McCain/Palin Inciting Mob Mentality?

Apparently more disgusting incident's are being reported at Palin events. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post reports:

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."

Are the negative speeches inciting "mob mentality" at McCain/Palin events? Unfortunately this isn't an isolated incident. Does the McCain/Palin camp really want to go down such an ugly road when our country is in such turmoil? We need a president who is hopeful when many Americans are lost. This is truly sad.