Federal agents have disrupted a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate dozens of black students in Tennessee, the ATF said Monday. Continue Reading

Amid a growing distrust among her conservative Christian supporters of anything Islamic, Sarah Palin goes on record stating that Republicans and her ticket welcome all Muslims, adding “it is not acceptable in my book” to discriminate on the basis of religion. Continue Reading

At a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, three people handed out “Obama for Change” bumper stickers with the Communist sickle and hammer and the Islamic crescent, saying Obama was a socialist with ties to radical Islam. Several moderate McCain supporters, Muslim and Christian alike, struck back – relentlessly bombarding the group distributing the flyers until they left the premises.

This video was shot by Davin Hutchins of the American News Project. Hutchins and I collaborated a few weeks ago to produce a piece for ANP on Sarah Palin when she was in St. Louis for the VP debate. Check it out here: http://www.pubdef.net/2008/10/03/pubdefanp-report-from-palin-land/

John McCain took the microphone away from a woman at one of his rallies this week after she said Barack Obama was “an Arab”.

This is an interview with the woman, 75 year-old Gayle Quinnel, done by a live streaming cell phone. Interviewers include Noah Kunin, Senior Political Correspondent from TheUpTake.org, Adam Aigner of NBC News and Dana Bash of CNN.

Quinnel said that she obtained the information on Obama being an Arab at “her local library” and from a pamphlet obtained at a local McCain campaign office (provided by a fellow volunteer not the campaign itself). She has taken it upon herself to redistribute the information as widely as possible by making copies of the pamphlet and sending it to random names in the phone book.