Two RNC Attendees Threw Nuts At A Black CNN Employee And Said, 'This Is How We Feed Animals'

TBI ^ | 8-29-2012 | Brett LoGiurato

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Two RNC Attendees Threw Nuts At A Black CNN Employee And Said, 'This Is How We Feed Animals'

Brett LoGiurato
Aug. 29, 2012, 9:32 AM

Two spectators at the Republican National Convention were kicked out Tuesday after allegedly throwing nuts at a black CNN employee and saying, "This is how we feed animals," according to a CNN report this morning.

CNN did not have any further official comment beyond its short report. The convention released this statement this morning:

“Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated."

The story was first extensively reported by Talking Points Memo. And TPM editor Josh Marshall notes that CNN didn't report on it until almost 8 a.m. this morning:

There’s a normal and correct tendency for a news outfit not to want to make itself into the story. But this goes way beyond that and puts CNN in an exquisitely awkward position. CNN has been bending over backwards of late trying to position itself as the last holy beacon of objectivity and fairness in cable news, as Fox and MSNBC play to more clearly partisan audiences. Meanwhile, they’re under almost constant assault from conservatives for alleged (and basically mythical) liberal bias.

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I was banned (some time back) from making comments at this site.(Ahem)

[henkster]

I call BS. This never happened.

[TigerClaws]

Rat plants?

[Hotlanta Mike]

Sounds like a set-up to me...

[The_Media_never_lie]

CNN has been bending over backwards of late trying to position itself as the last holy beacon of objectivity and fairness in cable news

This is a joke, right?

[VRWCarea51]

That’s what happens when you Send Joe Biden anywhere without supervision.

[factoryrat]

First thing that came to my mind!

[scottjewell]

to me, too.

[Darteaus94025]

And being called an ‘animal’ could NEVER be because they are members of the Commie News Network?

[SMGFan]

in a tweet @evalongoria This is shocking and horrible. http://say.ly/kcE441P

She is speaking at the DNC next week.

[Red Badger]

This sounds as fishy as a Sunday morning on Bourbon Street................

[kingattax]

Next --- CNN will report that some GOP convention attendees strapped an old lady in her wheelchair and threw her in Tampa Bay.

CNN's 24 viewers have a combined IQ a couple points less than a dog biscuit.

[raybbr]

Or, Pualtards....

[Mr. K]

"CNN has been bending over backwards of late trying to position itself as the last holy beacon of objectivity and fairness in cable news"

It has?? Seriously? since When? They are not called the "Clinton News Network" for nothing

[Uncle Miltie]

In other news:

[Eric in the Ozarks]

$10 says this is phony.

[theDentist]

Dear CNN hack,

You lie!

[pallis]

They should screen out the Occuturds and ACORNtrash.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

just of late.
Before lately, they admit to being biased.

[madison10]

Sounds like a person has been added, at first it was just one person throwing peanuts. Tomorrow we’ll have the whole state of AL in on it. Agree that’s the creeps were probably either Dem plants, or Paul-tards.

[JaguarXKE]

Rat plants?

I'd bet a payceck on it. The Tea Party had similar infiltrators who would carry signs designed to make the TEA Party look racist. People who engage is such deceptions are beneath contempt (i.e., Liberals).

[jessduntno]

Sounds suspicious...if they were GOPe members, they probably didn’t have any nuts.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Do they have it on tape?

Were the “attendees” affliated with the RNC, or were they “credentialled journalists”, from say, Democratic Underground?

[ConservativeStatement]

CNN has been bending over backwards of late trying to position itself as the last holy beacon of objectivity and fairness in cable news

[JaguarXKE]

A friend of mine at the convention overheard a CNN reporter talking to another CNN person and calling Mia Love a "House N*****".

You read it here first. It's on the internet now, so it must be true, just like CNN's story is true.

[Mr. K]

"CNN did not have any further official comment beyond its short report"

I call BS. If they were really republicans then CNN would be orgasmic in reporting on this story 24/7 and digging into their past and how they were directly related- no- they were TOLD, yeah, thats the ticket- they were TOLD to do this by the Republican Party- no Mitt Romney HIMSELF told them...

I think they don't want anyone looking too closely into it.

[PLD]

I do not believe this at all..Lets see the footage of it..Being CNN they would not get anything like that go they would be showing a slip ever five seconds on CNN..Go back to hell you liars...

[Signalman]

Rat plants?

There is no doubt in my military mind this is a RAT SETUP!

