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Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame
Washington Pest ^ | 10/7/08 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 10/07/2008 6:10:50 AM PDT by steve-b

John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution.

"For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off," she announced at high noon Monday to a group of Republican donors at the Naples Beach Club....

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."...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008campaign; 2008election; crowdcontrol; katietheclown; security
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To: MrB

“Sit down, boy.”

What? I’m surprised he wasn’t referred to as Sambo. (as long as they’re making this stuff up.)

That would be such an up to date term of opprobrium.


21 posted on 10/07/2008 6:23:10 AM PDT by bitterdfwrepub
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To: bcsco

Actually, Sarah is the woman that Dana Milbank has always wanted to be.

-Toonces


22 posted on 10/07/2008 6:23:29 AM PDT by Toonces T. Cat (The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
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To: steve-b

AAAAAAWWWWWWWWW attacks on the media are nasty!

Pity party at the bar down the street. Drown your sorrows and yourselves too for all I care.


23 posted on 10/07/2008 6:24:10 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: steve-b; Jeff Head; AuntB; SierraWasp; cgk; DaveLoneRanger
Hey Dana, how's it feel to have the roles reversed a little? Sarah, unlike the press, believes in America, and is fighting for us, for all she is worth, to get her and John McCain to the Whitehouse.

Choice is simple this election - do you choose freedom, or socialism? Me? See my tagline!
24 posted on 10/07/2008 6:25:25 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Maverick Barracuda voter!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I thought so too but he's not a girl. But him a dress though and...guilty.

25 posted on 10/07/2008 6:25:33 AM PDT by Impy (Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
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To: steve-b

“One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”...

Well McCain Camp should have been ready for this one after Hillary’s “iron my shirt” tactic.

As for Gov. Palin, hey she’s just “getting in their face”.

And it’s not so much taking off the gloves...she’s just wiped off the lipstick...bless her pit bull heart.

www.wegotsarah.com


26 posted on 10/07/2008 6:25:36 AM PDT by Wegotsarah.com (WE WIN- WE HAVE SARAH, AND THEY DON'T!)
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To: Toonces T. Cat

Dana’s a dude.


27 posted on 10/07/2008 6:26:03 AM PDT by Impy (Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
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To: steve-b

I don’t have to read the article, I just love he title. Sounds like Dana has a little respect, or he doesn’t realize how much of a compliment that is....


28 posted on 10/07/2008 6:26:27 AM PDT by gramho12 (McCain/Palin : Beauty, Brains, Principles)
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To: Toonces T. Cat
Actually, Sarah is the woman that Dana Milbank has always wanted to be.

"Fabulous!"

29 posted on 10/07/2008 6:27:33 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: Niuhuru
”For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off,” she announced at high noon Monday” High noon was always a good time for dueling in the Wild West.

"Do not forsake us , oh my darlin'"

30 posted on 10/07/2008 6:27:44 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: bcsco

Dana Milbank was notorious for his anti-Bush fanaticism already in 2001, which even the rest of the mainstream media people thought was over the top. Of course he’s a regular guest on Olbermann’s show.


31 posted on 10/07/2008 6:30:18 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Toonces T. Cat
Milbank has been tough on Obama in the past, and has been raked over the coals by the Kos kids because of it.

However, Palin isn't being too tough on Obama at all. There's this sense that the news media doesn't want its pet candidate vetted too harshly, and that this is what he is truly upset about.

Best,

Chris

32 posted on 10/07/2008 6:30:53 AM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: Impy

I know that!

Most of these guys want to be Judy Garland or Liza Minelli...I think Dana wants to be Sarah...:-)

-Toonces


33 posted on 10/07/2008 6:30:54 AM PDT by Toonces T. Cat (The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
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To: Issaquahking

Amen. The MSM is getting nervous because what is happening at virtually every rally Sarah attends does not match what their push polls are trying to convince people of.


34 posted on 10/07/2008 6:32:08 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: steve-b
The MSM regularly engages in deliberate deception. They regularly engage in false witness and are knowingly duplicitous. The MSM regularly engages in activist support for Democrats.

Is there any wonder people rebel against their actions? Is it wrong to rebel against this type of behavior? What other way does Mrs. Milbank suggest the very people the MSM seek to deliberately injure do?

35 posted on 10/07/2008 6:32:10 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: steve-b

“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.”

Dana Milbank, it is a testament to the decency and restraint of conservatives that you lying, scheming, distorting, in the tank for leftists reporters aren’t dragged off and hung up by your heels. You have tossed aside whatever personal and professional integrity you might ever have pretended to have and turned reporting on politics in America into one big exercise of who can lie the most about things that hurt “your” cause, and who can ignore the most truths about things that help the conservative cause.

The MSM is zero integrity scum, and you should be thankful people don’t treat you like what actually are.


36 posted on 10/07/2008 6:36:33 AM PDT by Will88
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To: BibChr

Could have been a Dim plant also ....


37 posted on 10/07/2008 6:42:53 AM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (SENATOR McCAIN : PLEASE FIGHT THE DEMOCRATS THE WAY YOU HAVE FOUGHT THE REPUBLICANS ALL THESE YEARS)
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To: steve-b
If I were McCain and I was trailing in every poll and everyone was saying I was going too lose, why not take off the gloves and start slamming Obama for what he really is? If can't hurt him any more than he is already hurt.
38 posted on 10/07/2008 6:59:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Is McCain EVER going to go on the attack? Nope. That will never happen.)
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To: Tax-chick

Only the loyal conservatives get thundersticks.

“Remember we meet at dawn”.


39 posted on 10/07/2008 6:59:58 AM PDT by festus (Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
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To: reasonisfaith

Yep, the Marxist Onada is definitely trying to stoke the race card. My son married a South Carolina girl and my brother-in-law lives in Florida. Southerners tend to address all males as “boy”—as in “How ya doin’ boyah.” This is right up there with the pubbie politician who used the word “niggardly” a few years back. He was talking about a budget. But the MSM and some ignorent Blacks made it out to be a racial slur.

I’m still optimistic about McCain winning. I don’t really believe the polls showing him behind by 5 or 6 points. I think it’s close in some places the Marxist Onada should be winning handily, but McCain may even be ahead in at least one or two of those states. There is no way it is close in Florida. But media manufactured poll results make it appear so. This sets the dems up to go to court again.


40 posted on 10/07/2008 7:09:28 AM PDT by dools007
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