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Crowd in Titusville, Florida, watching Apollo 11 take its crew to the moon, July 1969
(David Burnett/Contact Press Images)









Jenny Sanford, First Lady of South Carolina, June 2009 (AP photo)








Both images from the New York Times.
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Stay Classy, Florida

From the Washington Post's Dana Milbank:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."