Republican know these rallies are getting out of control.
Ask yourself this: if someone yelled "kill Sarah Palin" at an Obama rally and Obama ignored it...what would be the reponse from Republicans??
David Gergen recently commented that the tenor of the Palin rallies are close to inciting violence.
HERE is a recent article blaming the media specifically Dana Milbank for labeling Republican outbursts:
Milbank’s report triggered Democratic rage across the Internet with his charge that "Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness." Some in the Clearwater crowd, he wrote, shouted abuse at reporters. Someone yelled "Kill him," apparently a reference to Ayers; and one person shouted an epithet at a network sound man (apparently the N-word, though Milbank didn’t say) and told him, "Sit down, boy."
Two shouting extremists in a crowd of 4,500 are two too many, of course. The question is whether these outliers offer sufficient evidence for a clearly hostile reporter to demonstrate that Palin’s rallies have gotten ugly. Florida reporters did not see the event that way. The St. Petersburg Times ran a benign story on the Palin speech. William March of the Tampa Tribune told me, "They booed Obama and the press, but that just makes it a normal Republican rally." March admitted that he was standing further from the speaker’s stand than national press reporters, and therefore heard less, but he maintains that the rally was no hate-fest.
My question to the kos community is: How long until these rallies make good on their threats? I am asking you how long it will be until we see punches throw, chairs tossed, bleachers smashed a reporter's camera kicked or God forbid a shot fired?
How long do you think it will be? Vote in the poll below.