Just to be completely clear, I’d love to see how Really Not All That Bright explains this as
I’m reasonably sure RNATB won’t watch a video, so let’s bring the transcript of the first interruption full square into view.
Did you ever slip and fall on someone and wind up having sex accidentally? Does this reporter have Tourette’s Syndrome, but only for Democratic Presidents? Are they in the third grade?
This is the middle of a sentence. This is not shouting questions that are ignored, this is trying to shout down the President in the middle, not the end, of a speech.
As noted by Marley23, I was referring to the fact that each had been shot. I don’t think getting interrupted while speaking is in the same ball park. At all. Not even close.
Also, it is amusing that agreeing that it was incredibly rude and unprofessional on the part of the reporter does not seem to matter if I do not also think that it was done because he is black. Sorry, I cannot become a racist just because you are.
Do you think anybody does believe they’re in the same ballpark?
Not this shit again. The OP is wrong at least in this instance, but the ‘you must be a racist if you call someone else a racist’ thing doesn’t even make sense.
Sadly, no. I didn’t realize he started talking again after the President had gone back to speaking, which makes it fairly implausible that he actually thought Obama was finished, I admit.
He called the guy “Sir”. Did Munro call him “Sir”?
Now, nobody who knows me doubts my contempt for GeeDubya. But in a comparatively formal setting, I would address him as “Sir” even if I couldn’t bring myself to calling him “Mr. President”. But I was brought up right, and had a proper raisin’!
It is generally rude to interrupt anyone while they are talking. It isn’t illegal. Let the Daily Caller people spend the rest of their lives with the other citizens, not in the journalist area.
Since Carlson defended it, Carlson and all his publications should have his press pass to the White House pulled permanently. There was a time Carlson was a real journalist, but it is long ago.
Huh? Did you read what I said? Clearly you thought I said that everyone who has little respect for a particular other person will always shoot them. Please re-read, s l o w l y. If there is still a problem let me know and I will rephrase in words of two letters or less.
In any case, you’re full of shit, because you’re claiming that being shot is somehow the next stage on the disrespect-o-meter and one must progress from heckling to it.
You’re not making sense. So take your small words and stick them right up your reproductive member and smash them flat with a hammer. Thank you.
That would seem to be an obvious and completely justified result, but I think they might be hoping for that. In the spirit of “when there is no story, create one”, creating such a scene is a win-win-win with their mouth-breathing audience.
Even with Obama’s mellow handling of it, they get another “Obama disrespected like he deserves!” headline. (Win A) (Didn’t Wilson raise a shit-load of money after “You lie!”? And hell, we all know his name now, which is more than he had.)
But even better, if they had actually gotten a rise out of him (you’d think they’d know by now that that can’t be done) (Win B) would have been “Obama started a shouting match with our righteous reporter who simply asked a question!”
And they are still sitting back hoping for the best of all, Win C: “Obama admin censors the press!!!1!” if they revoke press clearance.
The phony apology is cover so they can play that third card in case the White House revokes their credentials. I assume that’s not going to happen anyway.
Tonight’s national news showed a clip of Bill O coming down on the side of the prez. His take: respect the office, even if you don’t like the occupant.
