Reporter assaulted at a Palin rally

Joe Killian is a reporter for Greensboro News&Record. Friday, he went to a Sarah Palin rally at Elon University and filed a report from there for his newspaper.

But he also got assaulted - the first reporter so far - and then blogged about the incident.

Pam has more details.

Joe lived through the ordeal and joined us all at ConvergeSouth for a while.

More local discussions here, here, here and here.

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