it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.
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This would be an excellent story if it made clear that death threats were correlated with Sarah Palin's accusations. While they may have been caused by her irresponsible accusations, they have not been proven to be caused by her accusations.
The hateful lies thrown out in front of a riled up crowd have been found to be shortly followed by increased death threats. It is interesting that this is put forward in the UK.
What the heck was she thinking? Was she thinking? Is she blithely ignorant of the dark currents of racism, or was she recklessly using them?
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