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His Disgrace Knows No Bounds

10.07.08 -- 12:32PM
By Josh Marshall

As we saw yesterday, John McCain's latest gambit is to juice up his and Palin's crowds into calling Obama a "terrorist", hurling racial epithets at black reporters (presumably, there aren't many in attendance as supporters), or just random calls for murder. This morning there was more ...

In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed "treason!" during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.

"[Obama] said, too, that our troops in Afghanistan are 'air raiding villages and killing civilians,'" Palin said, mischaracterizing a 2007 remark by Obama. "I hope Americans know that is not what our brave men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is fighting terrorism and protecting us and protecting our freedom."

Shortly afterward, a male member of the crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, yelled "treason!" loudly enough to be picked up by television microphones.

Late Update: The video:

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