October 24, 2008 11:43 PM UTC

"A Monkey President," Live From Denver

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• by: Colorado Pols

We’ve talked a couple of times now about McCain/Palin rallygoers becoming a liability for the campaign, with Democrat trackers catching supporters on camera standing in line outside McCain and Palin rallies making racist and other offensive comments about opponent Barack Obama.

Though the people on camera didn’t have any idea at the time, their videotaped outbursts have proven a major embarrassment for the McCain campaign. We honestly thought enough prime-time news features on these putative “fringe elements” would teach them a lesson about doing more harm than good for their candidate, and encourage a small measure of decorum–after all, the point of these rallies is to make the candidates look good.

Based on the video we just got from the liberal activist group Progress Now filmed outside today’s McCain rally at the Denver Coliseum, we’re sorry to report a number of local attendees didn’t get the message.

Frankly, it’s tough to watch people this ignorant no matter where they’re filmed, but it’s much more personally upsetting to see our neighbors behave like this. The pretty little blonde girl who calls Obama a “monkey president” is disturbing in a not-so-subtle Schindler’s List sort of way. But no, as the anger and frustration among lay Republicans continues to build and be whipped into a frenzy by similarly frustrated talk radio demagogues, slanderous chain emails, not to mention prominent elected Republicans, we can’t really say we didn’t expect it.

Additional commentary here.