Kill 4 Crowds

From folksy to fascist. McCain's unblinking soldier of manipulation continues to push inflammatory statements through her faux smile. Even after reports that her crowd whipping produced screams of "Kill him!!" in reference to Obama, she still continued her same approach in a subsequent speech.

Aldous Huxley coined the phrase "Herd-Poisoning", when examining Hitler's ability to move crowds:

"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Their suggestibility is increased to the point where they cease to have judgment or will of their own. They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective responsibility, they are subject to sudden accesses of rage, enthusiasm and panic. In a word, a man in a crowd behaves as though he has swallowed a large dose of some powerful intoxicant. He is a victim of what I have called "herd-poisoning"."

Suffice it to say Palin may have never heard the term herd-poisoning before, but I am pretty sure her handlers and speech writers have come across some form of the idea, and are making most excellent use of it.