DRUDGE: Audience boos as Bush offers...Clinton's recovery THEN RETRACTS

[kungfugrip]

AP CLAIMS: 'AUDIENCE OF THOUSANDS BOOS' AFTER BUSH WISHES CLINTON 'SPEEDY RECOVERY'; 'Bush did nothing to stop them'...

THEN RETRACTS:
audio of cheers:
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/bush.mp3

I don't get it...and the Audio is unclear. I heard boos overtaken by cheers, but...who knows...Developing...

[lancdem]

1. They weren't boos

See http://talkingpointsmemo.com

[kungfugrip]

3. Hmmm...I heard boos. Not a lot.

"They didn't boo. More accurately, the overwhelming number of people didn't boo"

vs.

"there was a big intake of breath and some loud "oohs" in the crowd. It was unmistakably shock. No boos."

Which was it. Some or none? And who yells out "ooooh!" really loud?

[NashVegas]

4. Sounded More Like "Woos"

FWIW.

You never know, the people applauding may have been applauding the illness. But. ..I'd want to hear more of the whole thing.

I don't hear any retraction.

[Eric J in MN]

8. He meant that the AP said peeople booed, and then said people

ooohed in horror, but I think people are "Woo"-ing to applaud Bush ("Woo" being an alternative to "Yay") so the AP got it wrong twice.

[Rose Siding]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=799724

[kungfugrip]

10. hey Party line

...its a different topic...different focus.

[Eric J in MN]

5. On that audio clip, I hear "Whooo" as in a sound to acccompany

cheering for Bush.

Like instead of "Yay" for Bush, they went "Whooo" for Bush.

[Child_Of_Isis]

6. it sounded like the 'hoot'

that his followers do. I have seen the speech several times on the tele. They show bush wishing President Clinton recovery but the audiences reaction is not included.

[Skarbrowe]

7. I didn't hear any of it, but if they are like my step-brother

they are all convinced that the Clintons are the only thing that stands in their way of world domination forever!!

Get fixed up real soon President Clinton.

[TahitiNut]

9. Neither booing nor cheering someone's hospitalization makes any ...

... moral sense to me. Illness and death are somber events. IMHO, it's a form of political necrophilia to (1) cheer, (2) boo, or (3) shove over 6 days of wall-to-wall media coverage down the public's throat on every channel and station.

I personally regarded Paul & Sheila Wellstone's (and others) Memorial Service to be just right ... and I'd say that if they were Republicans or Communists, too. It wasn't "four-walled" on the tube. It wasn't dragged on for over 6 days. And it celebrated that to which their lives were dedicated: public service, family, community, and friends.

I've become convinced there are an enormous number of (neo)conservatives and some number of liberals and muddled-roaders whose inconsistent and partisan-drenched opinions on this aren't worth a thimble of warm spit.

[DarkPhenyx]

17. Agreed TahitiNut.

There were many here who gleefully cheered Rush's drug problem, and partied the day Regan died. Any sense of decorum has been lost in America for a long time.

[JI7]

11. if it was a Kerry event they would not have corrected it so quickly

or at all

[Pale_Rider]

12. On tonights news ...

... they show the clip of Bush offering his pathos but ended fast, clipping Bush's last words. My guess is to avoid the crowd reaction.

[barb162]

13. I thought I was hearing mostly cheers

in that the crowd was agreeing with shrub in wishing a speedy recovery.

[Orion82]

14. Yeah

I didnt really hear any boos, but who knows where that audio clip came from. AP did retract their story however.

[Kimber Scott]

15. Who gives a flip. These people cheer Zell Miller.

But, in any case, I didn't hear any boos.

[DarkPhenyx]

16. They weren't boos.

It was definately more like the begining of a cheer or something similar. Much as I would love to have this to use against the "compassionate conservatives" it simply isn't to be. Not that we don't a tons more left to use against them.