Desperate Obamatons create Sambo attack on Sarah Palin

Man, you can tell the looney left is really coming unglued with the arrival of Sarah Palin and the post-convention bounce now giving McCain a 54%-44% lead over Barack Obama.

So far, they've been content to hurl invective like "Caribou Barbie" and "Failin' Palin". But now that they're seeing the way conservatives have embraced her in a way heretofore reserved for their Obamessiah, they're ratcheting up the hate machine in a frantic attempt to discredit her.

Cue the racism smears:

Via Newsbusters – A new whisper campaign is forming in the blogosphere and creeping into web search engines across the internet as a self proclaimed e-zine called "LA Progressive" is spreading a false rumor that Sarah Palin called Barack Obama 'Sambo' while dining in an Alaska restaurant. Charley James, the author of the article that is unlikely to have his blogspot site shut down for Obama bias, also claims through 'anonymous sources' that Palin called Hillary Clinton a "b#^@h" in the same breath. It is getting pretty desperate out there.
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Some may point out that LA Progressive is just a small time internet site and that may be true; but this junket of a story is actually getting exposure. It has appeared on Memeorandum, Google and Yahoo Buzz. It appears that some readers have been successful in getting some sites to remove the actual story from their news sections. The story has already been removed from multiple Craigslist boards and the Newsvine community has followed suit.

Of course that hasn't stopped the Daily Kos from feeding into the 'smear Palin' frenzy. Before you write off The Daily Kos as a potential vehicle for spreading lies and rumors I shall remind you that a couple of Congressmen have active diaries there and it has been host to many politicians over time. A site that prominently boasts top leaders in the Democratic Party as guests, writers and diarists is often lent a certain amount of credibility by association. Noel Shepherd reported earlier today that netroots are often the source for lies that make their way into the mainstream media consciousness.

Michelle Malkin has been tracking the venom also and points out radical Democrats' history of maligning politicians with racial epithets.