Posted on 08/29/2012 8:46:07 AM PDT by blam
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 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!
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.
I call Macaca on this.
Zebra denies having stripes story.
LLS
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..
I smell a (democ)RAT
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.
Spectators, not delegates... I say they were part of the Occupy crowd, trying to make it look like republicans were behind it.
The one I like is when soccer hooligans throw bananas at opposing black soccer players.
Ok so that doesn’t help now does it?
I say prove it to CNN.If they have the alleged incident on video they should show it.
It’s time for them to put up or shut up.
This sounds as phoney as when dem members of congress said they were called racist names. Truth finally, and without much media coverage, came out that it was made up.
Or, the gay individuals that said they were beaten in hate crimes, and then it’s discovered they bruised themselves.
“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.”
By AL, I assume you mean Alabama. If you’re going to use Alabama as an example of a state full of racists you damned well better live here. What perfect state are from?
“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.”
My guess is that they were democrats who din’t make the cut for obama commercials touting women(who were proved to be liars) who had changed their party affiliations from Reps to dems.
*SNORT
Not a *SNIK* bit.
Sounds like the Code Pink protestors got in.
In the "Did You Know That..." column...and right from Talking Points Memo...
RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’
The CNN official declined to confirm specific details of the incident to TPM but generally confirmed an account posted on Twitter by former MSNBC and Current anchor David Shuster: “GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying ‘This is how we feed animals.’”
Once again - it’s all about race to these posers.
If true (I doubt it, but *if*...) - then maybe the peanuts were thrown and the names were called because the guy was a “CNN EMPLOYEE”. His blackness was just coincidental. ??
Makes sense to me. When will these shallow lemmings ever be able to discuss real issues and see past physical differences?
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