MSNBC: Bush protestor "shouted down by journalists"

[nodictators]

Bush, Kerry squabble over jobs data

President says economy is 'moving forward'; no way, says Democrat
MSNBC staff and news service reports

Updated: 3:05 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2004

---snip---

“The atmosphere was totally different than Kerry yesterday,” reported MSNBC.com’s Darrell Bowling. “There were protesters outside … they were handing out leaflets. … When Bush came in, people stood up, but it was just polite applause. It was not the reception Kerry received." Bowling said at least one protester in the audience who confronted Bush was shouted down by journalists and then whisked away by security agents.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5623066/

[Democat]

1. The right wing media mainstream is now defending Bush physically?

They've been defending him on paper and on the airwaves for years, now they are acting as bodyguards as well?

Is anyone surprised?

[joefree1]

6. Faux stormtroopers?

Or Faux Biege Shirt bullies?

Can we get together for lunch soon?


Download the free bumper art here:
http://ediablo.com/eDiabloGallery.html

[lottie244]

7. Not surprised. I expect the journalists to fisticuffs

The lies are coming out about the jobs last month and when the whole truth comes out there will be no improvements on the job scene. The journalists will go ballistic trying to cover for him.

[cprise]

21. Are you kidding? He's THEIR corporate representative

...not the other way around.

I find it amusing how many Bush critics get this relationship completely backwards. Why wouldn't the press protect their guy? They made him in the first place:


>>> Bush: "blub blub blub misunderestimate blub drooool"

>>> Anchor: "Oh yes, we have noticed that since Bush was sworn in 3 months ago that he seems SO much more PRESIDENTIAL. In other news, Democrats have to get over it."


And he campaigned on THEIR money, which gave him a 2:1 funding advantage over Gore.

>>> Press: "Dear Bush, please accept this huge check from Media Company and use it as a free pass to dominate the public airwaves."


To the press, Bush is their very own public sector investment and they are going to PROTECT him!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

31. Seriously considering changing my sig line to:

"blub blub blub misunderestimate blub drooool"

[paulk]

33. The Unity Conference is hardly right wing

and the incident described never happened.

If you can stomach Bush, you can watch the thing on c-span...

Look before you leap

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. "Shouted down by journalists"....sad....really, really sad.

[bobbieinok]

10. from the threads about this, SS took the guy out of the room....

there has been no mention on any of the DU threads I've seen that the protestor was shouted down by journalists.

I got the impression they were too busy laughing a W's scrambled 'answers' to real questions posed by real (minority) journalists.

[displacedtexan]

17. Watch it at c-span.org

No such thing occurred.

[KoKo]

34. Correct! I watched it on C-Span2 and the heckler was never "shouted down"

In fact he was shouting for awhile during Shrub speech (I couldn't understand what he was saying but the camera kept going to him, and everyone just ignored him.) Then two men walked to the back of the room, stood behind the heckler then the camera showed him being escorted from the room.

Bush got very little applause during his speech. What applause there was, was during the "Q&A" when a reporter asked about disenfranchised voters and affirmative action.

:shrug:

[54anickel]

36. Found this story this AM on what he was shouting. Got a kick out

of how they re-state the shouting down by journalist. How do you shout Sssshh?

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=60502_0_10_0_C

snip>

The other spectacle appeared when Bush had to halt his speech due to a loud and determined heckler who emerged from within the journalists.

"Mr. President, there’s not compassion in killing. ... Mr. President, there’s no compassion in lying," the unidentified man repeatedly yelled.

The audience shouted back, "Shut up!" and "Sssshh!"

The person was immediately escorted out by U.S. Secret Service agents.


edit to add another quote of the heckler:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040806-122828-7145r

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush received a polite but decidedly cool reception Friday when he took time from the campaign trail to address a gathering of minority journalists about administration policies.

