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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:47 PM
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NBC and CBS just ran the full clips of CRAZED questioners at McCain rally today
Frankly, I don't know if I like it or not -- meaning will it be seen for what it is or will it hurt Obama.

CBS didn't run anything firing back from the Obama rally.

And NBC only ran the one small clip of Biden saying that a "real man would say it to your face."

These people are so over the board filled with hate and in a total crazed frenzy it can't be anything but racism....why don't the freakin' networks just go out in the crowd and let these bigots say it straight into the cameras....that's not bias, it's called REPORTING!!!!!!!
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:49 PM
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1. THAT is exactly what these numbnuts want...to be plastered all over the TV and papers.
If anything violent does happen, the media will be as guilty as those spouting the violence-inciting words!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7387885&mesg_id=7388215
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damonm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:52 PM
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4. If something violent DOES happen, Watts 1965 will look like a preschoolers' squabble...
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:10 PM
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16. If something violent DOES happen, a hell of a lot of us middle class whites
are gonna join in this time.

Just sayin'.........
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Erin Elizabeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:47 PM
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35. Mmm-hmmmm.
Nodding.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:26 PM
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28. Violet.. Did ya see me on the telervision....
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knowledgeispwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:51 PM
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2. How could it hurt Obama?
Serious question. I'm not seeing how showing nuts people with irrational hate and fear of Obama would hurt him. It seems like more borderline people could be embarrassed by it.

Are you worried that it could whip up more hateful people?
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:57 PM
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8. I'm saying this regarding the way it was framed on the news.
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 05:58 PM by rvablue
All that was really said around (as in the intro and the exit by reporter) these nuts ranting and raving is that they were "worried" or "concerned" or "disappointed."

Yeah, I definitely think it could embarrass borderlines, but I also think it could be taken the other way, because of the way the media is covering it "objectively."

I mean these people weren't "worried" they're almost foaming at the mouth and I think they should be exposed for what they are, not necessarily "conservatives worried their candidate is losing" (which is the way the media is reporting it)but born and bred bigots whose heads are ready to explode at the idea that a black man is going to president.
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knowledgeispwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:20 PM
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24. Ok, Gotcha!
I hadn't seen the report personally, so I was trying to understand. Makes sense now.
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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:52 PM
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3. I was wondering the same thing also...
there were a couple of polls closer than last week and I was wondering if it was because of Ayers and making people umcomfortable with the "black man."

But then gain I got killed in the thread....I guess I do not know anything.

I think in the end of the day, it will not hurt Obama...people are hurting out there and the voters don't give a crap about these side issues....they want to know which candidate is serious about the issues and is going to help them.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:14 PM
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19. ah... the "Closer polls" thing again. I thought we debunked that in your other thread? N/t
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:45 PM
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34. "I guess I do not know anything"
well, that's something...
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:52 PM
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5. Fill me in here. What did they ask/say?
I'm not near a TV now.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:01 PM
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10. I can't remember exactly
but one old guy stood up and was yelling into the microphone:

"How can you let this happen?" in reference to McCain losing to Obama.

Writing it down doesn't do it justice, I'm sure it's on You Tube somewhere, but I'm still was those with dial up so I can't take the time to look for it.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:22 PM
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26. Enjoy the McKKKain rally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSYHnVpYbs
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:29 PM
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29. One grumpy old man yellin at another...
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:08 PM
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32. a lot of clouds in the room?


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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:53 PM
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6. they smell defeat and it's making them crazy.
The idea of a Democrat in the White House is making them terrified and insane. Because they don't see Obama as President, they see the straw man they've created--the terrorist who wants to take down the country from the inside. Their "proof" comes from things like "he refuses to release his birth certificate!" and similarly ridiculous stuff.

And they see him as having help doing it from the Democratic majority in Congress. They see them all as pure evil without a patriotic bone in their bodies. The terror they have created is their own fault. Making stuff up about Obama and then believing their own spin.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:59 PM
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9. yeah a US Senator is in line with the terrorists -
how much more insane can people get... :eyes:



the terror is their own, of their own making and lack of faith.
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CitizenLeft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 11:41 PM
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36. and tonight I think I've seen the worse ad yet from some...
...whacko 527, on CNN... it plastered the dreaded W E L F A R E word across the screen, threatening the besieged electorate with Obama giving our tax dollars from his "3 trillion dollar plan" to W E L F A R E recipients. It was sad, and I laughed, and then I got mad.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:55 PM
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7. Actually, the fact that crazy people are getting this coverage
is making me giggle.

Think about it--if Joe Biden was set to do a rally at 8pm on a given night, but the Klan was set to endorse John McCain at the same time, who would you rather the media broadcasted?

Get it into the open. Show the world who these people are and make them realize "Fuck...I don't want to associate with people like that."
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:02 PM
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11. That's probably the move now
"I don't want to associate with people like that."

The Wall Street Republicans (and their subsidiary media networks) are in the process of dumping the God 'n guns crowd.
Money comes first.
The plutocracy does not want that hockey mom anywhere near the White House during the fiscal crisis.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:04 PM
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12. I totally agree with you
but I want it more so.

