So TPM decided to check and see if Shuster was accurate. He was:GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying "This is how we feed animals."
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) August 29, 2012@takeactionnews#TAN
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.’”
It is not clear whether the alleged culprit was a delegate or attending the convention in some other capacity.
In a written statement, CNN addressed the matter but divulged few details: “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.”
TPM’s calls to RNC and convention officials were not immediately returned.
Good to know that all of those accusations of racism within the Republican party are unfounded, don't you think?
Update: The RNC has issued a statement:
“Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”
Yes "not tolerated" just actively encouraged through subliminal, and not so subliminal, messages right? Assholes!
I highly suggest that you go watch this 6 min. clip from HBO's The Newsroom ! I can't help but be totally disgusted by what I have been viewing from the RNC...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.upworthy.com/everything-wrong-with-the-tea-party-in-less-than-two-minutes?c=bl3
Wow. All factual information and no fat or fluff. Everyone needs to see this clip.
DeleteThank you for the link.
Sounds like Keith Olbermann without the "worst persons in the world" schtick.
DeleteIt sure sounds good, but is there a built-in mistrust factor for undecided(???) viewers simply because it IS a fictional TV show? Where are the credible Obama supporters and surrogates making the same points?
Thanks for sharing the link.
I love this show, and that clip distills the problems we're facing because these zealots overtook the GOP perfectly.
DeleteYou can always count on the Republicans 'Christian conservatives' to stay classy..
ReplyDeleteO/T: But how'd that Adams endorsement go for Sarah???
When you see the statistics regarding percentage of African Americans who are likely to vote for Mitt-- surprise!
ReplyDeleteZero is no surprise.
DeleteI can't comment as I wasn't there but have I mentioned that Chris Christie is THE MAN!!!!!!?????
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Bert Atkinson Jr. August 29, 2012 9:56 am
#1 – Our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity is fleeting and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and emotions of the times. Our leaders today have decided it is more important to be popular, to do what is easy and say “yes,” rather than to say no when “no” is what’s required.
#2 – Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power.
#3 – They believe in teacher’s unions. We believe in teachers.
#4 – It’s the power of our ideas, not of our rhetoric, that attracts people to our Party.
#5 – When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about winning re-election, it’s possible to work together, achieve principled compromise and get results.
#6 – Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world’s greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
#8 – Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.
#9 – What will our children and grandchildren say of us? Will they say we buried our heads in the sand, we assuaged ourselves with the creature comforts we’ve acquired, that our problems were too big and we were too small, that someone else should make a difference because we can’t? Or will they say we stood up and made the tough choices needed to preserve our way of life?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my children and grandchildren to have to read in a history book what it was like to live in an American Century. I don’t want their only inheritance to be an enormous government that has overtaxed, overspent and over-borrowed a great people into second-class citizenship. I want them to live in a second American Century.
#10 – We have never been victims of destiny. We have always been masters of our own."
Christie Creme is just positioning himself as the direct OPPOSITE of Rmoney. He is already running for 2016, in case you didn't know.
DeleteI think he may suffer a heart attack well before then. His BP must be off the charts, not to mention his cholesterol.
DeleteOvertaxed? Who exactly? Corporations, like the Romneys, often pay no tax, and get big refunds AND subsidies. If anyone
Deleteis paying to much, it will be the poor and middles after the GOP completes their tax reform. Mitt would LOVE to end capital gains, as that is ALL the tax he pays already. Yeah, let's let the millionaires have a free ride to their tropical islands. Where, Mr. Christie, is the shared safcrifice in that?
11. I don't know about you, but I don't want my children and grandchildren to read in their history books that a morbidly obese entitled new joisey governor used taxpayer funded State Police Helicopters to attend his son's pee wee league game, and only reimbursed the money because someone filmed the incident, and other parents filed complaints.
Delete12. I don't know about you, but I don't want my kids and grandkids to read in their history books that their morbidly obese Governor Daddy, when asked a question by a concerned female citizen, went on a diatribe which ended "If you need a job, I got your job right here" while he attempted to grab his crotch, for emphasis.
Mitt Romney, carries on in the Palin style and gives absolute validity to this type of person. It is always the ignorant fool at the bottom of the heap who gets blamed, while the bully at the top says I didn't mean that - it was a joke - or I didn't mean that - it was an architects symbol.
ReplyDelete"GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman"
ReplyDelete'ejected'? That's what they're calling it? I heard he was given a celebratory steak dinner, a private dance by two hot strippers, a Rush Limbaugh 'mega dittohead' t-shirt with the secret oxycontin pouch in the waistband and a suggestion that he give serious consideration to running for Congress in 2014....
