Tweety just got rushed/attacked by someone

[tridim]

Live on MSNBC.

[grasswire]

1. heard it...didn't see it

He went abruptly to Campbell Brown on the convention floor.

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Why not Ron Silver?

Why Tweety?

[VolcanoJen]

9. <pffffffffttttt!>

Thank you for inappropriately causing my Pepsi to come out of my nose.

Ouch!!

LMAO, albeit inappropriately.

[screembloodymurder]

21. My God, don't these people have

guns.

[BootinUp]

2. I don't know if they were rushing tweety or not

but it was right when they where getting ready to trash Theresa Heinz Kerry, so the timing was good.

[AnnInLa]

3. something happened in the street behind

cops rushing in...switch to the convention floor, tweety with big grin on his face...don't think someone attacked him

[grasswire]

6. he's back, unscathed

FYI

[tridim]

5. Looked like he had a black hood on his head

They cut away within a few seconds.

[mondo joe]

7. Photo of suspect here

[TexasSissy]

15. I tought I taw a putty tat!

Cute.

[qanda]

22. Good thing I had just swallowed that Pepsi...

Man, that was funny!

[sffreeways]

8. It wasn't Tweety

I believe it was the woman that was sitting next to him as part of the discussion panel. It was getting very heated behind the MSNBC stage there and the guests including CT Whitman (I think she was still sitting there)were looking a bit apprehensive when someone lightning fast jumped onto the stage and grabbed hold of the guest to Tweetys left. Then the security, what looked like SS tackled the assailant. Tweety stayed cool and they cut to the convention. Then back to Tweety who seemed to be fine.

It was escalating behind them from the time the show began. There appears to be a protest going on in the same area the show is being shot from and the crowd behind Tweety was getting uglier by the minute. I knew something was going to happen you could just feel it. They were starting to rip on TH Kerry and alot of the spectators were yelling.

[maryallen]

17. Andrea Mitchell??

Wife of Alan Greenspan?

I saw the guy with the black hood on rushing the set, but he didn't appear to be headed toward anyone in particular. He did, however, end up between Tweedy and Andrea when he was apprehended.

Ain't this a fine kettle of fish? We now have the American version of Pravda, television broadcast with armed police lined up behind the panel of Hardball just so they can continue the show.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. The media can not continue to spew propaganda, slant the news, omit key stories, and utterly fail to investigate important events, such as Election 2000, Anthrax attacks, No WMD, Iraqi war dead/wounded, no war strategy, no solution to the Palestinian situation, prison abuse, fraud, etc., etc. ... and expect no consequences. Not going to happen ... not in America ... thank God.

[sffreeways]

19. No it wasn't Andrea

it was a repub strategist. Sure seems like things are getting tense there by the MSG. If things continue the way it appears they are going Thursday night should be a riot.

Any New Yorkers out there that can comment on the atmosphere around the convention besides the obvious huge police presence ? From the crowd noise behind Tweety it sounds like it's getting heated.

I think it must have been the goofball with the giant framed photo of Reagan that finally made someone snap. They were pushing and shoving and poking one another behind Tweety for sometime before the attack.

What's happening behind Tweety is far more interesting than what's going on in MSG

[WLKjr]

10. It's one of those GOP Ops

How much you want to bet?

[henslee]

11. Read that he was wearing an Abu Graihib issue hooded outfit.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

12. VIDEO...WE NEED VIDEO. Anyone Tivo this???

I heard that it was Christine Todd Whitman that got rushed. In any event, it sounds like this might be "must see TV"

JB

[kentuck]

13. How much do they have to see to know how much this guy is dividing....

this nation? Do they have to see the shit beat out of one of their own before they can see what is happening right before their eyes? Why??

[Catherine Vincent]

14. The actress Amanda Plummer (Christopher Plummer's daughter)

would play a great Andrea Mitchell in a movie. She looks just like her when she's not in the studio makeup.

[Ripley]

16. Okay WTF is going on...many threads on this...

What really happened for those of us not watching TV?

Who attacked him?

And why isn't the Homeland Security Team called upon to investigate this possible Terrorist Attack on the poor, dear, helpless Repukes gathered in a hostile territory?

[footinmouth]

18. I was watching

I thought it was Laura Ingraham directly to his left. It was just getting exciting, then they cut back to the convention floor.

[sffreeways]

20. Well

Tweety just said the guy was after him but missed.

[UTUSN]

23. I Wish It Were I n/t

[lpbk2713]

24. Must've been Emily again.

"Emily! Get out of the way!"

[linazelle]

25. Hmmmm....could the disruptor be a plant? After all, I saw Mathews' show

earlier tonight and the people standing behind him during his interview of the repugnant Ben Stein were holding up anti-Bush signs. What better way to prevent antiCon images from being broadcast than to create a reason to block everything out?