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Mike Signorile listens to The Hate Out There

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM EDT


Holy smoke, the downward spiral of anti-Obama sentiment fomented by McCain/Palin is spilling out into one-on-one harassment. Mike Signorile has had callers dial in to share hair-raising stories about being lashed out at by members of the "McCain mob."

We received several calls about "Obama 08" bumper stickers and people lashing out at motorists who had them on their cars -- all in the same week that John McCain and Sarah Palin began spewing incendiary rhetoric on the campaign trail. And I heard in emails as well from people being accosted in the bank, at the hair salon, on the street, in the supermarket. Were the rallies and the coverage in the media emboldening people to lash out at Obama supporters? Or were Palin and McCain tapping into something that was already happening on the streets and highways and elsewhere? Probably a mix of both.

A man from small town in Missouri wrote me explaining that his boss at a hair salon heard him talking to a client about Obama and butted in, screaming that Obama is the "anti-Christ!" (A heated exchange followed, which eventually involved the police -- the owner called them -- and the man was fired from his job). An African-American woman from Los Angeles wrote to tell me how she was on line at a bank in Pasadena, CA when a woman in back of her, a white woman, completely out of the blue turned to her and said, "I was going to vote for Obama, but I heard something that makes me just unable to vote for him now." She then went into a diatribe about abortion. A Kentucky man called the show to say that his pastor approached him on the street and told him he was going to go to hell if he voted for Obama.

A man in California called the show after he had just pulled into a gas station. A car had pulled up alongside him and the driver pointed to the man's "Obama 08" bumper sticker and began verbally abusing him.

The sad truth is that we have people walking among us who are filled with so much irrational hate that all they needed was license from McCain/Palin to explode. That is the shock factor for some people out there -- black, white, brown and all colors in between are experiencing first hand for simply supporting the Democratic candidate running for POTUS.

The coded (and not-so-coded) strategy of the McCain campaign was like flipping a switch -- the Base was awakened and took the message, along with Palin as their standard bearer, as a sign that anything goes, any frustrations, real or imagined, can be projected onto Barack Obama in order to dehumanize him -- monkey dolls, Obama Waffles, racist caricatures. None of these reactions has anything to do with policies or political worldview -- it's base racism, fear of the portrayed "other" and it's unchallenged by the Republican candidate and his running mate as significant enough of a problem to condemn their campaign's own tactics.

Go ahead, Senator McCain, ask about Bill Ayers at this last debate; while people are being sh*tcanned because their companies can't meet payroll, I don't think most Americans have any more patience for irrelevancies like this. When the economy is in the toilet, there is no other subject on the table. I don't know what all your high-priced lobbyist consultants are being paid, but you're getting a crap ROI.  

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Here's a thought
Everything during this campaign season is being surreptitiously filmed for a 'reality' style remake of Reanimator - only the lifeforms (or, perhaps more accurately, lifeforces) that have been reanimated are the spirits of Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Jesse Helms and Lee Atwater.

I know - that's not funny.

And that's my point.

I don't think we're going to make it to Nov. 4 without something majorly bad happening - perhaps actually involving one (or more) of the candidates, perhaps involving large numbers of the populace.  

That smell in the air is ugliness.

>^..^<


Agreed
I don't think we're going to make it to Nov. 4 without something majorly bad happening - perhaps actually involving one (or more) of the candidates, perhaps involving large numbers of the populace.

This went from funny to sad to bad to scary. For a while the talk was about what would happen "when" The Black Guy lost the election, and how that would probably lead to race riots. Now that it's pretty clear they're losing, it looks like there might actually be race riots - or class riots, or Repug riots, or whatever you want to call them. They've come completely unhinged. I wouldn't want to be someone in Kentucky with an Obama sticker on my car come 11/5. I might come out to find it on fire and some yahoo pointing a shotgun at me.

I have to admit, though, that I can understand it on an intellectual level. I was unhinged after the 2004 election. I couldn't believe that the right's poster boy for post-natal abortion would be Supreme Leader for 4 more dreadful years. This is just the shoe going to the other foot and them finding out how many on the left felt.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing


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ACTUALLY...its GREAT Timing....

Did you see the latest NYTIMES polls...Obama 57% McCain 36%...and SPREADING!

IF this had come out during the primary runs...it was there, just hidden, Obama might not have made it to the nomination. 

Let them spew...as long as no one is hurt. It just shocks lots of the undecided our way I am sure. 

 



It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


Obama said it himself
during his convention speech, "if you don't have a record to run on, you paint the other candidate as someone people should run from".  I hope one thing that comes out of this whole miasma is a frank conversation about race in this country.  

The entire fact that Obama is described as a black candidate is racist, he is biracial.  The one drop rule is alive, and apparently so is Jim Crow.  Time magazine's cover story this week, "Economy Trumps Race",  is racist.  The economy is a valid issue in an election, race should not be.  The implication that, all things being equal, a white candidate is preferable to one of color.  Am I the only one that sees this?

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes


Where we live there isn't ONE presidential lawn sign for either
There are signs for local races but nothing for president, which I think speaks to fear on both sides to advertise their positions. Republicans had W sh*t everywhere in 2004, and now NOTHING. I think LA will be much closer than polls are showing for Obama. The secrecy also speaks to the danger voters here feel for retaliation by neighbors.
I've felt this same kind of SILENCE in that small town where hate graffitti was scrawled on my garage. John Lewis speaking out about the seeds of hate McCain/Palin are generating, shows his survival intuitions, those antenaes we posess that give us the signal of fight or flight.
I choose to FIGHT.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Election terrorism
While the US election drags on into its umpteenth month, Canada had a federal election campaign that lasted just 6 weeks and yesterday the Conservatives were re-elected with another minority government.

During the campaign, a vandal in Toronto attacked homes that displayed Liberal Party signs, spraying graffiti and cutting brake lines on the residents' cars, as well as cutting telephone and cable lines.

There were some close calls, but fortunately no one was hurt or killed.


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