Her reference to a single protestor’s sign and “many shout-outs” was indicative of Palin’s occasional tendency to take anecdotal evidence of a minor problem and extrapolate it into something far more menacing.

At the time this was getting some pretty wide play vis astroturfing, and I even took some pains to debunk it because it appeared to be a serious issue at that point in the campaign.
Here’s what I had written