Reporter assaulted at Palin rally

It's not John McCain but Sarah Palin who is the new Bush or the new Newt: Failin' Palin manages to bring out the worst in the GOP thought police.

Many of my longtime readers will remember the Devou Park Showdown, an assault at a Bush rally in Covington, Kentucky, in 2000. Sarah Paliban incites the same spiteful feelings in GOP cultists that Bush prompted at that and other events.

But now it's not just the average dissident who gets assaulted. Reporters are under fire too.

A recent Palin appearance in North Carolina went awry. When dissenters chanted Obama's name, the GOP Movementarians in attendance couldn't take it. They got the cops to toss the Obama backers out. (Much like how the police backed Bush's violent Nazi thugs at the Kentucky event.) A second group of dissidents was also ejected.

At the end of the brownshirt rally, a reporter bipped over to the Obama supporters who were kicked out to try to get their take on things. While this was going on, a bumbling man decked out in McCain/Palin regalia got into the Obama backer's face and started yelling at him.

Just when the journalist politely asked the assailant to allow him to do his job, someone put up an Obama sign in a nearby college dorm window, prompting the Republican crowd to taunt the window.

The reporter chuckled a bit, prompting the man in the GOP regalia to exclaim, "Oh, you think that's funny?!" He then kicked the reporter in the leg, causing him to collapse to the ground.

Assault and battery is a crime, Republican fuckpoos.

This wasn't just criminal assault against a person. It was in effect an assault against the ideals of a democratic republic. And since it's been going on for years (and on an increasing basis), do you really expect the right-wing losers to stop?

This wasn't even the only act of right-wing violence against media folks at the rally. A sound man for MSNBC (of all places) was hit in the head with a rock. The fact that someone took a rock to the event proves they intended to use it as a weapon.

Imagine if you can what would happen if one of the Obama supporters had been found with a rock.

Guess McCain wanted a Rove-style campaign. What a crushing comedown for a longtime senator.

(Source: http://blog.news-record.com/staff/capblog/archives/2008/10/report_from_pal.shtml)