The RNC claimed they called the cops, the cops say nope they did not.
DeleteIf this had happened at a Dem convention, Fox would have been blaring it to the rafters for hours, ever day.
I'd bet money that as the perps were escorted out, they were assured that they will be welcomed back on the floor of the RNC today, Wednesday.
DeleteAnd the two of them got invited to Rmoney's donor bash on the Cayman Islands yacht right outside in the bay.
DeleteIt's all a ruse. They needed an excuse to get out of there early to get a good table at the titty-bar before the RNC let everybody out of the joint. Everybody knows there are no racist bigots in the GOP.
DeleteEver thought that they might actually be 'plants' to 'show that the RNC doesn't stand for this' - and to make sure that more outrageous things are not reported on?
DeleteWhat can one expect when Repubs talk about Obama stripping work requirement from welfare reform? Code: Blah People will sit on their asses and buy drugs with their food stamps. They get the glaringly white base all riled up and expect them to behave like adults? Christie railed against teachers, union workers, unemployed, and the people formerly called the Middle Class.
ReplyDeleteThey're not even trying to hide their defects anymore.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, what is the matter with some people?
ReplyDeleteThis relates to welfare, even though that camera woman wouldn’t be on it:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was still a kid, I saw then-Governor Ronald Reagan with Johnny Carson, and they were discussing welfare. Reagan said if welfare was reformed, we could “wash the world.” I specifically remember “wash the world.” Since EVERYONE watched Johnny, and Johnny didn’t argue, this became settled fact.
President Bill Clinton reformed welfare (mothers and children), and I learned that it was never even one percent of the budget. I was stunned. After that, I stopped being a low-information voter.
WHAT were the people near that person thinking? Wasn't anyone willing to intervene? We probably don't have the whole story. Perhaps there were civilized, compassionate people with some pride in how the GOP presents itself. Hope so.
ReplyDeleteHon, they loved it and agreed with it.
DeleteI hope the woman doing her job recording the procedings has this man on record for the rest of us to see. It may take a while for CNN to release it, but eventually it should surface.
ReplyDeleteGOOD NEWS FROM PALIN'S ARIZONA: 2 Baggers Gagged
ReplyDeleteHere's a couple of tidbits that should make some folks around here smile this morning:
In AZ-6 US House race for GOP nomination, Ben Quayle, a freshman TeaBagger, was defeated by David Schweikert.
Quayle began was running ads in which he declared, "Two years ago I called Obama the worst president ever. I overestimated him."
Well, that's one first-term Teabagger that's "one and done" in Congress. Hopefully, the first of many.
Also, on another good note in AZ politics...
Russell Pearce, the racist bigot who while serving as AZ State Senate President, pushed through AZ 1070 Immigration bill and was later recalled, lost his primary to Bob Worsely in Mesa's AZ Dist 25.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20120828mesa-gop-legislative-primary-worsley-leads-pearce.html
Schweikert is no better than Quayle. His anti Obama rhetoric is filled with lies.
DeleteAnd Kirk whoever from Palin's BBQ also lost. If it's happening in TeaJerk AZ, the rest of the country is looking a litle more sane.
DeleteLovely--aren't they? Didn't the same thing happen to an African American reporter during a Palin rally in 2008. Except I don't think that idiot was asked to leave. Surprise, surprise.
ReplyDeleteAfter a Republican Convention attendee allegedly threw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman, saying, "This is how we feed the animals," the RNC Convention said in a statement:
ReplyDelete“Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rnc-calls-incident-against-black-cnn-camerawoman-inexcusable
They try to hide and deny their racism but it constantly bubbles under the surface and, at times like these, spills over. To paraprase Bill Maher: "Not all republicans are racist but if you're a racist, you're probably a republican."
ReplyDelete"RNCC Calls Incident Against Black CNN Camerawoman ‘Inexcusable And Unacceptable’"
ReplyDeletethe RNC Convention said in a statement:
“Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”"
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rnc-calls-incident-against-black-cnn-camerawoman-inexcusable
"This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”
DeleteUnless it is perpetuated by Mitt Romney and one of his surrogates.
"their conduct was inexcusable"... We ask for birth certificates and lie about welfare, we don't call them animals, inexcusable for not using the proper insult!!
DeleteIt won't be tolerated is code for "Right on!"
DeleteI hope they identify the nut thrower by name and state... he needs his day in the glare of public opinion
ReplyDeleteToo typical of the behavior of all the other nutters on the RW.
