The Victimized Bullies

by digby

I’m just now catching up and came across this:

Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”

The media gets the dirty hippie treatment right to their faces — with a little Bull Connor thrown in for good measure. Good times.

Everyone seems surprised that the right has the nerve to portray Katie Couric as some sort of ruthless gotcha journalist. But there’s actually nothing new in it. After all, she’s famously known on Free Republic as “little Katie Communist.” And that was from her days hosting the Today Show.

If you weren’t paying attention to the last Democratic administration (or are too young to remember) you’re in for a real treat when the right fully revives its liberal media crusade. The Villagers will soon yearn for the day when the DFH bloggers were sending in angry emails.

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