[Cicero]

Troublemaking at GOP gatherings is usually the work of Dem agents. Last time around the SEIU others were very busy at such activities. One of their favorites was to try to make the Tea Party look racist.

Alternatively, if it was actually conservatives throwing nuts at this guy, was it because the newsman was black, or was it because he was being a typical CNN stooge? Did they really care what color he was, or did they react to his CNN badge? Conservatives certainly have few reasons to love CNN.

[Oldexpat]

I wonder who these people were? Were they using someone else’s credentials? Somebody must have their names..anymouse doesn’t hack the credibility test.

[silverleaf]

They were “spectators”?
or “attendees”?

OWS and any number of provocateurs are “spectators” if they can get passes

They should have been arrested and charged with hate criems so we could get good bios on them...I’m guessing this was a set up or a couple of drunks or dum dums looking for giggles

[Tex-Con-Man]

It's the perfect political crime...hit and run. Smear the Republicans as racist at their own convention, using CNN as the “victim”. This is likely a Paul goon or OWS loon, but we'll probably never know. But MSNBC would much rather talk about this than Mia Love. Mission accomplished.

[Joe 6-pack]

Classic Alinsky tactic.

"College student activists in the 1960s and 1970s sought out Alinsky for advice about tactics and strategy. On one such occasion in the spring of 1972 at Tulane University’s annual week-long series of events featuring leading public figures, students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest for a scheduled speech by George Bush, then U. S. representative to the United Nations, a speech likely to be a defense of the Nixon Administrations’s Vietnam War policies [Note: the Nixon Administration was then negotiating with the North Vietnamese Communists to arrive at a peace agreement-DH] The students told Alinsky that they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined–not very relative and besides, causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school [Not very likely-DH] He told them, instead, to go hear the speech dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards, reading ‘The K.K.K. supports Bush.’ And that is what the students did with very successful, attention-getting results."

[snarkytart]

lol

[Da Coyote]

Like I believe this.

More bull Obama from the masters of sleeze.

[musicman]

[himno hero]

...could be team obama

[MaxMax]

Not peanuts, Elephant boogars.

[Baynative]

Let’s see some proof!

[KansasGirl]

[ CNN has been bending over backwards of late trying to position itself as the last holy beacon of objectivity and fairness in cable news ]

Sure they have.

CNN chose not to broadcast speeches made by the governors of three crucial swing states: OH, VA, and WI. That id as biased as biased gets.

As for this story, I don’t believe a word of it.

[sanjuanbob]

I call BS. This never happened.
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Exactly! More of the same...make it up if you can’t debate the facts. Dem’s panicking and going down!

[JewishRighter]

OK. I call BS as well. This reminds me of when they ran with the story that John Lewis was spit on and called the N word when Tea Partiers were rallying against 0-Care.

Several features:

1. No ID of perpetrators
2. No ID of “multiple witnesses”
3. No ID of “victim”
4. No statement from “victim”
5. No statement from any of the “multiple witnesses”
6. The “victim”, a camera operator, did not get any footage of the “crime”
7. CNN reports a “statement” by the RNC, but there is no link to the statement and no attribution to any particular press office contact, etc.
8. The report comes from CNN
9. David Schuster confirmed the report in a tweet.

Yes, these last 2 are intentional. Any report by CNN or David Schuster about republicans automatically loses credibility based on their track record.

[Paladin2]

"I call BS"

I call Macaca on this.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Zebra denies having stripes story.

[LibLieSlayer]

No pictures from a camerawoman... then it NEVER happened. She is black so the odds are 94% to 0% that she is a racist cracker hater. dim polling tells us this fact.

LLS

[hosepipe]

CNN at the pubbie convention?... WHY?..

Course they could have a “Jackwagon” room.. with Kool Aid refreshments..
and make them wear armbands... and Phantom of the Opera masks..
I’d pay to see that... i.e. CNN, MsNbc, Rooters etc..

[rockabyebaby]

I smell a (democ)RAT

[Berlin_Freeper]

Many nuts are good sources of vitamins E and B2, and are rich in protein, folate, fiber, and essential minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, and selenium.

[SandyInSeattle]

Two spectators at the Republican National Convention

Spectators, not delegates... I say they were part of the Occupy crowd, trying to make it look like republicans were behind it.

[martinidon]

In the report it says security escorted the attendees out. Surely, they would get their names and information on their credentials. We need to know who these dirt bags are. If they are with the RNC they need to booted out and sent home. But I am guessing they are plants. This election is going to be about race and it is all planned.