Delete"But some of my best friends are blahs. And I went to a couple of NBA games last season. How can I be racist? I've always done well with the blahs."
It would sadden but not surprise me if the offending delegates are from Tennessee.
DeleteI think i'll be embarrassed for them, anyway.
Stay KKKlassy GOP.
ReplyDeleteWhy is TeaNN NOT covering this news? Must be the tea.
ReplyDeleteSo Ben Quayle alias Brock Landers who was going to go to Washington to "knock the hell out of the place" got his ass handed to him.Good deal.I had particular animosity for this turd with legs.Good riddance you teabag asshole.
ReplyDeleteBen Quayle: one and done and I couldn't be happier he can now devote himself to his journalistic pursuits. He's a slimy little punk.
DeleteIm hoping Joe Walsh in IL also gets his ass handed to him in the general election.
There's quite a few more baggers just as bad as those two, but none worse.
"I'm hoping Joe Walsh in IL also gets his ass handed to him in the general election."
DeleteYou and me both. He's a scumbag.
How can the GOP say it's inexcusable when they are encouraging this type of racist behavior with their rhetoric and ads? They are despicable!
ReplyDeleteExactly. They incite racism and then make stupid token statements. They parade their token minorities on stage.
DeleteI don't understand how any woman or minority could be a member of this despicable party
That fact that they had two attendees who were inclined to behave in this recist way is very telling. Aren't these supposed to be their best and brightest?
ReplyDeleteI hope she sues CNN for forcing her to work in a hostile work environment and as the poster stated above I want to know their freaking NAMES!
ReplyDeleteBut it probably doesn't matter, the whole republican party is full of racists and bigots.
I detest the Republican party and their money! Friggin' assholes. Ann Romney has no clue and I wanted to barf watching her speech about 'love'. Then the fat guy followed her and talked about hate. Too bad they didn't coordinate their speeches. Idiots!
ReplyDeleteThe "He don't look like no goddam Hawaiian to ME" crowd is much bigger than the Republicans would have us believe.
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad that President Obama could bring unemployment down to 3%, end hunger in America, and find a cure for cancer--and still 50% of the dummies in the nation would vote for some white schmuck who aims to take us back to the Bush era mistakes.
Bush era? Not at all- the 1600s.
Delete"This is how we feed animals"
ReplyDeleteThis is why we call conservatives racists.
Uncle Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteO/T: I just heard that the Republicans are holding a spot "open" for a "surprise guest speaker". I'm thinking since the convention so far has been a snooze fest, they are going to bring in Palin to ramp up the hate fest. They didn't want to give her a heads up just in-case she went all mavericky on them and messed up everything with her ridiculous demands.
What say you?
I don't think it will be palin, that would be a death knell. They're keeping the speaker secret in hopes to keep people interested and talking about the convention until the end.
DeleteMaybe they are pimp daddy Toad's first customer as he embarks on his speaking circuit career.
DeleteThere's a rumor it's a hologram of St. Ronnie, introduced by Nancy, who will no doubt think she conjured him up (isn't she into the occult?)
DeleteThat just means they are still in negotiations with Lisa Ann on just how big the stripper pole for her on the stage should be.
DeleteThat just means they are still in negotiations with Lisa Ann on just how big the stripper pole for her to use on the stage should be.
DeleteUnnamed sources said that the surprise guest spot will be Romney's biggest supporter-
DeleteBeldar Conehead (If that's his real name, which I doubt)
This brings me right back to the humiliation I felt upon finding my desk covered with bananas during my postgraduate internship. The mostly male, ALL white contingent of silver spoon fed brats made it clear what they thought of a black woman from 3W taking one of "their" spots. Never mind that I graduated sixth in my class and put myself through school- they viewed me as inferior.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this poor camera woman's eyes brimmed with tears as mine did, tears I willed to not spill down my cheeks because they weren't going to get the satisfaction.
I have strong emotions of empathy and sympathy for this woman, but my STRONGEST emotions are ANGER and DISBELIEF toward CNN. Who are they to PROTECT this racist SHPoS?
I wouldn't be surprised if CNN purposely stocks the camera crews with minorities just to get "good tv" when the inevitable conflicts arise as the delegates and hangers-on get more riled up and out of control.
If CNN doesn't make this right REALLY quickly, I will be done with them. DONE.
Nyah -- How awful for you! I'm so sorry to hear you had that terrible experience. Fuck them for being absolute, utter assholes.
DeleteI've been wondering if that poor camera woman will eventually speak out. Getting the RNC gig was probably a huge opportunity for her. I hope she's OK.
