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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Schedule Three Straight Hours of Booing to Get It Out of System —Borowitz is listening in
PHILADELPHIA (The Borowitz Report)In an unorthodox departure from tradition, the Democratic National Convention will kick off its prime-time schedule on Monday night with what a D.N.C. spokesman called three hours straight of booing.
The booing, which is slated to begin at 8 P.M. and end promptly at eleven, will give those assembled at the D.N.C. an opportunity to get it out of their system, the spokesman said.
The decision to schedule three hours of booing came after rancorous negotiations between the Clinton and Sanders camps, with the Clinton side originally offering half an hour of booing and the Sanders side demanding twenty hours.
Reportedly, the Clinton camp also vetoed a demand by the Sanders camp that the definition of booing be expanded to include throwing things.
While the D.N.C. hailed the three-hour booing session as a compromise that was acceptable to both sides, many Sanders delegates reacted angrily to the agreement, arguing that the negotiations had been rigged against them.
Once again, weve been screwed, Carol Foyler, a Sanders delegate from New Hampshire, said. Three hours is barely enough time to boo Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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Democrats Schedule Three Straight Hours of Booing to Get It Out of System —Borowitz is listening in (Original Post)
Mira
Jul 2016
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jonno99
(2,620 posts)1. This is funny - thanks! nt
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)2. LOL
That's funny.
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