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September 17, 2009 Heckler Screaming "You Lie!" Removed From Obama Health Care Speech (Video) A protester screaming "You lie!" was removed from Obama's health care speech today. Maybe Joe Wilson started a trend... Or, maybe Obama did with his constant misrepresentations? Probably just another nazi mobster racist opposed to nationalized health care. Heckler Removed From Obama College Park Speech at College Park in Maryland today. WBAL reported: Thousands of University of Maryland College Park students mixed with the general public inside the Comcast Center today to hear President Barack Obama put in another pitch for his health care reform proposal....

Some might say Reagan wasn't very presidential in handling the guy at this campaign event in 1980, but then again he wasn't the president . . . until the next day.

How nasty has the political discourse in Washington gotten? During his speech to Congress tonight, President Obama defended his health care plan, saying that he had never proposed providing coverage to illegal immigrants. “You lie!” shouted Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, prompting Obama to briefly pause in the delivery of his speech and eye his heckler. No doubt emotions are often heated during these joint sessions with the president and members of Congress, but decorum typically rules—except for tonight, apparently. In an interview with CNN afterwards, Sen. John McCain trashed Wilson’s heckling and urged him to apologize....

WASHINGTON – The nastiness of August reached from the nation's town halls into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to move his health care plan forward. South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants. It wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives. Earlier, Republicans laughed when Obama acknowledged that there are still significant details to be worked out before a health overhaul can be passed. Wilson's outburst caused Obama to pause briefly before he went on with...

Here is video of a heckler interrupting the confirmation hearing today for Judge Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee. While Sen. Diane Feinstein was making her opening statement, a man began in the gallery began shouting, "What about the unborn." Chairman Patrick Leahy ordered the man removed by police, and warned no further outbursts - for or against - would be tolerated. . . . . (Watch Video)

<p>I want to set the record straight about a dinner I attended on November 20, in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Federalist Society — a conservative and libertarian legal group of which I am a member. Attorney General Michael Mukasey was the keynote speaker.</p>

Over the weekend, I wrote about Washington state Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders, an old friend of mine from my days in Seattle who had been identified on Friday by lawyer Wendy Long as the man who heckled Attorney General Michael Mukasey during his Federalist Society address. ... I wasn’t there when he collapsed” does not equal “I didn’t heckle Mukasey.” “If Mukasey didn’t hear the heckle, it’s not a heckle” does not equal “I didn’t heckle Mukasey.” To be clear: I don’t think this is a massive scandal. But I would like to know the truth and I think...

apparently the lib talk show host who called for Joe's death is already having an effect on the lib rats http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2123000/posts

Mau-mauing in Ohio. Typical leftist and their mob. Days of Rage tactics. (click here, or above at link).

Frank Rich of the NYTimes. Why is this man lying? Reading the New York Times and expecting the truth is like going to a brothel and expecting to find true love.  Reading NYTimes columnist Frank Rich and expecting anything other than dishonest, partisan hyperventilating is even dumber. But when it comes to a serious issue like allegations of death threats against Sen. Obama, I'd like to think that Rich or his NYTimes editors might have some sense of journalistic responsibility.That's how much of a Pollyanna I am.In his column today, Rich writes about fears of assassination attempts against Sen. Obama and the decision of...

<p>An antiwar protestor interrupted Sen. John McCain's rally Saturday morning, prompting a lecture from the Republican presidential nominee about the need for both parties to work together to solve America's problem.</p> <p>As McCain began his speech to about 1,000 people, a young woman was hoisted onto the shoulders of some friends right in front of the main bank of television cameras.</p>

The one bright shining light in this campaign has been Sarah Palin. God bless her.

Davenport, Iowa The emerging media narrative on the 2008 presidential campaign is simple, as media narratives always are. Republicans, egged on by the the McCain campaign, are angry. Maybe dangerous. With furrowed brows media big-shots are wondering allowed if John McCain should "tamp down" -- new cliche alert -- his supporters before they begin to physically harm their political foes. The new media narrative was born after McCain's town hall in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, where several voters voiced the frustration and, yes, anger in questions to McCain. And several voters shouted their criticism of Obama, echoing McCain from the...

Campaign 2008: Get the latest news, video, and polls! PHOTOS: Sarah Palin VIDEO: Palin fires back at heckler Alaska Governor Sarah Palin showed her hockey mom side during a rally in Florida. The Republican vice presidential candidate was giving a speech, when a man, not far from the stage started yelling toward her. After a few insults Palin turned to the man and told him that her son is fighting in Iraq for him to protest the event. The crowd erupted.

