Is Negative Rhetoric a License to Taunt?
Crowds at Palin, McCain Rallies Call Obama 'Terrorist;' Shout 'Kill Him'
Calls for comment from the McCain-Palin campaign were not yet returned.
Reporters following McCain and Palin say that crowds have become increasingly hostile towards them, yelling at them as they get off the press bus to cover events. The Palin crowds, they say, are typically more aggressive than those found at McCain-only events, especially since Palin's interview with CBS's Katie Couric in which she appeared to be uninformed on major policy issues.
In Clearwater, reporters were taunted by the crowd of about 3,000 people. Palin blamed Couric for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media."
One Palin supporter used a racial slur against an African-American sound technician working with a television crew and told him to, "sit down, boy."
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