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Joe Killian is an elitist media journalist de politico for a North Carolina newspaper, the Greensboro News-Record. Ooh well isn’t he neat. He was covering a Sarah Palin rally at Elon University yesterday, a radical liberal college, and when he laughed at the college kids fighting with the Palin supporters outside the event, some fat slob kicked him to the ground from behind, haw haw haw.
Killian has written a long post about this on his personal blog. Basically the crowd was very Anti-Media, because the media is in at least five billion tanks for Barack Obama, each tank being insured by AIG credit default swaps. Risk has been neutralized! The Palin supporters do not like this aspect of the Media.
This all played out on a micro level yesterday, according to Killian:
After the speech was over I was walking around getting peoples’ reactions to it when I wandered into several clusters of sign waving Obama supporters outside the stadium area. They were surrounded by McCain-Palin folks and both sides were yelling at each other.
I sidled up to one of the Obama supporters and asked why they were there, what they were trying to accomplish.
As he was telling me a large, bearded man in full McCain-Palin campaign regalia got in his face to yell at him.
“Hey, hey,” I said. “I’m trying to interview him. Just a minute, okay?”
The man began to say something about how of course I was interviewing the Obama people when suddenly, from behind us, the sound of a pro-Obama rap song came blaring out of the windows of a dorm building. We all turned our heads to see Obama signs in the windows.
This was met with curses, screams and chants of “U.S.A” by McCain-Palin folks who crowded under the windows trying to drown it out and yell at the person playing the stereo.
It was a moment of levity in an otherwise very tense situation and so I let out a gentle chuckle and shook my head.
“Oh, you think that’s funny?!” the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. “Yeah, that’s real funny…” he said.
And then he kicked the back of my leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground.
Killian considered chasing the “large bearded man” down, but didn’t because that would have been irresponsible and also who gives a fuck? He proves to be in the tank nevertheless with this comical bit:
So instead I limped off to try to find a security guard or cop.
When I did the guy was nowhere to be found.
“He’s this big fat guy with a brown beard and he’s wearing a McCain-Palin shirt and hat,” I said.
And then felt like an idiot. I was surrounded by people who fit that description.
How I Became Joe Sixpack [Joe Killian]
Greensboro reporter assaulted at rally [News & Observer]
Ah, these are the real Americans, the patriots! Conveying their message via violence and suppression of dissent.
Who let him out of his tank??
Where can I find this pro-Obama rap song?
Haha. Fat people.
…who would have figured that Sara Palin rallies would be packed with pot-bellied, hairy, red-necks that are drawn toward violence?!
Oh that was the funniest story. Ha ha ha our nation is falling apart! I’d start a race riot here in the Bronx but everyone likes Obama and is a black panther, an illegal Mexican or some kind of terrorist cab driver– and we all love each other too much to riot right now.
Could you send some fat white people with beards in Palin hats up here so we can get it started???
Angry fat McCain fans chanting USA to drown out pro-Obama rap music and then assaulting journalists PLEASE LET THERE BE VIDEO OH GOD PLEASE
vintageways: Probably not the same but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxn9jhypHfo
Barack Obama is the President of Jamaica.
Doglessliberal: Wait until they lose.
vintageways: It’s by Ludacris, assuming there’s only one, which is probably untrue because rappers are in the tank and it’s really easy to rhyme Obama with Yo Mama so they can probably write 10 a day and still have time to throw some fresh d’s on they’ cadillac
Uh anyways youtube Ludacris Obama or something
There’s got to be green energy in rounding up all the fat, rabid, stupid, angry Palin supporters and locking them in a pen while blasting NOBAMA rap music. Their rage–it could power cities.
Doglessliberal: I’m sort of enjoying the frenzy as it builds– as they get whipped up in to a frenzy their true colors start to show. The thing that blows my mind is that these people don’t think that they have issues with racism or homophobia or anything– but when you ask them about why they don’t like Obama they can’t explain it.
HAHAHA!!! It’s completely opposite here, where we force McPalin supporters INTO the tank and sink them into the Bay.
AngryBlakGuy: Yeah, don’t they know she shoots bears?
Are you ready for some football?
Fuck every single Republican. They suck. The end.
