Palin Supporters Berate Media at Ugly Rally

Sarah Palin’s supporters are taking her attacks on the mainstream media to heart. Reporters at a rally yesterday were greeted with jeers and taunts from the 3,000-strong crowd, Dana Milbank reports in the Washington Post. Palin’s supporters banged thunder sticks and shouted abuse at reporters, and one yelled a “racial epithet” at a black sound operator, telling him to “sit down, boy.” (Read more Sarah Palin stories.)