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via TPM

You’ve probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.” Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.

Now one of the more interesting things about this story is that it broke on TPM. Actually, not quite. We first saw a tweet from David Shuster and then we got confirmation of what happened from CNN and were the first to run the story. (This morning the RNCC essentially confirmed something rotten had happened.) But you may have noticed that one of the biggest news organizations in the world — CNN — has been remarkably tight-lipped about this.

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As a side note, one can only imagine how Fox News would be going to town over this had something somehow analogous happened to one of their staffers at a Democratic convention.

and the Tweet of all Tweets

Deen Freelon ‏@dfreelon
I'll make the GOP a deal: I won't judge you all by the nut-throwing racist if you don't judge me by every young black criminal out there.