.....Why were you here in the Twin Cities? And how did you get into the Excel Center? I was here in Minneapolis for the IVAW convention and thought I’d stick around for this. Well I’ve been a Ron Paul supporter since the beginning of this campaign. Since before this campaign started, actually, I’ve been a fan of Paul. So I’ve got a lot of friends in the Ron Paul crowd. And he’s got a lot of delegates in there. More than the Republican Party is willing to admit. And the fact that I got into there is proof of that....

John Q Public

Barack Obama had an awkward moment today at a Town Hall Meeting he was holding, as you see in this video. As he was ready to get underway in his remarks, a person in the crowd began to heckle him, asking that the Pledge of Allegiance be said. Obama induldged the young man, and eventually thanked him publicly for reminding them all that they had not yet said the Pledge. Interesting moment. . . . (see video)

Members of a pan-African socialist group squared off against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during a town hall meeting Friday. Two men unfurled a banner that said “What about the black community, Obama?” and contained the web address www.uhurunews.com, a website created by the International People’s Democratic Movement. According to IPDM’s own webpage, www.inpdum.org, the group was founded in Obama’s home city of Chicago by the African People’s Socialist Party in 1991—the same year Obama graduated from Harvard Law and settled in the Windy City. IPDM‘s web page criticizes Obama, GOP presidential candidate John McCain and former Democratic presidential contender...

Hecklers in Florida have accused Barack Obama of ignoring the plight of the "oppressed" black community. Three protestors holding a banner reading "What about the black community Obama?" stood up during a meeting in St Petersburg where the democratic presidential candidate was speaking about the US economy.

<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- The gentleman is asking him about policy brutality and racism against the black community...Obama's crowd jeered.</p>

This is an AP video so I'm not going to post it. There's a link on Yahoo's front page though, and it'll be on YouTube for sure shortly. It appears that Obama is not doing enough for blacks! That's right folks, blacks are angry with the Messiah for not speaking out on Katrina (barf) and other issues affecting blacks. One of the blacks questioning Obama was real angry and Obama responded with a bunch of "uh huhs" that he normally says. Clearly he wasn't ready for this, "uppity" blacks questioning The All Powerful and All Knowing Obamessiah.

An audience member ambushed John McCain on Thursday at an otherwise placid town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, with a surprise question about whether he had ever called his wife by an obscene term. The man stood up and first said he wanted to ask the Arizona senator about a “mental health and mental health care” concern. “Previously I had been married to a woman who was very verbally abusive to me,” the man said. He paused and asked, “Is it true that you called your wife a c***?” The crowd booed, and McCain responded:

man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said Wednesday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.

The crowd that mobbed Nationals Park to see, or just be near, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday was a joyous, kaleidoscopic tableau of Catholics and non-Catholics from across the country who said they were drawn by faith, hope and a sense of the history of the moment. "It's a once-in-life experience," said Kevin Schoonmaker of Moline, Ill., who made the trip to Washington with his wife and five children even though they had only two tickets for the Mass. "The grace of being around such an event is well worth it." His wife, Maggie, and daughter Lexi, 13, used the tickets.......

Previously posted was an item,"John McCain visits Prescott:" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997696/posts On April 5 I attended a support rally in Prescott for Sen. John McCain. I carried a sign with a photo of a war-torn child from Iraq and an anti-war sign from Moveon.org. Local police told me I had a right to be in the crowd and close to the stage. Three Navy/Army men were in front of me. I told them I loved them and I support them 100 percent - just not this war based on lies. They thanked me for my gratitude and belief in democracy. Right away...

Students unveil "war criminal" banner during Rove speech.

BETHLEHEM, PA | Not everyone at the Hotel Bethlehem was there hoping to shake the former president's hand. A Nazareth man was escorted from the ballroom after shouting at Bill Clinton, "And you gutted our military. You're a liar." "I wanted him to answer the question if Hillary is going to gut the military like he did," Cedric Brown, 56, said after Bethlehem police walked him outside the hotel to the sidewalk across the street. Brown said he is a 1973 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. "He gutted the military and gutted the CIA," Brown...

ABC News' Sarah Amos reports: Bill Clinton spoke today in Steubenville, Ohio, a primarily working community. About 15 minutes into his talk, a group of people holding up signs in the audience began harassing him about the issue of abortion. Although the clearly devoutly pro-life group of people were here to cause trouble, Clinton didn't take the bait, responding with a long policy-type answer about Hillary Clinton's views on abortion. "And guess what? Even though she, as a woman, did not believe we should overturn Roe v. Wade, she said, and she said again, at the outset of this election,...

