# RNC attendee: 'This is how we feed animals.' **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 29, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071 "2012-08-29T20:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/1 "2012-08-29T20:51:20Z")
From [Examiner.com:](http://www.examiner.com/article/rnc-attendee-accused-of-telling-cnn-camerawoman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals) > [@](#): > > The left-wing blogs are lighting up Wednesday morning and accusing the GOP of racism following an incident of a Republican National Convention attendee allegedly throwing peanuts at a black CNN camerawoman and stating, “This is how we feed animals.” > > “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.” > > Although the cable news outlet did not discuss the specificities with the online news organization, it did verify former MSNBC and Current anchor David Shuster’s Tweet: “GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying ‘This is how we feed animals.” Somebody is unclear about how a dog whistle is supposed to work. It’s not a bullhorn and you use it to _gently suggest_ the Republican Party is cool with racists. OTOH, CNN and [Examiner.com](http://Examiner.com) are nests of pinko vipers and “specificities” is a really dumb word so Republicans who look for tit-for-tat equivalencies can use it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/2 "2012-08-29T21:20:39Z")
I’m actually cool with it. There were some asshats. Asshats got called on being asshats. Asshats are now asshats outside the RNC. Short of flaying them alive, I’m not sure what else could be done about the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/3 "2012-08-29T21:34:38Z")
There’s that scene at the end of _O Brother where art thou?_ where the men come tromping in carrying this big pole, put the racist Governor candidate on it and carry him out of town. They should have done that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/4 "2012-08-29T21:39:29Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > There’s that scene at the end of _O Brother where art thou?_ where the men come tromping in carrying this big pole, put the racist Governor candidate on it and carry him out of town. > > They should have done that. 😛 Not just a big pole, but a rail…literally riding him out of town on a rail. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/5 "2012-08-29T21:41:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > There’s that scene at the end of _O Brother where art thou?_ where the men come tromping in carrying this big pole, put the racist Governor candidate on it and carry him out of town. It was a rail actually. They ran him out of town on a rail. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/6 "2012-08-29T21:51:26Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Somebody is unclear about how a dog whistle is supposed to work. It’s not a bullhorn and you use it to _gently suggest_ the Republican Party is cool with racists. Do we know for sure if this was racist? It could have been sexist. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/7 "2012-08-29T22:34:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Do we know for sure if this was racist? It could have been sexist. Is there a long history of comparing women to animals? Is there a long history of comparing black people to animals? Are you seriously offering this as an alternative interpretation? A drunk (\<= assumption) racist fuck got kicked out of the RNC, good on them. That his non-drunk form was invited in the first place is problematic. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/8 "2012-08-29T22:35:24Z")
Somewhere in Virginia, a panicked GOP campaign manager is desperately trying to confirm if George Allen was at the RNC that day. But yea, unless it turns out to have been someone with an actual position in the RNC, they seem to have done pretty much the only thing they could do. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/9 "2012-08-29T22:35:37Z")
Put me down for $5 on “That wasn’t racist; he was calling the lamestream media, CNN, animals.” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/10 "2012-08-29T22:53:15Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Put me down for $5 on “That wasn’t racist; he was calling the lamestream media, CNN, animals.” No, that was clearly racist but he felt someone from the lamestream media was fair game. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/11 "2012-08-29T22:57:11Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Put me down for $5 on “That wasn’t racist; he was calling the lamestream media, CNN, animals.” That’s the first thing that popped into my head. Either way, the behavior was thunderously oafish - what was going on in that poor ign’nt idjit’s head? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/12 "2012-08-29T22:58:27Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > No, that was clearly racist but he felt someone from the lamestream media was fair game. He’s saying that’ll be the excuse trotted out. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/13 "2012-08-29T23:13:38Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I’m actually cool with it. There were some asshats. Asshats got called on being asshats. Asshats are now asshats outside the RNC. > Short of flaying them alive, I’m not sure what else could be done about the situation. Seriously? You’re _cool_ with it? Two guys make a disgusting racist attack at the Republican National Convention and it’s cool if they just get tossed out? That wouldn’t pass muster in second grade these days. It’s been 24 hours-who are these guys? Where’s their apology? Where’s the apology from the RNC to CNN for giving these doofuses credentials? The RNC isn’t general admission - someone at the state party level decided that these guys were worthy of attending. The RNC deserves 24/7 shaming until they publicly identify these guys, demand an apology, and send them back to whatever hellhole they came from. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/14 "2012-08-29T23:26:13Z")
Well, hell, I’ll offer the consipiracy nutjob take: they were actually undercover democrats, our version of Breitbart, or something…but of course the lamestream media will fail to uncover the plot… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/15 "2012-08-29T23:35:03Z")
Yeah, these aren’t just some hillbillies sitting back in their trailer park throwing beercans at the negroes on their TV screen. These are representatives of the Republican Party. This is the highest governing body of one of two major national parties, and these were credentialed attendees to that convention, possibly appointed or elected delegates. The Republicans are always so quick to damn by association when it comes to the Democrats, but they’re not doing anything other than escort these fucktards out of the convention hall?!? No officials or bigwigs will even go on record to condemn this shit? To paraphrase something I’ve been saying for years: Not all Republicans are racist, but if you’ve got a person referring to a black person as an animal, out loud in public, you can damn well bet that person’s a Republican. Have fun under that tent, guys. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/16 "2012-08-30T00:02:49Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Well, hell, I’ll offer the consipiracy nutjob take: they were actually undercover democrats, our version of Breitbart, or something…but of course the lamestream media will fail to uncover the plot… I thought of this as well. Because I can’t possibly understand how someone can be so idiotic as to intentionally do something like this in such a politicized and publicized context. However, I hadn’t factored in the drunken fool factor. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/17 "2012-08-30T00:07:49Z")
Not saying it didn’t have a racist intent but my first thought was they are feeding lines to the press, some kind of joke on that(politicians feeding the press). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/18 "2012-08-30T00:27:53Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Because I can’t possibly understand how someone can be so idiotic as to intentionally do something like this in such a politicized and publicized context. There’s a rather large overlap between the categories “racist” and “idiot”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/19 "2012-08-30T00:32:19Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Because I can’t possibly understand how someone can be so idiotic as to intentionally do something like this in such a politicized and publicized context. Perhaps they thought they could taunt someone with a CNN camera and it would go unnoticed. > [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#): > > Are you seriously offering this as an alternative interpretation? No. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/20 "2012-08-30T13:56:41Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Seriously? You’re _cool_ with it? Two guys make a disgusting racist attack at the Republican National Convention and it’s cool if they just get tossed out? Call it outrage fatigue, but yeah. I’m so sick of disruptive, juvenile, bullshit behavior not only being ignored, but actively encouraged by the Republican Party that it’s refreshing to see swift action taken to get them removed. Are they the only racists in the Republican Party? No. But what happened here was an isolated event and should be treated as such. And to those asking how these yahoos could have been invited to the RNC in the first place, it’s because the RNC doesn’t employ pre-cogs and no one thought to ask “are you going to get drunk and throw peanuts at a black woman?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071.md?page=2)