Applause at the Unity 2004 Conference of Journalists of Color was generally scattered and perfunctory. One heckler tried to interrupt him, shouting "shame on you" for "lying to the American people."

[electricmonk]

43. This part is a lie too

"President George W. Bush received a polite but decidedly cool reception Friday when he took time from the campaign trail to address a gathering of minority journalists about administration policies."

He didn't take any time off from the campaign trail. The whole speech before he started taking questions was nothing but a stump speech. :puke:

[MichiganVote]

49. I watched it too. No one shouted the heckler down.

[Karenina]

12. It's not sad..

IT'S A LIE. THEY NEED TO BE CALLED ON IT. PUBLICALLY BROUGHT TO ACCOUNT.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. You report. We decide.

or somewthing like that.

[0007]

4. I watched it twice and didn't see or hear any journalist

shout the protester down.

What did MSNBC see that I didn't? Go watch it for yourself at c-span.org.

[tabasco]

15. If that's the protester they're talking about - it's a lie.

The only time that crowd made a noise was clapping for the introduction of one of their peers. Nobody made a peep when that heckler yelled "liar" at Bush. Two SS guys took the guy out but the crowd never shouted down anybody.

[truthisfreedom]

5. you retort. we deride.

[Karenina]

8. We distort. You abide.

.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. that's what I wanted to say

'cept I'm not as quick!

[Cocoa]

11. are they sure it was journalists?

maybe it was Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews.

[soleft]

13. was that before or after the journalists laughed derisively at Bush

[Joanne98]

14. Don't forget to vote on the right hand side.

If the election were held today who would you vote for, Bush/Kerry/Nader Kerry winning so far.

[ClintonTyree]

18. WOW..............

57% Kerry 41% Bush with over 271,000 votws tallied.

[Greyskye]

29. They've reset the poll

But even that isn't helping their cause:

If the presidential election were held this week, who would you vote for? * 645 responses


George W. Bush
20%

John Kerry
79%

Ralph Nader
1%

[Spiffarino]

40. Checked a minute ago and they've disabled the poll

I guess it didn't turn out the way they had hoped. :P

[KurtNYC]

16. Yeah, they are letting Journalists into these things now?!

They can't find enough yes-men and parrots to fill all the seats?

[Billy Burnett]

19. I just saw the CSPAN rerun NO SHOUT DOWN HAPPENED AT ALL

He was escorted away by SS, but he was not shouted down in any way.

Anyone who says so is lying.

[liveoaktx]

24. In fact, the audience started CLAPPING when the guy was shouting

[samsingh]

20. aren't the journalists supposed to report about the shouting man

instead of trying to shout him out?

[Piperay]

22. Where the hell do journalists

get off shouting down a protestor??? :wtf: Journalists are supposed to report the story not take it upon themselves to be part of the story by interfering. :mad:

[0007]

28. .....it didn't happen, the journalist enjoyed watching junior get hammerd

[SemperEadem]

23. journalists aren't supposed to be the story, they're to report the story

it was wrong of them to do that. They should have documented the events and reported what happened, not become part of the news story. But then journalists aren't what they used to be.

[Junkdrawer]

25. "Journalist" is so 20th Century. It's now "Consent Engineer"...

Consent Engineer (noun): a highly paid professional who manufactures the consent of the unemployed masses. (see colloquial: Media Whore).

Come on, get in the game.

[Lizzie Borden]

26. You are probably too young to remember...

when Willian Randolph Hearst (famous newspaper owner) said," I do not report the news. I invent it." That's as close to the truth as we are going to get.

[DEMonstate]

27. Bush addressed the Unity convention of minority journalists in Washington

So the audience shouted down the protesters?

[0rganism]

30. Compare and contrast w/ journalists and Kerry protestors

If a handful of pro-bush protestors invades a speech by Sen. Kerry, the media whores focus lovingly on them like their presence outweighs that of the 15,000 Kerry supporters.