Thanks, pol. It was a horrible moment in my life. I turned around before I got to my desk, knowing they were watching me, and went to the faculty lounge to call my mother who was still alive at that time. (how I would LOVE her commentary on this story)
DeleteI expected tea and sympathy but it wasn't what I got- she told me to march my ass right back in there, start packing the bananas into a bag, and as I was doing so, wave and smile at the perpetrators and shout "THANKS, you guys! Every little bit helps your grocery budget when you're a lowly intern, right?!?" And she told me I was to take the bananas home and make the most delectable banana cream pie. Then bring it back to them the next day as a "thank you" for helping with the "groceries". My mother said just as the last piece was being consumed, I was to make an offhand remark about how "they keep us SO busy here, I hope I wasn't too frazzled to read the recipe correctly! I mean, what if I had done something like melting ex-lax in the chocolate topping?! WOW, would I be embarrassed!"
Now of course I DIDN'T spike the pie- but I had a nice afternoon watching them nervously think I did.
God, I miss my mom!
Nyah, it probably sounds a little hollow to have an old white guy say he's sorry that you experienced that sort of mistreatment or assure you that all white people aren't like that. Nonetheless, this old white guy is sorry that you experienced that sort of mistreatment and assures you that not all white people are like that. Too many are, but that's a discussion for another time.
DeleteLet's get our president re-elected and then start working on the assholes November 6th after the victory party....
Thank you so much, pol & Beldar. Gryphen, why didn't my earlier reply to pol post, the one wherein I explained the fate of those bananas?
DeleteBeldar, rest assured- I did not let the very few bad apples I ran into ruin the bunch that is my life. In fact, I'm marrying one of you "old white guy" types! And even if I wasn't, I would know all that lurks below your pale pointed dome is goodness and light and possibly a little beer.
Nyah... I am VERY sorry that you had to experience that type of sh*t, but am also VERY HAPPY that you followed your mom's advice! Subtleties like that are the best revenge, and more power to you and your sisters!!!
DeleteShe needs to file charges...
ReplyDeleteShe was "a'salted"
She needs to file charges.
DeleteRacism isn't funny.
RE: Sarah's failed effort to use her Teaparty anti-establishment cachet to get Kirk Adams nominated in Arizona...
ReplyDeleteThis picture shows who's taking care of Tripp while Bristol dances her heart out in Hollywood -- executive secretary/sister-in-law Britta Hanson -- and the rest of the Palin retinue, Piper and The Prop: http://tinyurl.com/9kktpa8
Article: http://tinyurl.com/9nyucug
So where's Todd? He used to accompany Sarah EVERYWHERE! Maybe he refused to wear that tacky t-shirt.
Wow, KaJo. I've seen numerous references to the fact that IF we see a current photo of Sarah and Trig, he will be drugged or asleep. Damned if doesn't look doped up. In a bright sunlit crowd, a BBQ with his wretched family- and he can't hold his eyes open?
DeleteAlso, too- is it just me or does this child look not EVEN remotely similar to the VBS Trig?
Also, too, 2- who is Britta holding? Too much hair, and not the right color to be her own child.
Kajo...I don't think that's Britta...that looks like the wife of Kirk Adams...the dude who lost after getting cursed by the lobster claw hand of Baldy!
DeleteHere's the video of when he introduces the sweating...shrieking...bald fella from Alaska...
http://youtu.be/NMfzdQP_nd0
KaJo, have you seen all 12 photos in the east valley tribune gallery? On photo 7, Tripp can be seen in the blurry foreground. Only it looks like Tripp when he was 18 months old! Super chubby cheeks, not very "defined" features due to the baby fat, etc.
DeleteYes, I admit it- I had a thought that this could be the child Bristol bore in 2010! These people and their size/appearance changing spawn!
Unfortunately the 2 ejectees were Willard Romney and Paul Ryan!
ReplyDeleteDang!
Limbaugh compares welfare recipients to wild animals, April 4, 2012.
ReplyDeleteRNC released the following statement:
ReplyDelete“Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated. What makes a black person think it's safe to come to our convention, anyway? We don't have time to protect them from our delegates!”
Found on CofP - quote from Sarah -
ReplyDeleteI’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot. I look forward to hearing his words to his fellow Americans tonight more than any of the other convention speeches. God bless John McCain. Thank you for everything. And happy birthday, my friend.- Sarah Palin
I loathe ignorant racists, but wonder why their identities are being protected? I hope the camera woman has footage, if not, those with a cell phone photos might do it for her. (I hope they had a blast with this and emailed it to all their friends) and it'll eventually surface.
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