McCain responsible for what people in his audience say?
Posted on October 13, 2008
They could well be Democrat “plants”. Planting their supporters in a rival meeting is an old tactic for them. Read here, for instance.
“After inflammatory speech at events for Republican presidential candidate John McCain made headlines this weekend, Democratic lawmaker John Lewis compared McCain to 1960s segregationist George Wallace.
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday asked Davis if McCain and Palin bear any responsibility for their supporters calls of violence when attack ads and stump speeches call Obama a “liar” and a “terrorist.”
This is how Davis responded: “Barack Obama should apologize to John McCain directly for the kinds of comments made by Joe Lewis yesterday and that should be the end of this sordid affair.”
Lewis had criticized the “atmosphere of hate” he said McCain is creating in the election, referencing an infamous Alabama church bombing in 1963 that was blamed on Wallace’s fiery rhetoric.
Comparing McCain to Wallace is hate speech, if you ask me. Claims that Obama is a liar and an associate of terrorists are true so are not hate speech in my book. Calls to “kill” Obama are, however, a different matter but such calls have only come from audience members and the speakers have never been identified. And McCain himself has bent over backwards to avoid negativity.
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Comparing McCain with George Wallace would be over the top–but not Sarah Palin. Her statements about Obama palling around with terrorists because he sees America as flawed is pure demagogery–the worst in a Presidential campaign during my lifetime. And yes, it invites people to commit violence.
The little old lady who said Obama was an “arab” turns out to be a GOP activist who confirms her local RNC campaign office is sending out emails saying that… Obama is an arab terrorist.
Google “Gayle Quinnell”.
“Claims that Obama is a liar and an associate of terrorists are true so are not hate speech in my book.”
No, but claims he is an arab terrorist who wants to introduce sharia law play on racism and are hate speech.
Hence John McCain eightly distanced himself from those claims.
The problem is, his campaign has been playing directly off such fears, to the extent that RNC offices have been deliberately fanning the flames of hate.
Go after Obama on the issues – not on stupidity and hate.
I remember hearing Obama supporters saying they would riot if Hilary won the primary. I also remember that Obama did nothing to discourage it. So why did the media remain so silent about Obama’s negligence in addressing terrorism advanced by his supporters?
Still I am not certain the hate speech was always addressing Obama since there is certainly a hatred for the media among those who have suffered mistreatment at its hands.
To Jerry, I would take it one step further. I do not for one moment believe that what Palin has been saying was not done without McCain’s blessings. The woman is nothing but McCain’s dirty mouthpiece. Anything that is too inflammatory for McCain to utter gets farted out by Palin. In this way McCain hopes to play to two groups: the independents who dislike personal attacks, and the rednecks who like it. And Palin performs real well in that role. All she needs to do is bleat out the same prepared paragraphs over and over. The woman has no independent thought in her little brain, as evidence by her poor performance at interviews, where memorized speeches are less of a help. So make no mistake, Palin may be the mouthpiece but McCain is the crooked brain behind it.