Ethics

Red Meat Attracts Rabid Dogs

By Ed Brayton

Some interesting things have been happening at Palin and McCain rallies lately.

"[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.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).