Joe Biden Jokes During Women's Breast Cancer Story (video)

readability.com ^ | 10/19/12 | zip

[count-your-change]

But what that motioning did while the woman was speaking was to completely destroy her. No one listened after that, all attention was on the handwaving behind her and she immediately knew she had lost the crowd.
She turned around and cannot regain her place, she's done and may as well sit down too.

This is a favorite trick from Hollywood. When a star had an important scene someone in the background would do something to distract attention from them and ruin the scene. Scene stealing it's called and it was played to perfection here.

In short, “Sit down and be quiet, lady, we've heard enough”.