Ugly Is As Ugly Does

Both Sarah Palin and John McCain are playing with a particularly dangerous form of fire, going out of their way to incite their partisan crowds to nasty out-bursts against the press and against Barack Obama, the sleeper-cell Antichrist Muslim who hates America and deserves to die because he's obviously a terrorist.

Sarah Palin, especially, seems to relish the fury she incites.

Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank has described the ugliness and the intimidation, here and here.

But you can see as well as hear the nastiness at the heart of many a Palin cheering section in this video footage shot at a Palin rally in Pennsylvania.