Kev-O-Tron: That is what they fear one nation untied under a groove.
OOO OOO OOO New Peggy Noonan!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419210832542317.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop
Apparently McCain won the debate and Palin is a terrible failure. Who knew?
NoWireHangers: I thought it was probabama rap music? Someone please find it.
Here’s a classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoOpkmvlIrc
The rewards and risks of swimming with the sharks.
Having lived down there, locals do that to reporters over anything.
RAAACE WARRR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0
Here is a delightful closer look at the Palin rally folks, in care of our friends over at Al-Jazeera.
WonderWomyn: I just read the comment thread under that video. I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube and I was unaware of how retarded the commenters are there. For instance, I just found out that Obama is bisexual and supports teaching 3 year olds that it’s “okay to be gay.” Also, he is planning on slaughtering non-Muslims.
What do you suppose it’s like being THAT stupid… does it hurt?
Doesn’t that fatty know that he’s not supposed to kick knees? The proper approach is to shoot from helicopters. Duh.
Apocalypstick loves that she is stirring up the poison in this country, the nasty crud stuck to the bottom of our melting pot. These xenophobic monsters actually believe that That One is not an American - at least not their kind of American. And therefore treat support of Obama as a real personal threat. Violent physical response is their default mode.
People who choose to gather in support of Barack Obama deserve praise, but they should also be warned of the risk they are taking.
Kill Him!
Jeebus, does that mean that on November 5 I have to lock myself into my house and hope my republican neighbors forgot which house had the Obama sign in front?
Kev-O-Tron: OMG never read youtube comments. Only Yahoo answers is worse.
If he’d been eating spinach instead of arugula, he’d have been strong enough to fight off that bearded fatty.
Violence is the last refuge of the
incompetentfat redneck. Or maybe it’s the first? I forget which.SayItWithWookies: WonderWomyn: …I’m sure this will make you guys feel BETTER!
Big fat white guy with beard. Hmmm. Ed Rollins?
I’m putting an Obama sticker on the front of my passport.
“Today, we are all Trailer Trash”…*sob!
wallythepug: If you live in a red state turned blue, then yes. Serves you right for voting for the terrorist Muslim Arab.
And lest we forget, Nesfaratu said he was proud of his supporters.
I think Peggy reads wonkette.
Silly Killian. Don’t you know whenever you “sidle” up to someone, there’s bound to be trouble?
Kwame’: OH. MY. GOD. I was so much happier before I saw that.
mattbolt: “Uh anyways youtube Ludacris Obama or something”
Can you imagine what that sentence would look like 10 years ago? Completely unintelligible.
hmmm, rednecks getting violent. Is WALNUTS! still sad about the mean things John Lewis said? I hope he feeelwings aren’t hurt too much.
Gopherit v2.0: not that she Understands, but she picks up an odd sentence here and there.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan did it.
It was a moment of levity in an otherwise very tense situation and so I let out a gentle chuckle and shook my head.
Shouldn’t it be, shook my toussled head? No wonder they beat the shit out of him.
@ Kwame’ - oh, how can we trust someone with a clearly Muslim name like “Casey Kaufmann”?
Where do these monsters go after they leave Apocalypstick’s rallies? I hate that I am sure that they are gathering in other places to discuss what they will do next. This is so deeply disturbing to me.
its no accident that Palin t-shirts are only available in the color brown, and size extra large.
wallythepug: If you live in a red state turned blue, like VA or NV, then yes.
shortsshortsshorts: Note the article appears in the WSJ’s “Declarations” section.
Evidently they are moving away from reporting facts and arguing points of view, and are now happy simply making declarations.
Fat rednecks fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. USA! USA! USA!
vintageways: Don’t be so silly, all rap is pro-Obama music.
shortsshortsshorts: Whoa.
“She doesn’t think aloud. She just . . . says things.”
Peggy is all up in her grill about being retarded! As if that’s bad for a candidate or something…
shortsshortsshorts: The second paragraph: our Little Miss Sunshine displays her much unappreciated gift for sarcasm.
However, reading the Pegster without the Blingee is lke Hopey abandoning his elitism by supping on coq au vin with hearts of palm and no decent bordeaux, just the house wine.
