It'll be interesting to see if McCain and his crowds will continue to arise as an issue. In recent weeks, more and more reports are popping up in regards to (borderline) audience hate speech taking part at McCain rallies, speech McCain's camp is now defending. The language has ranged from calling Obama anything from a terrorist to outright cries to of killing Obama. Quite frankly, this type of stuff is beyond disturbing and the fact that the McCain camp is not strongly discouraging/denouncing it is a cause for alarm. Its one thing for opponents to disagree and even dislike the other. However, to promote and condone this type of mob mentality is disgusting.
It appears that the media is picking up on this strongly as a simple GoogleNews search of "McCain Rallies Kill Him" (the scariest thing to come from the crowds) brings up a great deal of articles relating to the subject. While many (scratch that; almost all) of the articles are comdeming in nature, thats to be expecting from rational thinking human beings. Until McCain comes out to denounce the terrible nature of this mentality, it'll only continue to spiral out of control, hopefully without any sort of consequences. However, its not difficult to think, that if the guilty McCain supporters continue to act in such a manner, the situation could turn ugly quickly when other people of opposing viewpoints get involved. Its certainly not something I condone, rather something I fear but it's not far fetched to think that these rallies could turn violent if this isn't controlled.
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McCain and Palin have resorted to stoking the flames of hate in these last desperate weeks before the election. Thankfully, some in the media are on it and will be pointing a camera or two toward the crowds at these rallies. If I were a video journalist at a McCain/Palin rally I'd throw on a Fox cap and pump my fist in the air often just to be on the safe side.
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