The headline doesn't say the RNC Chairman was shouted down but rather his words, which were shouted down with "shut up".
“The headline doesn’t say the RNC Chairman was shouted down but rather his words, which were shouted down with “shut up”.”
You shouldn’t redefine the term to defend a lame headline. Interupting the playing of a tape with an exasperated “shut up” is in no way a shout down. You can’t “shout down” someone who is not there. It means to yell over another’s words to drown them out.
IMO the headline is purposely misleading and inflammatory. Why else wouldn’t it be something like, “Scarborough refuses to play tape of RNC Chair’s comments on Weiner”?