Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama

The UK Telegraph ^ | November 8, 2008 | Tim Shipman

[Pinkbell]

The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.

Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

[PLD]

Thank you for the reply..I figured this was a lie.And yes coming from the liberal city of Austin it sure is one lie..Obama hasn't had time to put his own people into the Secret Service like the Black Panthers..

[Albion Wilde]

Your posts 215 & 216 are awesome! Thank you!

[freekitty]

I really don’t believe this trash.

[Albion Wilde]

See posts 214 and 216, please.

[Albion Wilde]

I grieve for our nation. I almost had a breakdown in church today. The stiff upper lip collapsed.

Yup. This was my morning for the sobs.

[SunkenCiv]

and, this thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies:

Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
Telegraph UK
Posted on 11/09/2008 2:37:48 PM PST by WaveMan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128997/posts

[fkabuckeyesrule]

See here is how the game is played. If a conservative criticizes a liberal and someone phones in a death threat to a liberal then it is the conservative fault. However, if a liberal criticizes a conservative and someone phones in a death threat to a conservative then its the conservatives fault for being so “divisive”. Any questions?

[Palladin]

My car was keyed outside the public library, probably because I had a McCain/Palin sticker on it.

This was the day AFTER the election. Those Obama punks are Sore Winners.

[Albion Wilde]

Crim, scientists who study memory find that many people's memories deceive them. There is an entire theory in psychology that arose in the late 50s and has been widely discussed and augmented since then, called "attribution theory", in which people perceive things according to their internal biases, conditioning, or preconceived ideas to a large extent.

Also, since the advent of DNA testing, there are many cases in which eyewitnesses made a so-called positive ID of a suspect and testified under oath leading to the suspect's imprisonment, but the person was freed years later due to DNA exclusion. People's perceptions and memories in emotional situations are not always accurate.

The best most of us can say in a strange, crowded situation like a huge political rally is, "I believe I heard xyz" — not "I heard it with my own ears." Were you standing next to the shouter, with a clear line of sight and with your eyes trained on him before he shouted and during the shout; and did you see his lips move, forming the word "kill" instead of "tell"? Otherwise, you may have attributed the word "kill" when in fact he said "tell," due to your own anger that Ayers got off scot-free.

[editor-surveyor]

Conspiracy?

Hardly; nobody here is foolish enough to ‘conspire’ with your kind. You just hate everything that isn’t blind to reality.

[Crim]

Spare me the psyco babble...I know what I heard...and I imeadiately knew the shout refered to ayres.

Again..the SS doesnt dispute the shout...they discount the threat to Obama (in reference to the clearwater rally)

“Secret Service Discounts Any Threat In “Kill Him” Shout”

http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/story/secret-service-discounts-any-threat-in-kill-him-shout/

[Crim]

See here is how the game is played. If a conservative criticizes a liberal and someone phones in a death threat to a liberal then it is the conservative fault. However, if a liberal criticizes a conservative and someone phones in a death threat to a conservative then its the conservatives fault for being so “divisive”. Any questions?

Well duh...

*snicker*

[Dahoser]

xactly - criticism will not only be unacceptable, it will be deemed so dangerous that it will have to be silenced. The worst is yet to come....

Yes, and the way they'll get dissent silenced will be to tie criticism of Chairman Hussein to the prohibition against threatening the life of the President:

TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 41 § 871
Threats against President and successors to the Presidency

Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.[emphasis added]
(Source: Legal Information Institute—Cornell Law)

The foundation for the speech codes is being laid.

[BerryDingle]

Huge steaming pile alert!

[Crim]

For the love of god..please dont tell me whats happened to America is happening on FR too..

Look...I dont give a flying crap if someone yelled “Kill him” about bill ayres...

But I’m not about to swallow an Obama pill and pretend it didnt frickin happen in clearwater..

The PA “kill him” against Obama was proven to be false....

The clearwater “Kill him” proved to not be a threat against Obama...according to the SS..BUT IT DID HAPPEN.

So keep your steaming pile down wind...

As others have said...if we cant address facts...how in the hell are we going to beat back this socialist kabuki theator moving into the whitehouse?

[hgro]

The MSM aren't going to have Pres.Bush to kick around much longer so they are constructing another pinata to replace him. What they are missing is that keeping her name in the news further the ambitions of all of us to see her rise even more in popularity.

[Mr. Silverback]

The links I put up back the Secret Service version, which is that there were NO death threats.

See post 294.

[manc]

thank you

I remember hearing the secret service say there was none , but still the media around the world didn’t report that fact, no they go with a made up story on a far left blog

the media have and are still being on black out mode about obama

I dread to think what that man , his racist wife, his cronies and the media will do to this country

we need to get people into journalism, we need to get in charge of many of the media outlets and we need a GOP to actually have some balls and names names on live TV

for instance I would like to see a republicans mention about say Matthews got it all wrong as usual, or well the story is from the NY times of course it is wrong, and of course it is for obama and the Dems
surely some in the media have figured it out

name and shame them

[yield 2 the right]

Face the Dems have it made for here on out...

[Mr. Silverback]

The reference to conspiracy was a reference to your swallowing the Flight 800 nonsense.

Now, I do believe I called you out in post 296. Do you have some evidence to provide or did you just come here for your two minutes hate for today?