Here is what is very troubling, very disturbing to me. The shouted racial slur heard on the tape when you listen to it is pretty clear. I don't know if Sarah Palin heard it. If she did and ignored it, that's pretty deplorable behavior on her part not to call that out. I'll assume she did not hear it. But given that I can hear it on the tape very well, that means that a multitude of people at that rally were able to hear it very well. I've seen and listened to many a rally where some heckler in the crowd shouts out to interrupt the candidates and they are shouted down with chants of USA, USA! But here, dead silence. No response from this crowd whatsoever, or at least no response that one can discern. Maybe the shouter was escorted out. But somehow I doubt it, given that there is not a single reaction or peep to this obvious racist name calling. That lack of reaction is deplorable and shameful in a situation that has zero ambiguity.
Update: 8:20 pm - Gadfly in Residence Phelps says I'm all wet, that this didn't happen. That either I don't hear what I think I hear or this is doctored stuff. Either way, I'm not invested in talking about a lie. Who's got the straight dope?
Update: 8:20 pm - Gadfly in Residence Phelps says I'm all wet, that this didn't happen. That either I don't hear what I think I hear or this is doctored stuff. Either way, I'm not invested in talking about a lie. Who's got the straight dope?
She said "redistributor."
ReplyDeleteThis is called "confirmation bias." You should work against it.
Your comment is called being recreationally obtuse. You should work on that.
ReplyDeleteYour perception is fatally flawed.
ReplyDeleteThis one has been completely, conclusively, absolutely disproven. The crowd didn't react because THERE WAS NOTHING TO REACT TO. If you hear N there, you hear N everywhere.
ReplyDeleteOkay. I'll bite. Point me to the debunking on this episode. Is this a piece of hoax video, or is there some corroboration that something else was said? Thats what it sounds like. I'll give it another listen and you can point me at the debunking source.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/28/05234/591/434/644338
ReplyDeleteI could point you to a dozen right side of aisle versions, but I figure that DKos saves some time.
Like I said, confirmation bias. You've been waiting with baited breath for someone to say something like that at a Palin rally, and once you had something to hang your hat on, no matter how tenuous, you couldn't get it out of your head.
ReplyDeleteIt's the exact same effect that the right-side had to deal with on this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMWgqmoOndA
It too has been debunked. He didn't say what the caption shows. He said "how would you like to be in the White House right now?" (Which, BTW, like the redistributor thing, actually makes sense in the context, instead of being a gratuitous exclamation.)
He also doesn't say that the people of Indiana are shit. He started to say "those people must be shitting themselves" and cut himself off when he realized he was on camera.
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