I once met a drunken redneck who almost beat me up because he was in the army in Iraq and was damned if some black muslim was gonna turn our country over to al Qaeda. In New Jersey, of all places!
The weirdest part about all this is how “USA! USA!” has become the official chant for suppressing dissenting viewpoints.
Kwame’: “The black will take over! They’ll just take our stuff and take it over, with blackness in general. The blacks! They like to take stuff”
Gopherit v2.0: Is that before or after her 4th tumbler of Seagram’s?
AnAdmirerOfThatOne: I’m a big trouble having moved from VA to NV…
Oh a Killian in NC is prolly my cousin from way back. We Killians are good at getting kicked by the way.
S.Luggo: Peggy Noonan: Lipstick on boxed wine.
Walnuts and Bible Spice repudiate that kick. Right. Sure they do.
Roll Fish: If you listen carefully, the chant “USA!, USA!” sounds exactly like Seig Heil!, Seig Heil!” These are mnosters.
As a working journalist, I can attest: We go down easily.
Monsters. I’m so freaked out right now I can’t even type correctly.
The same neandrofukks who pass out garbage like this in FL.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/09/saynotojoe.jpg
Roll Fish: I know, right? Like their thought process is: “OMG I HEAR RAP MUSIC — QUICK WHAT DO I CHANT? USA USA USA!”
It’s the problem with hate. If you let it out of the box to elect you, when you’re done with it it doesn’t want to go quietly back in the box. It hates the box. It took Clinton until ‘95 to get the hate out, and it spent five and one half years in the box and doesn’t want to go back. Anything but back in the box. It hates the box.
I guess there was no Nascar race televised on Fox tv that night, so the boys thought they would go out and have them some fun, you betchya.
What? Burning down black churches is not cool anymore?
shortsshortsshorts: “You have to hold out to the possibility of magic.”
What, Peggy, is more magical than Obama coming to save us on a rainbow colored unicorn?
As everyone knows, all people at McCain-Palin rallies are veterans. Do not besmirch their honor by suggesting that anyone at a McCain-Palin rally is anything less than Jesus-like. It makes Veterans cry.
shortsshortsshorts: “she just says words”
HA! Love her!
fuckinredneck: Which is weird, considering how hyper-capitalist mainstream rap is.
vintageways: This is by far the best one. Seriously, I love this.
http://staystoops.blogspot.com/2008/08/fuck-what-yo-mama-say-imma-vote-obama.html
Fuck what yo mama say, I’ma vote Obama way. We hood, we votin’, and throwin’ it uuuup!
Kwame’: I watched that yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised at how open-minded and informed they all were. Our future is so bright, we’ve got to stab our eyes out.
They’re fricking mavericks you bunch of pussies.
Sorry, I haven’t read any comments on this post. I just hope you remember about those veterans that gave you the right to comment on blogs like these. USA! USA! USA!
Kev-O-Tron: If being stupid hurt, there would be a lot less of them.
McCainsThirdNipple: That’s funny, I thought the constitution had something to do with it.
wallythepug: Oh, sure. It’s funny to you. But I live in OKLAHOMA!!!
Whoa. I just google imaged that Joe Killian and he’s pretty diesel. That fat Palin supporter musta been on crank or whatnot.
Just for the record, it’s the News & Record. The website is news-record.com.
Just for the record, it’s the News & Record. Their website is news-record.com
Hey, don’t worry: That lyin’ librul made the whole thing up! Cause that’s just what those lyin’ libruls always do. And even if it did happen, one of the commenters on the above story points out that “If the 4th estate persists in blatant treason, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect that people will start to get physical about it.” Because libruls caused the Holocaust and Stalin’s purges and the Cultural Revolution and the Toyota Prius.
worrierqueen: No it was thanks to all those Revolutionary War vets still shambling around ya know. My neighbor’s one.
vintageways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkjY7nsVHA
Man, Obama so iieell
This is the song, I bet. By Young Jeezy featuring Nas: “My president is black.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgiKcqkm0k
shortsshortsshorts: or we could force them into the Governors plane… and sink them on the…
wait for it…
eBay?
HHHeeenenneghghghgh hhhhehehehenngggghhh
Thank you.
Signed,
Mitt “Down widdit” Romneeezy