I didn’t see it. Is this all true? The “chuckles” etc?
I was stuck in traffic listening to the speech. The part where Obama said, ‘This isn’t class warfare’ was almost drowned out by laughter. For a second I thought it was Democrats laughing at the idea sarcastically, but it was quickly apparent that the sustained laughing was at Obama, not with him.
I forced myself to sit through most of the speech and never saw anyone laughing, guffawing or openly chuckling.
I'm sure it was going on but it never made it to the TV camera or I blinked when it was shown.
The Congress and Senate do not allow open media coverage of these events and you can bet that the operators of the pool cameras have strict orders to avoid televising anything that isn't flattering.