If a supremely prominent Republican who was John McCain's chief surrogate had gotten into an angry confrontation at a campaign event, do you think the broadcast networks would have promptly let us know his interlocutor was African-American? I do. But none of the broadcast network's morning news shows, at least during this morning's crucial first half-hour, disclosed the African-American identity of the man with whom Bill Clinton got into just such an argument yesterday in Ohio. Not a word of any incident whatsoever at GMA or the Early Show, at least during the first half-hour. Today did mention that Clinton...

Bill Clinton takes on heckler January 31, 2008 Posted: 02:00 PM ET Watch Bill Clinton take on a heckler Thursday. (CNN) – Bill Clinton engaged with a heckler head on Thursday at a Denver campaign stop. The former president had just begun his speech when a man began to shout about 9/11 conspiracies. As security attempted to escort him out, Clinton stopped his speech, saying, "What are you screaming about? Let him talk." "Are you one of those it-was-an-inside-job guys? Let me tell you something… I let you be rude and interrupt me, scream at the top of your lungs....

DERRY, N.H. -- Toward the conclusion of a town hall meeting here, Rudy Giuliani called on a woman to ask the last question when a man stood up and screamed, "What about the 50 million?" He continued to scream at Rudy about his pro-choice views while Rudy smiled and urged the woman to continue her question and ignore the protester. The woman screamed at the protester, "You are out of line. Sit down." Then the crowd started chanting, "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!..." Security came and escorted the screaming man out. As he was being dragged offf, he was yelling, "All these...

Clinton heckled the Code Pink antiwar demonstrator right back. Last Edited: Sunday, 18 Nov 2007, 9:59 AM PST Clinton was interrupted by a Code Pink antiwar demonstrator shouting that she had voted for the war in Iraq.

DOVER, N.H. (AP) - Mitt Romney's visit to New Hampshire started on a sour note Tuesday when a restaurant patron declared he would not vote for the Republican presidential contender because of his faith. "I'm one person who will not vote for a Mormon," Al Michaud of Dover shouted at Romney when the former Massachusetts governor approached him inside Harvey's Bakery. Romney was kicking off the second of two day's worth of campaign visits in the lead primary state. Romney kept smiling as he asked, "Can I shake your hand anyway?" Michaud replied, "No." Michaud later told reporters he was...

You have to see how smooth Romney handles this heckler: http://www.mittreport.com Unchecked bigotry, illustrated by this heckler, toward Mormons is unbelievable. If someone stood up and commented about a person's gender, race, etc., the public and media would be outraged. My guess the mainstream media lets this go unchecked. -MR

Reid heckler held under Terrorism Act Mark Oliver Thursday February 8, 2007 Guardian Unlimited (UK) Abu Izzadeen interrupted the speech of the home secretary, John Reid, in 2006. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA Abu Izzadeen, the man who barracked the home secretary, John Reid, at a press conference last year, was today arrested for allegedly encouraging terrorism, Scotland Yard said. Mr Izzadeen, 31, is well known in the UK for his radical Islamist views. Today, he was detained at around 9.30am in Leyton High Road, east London, under the Terrorism Act 2006 and taken to a central London police station, where he...

The Falun Gong follower who heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao at a White House ceremony has reached a deal with prosecutors under which all charges against her will be dropped, her attorney announced Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A heckler from the Falun Gong spiritual movement who disrupted a White House appearance by Chinese President Hu Jintao was charged in federal court on Friday with harassing, intimidating or threatening a foreign official. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington said the misdemeanor charge carries a penalty of up to six months in jail. The woman, who entered the White House grounds as a reporter, interrupted a formal arrival ceremony between Hu and President George W. Bush on Thursday and shouted: "President Hu, your days are numbered. President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun...

A HECKLER from the Falun Gong spiritual movement, who entered White House grounds as a reporter, interrupted a formal arrival ceremony for Chinese President Hu Jintao today, prompting President George W. Bush to apologise to his guest. After being welcomed by Mr Bush, the Chinese president was just beginning his response when a woman, who had been allowed into the press section, started shouting. She was escorted away by a uniformed US guard. "President Hu, your days are numbered. President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong," the woman yelled. US officials later identified her as Wang Wenyi, 47, a...

JERUSALEM May 22, 2005 — Anti-U.S. protesters heckled Laura Bush at a major Islamic holy shrine on Sunday, during a Mideast tour meant to defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region. As she approached the gold-capped Dome of the Rock Mosque, Muslim worshippers shouted, "How dare you come in here, and why are you hassling our Muslims?" As she entered the holy site, located on the fault line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one man seethed, "None of you belongs in here." Israeli police formed a human chain around her, pressing together to push away protesters. Top Stories * Protesters Heckle...

