Rallies as Lynch Mob

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of the conservative movement:

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.”

That’s right, it’s the fault of uppity blacks that Palin can’t give a coherent answer about her lack of foreign policy experience, can’t give a coherent answer to a question about which newspapers she reads, can’t name a single Supreme Court decision, etc. Uppity black sound engineers. If we just put them in their place, then suddenly “I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate” would become a reasonable thing to say.