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Three Makes it a Trend: The Angry Left (And they accuse US of being angry?)
The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/11/08 | Stephen F. Hayes

Posted on 10/11/2008 2:00:45 PM PDT by DocT111

Davenport, Iowa The emerging media narrative on the 2008 presidential campaign is simple, as media narratives always are. Republicans, egged on by the the McCain campaign, are angry. Maybe dangerous. With furrowed brows media big-shots are wondering allowed if John McCain should "tamp down" -- new cliche alert -- his supporters before they begin to physically harm their political foes.

The new media narrative was born after McCain's town hall in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, where several voters voiced the frustration and, yes, anger in questions to McCain. And several voters shouted their criticism of Obama, echoing McCain from the stage.

And from that, we were told, Republicans are filled with "rage." Of course, there were 5,000 people at the event; maybe two or three dozen shouted criticism of Obama. The vast majority never shouted criticism.

But in the last 36 hours, we've seen three examples of real anger on the left. And as the old media axiom has it, three makes a trend.

This morning at a McCain rally here, a bearded young man in the crowd responded to a McCain critique of Barack Obama by shouting: "You're a liar John!" He then hoisted a young woman with an antiwar poster onto his shoulders and began yelling antiwar gibberish as McCain tried to continue his speech. When McCain supporters ripped up the woman's sign, she unfolded another one and the spectacle continued.

Earlier, at a rally in Philadelphia, Obama praised John McCain's service to America and called for a civil debate over the final days of the campaign. He was lustily booed by his angry supporters.

And yesterday, at a McCain rally in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, another angry heckler shouted "Liar" and other insults at McCain from the crowd.

Can we expect stories on this disturbing trend? Nope

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; heckler; mcainpalin; mccain; obama
Need I say more?
1 posted on 10/11/2008 2:00:46 PM PDT by DocT111
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To: DocT111
Need I say more?
By all means. Welcome to Free Republic ;o)
2 posted on 10/11/2008 2:04:42 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: DocT111

They may not like it much if they continue to prod this sleeping bear of a nation. Fear overrides Political Correctness every time. The credit panic they are now causing, whipping and riding may well be a catalyst that they can’t control. Proclamations from the Messiah aren’t going to put oil in the refineries or calm the waters either.


3 posted on 10/11/2008 2:10:35 PM PDT by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: DocT111

You need not say more and 0bama won’t either. He fills his crowds with rage that there are those of us whp are contributing members of society in comparison to his crowd who are the something for nothing bunch but feel it is their constitutional right to redistribute our wealth/savings, etc.


4 posted on 10/11/2008 2:11:54 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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And so, 0 has bought time on October 29th, 2008, to speak on tv. 79 years to the day after the event that started the Great Depression.

That is sick in itself. Not October 30th, or November 2nd. It’s insulting.

What does he intend to do? Close the markets? Declare himself a Kenyan? Suggest the abolition of the US?


5 posted on 10/11/2008 2:26:18 PM PDT by combat_boots (God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
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And from Canada, the cutting of people’s brake lines and this:

“The most distinctive, and peculiar, element is the graffiti. It generally takes the form of either the party’s name or the name of a prominent Liberal politician - including the premier of Ontario, who is not involved in the current federal vote - followed by the word ‘Lies.’”

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/america/toronto.php


6 posted on 10/11/2008 2:34:04 PM PDT by combat_boots (God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
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To: Liberty Valance

Nice home page


7 posted on 10/12/2008 9:20:06 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: combat_boots

That’s pretty bad. I can’t remember — in Canada does “liberal” mean liberal or conservative? Apparently these bad things are happening to supporters of the Liberal Party, but I can’t remember if that means right or left up there.


8 posted on 10/12/2008 9:28:02 AM PDT by Yardstick
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9 posted on 10/12/2008 9:45:30 AM PDT by kcvl
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10 posted on 10/12/2008 9:57:01 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: DocT111

Is there some reason that you must post your opinion parenthetically in the title? There is a whole blank section in Post 1 in which to post your comments.


11 posted on 10/12/2008 10:02:14 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of The Free Because of The Brave)
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12 posted on 10/12/2008 10:08:24 AM PDT by kcvl
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If I saw that freak with the 82ND Airborne patch in the street, I’d be all up in his face!

He’d get a first hand lesson on what it’s like to get his ass kicked by a guy in a wheelchair!


13 posted on 10/12/2008 10:12:55 AM PDT by airborne (Don't pray that God is on your side. Instead, pray that you are on God's side!)
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They are always angry. Hateful demonic things, that is what liberals are.

How they thirst for the blood of innocents
How they can’t stand an unsoiled mind or heart,
And how they revel in building a bureaucracy
Only to be rivaled by that that rules hell.


14 posted on 10/12/2008 7:37:10 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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