Laura Bush Heckled at Islamic Holy Shrine By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago Anti-U.S. protesters heckled Laura Bush at a major Islamic holy shrine on Sunday, during a Mideast tour meant to defuse growing anti-American sentiment in the region. As she approached the gold-capped Dome of the Rock Mosque, Muslim worshippers shouted, "How dare you come in here, and why are you hassling our Muslims?" As she entered the holy site, located on the fault line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one man seethed, "None of you belongs in here." Israeli police formed a human chain around her,...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3621959 slackdude (273 posts) Mon May-09-05 01:45 AM Original message Interview with the Coulter Heckler I'm sure you've all heard about Ajai Raj, the guy who was arrested for heckling Ann Coulter in Texas. Well I just posted an interview I conducted with him on my blog. Enjoy: http://jasonbuckley.com/blog/2005_05_08_archive.html#111561617390846001 Freedom_from_Chains (1000+ posts) Mon May-09-05 02:16 AM Response to Original message 2. Check out some of the hate mail this guy got. http://www.jasonbuckley.com/blog/ajai_hatemail.html

AUSTIN - Note to hecklers at the University of Texas: When jeering, keep it clean or face possible arrest. Ajai Raj, a 19-year-old English major, thought he was exercising his right to free speech when he quizzed conservative pundit Ann Coulter on her definition of marriage after a lecture she delivered at the LBJ Library. Trouble was, he used profanity and then made obscene gestures while walking away from a microphone set up for the question-and-answer portion of Tuesday's event. Moments later, university police were inside the library's auditorium, handcuffing Raj. He first thought they were there to tell him...

MAY 5--Months after members of "Al Pieda" marred a campus speech by Ann Coulter, another appearance by the controversial conservative commentator has been disrupted by a protester. During a speech last night at the University of Texas in Austin, a 19-year-old UT student was busted after asking Coulter a lewd question, which he followed up with equally inappropriate hand gestures, according to the below police affidavit. The student, Ajai Raj, was arrested by campus police and hit with a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. The police affidavit notes that Coulter's lecture was attended by "several children under the age of...

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - A group of 600 Democrats crowded the 4H Auditorium at the State Fairgrounds Friday hoping to see for themselves whether presidential candidate John Kerry's wife was as outspoken and sharp-tongued as some have described her. Teresa Heinz Kerry delivered for her supporters when she talked back to a heckler who implied her husband's a flip-flopper. During a question and answer session, a young man demanded to know why Kerry voted to give Bush authority to attack Iraq but voted against an $87 billion appropriation bill to support the war effort there. "Is that the kind of...

Has the proud, Sheet Metal Union thug been identified as of yet?

CINCINNATI A heckler who briefly interrupted a speech by Democrat John Kerry today says he was assaulted by two men near him in the crowd before others shouted him down with cries of "Kerry, Kerry." Police said 48-year-old Michael Russell of Foster, Kentucky, complained that his neck was hurt by a man who put him in a headlock after Russell started to yell about Kerry's allegation of war atrocities after returning from Navy service in Vietnam. City police were investigating. No charges had been filed today. Russell says he had been trying to ask Kerry whether he had personally participated...

Kerry speech A heckler, shouting at John Kerry about Vietnam war atrocities, was manhandled by sheetmetal workers sitting nearby and escorted from the building. (Photo by Michael E. Keating/The Enquirer)

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company. The graphic designer said he was told he'd embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event. ``I was told that my actions reflected badly on the company and that a client was upset,'' Glen Hiller of Berkeley Springs said. Hiller was escorted from Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting comments about the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction there. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with...

I'm in a rental car with Al Franken, and we're driving across New Hampshire on the Sunday before the nation's first primary, heading to a John Edwards rally. The Democrats are in a kooky mood following the sudden collapse of Howard Dean in Iowa, and Franken -- comedian, celebrity, scourge -- is spending two days in the state not in any official capacity but as a sort of good-will representative from the party's satiric wing. He is not, as you might think from the outrageous trappings of his comedy, an extreme lefty but rather a devout party man, one who...

Presidential hopeful John Kerry reached out to veterans and finished day-two of a campaign push in Green Bay with a town hall meeting Friday. Senator Kerry talked for about an hour with a group of veterans from all wars and invited guests at the National Railroad Museum. About 500 people packed the room. The Democratic candidate spoke in front of one of the museum's exhibits, General Dwight Eisenhower's World War II command train. Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran, would like to follow Eisenhower's footsteps in to the White House. Topping Kerry's speaking agenda was finding more money for those who...