Rivas writes: "At 8:35pm EST Monday night journalist David Shuster tweeted he had just seen a Republican National Convention (RNC) attendee throw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman while yelling 'this is how we feed animals.'"
The stage at the Republican National Convention. (photo: Corbis)
RNC Attendee Throws Food at Black Woman, 'This Is How We Feed Animals!'
29 Agust 12
t 8:35pm EST Monday night journalist David Shuster tweeted he had just seen a Republican National Convention (RNC) attendee throw nuts at a black CNN camera woman while yelling "this is how we feed animals."
Shuster's tweet went viral and in a matter of hours was re-tweeted more than 6,000 times, ultimately leading to CNN releasing an official statement confirming the incident.
Talking Points Memo's Kyle Leighton explains he "generally confirmed" the tweet with a CNN official but the cable news network's written response does not mention the employees gender or race.
CNN's written statement to Talking Points Memo:
"CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment."
GOP convention spokesman Kyle Downey told Politico, "Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Thei
r conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated."
It is not clear whether the alleged racist nut thrower was a delegate or someone attending the convention in some other capacity.
What's clear is the incident won't make it any easier for Mitt Romney to get black voters behind him.
A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 0 percent of black voters surveyed support Romney.
And let's not even mention Voter ID laws championed by GOP leaders that studies show will make it harder (if not impossible) for black voters to get inside polling booths. Or the voter vigilante efforts.
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The GOP is truly attracting people who are out of their minds...its just sickening!!
Democrats are always late to the party, brux. They want to believe that there are people on the other side negotiating in good faith. President Obama wanted to believe that during the first 2 years of his administration, but every attempt he made at bipartisanship with the Regressives was thrown back in his face.
And on the issue of racism, on a scale of 1 to 100, it's hard to say how much of their hatred is aimed at Obama's skin color and how much at Dems in general. Regressives hate both, but they utterly despise and do not respect Barack Obama one iota, and have sought to embarrass him at every turn - from the 'You lie" shoutout at his State Of The Union address, to guns at his speeches, to the Trump "Birther" nonsense recently reinforced by Rmoney's "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate" JOKE (?).
I'm sure some Dems hate Black people, but racism is alive and well in the Regressive party and it ALWAYS surfaces. A POX on all of these bastards.
Why are we looking for an official CNN response? Is it too hard to ask the person that it happened to? After every incident, the media runs around interviewing everyone and their mother. The Trayvon Martin killing was just an example. How long was it before ANYONE interviewed the arresting officers or the killer himself, George Zimmerman?
The GOP and CNN are trying to put lipstick on this pig - much like their fake outrage about Todd Akin's "legimitate rape" comments. It's in their DNA ya'll, and just bursting to get out.
I wish the rest of the country would show the common sense and discernment that the Black community are exhibiting.
What can we do?
My feelings is - THEY AIN'T GOING AWAY, so what are the peaceful patient Democrats doing to do about ANIMALS like these people.
Their two tops leaders are just lying their way through their campaign, and with ANIMALS like these folks on their side, who care.
This is like Hitler's Germany trying to provoke people before the way to hate Jews and other minorities.
I am truly disgusted by Republicans, and I really think if there are any real Republicans left anymore they should switch to Democrat or Independent - or just abstain from voting or giving money.
I just feel the country slipping away from under us. It is going to take action and dedication, maybe not necessarily to Democrats, but we all need some alternative to these neanderthal idiots.
I share your disgust, brux. But the people controlling the Republican party now are not "Conservatives" - they're extremists, radicals, terrorists. Who else would bring guns to a presidential rally, or threaten "2nd Amendment remedies" when they don't get their way, or resort to voter suppression, intimidation, and machine fixing?
There is a place for conservatives, but they're few and far between in the Regressive party now. And, like the compliant Dems, they have not asserted themselves and are watching their party gradually slip away.
Rmoney/Ryan is the ticket from Hell - Mitt's along for the ride - and those who believe Ryan will have no influence are just whistling past the graveyard. Ryan not only produced the Budget from Hell - which will destroy Medicare and the Social Safety Net - he voted with Bush on EVERYTHING, and has introduced extreme abortion legislation with Todd Akin (are we allowed to say that name in polite company?).
While Ryan has been hiding behind that schoolboy image, the posterboy for extremism has been the disgraceful loudmouth Joe Walsh from IL, who used money from his child support payments to fund his 2010 election. He's running against the Iraqi double-amputee, Tammy Duckworth, and has said she's "not a true hero" because she talks "too much" about her disabilities.
It's official: the INMATES are running the asylum!
That whole first day of the Republican Convention showed the world how corrupt and racist their party is !
Maybe they didn't say those things themselves but all along they have been pandering to these racists and stirring up the hate meter ,to me that makes them responsible for the actions of this crowd !
Wealthy Americans were NUTS to agitate The Mob, when they already had Obama working for them. Billionaires can be racists.
"Tail between his legs" guaranteed, ruttaro, GUARANTEED! $10,000 bet???
Please, please, everybody, VOTE DEM, and do everything you can to defeat the pigs' tactics to disenfranchise those likely to vote Dem. Work to GET OUT THE DEM VOTE!
["David Shuster tweeted he had just seen a Republican National Convention (RNC) attendee throw nuts at a black CNN camera woman---" quote from article]. So who said or wrote anything about camera footage in this article?
Monkey see, monkey do (with apologies to monkeys and all animals).
It's Homo Sapiens that really knows how to spread hate and intolerance -divide and conquer- without reason. Some, like the peanut-chucker and many of those in power and their handlers (Karl Rove and Ryan spring readily to mind) should be re-labeled as human cannibals, fed by devouring the less powerful, less fortunate and more vulnerable of their own species.
Let's get real here, animals would never behave so shamelessly!
The GOP thrives on lies; why should we expect even an ounce of truth from Mitt's lips tonight?
Don't hold your breath!
You don't have to buy police, Happy, when you can buy judges.
Boy does that disappoint me.
NOTE: SARCASM
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