Extra warning: the comments on that bottom link to The Blaze will be far more upsetting than anything LePage is quoted saying... which is saying a lot.

Great post (and depressing links). It's not enough to just make broad statements about elevating the discourse, we have to point to specific examples of what is wrong and unacceptable.

Marxism! it's everywhere if you know what to look for.

I weep for my old home state but I guess that's why the smart folks decamped for the left coast.

Of course, you could have told the whole story about LePage, but I guess that wouldn't have been inflammatory enough for you. (He had asked the NAACP to open the rally to all races - when they said "blacks only," that's when he told them to go to Hell.)

God, your such a tool. [Typo intentional.]

@5- [CITATION NEED]

but it won't stop. the bread and butter of the right is its' braying claims of victimhood at the hands of any modern society whose inclusionary and humanitarian ideals are seen as nothing less than theft.

Why would the party that just won a bunch of seats in Congress employing this brand of inflammatory rhetoric alter it now? It doesn't how many scoldings they get from you or from Olberman or whoever; In politics, you don't tamper with a winning formula.

@5, there's a bit more to the story than you lead on

http://tinyurl.com/4oeghot from WCSH 6
and, in fairness, from Joshuapundit: http://tinyurl.com/4dfvmcv

Can someone in Maine tell a balanced version of the story here? It's either "LePage said this" or "NAACP did THAT", and nothing in between.

Hey 5280, Watch the video in this link: http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/top_stories…

There was no rally. It was a meeting with black prisoners about black prisoner issues. He wouldn't go because he doesn't want to deal with "special interests." Of course, the fact that some minorities happen to have different problems than the general population means that they have "special interests." But fuck them, right?

it's a perfect example of what we are talking about when we are talking about inflammatory rhetoric: "We are looking into the face of Satan himself" when Sarah Palin is attacked.

Inflammatory (and ridiculous), yes. But also not limited to the right-wing. How many times have I heard fellow libs refer to conservatives as "evil"? Countless. I'll agree that the right probably demonizes others to a greater degree than the left but let's stop implying they have some patent on that.

When discussing our new governor, Paul LePage, please keep in mind that he was elected with 38% of the vote in a three-way race. He won by exactly one percentage point, and does not represent the views of Mainers. Thanks.

God - the radical right are such assholes. Wow - just, wow. What it must be like to carry around that much paranoia and hatred.

I doubt that anyone in my Maine family voted for him. Josh please return to the left coast now. It's blustery and balmy plus we have pho!

#14- we have pho in Maine, too! Pretty damn good pho!