It's getting ugly

So, you know that negative campaigning Mac told us he would be no part of way back when? Well, things have taken a turn for the worse ever since his pitbull of a running mate, God bless her, began whining about the press and the media, for, you know, doing their jobs and all.

Gov. Palin told a crowd of 8,000 fans at a rally Monday afternoon that Barack Obama "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist! This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." The crowd replied with boos.

Anyhoo, when reporters first began to arrive to the Clearwater rally, they were greeted with shouts and taunts by a crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions (that "gotcha" media, 'member?) for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." The Washington Post reports that Palin supporters then 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."

It doesn't end here, at the same event, Palin tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground.

"One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said to a crowd who yelled "Boooo!" She went on to say, "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol." The crowd continued to yell "Boooo!"

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Disturbed, yet? Horrified? Uhh, disgusted? No.. how about

 repulsed? Well, I'm all of the above as well as shocked, though mostly due to Palin citing a newspaper, I wasn't aware she read those.

We're less than a month away, folks! Please, go register to vote if you haven't passed the deadline in your state.

[Source: washingtonpost.com]