I don't think these bigots are ashamed for one minute about how their reptilian brains work.

That's why I'm sick of the media calling them "concerned conservatives" and I want them to wade out into the crowds and interview these people so they can use their own words to show the public how insane they are.

At this point, I think more in-depth coverage, which will never happen, would be better than the "he said, he said" objectivity. But I guess we feel this way every election cycle............
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:15 PM
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37. They're not.
But rational people are.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:05 PM
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13. The thing about these people is that they are PUSSIES when they come to my Obama table
I can count on my one hand a McCain supporter who would stop by to talk about the issues and stay for a reasonable discussion. Usually, they are social outcasts that shout something stupid and scamper away like cowards.

We'll see how the last four weeks go. We're ready.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:07 PM
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14. I'm lovin' it.
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:08 PM
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15. Yep, it was HERE, in MY COUNTY - I am embarassed!!
some words that were said:

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/30675874.html
Newsradio 620 WTMJ Talk Show Host James T. Harris, attending the event as a spectator, begged McCain to get tougher with Obama in their final debate.

"I am begging you sir, begging you, take it to him," he exclaimed.

"Yes, I'll do that," McCain replied after giving Harris a hug.

Other audience questions weren't quite so plaintive.

"I'm mad. I'm really mad," one man said. "And what's going to surprise you is isn't the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country. ... We are mad! So go get 'em."

"I think I got the message," McCain replied after the crowd broke into a chant of "USA, USA."

"The gentleman is right. The Democrats have been in the majority the past two years, have you seen any improvement?"

McCain also referenced Obama's connection with 1960s radical William Ayers without mentioning him by name.

"Senator Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's not true. We need to know the full extent of the relationship," McCain said.

Responding to repeated "ACORN!" calls from the crowd, McCain stopped the audience questions for a moment to address widespread allegations of voter fraud in Milwaukee and throughout a number of battleground states.

"No one must corrupt the most precious right we have and that is the right to vote," he said.

Two people in Milwaukee have been charged with felonies in the past week -- one for submitting false names on voter registration cards and the other for being a felon illegally attempting to register people. Dozens of other possible violations are being investigated.

Outside the sports complex before the event, people waiting in line also brought up the issue to protesters by shouting "Stop voter fraud!" at them.


There were a couple other comments made I heard on news, but can't find quotes - and ANYWAY, QUOTING THESE ASSHOLES iS NOT WORTH ANY MORE OF MY TIME ... And just FYI, last time I read about voter fraud 9 people were charged... !
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:23 PM
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27. I saw that one on YouTube. These people are frenzied.
After eight years of watching nothing but Faux and listening to Hannity/Limbaugh, it is dawning on them that they are about to get crushed (saved, actually, but they don't know it). They are dangerous.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:12 PM
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17. Good stuff for a minority, disciplined, ideological party.
But not good for a party that wants a majority of votes. Progressives and conservatives are decided. But centrists and apoliticals will not be drawn in by the GOP attempts.
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nancyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:12 PM
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18. These people are insane.
McCain and Palin are poking at rattlesnakes with sticks and waiting to see what happens. This is beyond dangerous. Our so-called media is complicit in it.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:15 PM
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21. Poking at rattlesnakes is the perfect analogy
I think I even caught a glimpse on McCain's face today that almost looked like, "Holy shit, how am I going to put out this fire?"
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loyalkydem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:14 PM
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20. Notice
it was mostly older White Americans saying stuff like that. I was also disappointed to see one black man in the crowd as well encouraging this behavior.

I don't know what I was more disgusted of. The man spewing all that hate or McDaddy actually looking like he enjoyed it.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:15 PM
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22. it will hurt mcCain. normal people will be embarrassed to see who supports McCain.
I think it will make McCain look like he and Caribou Barbie are attracting lunatics.
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DrPresident Donating Member (348 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:22 PM
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25. EXACTLY. Racists are like roaches...they run when you turn the light switch on
this tv coverage is the light switch.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:19 PM
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23. Because reporters have been BANNED from questioning anyone at rallies as of last week.
Welcome to a glimpse into Bush's third term, if we don't work hard enough in the weeks to come.
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:29 PM
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30. Yea, no reporters, but they allow RW talk radio hosts to ask questions!
Newsradio 620 WTMJ Talk Show Host James T. Harris, attending the event as a spectator, begged McCain to get tougher with Obama in their final debate.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:01 PM
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31. But of course. Birds of a feather, peas in a pod and all that...
They are such cowards that they can't face REAL questions like our guys. 26 days to go....
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:41 PM
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33. The television 'news' should be so proud..
of themselves. Look at the level of ignorance they have bred!
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VoodooGuru Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:37 PM
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38. That's probably exactly why they are playing it... nobody can call bias now.
If I were in the media (well, if I were in the media, you guys would have a hell of a lot more fun watching the news, but that's another matter) ... I would look at what I had, and remember just how often the cretins on the right cry "bias", and say, "all right, you want just the facts? I've got your fucking facts RIGHT HERE." *roll tape.*
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