When an anti-bush protestor stands up in a crowd of imported GOP sheep, the journalists themselves arise to bravely shut him down.

Liberal bias? I'd like to SEE SOME.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

32. Excuse me while I....

:puke:

[calimary]

35. Notice how gray bush's hair is in the photo at the top?

No, I take that back - it's not gray, it's WHITE. Guess the job must be weighing a mite heavily on the dear boy.

[MetaTrope]

37. And once he's out of office, we hand him to the Internatl Criminal Court

:bounce:

[Baltimoreboy]

38. Are you kidding?

The protestor intruded into a private event that was set up as part of the Unity convention. It was not a gathering to voice protest, it was a gathering of journalists.

[Wednesdays]

46. Horrors...

You'd think that after the passage of the Patriot Act, the country would be safe from such a thing.

[zuzu98]

39. sent a complaint email to MSNBC n/t

[Bullshot]

41. That's it. People need to resort to alternative sources of news

and quit patronizing the so-called "mainstream" media until they can show they are objective and not a bunch of corporate stooges.

[Baltimoreboy]

42. This was a private journalism event

Why should they tolerate a protestor interfering with it?

[TheWatcher]

45. Why don't you actually watch the Video of tthe event on C-Span

And inject some TRUTH into your life.

You will see that the afformentioned, NEVER HAPPENED.

MSNBC MADE THIS UP.

The Journalists at this conference were openly lauging at Bush, and Bush made a complete fool of himself.

This is a prime Example of why people need to ignore Mainstream News.

MSNBC reported complete, and utter fiction here.

[number6]

44. yes the (quote) "liberal" press again

:eyes:

[liveoaktx]

47. Here's a quickie video clip I made of that

Unity Conf Protestor

There is ONE guy who stands up and yells Hey, but you'd think from the article that there was mass shouting going on against the guy in the back. There was not.

[nolabels]

48. They must know their future and only hope is maintaining the status quo

They are redundant stenographers, what a wast of a life :-(

[HamHocks4Kerry]

50. Any "journalist" who shouts down a protestor is no longer a "journalist"

[proud patriot]

51. last night on the Bay Area cbs afilliate they showed the disruption

The reporter who protested had all the press pass stuff
around his neck and pencil and paper in hand . It was at
the very back of the hall you could see the scafolding
of a set . This very brave soul shouted "Shame on you
for lying to the media shame on you shame on you ."

it was the 11 o'clock news ..

[StopThief]

52. Ummmm. . .

"Bush addressed the Unity convention of minority journalists in Washington, where he was received politely, but not nearly as warmly as Kerry had been the previous day.

“The atmosphere was totally different than Kerry yesterday,” reported MSNBC.com’s Darrell Bowling. “There were protesters outside … they were handing out leaflets. … When Bush came in, people stood up, but it was just polite applause. It was not the reception Kerry received." Bowling said at least one protester in the audience who confronted Bush was shouted down by journalists and then whisked away by security agents."

The journalists WHO WERE THE AUDIENCE and had given Kerry a standing ovation the day before, simply wanted to give the illusion that they respected Bush.

It is not like it was the press corps covering an event. THEY WERE THE AUDIENCE. An audience should get to hear a speaker speak.

[TheWatcher]

53. This isn't the point

And you guys need to realize that this story is FICTION. Watch the Video for oyurself. There was NO shouting down of the protestor. MSNBC MADE THIS UP.

[Maddy McCall]

54. The protestor at the Unity convention wasn't applauded by the journalists

there.

A heckler gave Bush hell at the conference, and had to be removed. None of the journalists there applauded him or tried to silence him. Secret service removed him.

[Madrone]

55. Not only is the "shouted down" part a lie - notice

the phrase "AT LEAST ONE PROTESTER..."

wtf? I guess it doesn't sound as good when they say "one lone dude w/ no backup" -

Republican propaganda, thy name is "liberal media"

:eyes: