The Rage That's Not On Your Front Page
When a few unruly McCain-Palin supporters show their anger at campaign rallies, it's national news.
It's an epidemic of "Weimar-like rage" and "violent escalation of rhetoric," according to New York Times columnist Frank Rich.
It's the "re-emergence of the far right as a power in American politics," according to Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne.
It's a mass movement of GOP crowds "gripped by insane rage," according to newly minted Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman.
Speaking of "violent escalation of rhetoric" you never hear about:•Obama supporters in Philadelphia sported "Sarah Palin is a (disgusting vulgarism referring to female genitalia)" T-shirts and yelled, "Let's stone her, old school" over the weekend.
•An Internet artist has designated Palin an "M.I.L.P." — "Mother I'd Like to Punch" —and published a drawing of a man's fist knocking a tooth out of the Alaska governor's mouth and the glasses off her face.
•"ABORT Palin" graffiti has sprouted on the sidewalks of Seattle, and "Abort Sarah Palin" bumper stickers are spreading in Web stores.
•Palin-bashing Madonna performs before an audience of thousands, screeching and threatening to "kick her a**."
•Getty Images publishes a photo of a man pointing a fake gun at the head of a cardboard cutout of Palin on display at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition building.
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