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Two RNC Attendees Threw Nuts At A Black CNN Employee And Said, 'This Is How We Feed Animals'
TBI ^ | 8-29-2012 | Brett LoGiurato

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacks; cnn; politics; race; racism; rnc; tampa
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To: madison10

I’m not being overly sensitive. There was a reason, in your mind, that you chose Alabama as an example in a racist related story. Why didn’t you choose, say, Idaho? They don’t even have any black people! Seriously, though, out of my own curiosity, where are you from?


81 posted on 08/29/2012 2:38:33 PM PDT by suthener
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To: suthener

I was going to put AK, but didn’t want to bring Sarah into it. What does it matter what state I’m from?


82 posted on 08/29/2012 4:07:55 PM PDT by madison10
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To: suthener

Michigan....and you?


83 posted on 08/29/2012 4:15:42 PM PDT by madison10
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To: blam

What the hell does the reporter being black have to do with it?

Of course, once again the GOP-e plays right into the hands of the racebaiters with their reaction.

These stupid, gutless, bastards don’t deserve to run a country.


84 posted on 08/29/2012 4:25:37 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: henkster

Ok, where is the film? Where is the vid? Surely there was one cell phone going to get pics of the perps.

Lies without vid.


85 posted on 08/29/2012 4:28:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: blam
Let's see, TBI writing a story referencing CNN, who references TPM. No names of the perps, no name quoted of the RNC official, and a fuzzy time line.

Yep, if you are the state controlled media, and you don't have a story that fits your (and the DNC) template, make one up.

5.56mm

86 posted on 08/29/2012 4:34:04 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: suthener
And what perfect state do YOU live in?

Nobody lives in a perfect state. But Alabama seems to be farther from perfect than many others.

BTW, I've lived in six different states and one U.S. Territory, and spent lots of time in 36 other states.

87 posted on 08/29/2012 4:48:51 PM PDT by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: suthener

FWIW, I witnessed a lot of racism in Brooklyn, NY, too.


88 posted on 08/29/2012 4:51:53 PM PDT by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: blam

They were plants from the left to stir up trouble. Its an old communist tactic...


89 posted on 08/29/2012 5:00:30 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: madison10

Alabama. I just wanted to see if my stereotype of how people from northern states stereotype southern people would hold up. It did.


90 posted on 08/29/2012 6:43:21 PM PDT by suthener
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To: suthener

...and I just wanted to see if you have a chip on your shoulder the size of Cuba. I do NOT think AL is a racist state. I think the MSM thinks AL is a racist state. Geez.


91 posted on 08/29/2012 6:53:45 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10
I do NOT think AL is a racist state. I think the MSM thinks AL any Republican state is a racist state.

Fixed it. ;)
92 posted on 08/29/2012 6:55:10 PM PDT by DaveInDallas
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To: DaveInDallas

THANK YOU. That is the truth. They think most Republicans are racist, Bible-thumping, woman hating, what-evers... That is why they thought the outlandish accusation would stick.


93 posted on 08/29/2012 6:58:56 PM PDT by madison10
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To: blam
Have there been any updates on this story since yesterday? All I've seen is the original report, which has received national play in the MSM.

I've not seen any information as to who the alleged perps where. I cannot believe that this involved anything but OWS or Code Pink plants who somehow got passes to attend the convention.

94 posted on 08/30/2012 8:07:58 AM PDT by stillonaroll (Nominate a non-RINO in 2012!...uh, too late, never mind.)
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To: madison10

“...and I just wanted to see if you have a chip on your shoulder the size of Cuba. I do NOT think AL is a racist state. I think the MSM thinks AL is a racist state. Geez.”

I apologize. You’re right, I do have a chip on my shoulder and I should not have made the comment about the stereotypes.


95 posted on 08/30/2012 6:42:50 PM PDT by suthener
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To: blam

96 posted on 09/02/2012 11:25:22 AM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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