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Ok, sorry, I know nothing about hockey...were they angry because she's a girl and dropped the puck or because she's a Republican or...?

The article suggests that the remark came from the political protesters outside. I'd assume the boos inside came due to hockey and politics both...

But this is hardly the lone incident.
A couple of yobs threw a Molotov cocktail into the yard with a McCain sign:http://www.katu.com/news/30847164.html

A GOP office was vandalized in NY: http://www.heraldonline.com/109/story/877049.html

Sarah Bernhard threatened Palin with gang rape and threw in a bit on Jew-Goyim rhetoric while at it:

That was sort of my original point yesterday, before we got sidetracked into a slightly different conversation. The examples above do not mean that Obama and Biden are inciting hateful mobs of arsonists, misogynists or Jewish supremacists. Both sides have weird fringes, and both sides have an obligation to rein them in/denounce them as much as possible but, ultimately, you can't control everyone who professes to be on your side.

My main problem is with the meme that seeks to portray such fringes as 1 - mainstream, 2 - specific to a single political party, 3 - a unique consequence of the this cycle's campaign rhetoric.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081012/D93OQ2SO0.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing it, seriously.

I have never doubted the left is just as crazy as the right. Spending all that time in North Cal. taught me that, first hand. We do like to think we're above this kind of thing, but we're not.

The whole bit about Jews/Israel makes me want to hurt people on both sides.

Politics and bedfellows. Ick.

I remember a conversation with a friend of mine who pivoted in an opposite direction after 9/11 and starting moving leftwards. His eventual discovery of Democratic Underground website left him slightly bemused. Took him a while to figure out that in certain circles 'neocon' means 'jew.'

Oh yeah. I was constantly amused by the Jews in North Cal. and the reaction to (against) their brand of anti-Israeli politics.

I remember reading an interview in one of the big papers where this guy was quoted as saying "we have to change the perception that all Jews are liberals!"- and I'm like... uhm. We are??? Oh right! In North Cal. we are! Ha.

Yeah, not my tribe, man.

Probably because she's a Republican. I live in Phillly, and we haven't had a Republican mayor in longer than 50 years. (Of course, how much of that is due to ballot box shenanigans is up for debate.)

Oh, I don't know. Somehow I suspect that rooting for NY Rangers didn't really endear her to some people in the stadium. Alternatively, however, I strongly doubt she would have been met by universal cheers in the Big Apple, either.

A little from column A, a little from column B type of thing, imo.

I was listening to the game and the (Rangers) announcers verified what I heard through the effects mics -- mixed and noisy.

However, this is also Philly, where the hockey fans boo injured opposing players. And their own players. And anyone else who might be passing by. Couple that with the politics of the area and the fact that it was the home opener, and I was pleasantly surprised by the reaction.