of low-grade business.
Why generate it when it comes naturally?
Kleptocracy, here we come.